Comparison

RetirePlan vs When Can I Retire

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

RetirePlan4 screens
When Can I Retire4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
RetirePlan versus When Can I Retire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetirePlanWhen Can I Retire
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (123 ratings) — better3.7 (63 ratings)
Positive reviews73.9% of reviews — better57.9% of reviews
Number of ratings123 — better63
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#27 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.18.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeltin EnterprisesGrow Nest Egg, LLC

Customer experience

RetirePlan

All ratings123 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative19.6%

When Can I Retire

All ratings60 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative28.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral10.5%
Negative31.6%

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

3 purchases

RetirePlan

One-time3
  • 5 additional scenarios$1.99
  • save 5 more scenarios3 variants$1.99
  • 5 Scenarios$1.99
2 purchases

When Can I Retire

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$5.991 Year

Questions

Is RetirePlan free?
RetirePlan costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is When Can I Retire free?
When Can I Retire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RetirePlan or When Can I Retire?
RetirePlan is rated higher. RetirePlan averages 4.3 out of 5 from 123 ratings, while When Can I Retire averages 3.7 from 63 ratings.
Do RetirePlan or When Can I Retire have ads?
Neither RetirePlan nor When Can I Retire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RetirePlan or When Can I Retire?
RetirePlan ships an update every 2 months, and When Can I Retire fortnightly. Most recently, RetirePlan was updated on October 29, 2026 and When Can I Retire on October 25, 2026.

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