Comparison

Halcyon Calc vs my57

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

my57

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Relive the classic 1977 Programmable 57 pocket calculator — faithfully recreated for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. my57 is a cycle-accurate emulator running the same ROM microcode as the original hardware. Every function, every keystroke, and every quirk — including its number formatting and error-blinking display — is reproduced exactly, not reimplemented. AUTHENTIC HARDWARE • 12-digit red LED display with a diffuser-glass texture and optional LED Glow • Real Speed mode runs at the original ~5,000 cycles/second, or switch to Turbo for instant results • Two documented factory ROM revisions (rev0/rev1) to choose from • Algebraic Operating System (AOS) entry, exactly like the original FULL PROGRAMMING SUPPORT • 50 program steps with LRN (Learn) mode • 8 addressable memory registers • GTO, subroutines (SBR), conditional branches (x=t, x≥t), and Dsz counting loops • Scientific notation, trigonometric functions, logarithms, and statistics (mean, variance, standard deviation) BEYOND THE ORIGINAL • Program & Memory panel — see every step's code and mnemonic, edit registers directly, insert/delete steps with undo • Saved program library — save, rename, and organize your programs • Share programs as .my57 files via Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or any app • iCloud Sync keeps your programs, registers, and library current across every device BUILT-IN USER'S GUIDE A complete guide is right inside the app — covering the interface for newcomers, plus a full programming tutorial with worked examples (loops, subroutines, factorials, linear regression, and more) for anyone who wants to actually learn to program it. DESIGNED FOR EVERY DEVICE • iPhone: portrait, full-screen • iPad: side-by-side program panel in landscape • Mac: resizable window with full physical keyboard support

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc4 screens
my574 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: my57 at Free against Halcyon Calc's $4.99. my57 also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Halcyon Calc's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.5). On ads 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

my57 is free to download; Halcyon Calc costs $4.99 up front. my57 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Halcyon Calc asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, my57 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Halcyon Calc versus my57: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon Calcmy57
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareMiroslav Perovic

In-app purchases

None

Halcyon Calc

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

my57

One-time1
  • Full Version$4.99

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc free?
Halcyon Calc costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is my57 free?
my57 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Halcyon Calc or my57 have ads?
Neither Halcyon Calc nor my57 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc or my57?
Halcyon Calc ships an update every 4 months, and my57 every 3 weeks. Most recently, Halcyon Calc was updated on October 23, 2026 and my57 on October 26, 2026.

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