Calculator with Notes vs CalcMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculator with Notes
Easily manage your finances with a calculator that allows you to add notes to your calculations. Save and export your financial data to PDF for sharing. Ideal for business, home budgets, loans, and everyday expenses.
- Note-taking for calculations
- Financial management
- Business and home budget calculations
- Loan and quotation calculations
- Export calculations to PDF
- Share calculations
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This calculator app brings all those features for you, now you can easily calculate regarding your business, home budget, loans, quotation etc with proper notes. Using Calculator with Notes you can calculate everything, so now you can manage your financial stuff easily. Here you can easily export saved calculations to PDF file and share with others. Easy Calculator with notes can be very helpful for quick and easy calculations that perform all basic arithmetic operations like daily expenses, shopping, expense distributions etc with notes. So, hurry up download free Calculator with Notes app now and manage your all calculations easily.
CalcMate
This app combines a notepad with a live calculator, allowing you to perform calculations directly within your notes. It supports percentages, currency and unit conversions, date math, and tagged calculations. Organize your notes with folders and share them as PDFs.
- Calculate directly in notes
- Live currency and crypto conversion
- Unit and date conversion
- Calculation tags
- Folders for organization
- Share notes as PDF
- iCloud sync
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Stop switching between Notes and Calculator. Type “1000$ + 20% fee” and CalcMate shows the answer instantly, right next to your words. CalcMate is a notepad with a built-in calculator. Mix numbers, text, percentages, currencies, dates and units in the same note, and every line is calculated live as you type. Use it for budgets, expenses, invoices, splitting bills, shopping lists, quotes and quick estimates — no spreadsheet needed. TRY THESE EXAMPLES • 100 + 5 tip • 1000$ + 20% fee • 900$ + 20$ delivery + 1.5% • 500 USD in EUR • 10 BTC in USD • Today + 5 days • 1 kg in lb • subtotal — total of all previous lines • line5 — reuse the result from line 5 • rent × 12 — use saved variables from your Variables list • 20 #food, then sum(#food) — total everything with a tag • # this is a comment WHAT YOU CAN DO • Calculate directly inside your notes, line by line • Percentages, taxes, discounts and tips • Live currency and crypto conversion • Unit conversion: weight, length, volume, time and more • Date and duration math • Variables and line references to reuse results • Calculation tags: sum, average and count lines by #tag • Running total shown above the keyboard STAY ORGANIZED • Folders for every project, trip or budget • Highlight text in eight colors • Dividers to start a fresh calculation section • Share notes as PDF • Trash to restore deleted notes • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad MAKE IT YOURS • Custom number keyboard with quick symbols • Number formatting, precision, font and font size • Alternate app icons FREE TO USE CalcMate is free. You can optionally remove ads or leave a tip to support development. WE’D LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK Questions or ideas? Email us at lazyboardapp+calcmate@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CalcMate at 92% against Calculator with Notes's 0%. CalcMate also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Calculator with Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CalcMate sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CalcMate holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CalcMate has 95 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Calculator with Notes's written reviews are positive against 92% of CalcMate's.
Calculator with Notes ships an update every 6 months, CalcMate every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Calculator with Notes | CalcMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (95 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 95 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Kevin Ghori | Elsayed Hussein |
Customer experience
Calculator with Notes
CalcMate
In-app purchases
Calculator with Notes
- Remove ads$1.99
CalcMate
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me 2 coffees$1.99
- Buy Me a burger$4.99
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- Buy Me a pizza$9.99
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