Comparison

Halcyon Calc Lite vs Glink 5250

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

Head to head
About

Halcyon Calc Lite

This app is a powerful calculator for students and professionals, offering advanced features like symbolic expression manipulation, graphing, and statistical analysis. It supports real, complex, and integer numbers, matrices, and vectors, making it versatile for various mathematical tasks.

Highlights
  • Symbolic expression manipulation
  • Graphing of expressions
  • Matrix and vector calculations
  • Statistical analysis
  • Multiple number formats (decimal, hex, octal, binary)
  • Over 225 built-in operations
Features
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For students, engineers, scientists or people who fondly remember classic calculators, Halcyon Calc Lite 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 - 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. - 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

Glink 5250

This application provides robust IBM 5250 terminal emulation for iOS devices, enabling access to IBM iSeries systems. It supports secure communication, multiple host sessions, and customizable toolbars with macro recording. It also offers features like session persistence and remote configuration management.

Highlights
  • IBM 5250 terminal emulation
  • TN5250 communication protocol
  • Secure SSL/TLS communication
  • Multiple concurrent host sessions
  • Configurable toolbars and hot spots
  • Macro recording and playback
  • Session persistence with GlinkProxy
Features
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Glink 5250 for iOS is an iOS-version of Gallagher & Robertson's best-selling terminal emulation program, Glink Professional Edition for Microsoft Windows. Glink 5250 is used to access applications running on IBM iSeries systems. Glink 5250 emulates all IBM 5250 terminals and uses the TN5250 protocol for communication with the host systems. Glink brings you a high quality and proven emulator for your iPad, iPhone devices and Mac computers with M1/M2 chip. Glink supports GlinkProxy, a server application designed to provide persistent host connections for Glink clients where the connection from the client device is unreliable. This may be because the device enters sleep mode or goes out of Wi-Fi range. FEATURES - IBM 5250 terminal emulation, all models and screen sizes - TN5250 communication to host - IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) support - SSL/TLS support for secure communication - Multiple concurrent host sessions - Configurable multi line toolbar with function keys and macros - Configurable hot spots for function keys, numbers, characters and URLs - Macro recording for auto-login and for assignment to toolbar - Pop-up standard keyboard with support of international characters - Tab/shift-Tab and arrow-keys supported on external Bluetooth keyboard - All major function keys available as keyboard shortcuts - Press and hold Command-key on external keyboard to see list of built-in keyboard shortcuts - Colors can be customized - Supports GlinkProxy Session Persistence Server - Multiple host configurations supported - Export and import of configurations - Supports Managed App Configuration, which allows users to configure Glink remotely through Mobile Device Management (MDM) - Optional password to access configurations - Optional auto-connect and auto-login at startup - Optional use of double-tap as Enter/Transmit - Supports Double Byte Character Sets (DBCS) like Chinese, Japanese and Korean - Configurable scroll-back buffer contains history of your host session - Print or e-mail host print data - Print or e-mail terminal emulation content or scroll-back buffer content - Zoom and scroll as the Safari browser - Dynamic zoom to cursor position - Blinking attribute supported - Blinking cursor supported - Two finger swipe gesture to move cursor - Tap and hold to open Mail with e-mail address on screen - Supports external Bluetooth keyboards and barcode scanners

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc Lite4 screens
Glink 52504 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Halcyon Calc Lite at Free against Glink 5250's $29.99. Halcyon Calc Lite also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). Glink 5250's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On 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 Lite is free to download; Glink 5250 costs $29.99 up front. Halcyon Calc Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Glink 5250 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Glink 5250 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Halcyon Calc Lite has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Halcyon Calc Lite's written reviews are positive against 50% of Glink 5250's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halcyon Calc Lite ships an update every 3 months, Glink 5250 every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Halcyon Calc Lite versus Glink 5250: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon Calc LiteGlink 5250
PriceFree — better$29.99
Rating4.6 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareGallagher & Robertson AS

Customer experience

Halcyon Calc Lite

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Glink 5250

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Halcyon Calc Lite

One-time3
  • Directory And Unit Conversion Support$0.99
  • Programming Support$1.99
  • Larger Display Upgrade$1.99
None

Glink 5250

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc Lite free?
Halcyon Calc Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glink 5250 free?
Glink 5250 costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Halcyon Calc Lite or Glink 5250?
Glink 5250 is rated higher. Halcyon Calc Lite averages 4.6 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Glink 5250 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Halcyon Calc Lite or Glink 5250 have ads?
Halcyon Calc Lite shows ads; Glink 5250 does not.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc Lite or Glink 5250?
Halcyon Calc Lite ships an update every 3 months, and Glink 5250 every 5 months. Most recently, Halcyon Calc Lite was updated on November 1, 2026 and Glink 5250 on October 31, 2026.

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