Calculate84 vs Bellwork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculate84
This app offers a modern graphing calculator experience on your iPhone. It features fast, interactive touch-screen graphing, scrollable windows, and intelligent error messages for a more intuitive user experience. Designed to be a usable alternative to physical graphing calculators.
- Fast, interactive touch-screen graphing
- Scrollable windows
- Intelligent error messages
- Intuitive interface
- Designed for TI-84 users
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Graphing made for iPhone Calculate84 brings the graphing calculator experience to iPhone with a fast, touch-friendly design. What you can do: • Plot and explore graphs with smooth touch controls • Find familiar calculator functions quickly • Scroll naturally through equations and results • Get clearer, more helpful error messages • Send feedback directly from the app Why we built Calculate84 We relied on graphing calculators ourselves and wanted an app that felt easier to use on a modern phone. Before launch, we worked with students to refine the experience, and we continue improving it based on user feedback. Send feedback Tap the red Feedback button in the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://calculate84.com/terms-of-use
Bellwork
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Bellwork helps private schools document the moments that matter — and turn them into beautiful stories. Teachers capture classroom and event highlights with photos and a few quick notes. Each submission flows into a review queue where admins see AI-suggested grammar and clarity polish written in the school's own editorial voice. Once approved, content syncs automatically to Notion for use in newsletters, social media, and longer feature pieces. Built for educators who care about voice, brand, and authentic storytelling. FEATURES - Up to 8 photos per event with a swipeable, matted gallery - Editorial review queue with AI-assisted polish in your school's voice - Per-school branding — colors, typography, and tone driven entirely from your brand kit - Notion sync for downstream distribution to social, web, and print - Real-time school announcements with native push notifications - Searchable archive across titles, tags, classes, and teachers - Tag system for organizing by subject, event type, or initiative - Save photos to your camera roll for use elsewhere A note about your data Bellwork stores photos and event details in Firebase, secured by Google Cloud infrastructure. Each school's data is fully isolated. Integration tokens are stored encrypted. See our privacy policy for details. For school inquiries: hello@getbellwork.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bellwork at none against Calculate84's 6. Bellwork also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Calculate84's advantage is chart position (#109 vs unranked). On price 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
Both are free to download. Calculate84 sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bellwork asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Calculate84 | Bellwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (54K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #109 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Century Light LLC | Pipkin Creative Marketing LLC |
Bugs and requests
Calculate84
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when using 2-sample T/Z interval functions
- Incorrect results for inverse trig functions
- Issues with graphing parabolas and tracing points
- Regression equation not displayed correctly
Requested features
5 requests- Add TVM solver functionality
- Implement more regression types
- Allow disabling of ads for free users
- Restore previous purchase benefits
- Optimize for mobile experience instead of emulating physical calculator
Bellwork
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calculate84
- Monthly Pro Subscription3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$6.99
- Lifetime Subscription$9.99
- Lifetime Subscription$12.99
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- Lifetime Pro Subscription$29.99
Bellwork
No in-app purchases
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