Comparison

Halcyon Calc vs Dualock

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

Dualock

This app securely stores your notes by splitting them into two encrypted parts, stored separately. Access requires authentication from two specified SNS accounts, ensuring your data remains private and inaccessible to others.

Highlights
  • Two-part encrypted note storage
  • Separate cloud storage for each part
  • Dual SNS account authentication
  • No password required
  • Secure and private data handling
Features
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Write your note. Leave Dualock keep it safe in the cloud. We do not use password, because password is not safe enough and hard to remember. Every note you saved here will be splited into two part. Both the parts will encrypted separately and saved separately, using a pair of SNS account you specified. To unlock your note, both accounts is needed. Only you know the pair and the order of the pair. It's safe. Even I don't know how to crack it.

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc4 screens
Dualock3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Halcyon Calc at 18 against Dualock's 1. Dualock's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). 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

Halcyon Calc costs $4.99 and Dualock $1.99 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 Dualock. 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 November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Halcyon Calc versus Dualock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon CalcDualock
Price$4.99$1.99 — 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
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareGear Zero Network Inc.

Customer experience

Halcyon Calc

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dualock

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

In-app purchases

None

Halcyon Calc

No in-app purchases

None

Dualock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc free?
Halcyon Calc costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dualock free?
Dualock costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Halcyon Calc or Dualock?
Dualock is rated higher. Halcyon Calc averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Dualock averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Halcyon Calc or Dualock have ads?
Neither Halcyon Calc nor Dualock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc or Dualock?
Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, and Dualock every 4 months. Most recently, Halcyon Calc was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dualock on November 1, 2026.

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