PCalc Lite vs AppmanCC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PCalc Lite
This free scientific calculator offers essential features like RPN mode, unit conversions, and multiple undo/redo. It provides a taste of a more powerful version, with optional in-app purchases for expanded functionality.
- Optional RPN mode
- Multiple undo and redo
- Unit conversions and constants
- Two stylish themes
- Apple Watch app
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PCalc is the powerful choice for scientists, engineers, students, programmers, or indeed anybody looking for a feature rich calculator. It includes an optional RPN mode and multi-line display, a choice of button layouts, an extensive set of unit conversions and constants, a paper tape, multiple undo and redo, engineering and scientific notation, as well as support for hexadecimal, octal, and binary calculations.PCalc Lite is a fully functional and free taste of our very popular scientific calculator. It includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants, as well as two stylish themes and our highly praised design. A great choice for your new iPad! If you like what you see, the full version has many more settings and themes, a paper tape, engineering and scientific notation, and full support for hexadecimal, octal, and binary calculations. You can also now purchase extra features directly from inside PCalc Lite. Buy them individually, or buy everything. Includes an Apple Watch app, so you can calculate on your wrist!
AppmanCC
This developer toolkit analyzes and processes various data formats like JSON, JWTs, hashes, and URLs pasted directly from the clipboard. It offers tools for encoding, decoding, formatting, converting, and generating data, along with network utilities for pinging, tracing routes, and scanning ports.
- Automatic data format detection
- Real-time input editing and result updates
- Comprehensive hashing and verification tools
- URL and Base64 encoding/decoding
- JSON formatting and tree view
- Network utilities (ping, traceroute, port scan)
- Timestamp conversion and UUID generation
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AppmanCC is the developer toolkit that lives next to your clipboard. Paste anything — a hash, a token, a blob of JSON, a URL — and AppmanCC recognizes it and shows the result instantly. No accounts, no tracking. ONE PASTE, THE RIGHT TOOL • Copy something, open AppmanCC and tap Paste. JSON, JWTs, hashes, UUIDs, timestamps, URLs and Base64 are detected automatically. • Results slide up from the bottom while your input stays on screen. Edit the input and the result updates as you type. • Switch tools in place, drag the panel up for more room, or down to get it out of the way. HASH & VERIFY • MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512 side by side, plus SHA3-256, SHA3-512 and CRC32. • Paste an expected hash and AppmanCC tells you which algorithm matches — hex or Base64, any case. • HMAC with a text or hex key, UTF-8 / UTF-16LE / ASCII input, and a warning when a trailing newline would change your hash. • Hash files of any size from Files, with progress and cancel. ENCODE & DECODE • Base64 encode and decode with automatic direction, URL-safe variant, padding, MIME line breaks and data URIs. Decoded images and files can be saved. • URL encode and decode (component or full URL, %20 or +), with every part of a URL and its query parameters listed separately. • JWT decoder: formatted header and payload, issued / expiry times with a live countdown, and an on-device HS256/384/512 signature check. FORMAT & VIEW • JSON Pretty, Minify and a collapsible Tree view with search and copy-path. Your key order and number literals are kept exactly as written. • Errors point to the exact line and column, with a one-tap lenient fix for trailing commas and single quotes. • View the source of any web page with syntax highlighting, search and redirects shown. • Compare two texts by line or character, side by side or inline. CONVERT & GENERATE • Unix timestamps (seconds or milliseconds) to dates and back: local time, UTC, ISO 8601 and RFC 2822, in any time zone. • Generate UUID v4 or v7 in batches, or inspect a UUID's version, variant and creation time. • Binary, octal, decimal and hex side by side, with numbers of any size and two's complement. • Test regular expressions with live highlighting, capture groups, flags and replace preview. NETWORK TOOLS • Ping over ICMP, UDP or TCP with live statistics, payload size, don't-fragment and an audible mode. • Traceroute with per-hop times and reverse DNS names. • Port scan of common ports or any range, with service names. • Whois that follows registry referrals, or RDAP. • DNS lookups of A, AAAA, CAA, CNAME, MX, NAPTR, NS, PTR, SOA, SRV and TXT against the system or any server, with DNSSEC records, all sections and no-recursion queries. • Device info: gateway, DNS servers, external IPv4 and IPv6, proxy, and the addresses and traffic of Wi-Fi, VPN and cellular. • LAN scan: find the devices on your Wi-Fi, star the ones you care about, and keep past scans. • Speed test: latency, jitter, download and upload with live charts and a history. WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO • Share Extension and Action Extension: run any tool on text or files from other apps without leaving them. • Shortcuts and Spotlight actions for hashing, Base64, URL coding, JSON, JWT, timestamps and UUIDs. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and a Control Center button on iOS 18. • Pin your favorite tools and reorder them. History keeps what you copied, on this device only. • iPad keyboard shortcuts: ⌘1–⌘9 to switch tools, ⌘⇧C to copy the result, and more. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Text tools run entirely on your device. Network tools only contact the hosts you enter. AppmanCC never reads your clipboard until you tap Paste. • No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no data collected. Secrets such as HMAC keys and JWT secrets are never saved. Questions or ideas? Write to feedback@binhua.org.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PCalc Lite at Free against AppmanCC's $0.99. PCalc Lite also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (214 vs 3). AppmanCC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On ads and iOS requirement 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
PCalc Lite is free to download; AppmanCC costs $0.99 up front. PCalc Lite sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. AppmanCC asks for nothing beyond the download.
PCalc Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PCalc Lite has 214 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of PCalc Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of AppmanCC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PCalc Lite ships an update every 2 months, AppmanCC weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PCalc Lite | AppmanCC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (214 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 214 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TLA Systems Ltd. | Bin Hua |
Customer experience
PCalc Lite
AppmanCC
Bugs and requests
PCalc Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- Calculations sometimes produce unexpected results
- Upside-down text censorship feature is problematic
- Purchased features not always accessible on Apple Watch
Requested features
4 requests- Add option to display thousands separators
- Implement a history function to review past calculations
- Provide more customization options for the widget
- Add support for sexagesimal angle input and conversion
AppmanCC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PCalc Lite
- Theme Pack$0.99
- Power User Pack$0.99
- Multiple Line Pack$0.99
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- Conversion Pack$0.99
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Programmer Pack$2.99
- Engineer Pack$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
- Complete Pack$9.99
AppmanCC
No in-app purchases









