Retirement Analyst vs Beaver FP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Retirement Analyst
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Welcome to Retirement Analyst, the app that lets you chart your future with a few quick taps! Retirement Analyst performs sophisticated financial projections without your personal data ever leaving your device. Analyst shows at a glance how your investments accumulate over time at a given rate of return, and how long they will last into your retirement at a given rate of inflation. It's easy to use, but includes a number of powerful features to handle a variety of investing scenarios (certain features require a Plus upgrade in-app purchase). Designed for Canadian taxpayers (although useful for anyone), Retirement Analyst allows you to see in an instant the outcome of your investing strategies over time. Even more, it can help you pick a strategy that will optimize the likelihood of meeting your retirement goals. Try various scenarios on its dual charts, or even link the charts to change investment amounts mid-life. Whether you decide to retire early or work into your seventies, Retirement Analyst uses Revenue Canada's published figures to include CPP/QPP, OAS and GIS for most Canadians (other users should set those amounts to zero or manually enter their country's equivalent values). It has extensive built-in help pages and optional pop-up info boxes to walk you through your first time using the app. Once you've entered a few numbers and charted your investments, you can use the 'Bullseye' Best-Fit Optimizer to immediately see your optimal retirement age, optimal investment amounts, or what maximum draw you can make on your investments to ensure they will last to a certain age. To help offset the costs of making this app available for free to the average user, we have built in a few special features than can be purchased in-app with a small upgrade fee. Purchasers of the Plus upgrade will also be able to print or share a formatted PDF of their data and the graphed results, adjust preset default life expectancy and interest rate defaults, and enable the powerful Chart-Linking feature. Retirement Analyst utilizes the new SwiftUI framework running on iOS 13.2 and above. It is proudly developed in Saskatchewan, Canada by Aardvark Digital Mechanics. Disclaimer: As with any other app, Retirement Analyst cannot predict future returns on investments, inflation rates, or your personal circumstances. It uses your inputs and some adjustable default values to make projections about your current and future investing, but the results are projections, not promises, of course. Always consult a professional financial advisor before making important investing decisions.
Beaver FP
This app provides comprehensive retirement and financial planning tools specifically for Canadians. It offers detailed year-by-year projections, investment tracking, and household planning features to help users understand and optimize their financial future.
- Year-by-year financial projections
- Canadian tax calculations
- TFSA and RRSP support
- Investment account tracking
- Household and spousal planning
- Scenario modeling tools
- PDF report generation
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Beaver FP is retirement planning for Canadians, and nothing else. No bank logins, no transactions to sort, no budgets to track: just your plan, year by year, from today through retirement. Start in Minutes Quick Plan's seven short screens lay out your whole retirement. Add detail whenever you like: every income, account, pension, loan and expense. Financial Insights Your plan, examined. Ranked recommendations, each priced in today's dollars, with one tap to apply: CPP and OAS timing, RRSP meltdown, RRSP or TFSA, your withdrawal order, pension splitting, spousal RRSPs, paying off debt, and a fix for any working year that falls short. Choose what matters most, spending it all, balance or leaving a legacy, and they're ranked that way. Plus answers to three big questions: ⢠How early could you retire? ⢠How much more could you spend? ⢠What investment return does your plan actually need? Stress Testing Will your plan survive a bad decade? Run up to 2,000 simulated lifetimes against market ups and downs and see the odds your money lasts: the median outcome, the most-likely zone, and realistic best and worst cases. Or overlay historical events on your plan. Every Year in Detail ⢠Year-by-year projections with full federal and provincial tax ⢠Tap any number to see how it was calculated ⢠A Year Summary that reconciles every account and loan ⢠Eleven charts, from investment growth to OAS clawback ⢠Plan Overview: money flows, a timeline of your milestones, and the steps to carry out your plan Built for Canadian Retirement ⢠TFSA, RRSP and RRIF, spousal RRSP, FHSA, DCPP, and LIRA and LIF, with contribution room tracked ⢠CPP from 60 to 70, OAS with clawback, and GIS ⢠Defined benefit pensions with bridge benefits and CPP integration ⢠Tax for every province and territory, with CPP and EI premiums ⢠Pension income splitting for couples Planning Tools ⢠Choose the order you save into and draw from your accounts ⢠RRSP meltdown strategies and capital gains on non-registered savings ⢠Paid-off loan payments: when a loan is paid off, its payment goes onto your other loans, then into savings ⢠Overrides for any year: a raise, a big expense, a paused contribution, a mortgage payment holiday ⢠Change Retirement Date, Retirement Lifestyle and Adjust Retirement Savings, each with a live dollar impact Couples ⢠Each person's incomes, accounts, retirement age and longevity ⢠Estate transfers on death, and a combined household view Reports A PDF report with an executive summary, your inputs and overrides, detailed projections and charts, for you, your partner or your advisor. Private by Design No servers and no account to create. Your plans stay on your devices, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync. No analytics, no advertising, and it works offline. Learn as You Go Finance 101 covers TFSAs, RRSPs, pensions and investing basics. Your Guide is searchable help for every screen. Simple Pricing ⢠Free: try with 2 plans (read-only) ⢠Monthly: 5 plans, full planning features, PDF export, iCloud sync, with a 1-week free trial ⢠Annual: 10 plans plus Financial Insights, Stress Testing, and import and export ⢠Lifetime: unlimited plans and every feature, forever Every tier sees its Financial Insights recommendations and dollar figures; Annual and Lifetime unlock one-tap Apply and stress-test runs. For iPhone, iPad and Mac, with optional iCloud sync across your devices. Privacy Policy: https://beaverfp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://beaverfp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Retirement Analyst at 13.2 against Beaver FP's 18.2. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Retirement Analyst sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Beaver FP sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Retirement Analyst | Beaver FP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | ā | 80.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | ā | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 ā better | 18.2 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tony Hallett | Robert Armstrong |
In-app purchases
Retirement Analyst
- Plus Feature Upgrade$3.99
Beaver FP
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$129.00
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