Comparison

Halcyon Calc vs Land

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

Head to head
About

Halcyon Calc

A powerful calculator app for students, engineers, and scientists. It handles complex numbers, symbolic expressions, unit conversions, and matrix operations, with advanced plotting and programming capabilities.

Highlights
  • Complex number calculations
  • Symbolic expression manipulation
  • Unit conversion with custom units
  • Matrix and vector operations
  • Symbolic plotting
  • Programming of custom operations
  • Statistical data analysis
Features
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For students, engineers, scientists or people who fondly remember classic calculators, Halcyon Calc is a great application for manipulating numbers and even symbolic expressions. Features: - Use this calculator on an iPhone, iPod Touch or an iPad - Use your finger to quickly scroll through the stack to review intermediate results - Copy and paste support - Over 225 built-in operations, including trig, logarithms, real functions, complex operations and more - Allows you to work with real, complex and integer numbers. - Real and complex numbers can be displayed in standard, fixed, scientific and engineering format - Use over 120 built-in units to perform unit conversion or create your own units if the one you want is not already there - Integer numbers can be displayed in decimal, hexadecimal, octal and binary bases - Work with real and complex matrices and vectors. - Enter symbolic expressions and solve them for different values. Even better, solve quadratic formulas, collect and expand factors and terms, find minima, maxima and roots of any expression. - Plot symbolic expressions in X/Y coordinates. Pan the coordinate space by dragging the plot in any direction. Zoom in and out using a pinch gesture. - Determine symbolic derivative, taylor series or numeric integral of an expression. - Store numbers, lists, strings and expressions in symbols. Create hierarchies of symbols to allow you to organize your calculations. - Create sequences of calculator commands into programs, creating your own operations which you can then include in expressions. - Store statistical data and calculate totals, averages, standard deviations, linear regressions, etc over that data. - Calculate the probabilities associated with standard distributions like the normal, F and T distributions.

About

Land

This aviation tool provides real-time audio callouts of your distance to the ground during descent. It functions as a configuration tool for compatible hardware, utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy for seamless connection without pairing.

Highlights
  • Real-time distance-to-ground callouts
  • Audio output through aircraft system
  • Configuration tool for Land-DAR equipment
  • Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication
  • No pairing or bonding required
Features
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Note: Usage of this app requires a connection to Land-DAR equipment. See landdar.com for more information. Land-DAR is an aviation landing assistant. As you are descending, Land-DAR will call out the distance to the ground through the audio system of your aircraft. This app is a configuration tool for Land-DAR equipment. Land-DAR uses BLE to communicate; no pairing or bonding is required, simply open the app and you're ready to go! See it in action: https://youtu.be/KmJZjY8uXBU

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc4 screens
Land4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Land at Free against Halcyon Calc's $4.99. Land also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). Halcyon Calc's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Land is free to download; Halcyon Calc costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Halcyon Calc against 5.0 for Land. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halcyon Calc has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Halcyon Calc versus Land: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon CalcLand
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (18 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareSend Solutions, LLC

Customer experience

Halcyon Calc

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Land

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Halcyon Calc

No in-app purchases

None

Land

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc free?
Halcyon Calc costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Land free?
Land is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Halcyon Calc or Land?
Land is rated higher. Halcyon Calc averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Land averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Halcyon Calc or Land have ads?
Neither Halcyon Calc nor Land shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc or Land?
Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, and Land every 4 months. Most recently, Halcyon Calc was updated on October 23, 2026 and Land on October 8, 2026.

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