DayCalc vs Calculator Advance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DayCalc
This app combines a powerful calculator with a comprehensive unit converter. It offers standard, scientific, and fraction calculations, along with over 600 units across 20 categories. Users can customize units, add notes to calculations, and enjoy a visually appealing interface with multiple themes.
- Standard, scientific, and fraction calculator
- Live voice calculator
- Add notes to calculations
- Over 600 units in 20 categories
- Custom unit creation
- Automatic currency exchange rate updates
- 50+ themes and dark mode support
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DayCalc is an easy to use, beautifully packaged calculator and Unit Converter, includes standard, scientific and fractions calculator, best calculator for your iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch! Calculator: - Live voice calculator - Add notes to history of your calculations, and you can share - Choose between a basic calculator or scientific calculator with more than 30 scientific operations - Use both calculators in portrait or landscape mode (both iPhone and iPad), and split screen support for iPad - Auto adjust height of the history list, no matter how long the calculation process can be displayed in full - Allows locking of calculation history, cannot be deleted and modified after locking - Full watchOS 4 and later support - Support iOS 9 and later spotlight search - Support Dark Mode Unit Converter: - Over 600+ units in 20 categories. - Allows you to add your own unit data, make your own unit converter that meets all your requirements. - Support more than 150 kinds of currency, conversion exchange rate automatic updates - The simplest way to create and use favorite lists. - Add the constant value of your frequently used, it can easily and quickly reused. - Flexible search feature that lets you quickly find what you want the unit and automatically saves your search history. Basic functions: - 50+ beautiful themes for you to choose - View and edit a history of your calculations on the History Panel - Multiple Button sounds, and button sound is mutable URL schemes: HCDayCalc:// Download it now and feel of this calculator is how classic
Calculator Advance
This app offers advanced calculation features for business and travel, including currency and cryptocurrency conversion. It provides a user experience similar to physical business calculators with customizable buttons and formula correction.
- Currency and cryptocurrency conversion
- Formula display and correction
- Customizable button operations
- Business calculator functionality
- Supports SHARP and CASIO input types
- Constant, percent, and tax calculations
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“Calculator Advance” provides button operation on the same level as commercially available business calculators, so this calculator app is sufficiently useful for a variety of business situations. In addition to providing such high-quality basic functions, it also has the following expanded functions. - Currency conversion for the world currencies and cryptocurrencies. - Formula display and correction. - Many possible customizations. + Have you ever experienced these problems with current calculators and calculator apps? - When I am traveling abroad or on a business trip, I would like to convert the local currency's value to the value in my home country's currency. - I would like to get a calculator that can perform calculations with cryptocurrencies. - When I make a mistake in a calculation, I don't want to re-enter the entire calculation from the beginning. This is especially frustrating during long calculations. - Calculator applications lack the functionality of physical calculators. - I would like a calculator application with the functionality of a practical calculator, not a scientific calculator. - I want a well-designed calculator application. “Calculator Advance” is a calculator application that solves the problems found in other physical and virtual calculators. This application is used by professional businessmen, such as accountants, tax accountants, and salespeople, from whom we have received highly favorable feedback. + Can convert both real-world currencies and cryptocurrencies In “Calculator Advance”, there is a currency conversion screen separate from the actual calculator. There, you can download and view the latest exchange rate information of about 167 world currencies (legal currencies), as well as over 1,600 cryptocurrencies from the Internet. In addition, you can use the calculator function utilizing your currency conversion results. The currency data is the same data used by large companies listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), as well as those included on the S&P 500 Index. + Equipped with functionality on par with commercially available practical calculators One can chose between the two most common types of input (SHARP and CASIO) used in commercially available calculators. The input type can be set on the setting screen. It is possible to configure the buttons for advanced users who wish to use high-level functions that appear in calculator manipulation textbooks (reference books for calculator skill tests, etc.). For example, it is possible to perform constant calculations, percent calculations, tax calculations, calculations using grand totals (GT), memory calculations, exponentiation calculations, and complex operations involving combinations. The button manipulation is the same as that which is published in calculator manipulation textbooks (questionnaires on calculator tests). We have conducted many other tests, and we are always working to improve the reliability of our calculator application. + Convenient for long calculations. Display, review, and editing of calculations is possible. Calculation formulas are displayed, so they are easy to review. In addition, it is possible to modify formulas. It is very convenient because there is no need to re-enter a calculation from the beginning when a mistake is made, it is as simple as correcting the wrong part. + Original and useful features In addition, the application has its own unique and convenient functions: - Displays calculation formulas, independent memory values, and GT memory values in real time - Displays up to 15 digit numbers - Enough memory to save history data for up to 10,000 calculations - Results can be copied and pasted into other applications. - Button configuration can be changed (6 types in total: 4x5, 4x6, 4x7, 5x4, 5x5, 5x6) - Buttons can be set and adjusted. - Stylish Design And more...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calculator Advance at none against DayCalc's 4. Calculator Advance also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. DayCalc sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Calculator Advance asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for DayCalc against 4.8 for Calculator Advance. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 128 and 70 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of DayCalc's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calculator Advance's.
DayCalc ships an update every 3 weeks, Calculator Advance every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DayCalc | Calculator Advance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (128 ratings) | 4.8 (70 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 70 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 良峰 侯 | Takahiro Iwatani |
Customer experience
DayCalc
Calculator Advance
Bugs and requests
DayCalc
Reported bugs
16 issues- Update issues, stuck in update loop
- Cannot install after removal
- Weight conversion not showing
- Keys making sound unexpectedly
- App not working after professional version update
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- App crashes after update
- Stuck on updating forever
- Calculator results in errors (e.g., 1000*10%)
- App keeps running in the background, draining battery
- Cannot change themes due to network error
- Ads still appear after purchasing ad removal
- App not opening after install
- M+ M- bug
- Text/numbers/symbols have underlines
- Standard version limits typing to four digits
- App not starting on Apple Watch
Requested features
10 requests- Add Pi button
- Improve currency conversion navigation
- iCloud support for syncing across devices
- Add background running feature
- Ability to change app icon
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- Add more theme options
- Allow notes to show on the main screen
- Email entire calculation history
- Change layout (move function buttons)
- Allow sound to be enabled in silent mode
Calculator Advance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DayCalc
- Constants Pack$0.99
- Custom Unit Pack$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- Complete Pack$4.99
Calculator Advance
No in-app purchases
Questions
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