Basic Calculator+ vs Calculy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Calculator+
Perform essential arithmetic operations with a straightforward calculator app. Its large buttons and clear display ensure ease of use, supporting both portrait and landscape orientations.
- Basic four functions
- Clear display
- Large buttons
- Portrait and landscape modes
- iPad compatible
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This simple calculator with a clear display and large buttons makes calculations easy. Portrait and landscape modes both available on iPad. This app uses the basic functions of the calculator to make the simplest, best, free calculator in the app store.
Calculy
This free calculator app offers advanced functions beyond basic arithmetic, including a comprehensive unit converter with daily updated currency rates. It supports a wide range of mathematical operations and is available for iPhone and iPad.
- Advanced mathematical functions
- Unit converter with 220+ units
- Daily updated currency rates
- Supports iPad expanded layout
- Hardware keyboard support on iPad
- Ad-free experience
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Calculy is a free calculator for iPhone and iPad. Small yet mighty and totally ad-free. Go beyond basic calculations with Calculy’s full range of functions: • unit converter with more than 220 units from 16 sections (including currencies with daily updated rates) • percentages • square, cube and nth power • square root, cube root and nth root • logarithm, natural logarithm, common logarithm • factorial, reciprocal • rounding • exponentiation to the power of 2, 10, e • Pi, e Euler's number, random numbers • sine, cosine, tangent • arcsine, arccosine, arctangent • hyperbolic sine, hyperbolic cosine, hyperbolic tangent The expanded layout for iPad handily displays all available function keys. Hardware keyboard is supported on the iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basic Calculator+ at none against Calculy's 3. Basic Calculator+ also leads on ratings volume (260K vs 1). Calculy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and device support 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. Calculy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Basic Calculator+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Basic Calculator+ against 5.0 for Calculy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Basic Calculator+ has 260K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Basic Calculator+'s written reviews are positive against 91% of Calculy's.
Basic Calculator+ ships an update every 4 months, Calculy every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Basic Calculator+ | Calculy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (260K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.4% of reviews | 91.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 260K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Best Free Apps | Lingo4you Mario Muller und Heike Pahlow GbR |
Customer experience
Basic Calculator+
Calculy
Bugs and requests
Basic Calculator+
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect calculation results
- Ads covering the screen
Requested features
3 requests- Add fraction button
- Implement order of operations
- Include memory function
Calculy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Basic Calculator+
No in-app purchases
Calculy
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me cookies$1.99
- Buy me a pizza$3.99
