Comparison

Halcyon Calc vs WispPGP

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

WispPGP

This app provides a focused toolkit for encrypting, decrypting, signing, and verifying text using OpenPGP standards. It allows for managing multiple key pairs and integrates with other apps via a share extension for secure communication.

Highlights
  • Encrypt and decrypt messages
  • Sign and verify messages
  • Generate and manage multiple key pairs
  • Set an active key
  • Share encrypted output as text or files
  • Use Share Extension for any app
Features
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WispPGP is a focused OpenPGP toolkit for iPhone. Encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify text in seconds, or use the Share Extension to protect content from any app and send it as ASCII‑armored .asc. Manage multiple keys, set an active key, and keep your workflow fast and predictable. Built for iOS 17+, WispPGP keeps cryptography practical: generate key pairs, label keys clearly, and choose whether to share encrypted output as a file attachment or as plain text. The experience is intentionally clean so you can work quickly without losing control of important details. Powered by GoOpenPGP (MIT) for broad OpenPGP compatibility. Armored exports include clear headers: Version: WispPGP, Comment: https://micro.mjanssen.nl/wisppgp Highlights • Encrypt and decrypt messages with OpenPGP. • Sign and verify messages to confirm authenticity. • Generate and manage multiple key pairs with name, email, and comment. • Set an active key to speed up repeated actions. • Share encrypted output as ASCII‑armored text or .asc files. • Use the Share Extension to protect text from any app. Security & Privacy • Biometric access is required for private keys and stored passphrases. • Private keys are stored in iOS Keychain with device-only access. • No plaintext key files are written to disk. • Sensitive passphrases are cleared when the app goes to background. • Optional clipboard auto-clear after pasting. • The source code is open source, so anyone can review what happens with their private keys. Security Test Checklist • Key Manager access prompts Face ID; cancel keeps the screen locked. • Private key actions (Decrypt/Sign/Export) always prompt biometrics. • Lockout behavior: repeated failures show the biometry lock message. • No biometric enrolled: shows a clear not enrolled/not available message. • Passcode disabled: shows a clear passcode-required message. • App backgrounding locks Key Manager again on return. • Share Extension prompts biometrics for private-key operations.

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc4 screens
WispPGP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Halcyon Calc at 4.9 against WispPGP's 4.3. Halcyon Calc also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and ratings volume (18 vs 3). WispPGP's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Halcyon Calc costs $4.99 and WispPGP $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Halcyon Calc holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halcyon Calc has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Halcyon Calc's written reviews are positive against 75% of WispPGP's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, WispPGP every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Halcyon Calc versus WispPGP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon CalcWispPGP
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.9 (18 ratings) — better4.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareMarco Janssen

Customer experience

Halcyon Calc

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

WispPGP

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Halcyon Calc

No in-app purchases

None

WispPGP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc free?
Halcyon Calc costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WispPGP free?
WispPGP costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Halcyon Calc or WispPGP?
Halcyon Calc is rated higher. Halcyon Calc averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while WispPGP averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Halcyon Calc or WispPGP have ads?
Neither Halcyon Calc nor WispPGP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc or WispPGP?
Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, and WispPGP every 2 weeks. Most recently, Halcyon Calc was updated on October 9, 2026 and WispPGP on October 10, 2026.

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