Comparison

TI vs Constructive Calculator

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

Head to head
About

TI

This utility app displays the current time in various unconventional formats, including decimal, hexadecimal, and Swatch Internet time. It's designed for users who appreciate unique and challenging ways to view time, with some formats requiring specialized knowledge to interpret.

Highlights
  • Decimal time display
  • Hexadecimal time display
  • Swatch Internet time
  • Trigonometry clock
  • PT clock
  • Large, easy-to-read digits
Features
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This clock App is meant for all those users who like to get the time in unusual or challenging ways. This App can display the time in many different ways, like for example as decimal time (which was introduced in the French Revolution), as hexedecimal time (the idea goes back to the 19th century), as "Swatch Internet time" and many others. The most challenging clocks are the trigonometry clock and the PT clock, which requires some mathematical or chemical knowledge to interpret the time correctly. This clock is for "Geeks" ;-) The App shows the time in big letters which are easy to read even from the distance. So you can use an (old) iOS device put it on a shelf so it just shows the time. Feel free to make suggestions for other "geeky" clocks I can add in the future...

About

Constructive Calculator

This calculator performs calculations with arbitrary precision, avoiding rounding errors common in standard calculators. It provides an extensive scientific keypad and can display an unlimited number of digits for exact results.

Highlights
  • Arbitrary-precision calculations
  • Unlimited digit display
  • Scientific keypad
  • Exact results for large numbers
  • Running tape of calculations
  • Locale-aware digit grouping
Features
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Ordinary calculators round. Constructive Calculator doesn't. It computes with constructive real numbers, an arbitrary-precision engine that keeps every result exact and hands you as many correct digits as you ask for. The rounding errors that quietly accumulate in ordinary calculators simply never happen. AS MANY DIGITS AS YOU WANT A pocket calculator stops at about 15 digits and rounds off the rest. Constructive Calculator keeps every result exact, so the digits a normal calculator throws away are still there. Swipe √2, π, or any answer to pull in tens, hundreds, or thousands more, computed on demand. SCIENTIFIC KEYPAD Trigonometry in degrees or radians and their inverses, exponentials and logarithms, powers and roots, factorials, percentages, the constants π and e, and the standard normal distribution, its CDF Φ and quantile Φ⁻¹, computed to the same arbitrary precision as everything else. BIG INTEGERS, IN FULL 52! (the number of ways to shuffle a deck) prints in full, all 68 of its digits, with no scientific-notation hand-waving. BUILT FOR CLARITY A running tape of recent calculations, locale-aware digit grouping, and copy at whatever precision you need. Constructive Calculator is an independent port of Hans Boehm's constructive-reals calculator, rebuilt natively for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

TI4 screens
Constructive Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Constructive Calculator at Free against TI's $0.99. Constructive Calculator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 8 months). TI's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Constructive Calculator is free to download; TI costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Constructive Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TI has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TI ships an update every 8 months, Constructive Calculator every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TI versus Constructive Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTIConstructive Calculator
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander ClaussDmitriy Mayorov

In-app purchases

None

TI

No in-app purchases

None

Constructive Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TI free?
TI costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Constructive Calculator free?
Constructive Calculator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TI or Constructive Calculator?
Constructive Calculator is rated higher. TI averages 3.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Constructive Calculator averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do TI or Constructive Calculator have ads?
Neither TI nor Constructive Calculator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TI or Constructive Calculator?
TI ships an update every 8 months, and Constructive Calculator every 8 days. Most recently, TI was updated on September 29, 2026 and Constructive Calculator on October 5, 2026.

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