RetirePlan vs When Can I Retire Pro
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 Pro
Calculate your retirement age based on your savings in taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts. It factors in taxes on withdrawals and required minimum distributions, offering a clear pre- and post-retirement financial picture.
- Retirement age calculation
- Accounts separation (taxable, tax-deferred, tax-free)
- Taxation on withdrawals factored
- Required minimum distribution calculation
- Withdrawal strategy planning
- Pre- and post-retirement financial visualization
- Emailable reports (tabular and graphical)
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You may have retirement savings in taxable accounts (cash, investments), tax-deferred accounts (Traditional 401k, Traditional IRA), and tax-free accounts (Roth 401k, Roth IRA). Find out when you will be able to retire based on your financial circumstances. **App Highlights** * The "When Can I Retire Pro" app calculates your retirement age by separating out your retirement savings in taxable accounts (cash, investments) and tax-advantaged accounts (Traditional, Roth) as certain tax-advantaged retirement savings cannot be withdrawn without a penalty until you reach the age 59 1/2. * The app factors in the retirement age calculation the taxes you are required to pay on withdrawals from your tax-deferred accounts (Traditional 401k, Traditional IRA). * The app takes into account you are required to make minimum withdrawals from your tax-deferred accounts (Traditional 401k, Traditional IRA) from the age of 72 onwards. * Additionally, this app helps you with an effective strategy on the order in which you can withdraw your retirement assets during your retirement years when you have savings in taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts. The retirement withdrawals are made first from your taxable accounts, then from your tax-deferred accounts, and finally from your tax-free accounts. * This app lays out a clear picture of your finances with the pre-retirement plan and post-retirement plan. * You can email your pre-retirement plan and post-retirement plan in tabular and graphical views to yourself or others from within the app. * This app saves your inputs across the launches upon successful retirement age calculation. * You can share the app via email, 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 Pro at Free against RetirePlan's $4.99. When Can I Retire Pro also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). RetirePlan's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.7) and chart position (#84 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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 Pro is free to download; RetirePlan costs $4.99 up front. RetirePlan sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and When Can I Retire Pro 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. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RetirePlan has 123 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of RetirePlan's written reviews are positive against 80% of When Can I Retire Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RetirePlan ships an update every 2 months, When Can I Retire Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetirePlan | When Can I Retire Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (123 ratings) — better | 3.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #84 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keltin Enterprises | Grow Nest Egg, LLC |
Customer experience
RetirePlan
When Can I Retire Pro
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 Pro
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 Pro
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$5.991 Year
Questions
Is RetirePlan free?
Is When Can I Retire Pro free?
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