Calculation Pad vs Max Calc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculation Pad
This calculator app keeps a history of your calculations, allowing you to easily reuse past results. It offers enhanced security features like fingerprint or password protection for sensitive data. Despite its advanced functionality, it remains free to use.
- Calculation history
- Reuse past calculations
- Add taxes
- Fingerprint/password/face protection
- Free to use
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Calculation Pad is a calculator. Of course it can keep your history, and add taxes to your calculation easily, and use your history for a new calculation. Even if you are a spy running a top secret project, you can easily protect your calculation result with your fingerprint or password or your face. However functional this calculator this is, it can't beat the price of your daily necessities. After all, it's just a calculator.
Max Calc
This app offers a versatile calculation suite, combining standard, scientific, developer, and accounting functions. It also includes a unit converter and tools for health and date calculations, all within a user-friendly interface.
- Standard and Scientific Calculator
- Developer Calculator (hex, binary)
- Accounting Calculator
- 130+ Unit Converter
- Body and Date/Time Calculator
- History tracking
- Customizable result formatting
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Max Calc: Your All-in-One Calculator App Max Calc is more than just a calculator; it's a comprehensive toolset designed to simplify your calculations across various domains. With its six-in-one functionality, you can effortlessly handle everything from basic arithmetic to complex scientific computations, developer-specific tasks, financial calculations, unit conversions, and even personal health metrics. Key features include: * Standard and Scientific Calculator: Perform basic and advanced calculations with ease. * Developer Calculator: Work with hexadecimal, binary, and 7-64 bit numbers, along with integer/real number CPU representation and signed/unsigned arithmetic. * Accounting Calculator: Tackle financial calculations with dedicated functions. * 130+ Unit Converter: Convert between various units of measurement effortlessly. * Body and Date/Time Calculator: Calculate BMI, age, and more. Max Calc is designed with simplicity in mind, providing a user-friendly interface without compromising on functionality. Enjoy features like memory storage, history tracking, customizable result formatting, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Max Calc at free against Calculation Pad's free with in-app purchases. Calculation Pad's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Calculation Pad sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Max Calc sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calculation Pad against 5.0 for Max Calc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Calculation Pad ships an update fortnightly, Max Calc every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculation Pad | Max Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yukio Tajima | Anatolii Mazkun |
Customer experience
Calculation Pad
Max Calc
In-app purchases
Calculation Pad
- Developer Support$0.99
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$3.99
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- Developer Support$6.99
- Large tip$6.99
Max Calc
- 5 days Free Using All PremiumFree
- Premium features$4.99









