Comparison

Dividend Calculators vs Borrowed Time

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

Head to head
About

Dividend Calculators

Calculate potential earnings from dividend-paying stocks. Explore investment scenarios and understand your potential returns with this intuitive financial tool.

Highlights
  • Dividend stock earnings calculation
  • Investment scenario exploration
  • Potential return analysis
  • Intuitive financial tool
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Dividend Calculators4 screens
Borrowed Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Dividend Calculators versus Borrowed Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDividend CalculatorsBorrowed Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings51 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperalpineticJustin Patterson

Customer experience

Dividend Calculators

All ratings51 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Borrowed Time

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dividend Calculators

One-time1
  • Premium$7.99
3 purchases

Borrowed Time

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Dividend Calculators free?
Dividend Calculators is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Borrowed Time free?
Borrowed Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dividend Calculators or Borrowed Time?
Borrowed Time is rated higher. Dividend Calculators averages 4.7 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Borrowed Time averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Dividend Calculators or Borrowed Time have ads?
Dividend Calculators shows ads; Borrowed Time does not.
Which is updated more often, Dividend Calculators or Borrowed Time?
Dividend Calculators ships an update every 3 weeks, and Borrowed Time every 5 weeks. Most recently, Dividend Calculators was updated on October 8, 2026 and Borrowed Time on October 1, 2026.

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