Comparison

Lite Financial Calculator vs ScribblePad

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

Head to head
About

Lite Financial Calculator

This app offers a comprehensive suite of calculation tools for business, finance, statistics, and science. It includes features for price, cost, markup, loan amortization, bond analysis, regression, and equation solving. Additionally, it provides unit and currency conversions for various metrics.

Highlights
  • Business calculations (price, cost, markup)
  • Financial functions (loan amortization, TVM)
  • Statistical analysis (regression, correlation)
  • Scientific function solver
  • Unit and currency conversions
  • Equation solver up to 4th degree
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Calculator with arithmetic functions, business, financial, statistics, scientific functions and conversions (metrics and currencies). It allows you to work with price, cost, markup and margin with its business functions and time value of money and loan amortization with the financial component. It also calculates net present value, internal rate of return, modified rate or return of a cash flow and price, yield to maturity and Macaulay duration of a bond. You will also be able to calculate standard deviation, regression (Automatic, Exponential, Linear, Quadratic and Cubic) and correlation of up to three data sets (x,y,z) in its statistics component. Solve equations up to 4th degree and a set of scientific functions. With the conversion component you can do operations with dates and also convert temperature, weight, length, volume and some other useful conversions, and currency conversions between dozens of countries.

About

ScribblePad

A private, free note-taking and PDF annotation app for Apple devices. It offers natural handwriting, organization tools, and optional cloud backup to your own storage. Enjoy a distraction-free experience with no accounts or tracking.

Highlights
  • Natural handwriting with Apple Pencil
  • PDF annotation and markup
  • Organize notes with subjects and notebooks
  • On-device handwriting search (OCR)
  • Audio recording synced to notes
  • Optional Google Drive/iCloud backup
  • Offline functionality
Features
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The free, private note app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. No subscription, no account, no tracking — just fast handwriting, PDF markup, and backup to YOUR own cloud. Write naturally with Apple Pencil, organize notes into colorful subjects, and keep everything synced to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Nothing lives on our servers — your notes stay yours. WRITING & TOOLS • Smooth, low-latency ink (PencilKit) — pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, lasso • Pinch to zoom, palm rejection, and ruler • Add text boxes, shapes, images, and stickers on top of your ink ORGANIZE • Subjects → notebooks → pages, drag to reorder • Templates: blank, ruled, grid, dotted + your own custom pages • Search your handwriting instantly with on-device OCR PDF & IMPORT/EXPORT • Import and annotate PDFs • Export as PDF, PNG, or the native .scribble format • Share notes with other ScribblePad users AUDIO • Record audio synced to your strokes — replay your notes in time PRIVATE BACKUP & SYNC (OPTIONAL) • Back up to your own Google Drive (the app only sees files it creates) or iCloud • Works fully offline — the cloud is yours, not ours No sign-up. No ads. No data collection. Just a beautiful place to think.

Screenshots

Lite Financial Calculator4 screens
ScribblePad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ScribblePad at Free against Lite Financial Calculator's $1.99. ScribblePad also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

ScribblePad is free to download; Lite Financial Calculator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lite Financial Calculator against 5.0 for ScribblePad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lite Financial Calculator ships an update every 6 weeks, ScribblePad every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Lite Financial Calculator versus ScribblePad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLite Financial CalculatorScribblePad
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlfonso MogollonSagar Seth

Customer experience

Lite Financial Calculator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ScribblePad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lite Financial Calculator

No in-app purchases

None

ScribblePad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lite Financial Calculator free?
Lite Financial Calculator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScribblePad free?
ScribblePad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lite Financial Calculator or ScribblePad?
Lite Financial Calculator and ScribblePad are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Lite Financial Calculator or ScribblePad have ads?
Neither Lite Financial Calculator nor ScribblePad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lite Financial Calculator or ScribblePad?
Lite Financial Calculator ships an update every 6 weeks, and ScribblePad every 4 days. Most recently, Lite Financial Calculator was updated on October 3, 2026 and ScribblePad on October 9, 2026.

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