Halcyon Calc Lite vs CMCalc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Symbolic expression manipulation
- Graphing of expressions
- Matrix and vector calculations
- Statistical analysis
- Multiple number formats (decimal, hex, octal, binary)
- Over 225 built-in operations
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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.
CMCalc
This app emulates a classic 1980s computer math calculator, offering decimal arithmetic, binary conversions, and logic functions. It supports parentheses for complex calculations and includes modern features like copy/paste and landscape mode.
- Decimal arithmetic
- Binary conversions (decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal)
- Binary logic functions
- Operator grouping with parentheses
- Hexadecimal input (A-F)
- Copy and paste results/functions
- Landscape mode
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The CMCalc application is a replica of the Casio CM-100 Computer Math Calc solar powered calculator that was sold in the mid 1980’s. It performs simple decimal arithmetic and basic binary conversions (decimal - binary - octal - hexadecimal) and binary logic functions. While it is a standard infix calculator, it supports operator grouping with parentheses. For hexadecimal calculations, the input keys include A through F. CMCalc application performs all the same functions as the calculator, and has the same look as the original. There are a couple features that were not conceivable in the 1980’s on a calculator … such as the ability to copy and paste the results or the entered function, and a landscape mode for devices with 4 inch or larger screens. The face of the calculator can be viewed in two modes including a traditional application style, and a photo replica of the original calculator face.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CMCalc at none against Halcyon Calc Lite's 3. CMCalc also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (75% vs 67%). Halcyon Calc Lite's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 45 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Halcyon Calc Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. CMCalc asks for nothing beyond the download.
Halcyon Calc Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Halcyon Calc Lite's written reviews are positive against 75% of CMCalc's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Halcyon Calc Lite ships an update every 3 months, CMCalc every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halcyon Calc Lite | CMCalc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Halcyon Touch Software | William David |
Customer experience
Halcyon Calc Lite
CMCalc
In-app purchases
Halcyon Calc Lite
- Directory And Unit Conversion Support$0.99
- Programming Support$1.99
- Larger Display Upgrade$1.99
CMCalc
No in-app purchases








