Comparison

WhatMatters vs TaxTool

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WhatMatters

This app guides users to reflect on life goals and financial strategies for achieving them. It covers income generation, saving, investing, lifestyle affordability, legacy planning, and wealth protection. Gain insights to better plan your financial future.

Highlights
  • Life goal reflection
  • Financial strategy development
  • Income generation scenarios
  • Saving and investing guidance
  • Lifestyle affordability assessment
  • Legacy and wealth transfer planning
  • Asset protection strategies
Features
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With the WhatMatters App you are encouraged to think about your life goals and the ways to achieve them. It provides you with an opportunity to learn and reflect about creating and building, saving and investing, living and enjoying, sharing and leaving a legacy, and planning and protecting your wealth. Through the simple to understand learning sections, and a few easy questions, it makes you think about where you and your family are on the journey to achieve your financial goals and what you potentially need to change to achieve them with more certainty. Equipped with this knowledge you can plan your financial future better. Key Features: • Create and Build module prompts you to think about how you and your family are generating income, scenarios that can impact your ability to do so, and what you could do to protect that. • Save and Invest module talks about the importance of saving for your goals so that they become a reality. • Live and Enjoy is about gaining a clear understanding of the lifestyle you have chosen, and whether you are living a life you can afford. • Share and Legacy reminds you about how your wealth will continue to live beyond yourself, by transferring it from one generation to the next, investing in future generations. • Plan and Protect is about how to protect yourself, your family and your assets from unforeseen events. More Info The WhatMatters App is available to anyone who is interested in learning more about their personal finances and how to start thinking holistically about their wealth. It creates an opportunity for people to learn, reflect on their own lives, and to then take some action by indicating what some of their goals and needs are.

About

TaxTool

Features
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A simple and quick tool to lookup the tax due on any taxable amount entered into the calculator for a specific year (from March 2019 to February 2024 ). Specify the age, medical dependants and the pay frequency (weekly, monthly or annual) and tap on the calculate button to produce the resultant tax due. This calculator can be used by anyone wanting to check their payslip or for employers that manually calculate payrolls or want to spot check a computer calculation. Our Software Support Consultants use this tool to check the tax calculated in our various software versions and to do salary structuring or outsourcing tax checks. The calculator adjusts for the relevant tax rebate and tax bracket and computes the correct tax bracket calculations using the tax rates applicable from March 2019 to February 2023. (Please select the tax year for the relevant tax rate) The tax rates tables and additional information can be viewed as a pdf document accessed from the Information button on the top right of the screen. This pdf document is a "Cheat Sheet" of Payroll Legislation and is used daily by Payslip Support Staff for easy reference. If you require payroll software or services, please consider our product offering at shop.payslip.co.za or contact help@payslip.co.za

Screenshots

WhatMatters4 screens
TaxTool2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WhatMatters at every 3 weeks against TaxTool's every 10 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WhatMatters ships an update every 3 weeks, TaxTool every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
WhatMatters versus TaxTool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhatMattersTaxTool
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS1514.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStandard Bank GroupPAYSLIP SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD

In-app purchases

None

WhatMatters

No in-app purchases

None

TaxTool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WhatMatters free?
WhatMatters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaxTool free?
TaxTool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WhatMatters or TaxTool have ads?
Neither WhatMatters nor TaxTool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WhatMatters or TaxTool?
WhatMatters ships an update every 3 weeks, and TaxTool every 10 months. Most recently, WhatMatters was updated on October 16, 2026 and TaxTool on October 11, 2026.

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