RetirePlan vs When Can I Retire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RetirePlan
This application helps users plan for retirement by answering key financial questions. It allows for detailed input of financial data, assumptions, and expenses to visualize retirement scenarios and assess their viability. Users can explore different variables with interactive sliders and access detailed reports and simulations.
- Retirement financial planning
- Interactive data input and assumptions
- Visual graph projections
- Adjustable sliders for scenario testing
- Detailed yearly spreadsheet view
- Monte Carlo simulation for success likelihood
- Customizable settings for spouse, Social Security, and inflation
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RetirePlan is an iPad app that helps you answer all your questions about your retirement. If you have questions about your retirement finances, this is the app to answer them. When can I retire? How much do I need to save every year? How much money will I get every year in my retirement? How long will my money hold out in my retirement? In just a few seconds you can enter your data and assumptions and the graph will update to show you if your plan will work. If you have more time to spend you can enter as much detail as you want to refine your plan. The sliders give you an easy way to see what different values will do to your plan. Need to enter a value outside the slider range? press the amount and a calculator will pop up to let you enter whatever number you need. The slider range will update automatically. Bring up the spreadsheet to see all the details for every year of the plan, or check out the Monte Carlo simulator to see how likely your plan is to succeed! Email your results. Use the settings to add your spouse, include or remove Social Security, and show or hide inflation and interest rates. Use the + button to add a pension, send a child to college, large upcoming expenses, add additional rates of return and retirement income assumptions. Include Tax assumptions to get an even more accurate picture of your future.
When Can I Retire
Calculate your potential retirement age based on various financial inputs like salary, contributions, and expected expenses. It factors in withdrawal penalties, contribution limits, and employer matching to provide pre and post-retirement financial plans.
- Retirement age calculation
- Input salary, contributions, and expenses
- Factor in withdrawal penalties
- Consider contribution limits
- Include employer matching
- Pre and post-retirement plans
- Email financial plans
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You may have retirement savings in a 401(k), 403(b), or 457(b) plan. You may also have an IRA or cash and investments. Find out when you will be able to retire based on your financial circumstances. **App Highlights** *The "When Can I Retire" app calculates your retirement age based on numerous optional inputs such as your current salary, yearly salary increase, yearly retirement contribution, yearly contribution increase, employer matching contribution, post-retirement expense, social security, and other retirement income. *The unique app factors in the retirement age calculation that you cannot withdraw your retirement savings from a 401(k) plan, 403(b) plan, or an IRA before you turn 59 ½ without incurring a possible 10% penalty. However, you can withdraw your retirement savings from a 457(b) plan without facing an early withdrawal penalty. *The app considers that you can contribute only up to a specific maximum limit to your employer-sponsored retirement plan. For example, you can contribute a maximum of 23,000 dollars to your 401(k), 403(b), or 457(b) plan for this year as per the current law. However, there is a catch-up contribution limit of an additional 7,500 dollars if you are aged 50 and older. *The app considers the combined total of your contributions and employer matching contributions to a 401(k) or 403(b) plan cannot exceed your salary or 69,000 dollars for this year as per the current law. There is a catch-up contribution limit of an additional 7,500 dollars if you are aged 50 and older. *The app lays out a clear picture of your finances with both a pre-retirement and post-retirement plan. *The app allows you to email your pre-retirement plan and post-retirement plan in tabular and graphical views to yourself or others. *This app saves your inputs and retains them across the launches upon successful retirement age calculation. *You can share the app via Text Message, WhatsApp, Facebook, or Twitter from within the app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: When Can I Retire at Free against RetirePlan's $4.99. When Can I Retire also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). RetirePlan's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (74% vs 58%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
When Can I Retire is free to download; RetirePlan costs $4.99 up front. RetirePlan sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and When Can I Retire sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RetirePlan holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 123 and 63 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of RetirePlan's written reviews are positive against 58% of When Can I Retire's.
RetirePlan ships an update every 2 months, When Can I Retire fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetirePlan | When Can I Retire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (123 ratings) — better | 3.7 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better | 57.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 63 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #27 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keltin Enterprises | Grow Nest Egg, LLC |
Customer experience
RetirePlan
When Can I Retire
Bugs and requests
RetirePlan
Reported bugs
9 issues- App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- Data from previous versions lost after updates
- Y-axis scale changes unexpectedly during data entry
- Slider controls are unresponsive or difficult to use
- Orientation issues switching between portrait and landscape
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- MacOS version has sizing issues and artifacts
- Unexplained savings increase at age 69 despite depleted funds
- Rate of return not properly applied to all investment types
- Support email address no longer functional
Requested features
15 requests- Monte Carlo simulation for variable market returns
- Sequence of returns risk analysis
- Different retirement dates for spouses
- Different rates of return for different asset types
- Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) calculations
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- Roth IRA conversion planning
- Survivor benefits for pensions
- Spouse pension income support
- Tax rate customization
- Withdrawal rate display
- Web-based or native MacOS application
- Detailed help documentation for calculation methodology
- Ability to designate different tax rates for different income sources
- Support for employer pension inputs
- Historical market data integration
When Can I Retire
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RetirePlan
- 5 additional scenarios$1.99
- save 5 more scenarios3 variants$1.99
- 5 Scenarios$1.99
When Can I Retire
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$5.991 Year
Questions
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