The Calculator vs Party Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Calculator
This app combines a powerful calculator with a note-taking feature, allowing you to document calculations as you perform them. It also offers unit and currency conversions, with customizable appearance and settings.
- Integrated notepad for documenting calculations
- Unit and currency conversion
- Basic, scientific, and conversion calculators
- Customizable appearance (light, dark, black)
- Adjustable number formats and decimal places
- History with attachable notes
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How many steps does it take to work out a bill? Open the calculator, get a number, write it down somewhere, come back, forget where you were. The notepad lets you write the whole thing as text — every line worked out as you type it: rent = 1200 utilities = 85 rent + utilities 1285 Name your values and reuse them. It reads plain English too: 20 ml in tsp 100 USD in EUR 20% off 80 Also good for - Travelling — convert as you go, the whole day's spending on one page - Cooking — cups, ounces, Fahrenheit, all converted in one place - Estimating materials — add up three walls, divide by coverage per tin - Quoting work — change one number, everything recalculates Three more calculators - Basic — large type, generous spacing, your working shown as you build it - Scientific — trigonometry, logarithms, powers and roots, 2nd key cycles four layers - Convert — 123 units across 15 categories, currency rates update automatically Things you can adjust - Number format — comma, period, space, apostrophe, or none - Decimal places — full precision, or fixed to a number you choose - Appearance — light, dark, true black, or follow the system - Startup page — pick which one opens when you launch the app - Haptics — tune the strength or switch it off Also inside - History, with notes you can attach - Control Centre button for one-tap access - Available in many languages, with unit names and keywords in each Built on minimalist principles Clean design, smooth interaction, no noise — only what actually matters. The Calculator is free to use. Convert and Notepad are Premium features. Terms of Use: https://www.minlsm.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.minlsm.com/privacy
Party Tools
This app offers a collection of quick decision-making tools for games and social gatherings. It includes features like dice rolling, coin flipping, name picking, and a bottle spinner to keep the fun going.
- Dice roll
- Coin flip
- Spin the bottle
- Name picker
- Quick picker
- Customizable color themes
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Party Tools puts the essentials for game night in one polished app. Roll dice, flip a coin, pick a random number or person, spin a custom wheel, choose who goes first, run a timer, and keep score without passing around a pile of separate apps. PARTY SESSION Save your players once, split them into balanced teams, and reuse the same roster across compatible tools. WOULD YOU RATHER Explore 1,260 family-friendly cards across Kids, Family, and Teen age groups. Choose from five simple topic categories, save favorites, reset a deck anytime, and avoid repeats until the deck is complete. LIVE AT A GLANCE Keep an active score or timer visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. End an activity directly when the game is over. PARTY TOOLS PLUS Personalize the whole app with premium themes and coordinated tool skins, including RAD Space and RAD Weather packs with matching backgrounds, coins, dice, wheels, and app icons. Party Tools is designed for family game nights, road trips, classrooms, hangouts, and any moment that needs a fair choice or a little more fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Calculator at every 6 days against Party Tools's every 6 weeks. The Calculator also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.1). Party Tools's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. The Calculator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Party Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Calculator against 5.0 for Party Tools. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
The Calculator ships an update every 6 days, Party Tools every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | The Calculator | Party Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YiDe Liu | Samuel Rozzi |
Customer experience
The Calculator
Party Tools
In-app purchases
The Calculator
- Premium$4.991 Month
- Premium$29.991 Year
- Premium$9.99
Party Tools
- Party Tools Plus$0.99
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