Dividend Calculators vs Borrowed Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dividend Calculators
Calculate potential earnings from dividend-paying stocks. Explore investment scenarios and understand your potential returns with this intuitive financial tool.
- Dividend stock earnings calculation
- Investment scenario exploration
- Potential return analysis
- Intuitive financial tool
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Have you ever wondered how much money you could make by investing a small amount in dividend paying stocks? Find out with our app!
Borrowed Time
This app displays the live U.S. national debt, updated in real-time from official Treasury data. It also features daily rotating American-themed backdrops, historical quotes, and a home-screen widget. No account or tracking is required.
- Live national debt ticker
- Official U.S. Treasury data
- Per-person and per-household debt share
- Daily rotating American art backdrops
- Historical American voices and quotes
- Home-screen widget
- Monthly public domain historical photos
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Borrowed Time is a live debt clock for people who still get taxes taken out of their paychecks. The number is official — pulled straight from the U.S. Treasury's Debt to the Penny dataset and animated between updates at the pace Treasury actually reported. No estimates pulled from thin air, no drama without a citation. THE BIG BOARD • Total public debt outstanding, ticking live • Debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings • Your share — per person and per household, from Census figures • The interest burn: what carrying the debt costs this fiscal year, accruing every second • A 90-day trajectory chart of real Treasury records A NEW BACKDROP EVERY DAY The app's look rotates daily through eight original, hand-drawn slices of classic Americana — Route 66 at dusk, a neon roadside diner, a night ballgame, the drive-in, a WPA national-parks poster, Main Street bunting, the space race, and heartland prairie. Same honest number, different view of the country carrying it. AMERICAN VOICES A rotating deck pairs defining words from American history and public life with sourced fiscal, civic, and accountability facts. Each card names the speaker and links separately to the quotation record and the underlying source. WIDGET INCLUDED A home-screen widget with the live number, the daily backdrop, and an American voice of the day. FROM THE AMERICAN ARCHIVE Each month surfaces one public-domain photograph from the national collections — Ansel Adams' Tetons, Lange's Migrant Mother, Earthrise, the March on Washington — with its citation and a link to the holding institution. No account. No tracking. No data collected. Free with no ads; an optional tip jar supports development and unlocks nothing. Just the scoreboard, its sources, and voices from American history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Borrowed Time at 100% against Dividend Calculators's 33%. Borrowed Time also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Dividend Calculators's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Dividend Calculators sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Borrowed Time sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Borrowed Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dividend Calculators has 51 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Dividend Calculators's written reviews are positive against 100% of Borrowed Time's.
Dividend Calculators ships an update every 3 weeks, Borrowed Time every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dividend Calculators | Borrowed Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (51 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | alpinetic | Justin Patterson |
Customer experience
Dividend Calculators
Borrowed Time
In-app purchases
Dividend Calculators
- Premium$7.99
Borrowed Time
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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