Kalkyl vs BCalc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kalkyl
A powerful and intuitive calculator designed for speed and ease of use. Features include collaboration, haptic feedback, and advanced input methods like keyboard trackpad mode. Offers basic graphing and localized number formatting for a seamless user experience.
- Optimized for quick calculations
- Collaborate on documents
- Intuitive design with haptic feedback
- Keyboard trackpad and pointer interactions
- Basic graphing capabilities
- Localized number formatting
- Undo and Redo support
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Kalkyl is just a really good calculator. • Optimized for quick calculations. • Collaborate on documents. • Simple and intuitive design. • Haptic feedback (on supported devices). • Undo and Redo support (shake to Undo). • Keyboard trackpad mode using 3D Touch, or Haptic Touch (on supported devices), or two fingers on iPad. • Pointer interactions on iPad. • Basic graphing. • Properly localized number formatting. • App-wide dynamic type support. • Accessible. Terms of Use: https://kalkyl.io/terms.html
BCalc
This application offers a user-friendly calculator designed for everyday tasks. It allows users to track and modify each step of their calculations, providing a clear history similar to a printing calculator. It supports various calculation types and offers customization options.
- Step-by-step operation recording
- Modify and recalculate steps
- Paper tape history
- Add comments to calculations
- Edit past calculations
- Customizable layout and color
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Easy to operate! Quick to calculate! Clear steps! This is the calculator you want, daily use, for shopping, expression, checking accounts, digital subtraction accumulate and so on, meet most of our needs. The biggest advantage of this calculator is the ability to record every step of the operation, and you can choose any step then modify it, recalculate, without re-enter it. With the paper tape history, works like printing calculator, you will find this is so easy! calculate so fast! the number is so clear! Features and Benefits: - Simple, rapid, accurate; - View every step of the operations, make sure it's right; - Free to modify each step, recalculate the results; - Add comments; - View recent history, and edit any history; - Mailing your calculation; - Print your calculations list; - According to personal habits set a different layout or color; Calculators: - Formula Calculator - List Calculator - Unit Converter Calculator - Loan Calculator - Tip Calculator - Math Calculators - Numeral System Calculators - Custom Calculators
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kalkyl at none against BCalc's shown. Kalkyl also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). BCalc's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (86% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Kalkyl sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year and BCalc sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BCalc holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 714 and 245 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Kalkyl's written reviews are positive against 86% of BCalc's.
Kalkyl ships an update every 5 weeks, BCalc every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kalkyl | BCalc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (714 ratings) | 4.7 (245 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.7% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 714 — better | 245 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | nordic io | 煦 张 |
Customer experience
Kalkyl
BCalc
Bugs and requests
Kalkyl
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch for some users
- Graphing issues with certain equations
- Incorrect results for some calculations
Requested features
5 requests- Add a clear/reset button
- Implement calculation history and memory functions
- Improve graphing controls and zooming
- Add support for more mathematical functions (e.g. factorials, fractions)
- Provide an option for independent dark mode
BCalc
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kalkyl
- Kalkyl Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Year
BCalc
- Remove Ad$0.99
- Change Themes$0.99
- Custom$3.99
