Most tools sold as everyday carry start with a blade and build outward. KANSEPT’s PryMate starts somewhere else. It’s a flat piece of titanium designed by Sebastian Irawan as a deliberately non-knife carry tool, built around a pry bar and a short list of wrenches rather than a cutting edge. It isn’t a new release, either.
🛠️ KANSEPT PryMate G008A1
Price: $43.58
Where to Buy: Amazon
KANSEPT lists the plain titanium version at $43.58 on its own EDC store. We’re less interested in what launched this week than in what holds up, and this one keeps getting pushed our way. The pitch isn’t function count. It’s carrying something you won’t hesitate to abuse.
Six Jobs on One Piece of Titanium
KANSEPT lists the PryMate as a pry bar, bottle opener, nail puller, and flat-head screwdriver, with M4, M8, and M10 hex wrenches worked into the body. The company’s EDC storefront also lists a glass breaker and a pocket clip. That’s a tool set aimed at packages, paint cans, loose furniture bolts, and the occasional bottle cap, not at cutting.
The hex sizes are the part worth pausing on. M4, M8, and M10 cover a lot of flat-pack furniture, bike hardware, and the fasteners on cheap shelving. Most pocket tools this size give you a single bit driver and call it finished.
What’s missing looks just as deliberate. There’s no blade, no scissors, no file, and no bit storage. KANSEPT is betting you already carry a knife and want something that stops you from prying with it.
Why a Pry Bar Earns Pocket Space
Prying with a folding knife is how tips snap and how locks develop play. A dedicated pry bar moves that load somewhere it belongs, and titanium absorbs it without the weight penalty steel would bring at this size.
KANSEPT gives the PryMate a 0.24 inch thickness, which is a lot of stock for a tool just over five inches long. That ratio is the whole argument: enough material to lean on, short enough to disappear in a front pocket. It’s a heftier answer than the Mighty Bar LT we covered in July, which weighs 0.63 ounces and carries no wrenches at all.
A Knife Brand Building Things That Don’t Cut
KANSEPT built its name on folding knives, and the PryMate lives in a newer catalog the company runs from a separate EDC storefront. That split hints at where the brand sees room to grow.
The rest of that lineup backs it up. It includes the PryOfSorts, a titanium pry bar and magnetic bit driver from Koch Tools at $35, and a titanium carabiner at $35.89.
None of those cut anything. They’re the objects people add after the knife question is already settled, which is a different buyer entirely.
KANSEPT itself describes the PryMate as a reliable tool that isn’t a knife, friendly enough for anyone to carry. That’s a plain way for a knife company to describe its own product.
The Shape Is Doing Most of the Work
KANSEPT lists an overall length of 5.09 inches, or 129.39mm, with the body machined from titanium. A finger hole sits in the handle for grip, which matters more on a pry tool than on almost anything else you’d carry, because the failure mode is your hand slipping under load.
The name carries a bit of the design thinking too. KANSEPT says it blends “Pry” and “Mate” while echoing “primate,” which the company ties to strength, agility, and intelligence. Irawan, an Indonesian interior designer who came to tools through bonsai, describes his approach as form following function.
Whether that finger hole works as well as a full handle isn’t something a spec sheet can answer. That one needs a hand on it.
Eight Finishes for the Same Tool
KANSEPT sells the PryMate in eight finishes, and six of them carry a color name. There’s plain titanium, blackwash, purple anodized, blue, golden anodized, and grey, plus a green anodized version with a purple splash that Amazon sells under the name Green Zombie. The last two show up on KANSEPT’s own store without a color name attached to them.
Amazon stocks seven of the eight at the time of writing, so the full spread is easier to see on KANSEPT’s store than on the listing. Pricing is flat at $43.58, with the splash finish the only one that costs more at $44.89. The version referenced here is the plain titanium. Anodized titanium wears differently from bare titanium, so the finish choice changes how the tool looks after a year of rubbing against keys more than it changes what the tool does.
The Gadgeteer Take
The PryMate makes a narrow bet, and it’s a reasonable one. Plenty of titanium multitools try to be a knife, a wrench, and a bottle opener at once and land somewhere mediocre on all three. This one picks prying, adds the wrenches that fit for free, and stops there.
🛠️ KANSEPT PryMate G008A1
Price: $43.58
Where to Buy: Amazon
At roughly $43, the question isn’t whether it’s clever. It’s whether you pry often enough to justify a second object in your pocket. If you’ve ever winced while working a knife tip under a staple, you already know your answer.
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