RetireWhen vs Retire How $
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.
Retire How $
This app helps you calculate your monthly retirement income based on your savings and life expectancy. It offers inflation adjustments and educational videos to improve financial literacy. Plan your retirement with confidence.
- Monthly retirement income calculation
- Inflation adjustment
- Partner income integration
- Financial literacy videos
- Simple 3-5 input fields
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‘Retire How $’ calculates how much you can take out of savings each month from this month until your life expectancy age when your savings gets to zero. Add a partner, it’s inflation adjusted year over year. No generic 4% rule. 3 input fields, 5 if a partner. Short videos on every field to build your financial literacy along the way. Your finances. Your move. No In App Purchases, no Subscriptions. Built by ThreeOneOGirl LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Retire How $ at none against RetireWhen's shown. Retire How $ also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). RetireWhen's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.4). 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 Retire How $. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
RetireWhen ships an update every 4 weeks, Retire How $ every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RetireWhen | Retire How $ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orestes Melgarejo | Christine Mayfield |
Customer experience
RetireWhen
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In-app purchases
RetireWhen
No in-app purchases
Retire How $
No in-app purchases
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