Comparison

RetirePlan vs PlanMode

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

PlanMode

This app helps you plan for your financial future by projecting your wealth over your lifetime. It analyzes potential shortfalls in retirement savings and allows you to test various financial scenarios to ensure you have sufficient resources.

Highlights
  • Lifetime wealth projections
  • Retirement savings gap analysis
  • Scenario testing for financial decisions
  • All-in-one financial dashboard
  • Detailed financial profile integration
  • Comparison of financial alternatives
Features
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COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL & RETIREMENT PLANNING Stop wondering if you will have enough to retire. PlanMode is the comprehensive financial planning app designed to take the guesswork out of your future. By projecting your current financial profile, PlanMode analyzes whether you will have sufficient resources for your entire lifetime. KEY FEATURES • Lifetime Projections: Visualize your wealth trajectory from today until age 95+. • Gap Analysis: Instantly identify potential shortfalls in your retirement savings. • Scenario Testing: What if you retire at 62 vs 67? See the impact in seconds. • All-in-One Dashboard: Integrates your budget, investments, and savings in one display. Don't just save—plan with confidence. Start with PlanMode today. COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM PlanMode is a comprehensive financial & retirement planning system for analysis needed to answer questions like- • How does my projected financial profile look? • Should I start taking Social Security benefits at age 66 or wait for larger payments at age 70? • When will I have enough capital to retire on my terms? • What will be the bottom-line impact of a new investment? • Is buying a house is better for me than continuing to rent? • Is my family protected for their needs if I am disabled or die? PlanMode can help you analyze these and other situations. It is easy to use and its usage is limitless; you could use it to analyze almost any financial scenario which impacts just in the current year or many years to come. KEY FEATURES • Complete financial profiles, including- - Bank accounts - Retirement accounts - Business & Investments - Stocks & Bonds - Insurance policies - Real estate - Mortgages & loans - Cash management simulation - Social security - Income taxes • Compare financial alternatives - Unlimited what-if scenarios • Prepare retirement profile automatically - Determine lifelong capital needs - Analyze liquid capital sufficiency - Alternatives to fill capital shortfall • Prepare disability profiles automatically - Analyze cash flow sufficiency - Alternatives to fill cash shortfall • Prepare death profiles automatically - Determine survivor’s capital needs - Analyze income sufficiency - Alternatives to fill cash shortfall REPORTS & CHARTS PlanMode has a complete set of financial & retirement planning statements. PlanMode provides you with comprehensive analysis of retirement and other financial scenarios for lifetime capital needs and the capital available for its fulfillment. When capital resources are not sufficient PlanMode provides suggestive courses of action that may fill the shortcoming. The following reports are available for each scenario- • Financial Planning illustration • Retirement Planning illustration • Income Statement • Balance Sheet • Cashflow Statement • Supporting Information • Capital Needs Analysis • Pie charts for annual snapshots • Line charts projecting full profile COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING APP Additional financial & retirement planning features include - • Profiles for singles and married spouses • Planning span of up to 100 years • Retirement planning profile and analysis • Disability profile and analysis • Survivor’s profile and analysis • Automatic cash management simulation • Detailed annual cash flow analysis • Personalized data input items • Customizable financial statements • Ample graphs & charts for quick overview • Scenario comparison for what-if analysis • Export data to ExecPlan or Express • Definable national & local income taxes • Built-in USA income taxes • Predefined product structures for- • Individual Retirement Accounts • Company Retirement Plans (401k) • Self-employed Retirement Plans • Mortgages • Life Insurance • Fixed & Variable Annuities • Charitable Annuities • Reverse Mortgages ABOUT US Sawhney has been providing professional financial systems for over four decades. Our application, ExecPlan was the first commercially available such software in USA in 1976.

Screenshots

RetirePlan4 screens
PlanMode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PlanMode at Free against RetirePlan's $4.99. RetirePlan's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#107 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

PlanMode is free to download; RetirePlan costs $4.99 up front. RetirePlan sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PlanMode sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for RetirePlan against 4.3 for PlanMode. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 123 and 105 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of RetirePlan's written reviews are positive against 77% of PlanMode's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RetirePlan ships an update every 2 months, PlanMode every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
RetirePlan versus PlanMode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetirePlanPlanMode
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (123 ratings)4.3 (105 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews76.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings123 — better105
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#107 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeltin EnterprisesSawhney Systems

Customer experience

RetirePlan

All ratings123 ratings
Positive82.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral5.7%
Negative19.3%

PlanMode

All ratings105 ratings
Positive81.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.4%

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
Show 10 more
  • 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

PlanMode

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
3 purchases

PlanMode

One-time3
  • 1-Week Premium Activation$0.99
  • 1-Month Premium Activation$5.99
  • 1-Year Premium Activation$19.99

Questions

Is RetirePlan free?
RetirePlan costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is PlanMode free?
PlanMode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RetirePlan or PlanMode?
RetirePlan and PlanMode are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 123 and 105 ratings respectively.
Do RetirePlan or PlanMode have ads?
PlanMode shows ads; RetirePlan does not.
Which is updated more often, RetirePlan or PlanMode?
RetirePlan ships an update every 2 months, and PlanMode every 3 months. Most recently, RetirePlan was updated on September 3, 2026 and PlanMode on September 22, 2026.

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