Calculator Silver Lite vs Calculation!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculator Silver Lite
This app offers a robust calculator experience with advanced features like printing and emailing calculation history, a backspace key for corrections, and customizable display options. It allows for easy copying and pasting of numbers to other applications and supports displaying calculations on external monitors.
- Print/email calculation history
- Backspace correction key
- Copy/paste numbers
- Customizable display and tape
- External monitor display
- Today View widget
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*Featured in What´s Hot on iTunes* *Featured in New & Noteworthy by Apple* The BEST Calculator! App for iPad, iPhone and iTouch — Just try it for free! Ever lost your train of thought half way through a calculation and thought how handy it would be to have a print out or e-mail of your work? Features: - Print out the calculation history or send by PDF. - Correct with a backspace key if you enter a wrong digit without having to redo all. - Email, PDF or Print the calculation history. - PDF the Tape and access previous in the Documents Folder. - Exchange Documents in iTunes or open in iBooks, Email, etc. - Rename and share PDF documents. - Copy and Paste numbers to other Apps, by tapping on the display. - Change number display to Fixed, Scientific, etc., by tapping on the display. - Customize fixed digits, fonts, colors and sizes. - Customize the Tape font, size and color. - Customize backgrounds with in-App purchase. - An audible sound confirms if you have pressed a button, which can be easily disabled by touching the speaker. - Show calculations on an Apple TV or an external monitor with a cable. To allow this turn on Apple TV and select Mirroring. - Previous calculation is repeated when the equal sign is pressed. - Grand Total calculated. - Numbers in Memory may be logged to the Tape. - A visible and audible error when trying to divide by zero or take the square root of a negative number. - Numbers are shown in local format, depending on your Region Formats, i.e. comma used in Europe.
Calculation!
This app provides a user-friendly scientific calculator with a comprehensive expression history. Easily copy past calculations and results with a simple double-tap. It includes advanced functions for complex mathematical needs.
- Copyable expression history
- Double tap to copy
- Ans button
- Trigonometric functions
- Degree and Radian modes
- Share functionality
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Calculation is an easy to use, scientific calculator with a copyable expression history. Key features: - Double tap to copy expressions and results - Expression history - Ans button - Trig and inverse trig functions - EE, π, and e - Degree and Radian modes - Share with friends button
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Calculation! at 5.0 against Calculator Silver Lite's 4.1. Calculation! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Calculator Silver Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Calculation! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calculation! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calculation! has 88 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Calculator Silver Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calculation!'s.
Calculator Silver Lite ships an update every 2 months, Calculation! every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculator Silver Lite | Calculation! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (88 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 88 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hannes Sverrisson | Paul Koomey |
Customer experience
Calculator Silver Lite
Calculation!
Bugs and requests
Calculator Silver Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Calculation!
Requested features
8 requests- Add more operations to match default Apple calculator
- Implement copy paste from outside the app
- Add dark mode
- iPad and macOS versions
- Make hitting enter on a blank line re-enter previous input
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- Change color of 'clear' button and vary 'delete'/'menu' button colors
- Send to newline after overflow error
- Themes menu
In-app purchases
Calculator Silver Lite
- Enable Backgrounds$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Support Development$4.99
Calculation!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Calculator Silver Lite free?
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