Comparison

Calc Engine vs CountTally

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Calc Engine

A highly customizable calculator with advanced features like graphing, equation solving, and unit conversion. Design your own keyboards and functions to streamline your workflow across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable keyboard layouts
  • User-defined functions and constants
  • Live equation graphing
  • Equation solving
  • Extensive unit conversions
  • Programmer mode (hex, binary, octal)
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Calc Engine™ — The Calculator That Fits How You Work Whether you're splitting a dinner bill, plotting an equation, or working through bitwise logic, Calc Engine meets you where you are. It's a beautiful, fully customizable calculator that grows with you — and syncs seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Make it look and feel like yours • Choose from rich color themes to match your style • Pick the fonts and key shapes that feel right in your hands • A calculator you actually enjoy opening Design keyboards your way • Build your own keyboard pages — drag any key from a curated library onto a 4×5, 5×5, or 6×5 grid • Mix digits, operators, scientific functions, your own constants — anything you reach for often, all in one place • Set a long-press alternate on any key so a single tile handles a primary and secondary action • Name each keyboard, pick its icon, and reorder it alongside the standard pages — your custom keyboards show up right where you'd expect them • Enable or disable any page (built-in or custom) per device Build your personal math library • Define your own functions with up to three parameters — name them whatever makes sense to you • Save the constants you use all the time and insert them with a single tap • Full calculation history, automatically saved — scroll back anytime Powerful math, always within reach • Trig (radians or degrees), logarithms, exponentials, roots, and more — there when you need them, out of the way when you don't • Live results as you type, so you always know where you're headed • Per-function rounding built in — perfect for money, measurements, or anything that needs a clean output Convert between hundreds of units in seconds • Tap a value, then any two units to see the conversion live — miles to km, lb to kg, °F to °C, gal to L, anything you need • 250+ built-in units across 40+ categories: length, mass, volume, temperature, time, speed, angle, energy, power, pressure, electrical, magnetic, optical, radioactivity, data, and more • Favorite the categories you actually use so they sit at the top — synced across your devices automatically • Build your own functions with conversions baked in — define a formula once and reuse it forever See your equations come to life in graphs • Plot equations like x = y² or sin(x) live as you type, right beside the keyboard • Tap any graph to expand into a full-screen view for closer inspection • A dedicated graphing keyboard with x, y, and = keeps everything in one place — no separate app, no separate mode Solve equations as you type • Type x² = 121 or sin(x) = 0.5 and Calc Engine finds every real answer • Tap the solved answers to reuse it in your next calculation, no separate "solve" mode Programmer mode without leaving the calculator • Type hex (0x), binary (0b), and octal (0o) literals — read and write the way you read code • A full bitwise toolkit: AND, OR, XOR, NOT, shifts, and rotates • Every result shown in HEX, DEC, OCT, and BIN simultaneously, with configurable word size (8/16/32/64) and signed/unsigned interpretation • Tap the binary row to expand into a byte-by-byte view with bit-position labels Private by design • Everything syncs through your personal iCloud — nothing stored on our servers • Fully localized and native on every Apple platform Unlock Calc Engine+ for the full experience — custom themes, fonts, key shapes, custom keyboards, user-defined functions, saved constants, unit conversions, live graphing, equation solving, programmer-mode hex/binary/bitwise, and more. Everything that makes Calc Engine truly yours. Teach it your formulas once. Customize it to feel like home. Use it forever.

About

CountTally

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CountTally is the most powerful tally counter you'll ever use — and counting is free, forever. Whether you're tracking reps at the gym, doing inventory, building habits, counting laps, birds, sales, cars or prayers, keeping score on game night or running a live event, CountTally turns "just a counter" into a beautiful, seriously capable tool. Offline-first and private by design — your data stays on your device, encrypted. WHY COUNTTALLY • Count anything: unlimited counters and groups • Big, satisfying tap targets — the whole screen counts, so you can tap one-handed without looking • 100% offline and private (encrypted local storage). No account required, ever. • Beautiful and truly yours: light & dark, custom themes and colors COUNT YOUR WAY • Custom step size, min/max limits, decimals and negative values • Loop mode: wrap around when you reach your target • Start value, plus a lap "round size" with a progress ring that fills as you count • Set values directly, reset in one tap, undo mistakes • Per-counter icons (hundreds of symbols + emoji), colors and dial shapes: circle, rounded, pentagon, hexagon, octagon • Count sounds, milestone sounds and haptic feedback — tune the feel of every tap • Left/right button layout and placement to match your hand STAY ON TRACK • Goals (daily or total) and streaks that keep you motivated • Rich statistics: summaries, charts and a calendar heatmap of your activity • Sessions & a built-in stopwatch — time your workouts or work blocks while you count • Auto-count: let CountTally tick automatically at your interval or BPM • Quick-action buttons (+5, +10, −5 …) for fast, big jumps • Reminders so you never miss a count ORGANIZE EVERYTHING • Groups with optional live sums • Tags to categorize and filter across counters, with per-tag stats and heatmaps • Templates to spin up new counters in seconds • Home-screen widgets — count without even opening the app DO MORE WITH FORMULAS • Formula counters compute one value live from others: A − B, sums, averages, min/max and counts over whole groups — perfect for leads, differences and totals that update themselves PLAY & COLLABORATE • Scoreboards for game night, sports and competitions — multiple layouts and a game clock • Live rooms: count together with others in real time, invite by username, and see who counted what • Stream / OBS overlays for creators and live events — put your counters right on your broadcast EXPORT & BACKUP • Export to CSV, PDF or image and share in a tap • Full local backup & import — your data is always yours EVERYWHERE • iPhone, iPad, the web and Windows — the same counters, wherever you are SIMPLE, FAIR PRICING • Free forever — fully usable for counting (with ads) • Lifetime: remove ads and unlock the full local depth, one time • Pro: secure sync across all your devices (no vendor lock-in) • Premium: rooms, live collaboration and stream overlays Start counting in seconds. Grow into the most powerful tally counter when you're ready. LEGAL Terms of Use: https://counttally.com/en/nutzungsbedingungen.html Privacy Policy: https://counttally.com/en/datenschutz.html

Screenshots

Calc Engine4 screens
CountTally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Calc Engine at none against CountTally's shown. CountTally's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Calc Engine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CountTally sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Calc Engine versus CountTally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalc EngineCountTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1814.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVersaEdge Software, LLCWienold-IT UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calc Engine

One-time1
  • Calc Engine+$9.99
5 purchases

CountTally

Subscriptions4
  • CountTally Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • CountTally Premium (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • CountTally Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$12.991 Year
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  • CountTally Premium (Yearly)$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • CountTally Lifetime$5.99

Questions

Is Calc Engine free?
Calc Engine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CountTally free?
CountTally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Calc Engine or CountTally have ads?
CountTally shows ads; Calc Engine does not.

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