RetireWhen vs Glidepaths
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RetireWhen
This app helps you plan your retirement by allowing you to adjust various financial factors and instantly visualize their impact on your future savings and depletion age through dynamic charts and interactive sliders.
- Dynamic real-time charts
- Support for 3 user profiles
- Adjust income, savings, and spending
- Visualize depletion age and savings breakdown
- Interactive sliders for real-time adjustments
- Year-by-year results view
- Advanced variable adjustments
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RetireWhen: Plan Your Future, Instantly Take control of your retirement journey with RetireWhen – the intuitive, all-in-one retirement calculator that lets you see your future take shape as you adjust your plans. Features: • Dynamic charts that update instantly as you adjust values • Support for 3 profiles: Partner 1, Partner 2, and the two Combined • Set your income, savings, retirement age, spending, and more • Visualize depletion age and savings breakdown with clear graphs • Interactive sliders to tweak retirement age and spending in real-time • View detailed, year-by-year results in the Results tab • Adjust advanced variables like growth and inflation rates • iPad and iPhone optimized – works great in both portrait and landscape • All features included – no subscriptions or in-app purchases • Save results to Files or share via text, email, etc. • Your personal info stays on your phone. None of it is shared or sold to third parties Plan smarter. Know When you can Retire. Download RetireWhen today and take the guesswork out of your future.
Glidepaths
This app helps you visualize and plan for your retirement by aggregating your income, savings, benefits, and personal goals. It offers a reality-based approach to test assumptions and answer critical questions about your financial future. Gain clarity and control over your long-term financial well-being.
- Retirement income aggregation
- Savings and benefits visualization
- Personal goal integration
- Reality-based assumption testing
- Whole life financial overview
- Customization options
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More than a simple retirement calculator, Glidepaths is your personal assistant in aggregating the lifetime effects of your income, savings, benefits, and personal goals in a simple visualization. Glidepaths puts you in control and helps direct you towards deeper research and customization. Answer the question: have I done enough to provide for my family in retirement? What can I do now to best prepare myself for the future? This is a reality based approach, with mechanics to test and validate assumptions. BRS, TSP, Reserve, Guard, VA, SBP, pension, military spouse. competitors are all single-purpose calculators; Glidepaths sees your whole life on one chart.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Glidepaths at none against RetireWhen's shown. Glidepaths also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). RetireWhen's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
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 RetireWhen against 5.0 for Glidepaths. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RetireWhen has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RetireWhen ships an update every 4 weeks, Glidepaths every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetireWhen | Glidepaths |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orestes Melgarejo | Thomas Hickey |
Customer experience
RetireWhen
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In-app purchases
RetireWhen
No in-app purchases
Glidepaths
No in-app purchases
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