About ShoesConsultant

What This Site Is

ShoesConsultant is an independent, ad-supported site built around six free shoe calculators and a browsable footwear museum. It exists for one reason: sizing, fit, and shoe budgeting all involve numbers — unit conversions, angles, percentages, growth rates — that are tedious to work out by hand, and this site does that arithmetic in the open so you can see the input and the result.

How Each Tool Actually Works

None of the tools here guess. Each one runs a specific, disclosed method on the numbers you enter:

• Shoe Size Converter — maps a size you enter in any one system (US men’s, US women’s, UK, EU, or foot length in centimetres) to its equivalent in the others, using a standard published conversion chart rather than a formula — sizing systems don’t convert by a clean equation, so the tool looks up the nearest matching row.
• Shoe Width Finder — takes your ball-of-foot width and shoe size and returns the corresponding US width letter (AA, B, D, E, 2E, or 4E), the same letter-width scale shoe brands print inside a US shoe.
• Heel Height Calculator — this one is genuinely trigonometry: it takes the heel height and the shoe’s length and computes the incline angle (the arctangent of height over length), then buckets the result into flat, low, mid, or high pitch.
• Running Shoe Mileage Tracker — divides the miles you’ve run by the pair’s rated lifespan to get a percentage used, subtracts to get miles left, and divides that by your weekly mileage to estimate the weeks until you should replace them.
• Shoe Budget Planner — adds up the pairs and prices you list to give a running total, pair count, and average price, then compares the total against an annual budget you set to show what’s left or how far over you are. It’s arithmetic, not prediction.
• Kids’ Shoe Size Predictor — extrapolates a child’s likely next size from their current size, age, and the number of months ahead, using typical age-based foot-growth rates for children — an estimate, not a guarantee, since individual growth varies.

The Footwear Through the Ages Museumis separate from the calculators: it’s a set of galleries on everyday shoe types, athletic and sport shoes, the craft and materials of shoemaking, and historically significant shoes, with every entry, image, and fact sourced from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. There’s also a running blog and a set of guides for background reading beyond the tools themselves.

What This Is — and Isn’t

ShoesConsultant is an independent site, not affiliated with any shoe brand, sizing authority, or industry standard it references. It’s supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account or sign-up required. The calculators return estimates based on the numbers you enter and on general footwear conventions — they are not professional footwear, medical, or podiatric advice. For fit problems, foot pain, or orthopedic concerns, talk to a podiatrist or other foot-health professional rather than relying on a result here.

Questions about a specific tool or how it works are welcome — see the Contact page.