FERS Calculator vs Reserve Drill Pay Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FERS Calculator
Estimate your federal retirement annuity with this tool. It calculates your potential pension based on your age, years of service, and your highest three-year average salary. Get a ballpark figure for your FERS retirement.
- Estimate retirement annuity
- Uses age, years of service, high-3 salary
- Ballpark estimate
- FERS specific calculation
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Federal employees under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) can use this calculator to get a ballpark estimate of their retirement annuity. The computation for the estimated annuity will be based on age, years of service and the high - 3 salary.
Reserve Drill Pay Tracker
This app helps US military reservists and National Guard members meticulously track their drill and annual training pay. It functions as a professional ledger, calculating exact pay against official tables and forecasting year-end income. Users can log various pay entitlements and export data for financial purposes.
- Log drill weekends and annual training days
- Track special pays like jump, flight, and HDIP
- Forecast year-to-date reserve income
- View pay against official DFAS tables
- Export data to CSV for taxes and audits
- Offline functionality
- No account or DoD login required
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Built for US military reservists and National Guard members. DrillPay is the professional ledger for your reserve income — log every drill weekend, every annual training day, every entitlement, and see what DFAS owes you to the cent. Log a MUTA-4 in ten seconds. Watch your year-to-date number tick up. Forecast your end-of-year reserve income before December even gets here. Every other reservist app on the App Store is a calculator. DrillPay is a ledger. It treats your reserve income like real money — because it is. What you can do: - Log every drill, MUTA-1 through MUTA-9, and see the exact pay against the 2026 DFAS tables - Track Annual Training the right way: base pay plus BAH-RC Type II plus BAS plus special pays, not a flat day rate - Watch your year-to-date reserve income live, in clean tabular figures, on every cold-launch - Project your annual income from the drills and AT periods still on the calendar - Add special pays where they belong: jump, flight, HDIP, FSA — applied per entry, not blanket - Export a CSV of the year for taxes, audits, or your CPA - Works offline, no account required, no DoD login DrillPay Pro includes: - Unlimited drill and AT logging (free tier caps at 5 entries) - Annual Training pay tracker with full entitlement breakdown - Special pays configuration per drill type - Annual income forecast and projection - CSV export for taxes and audits - Multi-year ledger history Built on the 2026 DFAS pay tables, sourced from the official DFAS military pay table at dfas.mil. Pay tables are bundled with the app, so the math works in the armory parking lot with one bar of signal — or no signal at all. For Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, USAF Reserve, USMC Reserve, USCG Reserve, USSF Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard. Officer, enlisted, warrant. Questions, feature requests, or a pay scenario we got wrong? support@vikorus.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FERS Calculator at none against Reserve Drill Pay Tracker's 2. FERS Calculator also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Reserve Drill Pay Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.7). On price, ads 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. Reserve Drill Pay Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. FERS Calculator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Reserve Drill Pay Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
FERS Calculator ships an update every 6 months, Reserve Drill Pay Tracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FERS Calculator | Reserve Drill Pay Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Ruliva | Vikorus, LLC |
In-app purchases
FERS Calculator
No in-app purchases
Reserve Drill Pay Tracker
- Annual$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
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