Frugal vs SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frugal
This app helps shoppers determine the best value by comparing prices and sizes of items. It also calculates discount percentages and stacked coupons, simplifying complex deals. A bonus tip calculator is included for splitting bills.
- Price and size comparison
- Discount percentage calculation
- Stacked coupon calculation
- Price per unit display
- Total savings calculation
- Tip calculator
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Have you ever been confused about whether a deal was really a deal? Have you ever wondered if the value size is really a better value? Frugal is the application for you! Frugal helps shoppers determine which item is the best value. By comparing prices and size, it does the math for you! Additionally, Frugal will also calculate discount percentages and coupons. This alleviates the confusion of discounts on top of discounts (i.e. "take an additional 15% off"). FEATURES * Custom numeric keypad for fast and easy entry * Autoshift for currency to eliminate need to hit decimal * Price per unit shown for each item * Total savings shown for the best value * Discount values shown BONUS A tip calculator has been added as a bonus. It's useful for quickly calculating tips and dividing the bill between a party of people.
SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer
This app helps you determine the best age to claim Social Security benefits. By inputting your life expectancy, expected investment returns, and primary insurance amount, it calculates the optimal claiming age to maximize your total lifetime benefit.
- Optimal claiming age calculation
- Lifetime benefit maximization
- Life expectancy input
- Investment return input
- Primary insurance amount input
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The Social Security Optimizer app provides the most optimal age for claiming social security. With easy input from user on the life expectancy, primary insurance amount (monthly benefit at full retirement age) and expected investment return etc., it optimizes the cumulative lifetime benefit and calculates the optimal claiming age to maximize the cumulative lifetime benefit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Frugal at 2 against SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer's —. Frugal also leads on iOS requirement (6.1 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frugal against 5.0 for SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Frugal's written reviews are positive against 100% of SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer's.
| Parameter | Frugal | SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 6.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Russell Leake | Jie Shi |
Customer experience
Frugal
SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer
In-app purchases
Frugal
No in-app purchases
SocialSecurityBenefitOptimizer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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