Comparison

Halcyon Calc Lite vs BenchPro Testing

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

BenchPro Testing

Features
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BenchPro Tester is the companion app used alongside Bench Pro repair shop diagnostic stations. When you bring your phone in for service or a trade-in evaluation, your technician connects it over USB and this app walks through a complete guided hardware check — results are sent straight to the shop's diagnostic report. WHAT IT CHECKS • Screen — dead pixel and display check • Touch screen — full coverage test • Multi-touch — simultaneous finger detection • Front and rear camera • Speaker and earpiece • Top and bottom microphone • Vibration / haptics • Physical buttons • Charging port • Flashlight • Proximity sensor • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios • GPS • Gyroscope • Battery health (real load test, not just a snapshot reading) HOW IT WORKS Plug your phone into the shop's diagnostic computer with a USB cable. This app opens automatically and walks you through each test with clear on-screen instructions — tap Pass, Fail, or Skip as you go. No account, no sign-up, no data entry required. No cable handy, or a port that won't connect? The app also supports a hand-tested mode your technician can use directly on the shop computer, so a diagnostic can still be completed without a working USB connection. WHO IT'S FOR This app is intended for use at a participating repair shop running Bench Pro Tech Station — it isn't a general consumer diagnostic tool and has no functionality on its own outside of that pairing. PRIVACY Test results are sent only to the shop's own computer over your temporary USB/local connection — nothing is uploaded to Bench Pro's servers or any third party, and no account or personal information is required to use the app.

Screenshots

Halcyon Calc Lite4 screens
BenchPro Testing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BenchPro Testing at none against Halcyon Calc Lite's 3. BenchPro Testing also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Halcyon Calc Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BenchPro Testing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Halcyon Calc Lite ships an update every 3 months, BenchPro Testing every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Halcyon Calc Lite versus BenchPro Testing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalcyon Calc LiteBenchPro Testing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHalcyon Touch SoftwareJonathan Pegues

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

BenchPro Testing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Halcyon Calc Lite free?
Halcyon Calc Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BenchPro Testing free?
BenchPro Testing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Halcyon Calc Lite or BenchPro Testing have ads?
Halcyon Calc Lite shows ads; BenchPro Testing does not.
Which is updated more often, Halcyon Calc Lite or BenchPro Testing?
Halcyon Calc Lite ships an update every 3 months, and BenchPro Testing every 3 weeks. Most recently, Halcyon Calc Lite was updated on November 13, 2026 and BenchPro Testing on November 13, 2026.

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