Calculation Pad vs LumioCalc
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.
LumioCalc
A fast and customizable scientific calculator for iPhone and iPad. It offers advanced functions, a scrollable history, and premium themes for a personalized user experience. Ideal for students, engineers, and everyday calculations.
- Scientific calculator functions
- Degree/radian modes
- Full expression support
- Scrollable calculation history
- Premium themes and custom styling
- Standard and scientific layouts
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Meet LumioCalc — the calculator that looks as good as it performs. From quick everyday arithmetic to advanced scientific operations, LumioCalc delivers speed, precision, and complete visual control. Choose from a growing collection of handcrafted themes or design your own from scratch with a deeply customizable theme editor. BEAUTIFUL THEMES, BUILT IN Pick from glossy, frosted, seasonal, and curated themes — each with its own color palette, typography, and personality. Explore favorites including Paper & Ink, Cobalt Studio and Lumio, plus the new Halloween-inspired Moonlit Gothic Observatory. MAKE IT YOURS LumioCalc Pro unlocks the full theme editor. Customize every detail: background colors, gradients, and images; button shapes, shadows, and corner radius; per-category colors for digits, operations, functions, memory, and scientific buttons; display, button, and scientific typography; haptic feedback; button sounds (Click, Tick, Pop); and animation styles (Push, Bounce, Glow, Liquid, Spin) with adjustable speed and intensity. POWERFUL CALCULATOR - Standard and scientific modes with one tap to switch - Trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, and root functions - Radian and degree mode toggle - Memory operations (MC, MR, M+, M-) - Full parentheses and expression support - Scrollable calculation history — tap any result to reuse it - Keyboard input support DESIGNED FOR EVERY SCREEN Portrait and landscape layouts on iPhone. An adaptive iPad layout with a side-by-side scientific panel and history sidebar when you have the space. FREE TO USE, PRO TO PERSONALIZE Every calculator feature and a selection of built-in themes are completely free. Try every LumioCalc Pro feature free for 7 days, including premium themes and the full theme editor. Create custom themes, explore every personalization option, and decide if Pro is for you. When the trial ends, simply continue using LumioCalc for free or unlock Pro with a one-time purchase — no subscription. Buy once and unlock Pro across iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple ID. Whether you are a student, engineer, designer, or just someone who wants a calculator with personality — LumioCalc gives you power and style in one app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Calculation Pad at fortnightly against LumioCalc's every 2 months. Calculation Pad also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 LumioCalc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 LumioCalc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Calculation Pad ships an update fortnightly, LumioCalc every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculation Pad | LumioCalc |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yukio Tajima | Nathan Booth |
Customer experience
Calculation Pad
LumioCalc
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
LumioCalc
- Lifetime Pro$4.99
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