Bamboo Calculator vs Switch Always On
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bamboo Calculator
This app provides a digital calculator that records every step of your calculations, allowing you to easily review, modify, and recalculate previous entries. It offers basic arithmetic functions with added features like commenting and history editing for enhanced accuracy and convenience.
- Records every calculation step
- Edit and recalculate any step
- Add comments to calculations
- View and edit recent history
- Email and print calculation lists
- Customizable layout and color
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When calculate with a standard calculator, have you ever forget the previous step? Have you ever remember whether you miss a step? Yes, we need an calculator with every step, just like printing calculator. Although this calculator only has basic arithmetic operations, but it can meet most of our needs, such as checking accounts, calculating a shopping list, digital subtraction accumulate. 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. 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
Switch Always On
This app remotely monitors and configures smart IoT DC Micro Power Supply devices. It helps improve power reliability for networking equipment and automatically reboots modems and routers when they hang.
- Remote monitoring of power supply devices
- Real-time configuration of devices
- Automatic reboot of modems and routers
- Improve power reliability for networking
- Supports multiple devices
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Switch Always On™ is a smart IoT DC Micro Power Supply (UPS) designed to improve the power reliability and connectivity of networking devices, automatically hard reboot cell modems, cable modems & WiFi routers hangs. The Switch Always On™ mobile application allows users to remotely monitor and configure one or multiple Switch Always On™ devices in real-time. Learn more at www.switchalwayson.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Switch Always On at Free against Bamboo Calculator's $4.99. Switch Always On also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Bamboo Calculator's advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 3). On update cadence, 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
Switch Always On is free to download; Bamboo Calculator costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Switch Always On holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bamboo Calculator has 116 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Bamboo Calculator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Switch Always On's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bamboo Calculator | Switch Always On |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (116 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 116 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 煦 张 | Smart Charging Technologies |
Customer experience
Bamboo Calculator
Switch Always On
Bugs and requests
Bamboo Calculator
Reported bugs
8 issues- Running history not shown alongside calculations page
- Bluetooth keypad numbers not accepted as input
- Comment function not working
- Background doesn't change
- Keyboard clicks cannot be stopped
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- No way to start a new list
- Tape sidebar removed
- Keyboard stretched horizontally on iPad
Requested features
13 requests- Personalize the calculator
- Add memory functions (M+, M-, MR, MC)
- Add copy/paste feature
- Add a converter (distance, speed, mass etc.)
- Improve skins/themes
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- Improve voice output
- Connect to calendar
- Ability to reopen a file
- Add narration for better narration effectiveness
- Ability to save lists of calculations
- Show running total in display above keypad
- Allow typing with keyboard
- Return to previous tape visibility feature
Switch Always On
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bamboo Calculator
No in-app purchases
Switch Always On
No in-app purchases
Questions
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