Drip vs Retirement Projector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drip
This app helps you track your dividend income from stocks and ETFs. It calculates your current portfolio's earnings and estimates future income. You can also set financial goals and log contributions to monitor your progress.
- Dividend calculation by income frequency
- Financial goal setting and progress tracking
- Contribution log for deposits/withdrawals
- Local data storage for privacy
- No brokerage connection required
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Track your dividend income, monitor your investment portfolio, and see how your passive income can grow over time—all with a private dividend tracker designed to keep your financial data yours. Drip is a simple, privacy-first dividend tracker for investors building income with dividend stocks and ETFs. Add your holdings, track projected dividend payments, monitor portfolio growth, and see your estimated daily, weekly, monthly, and annual dividend income in one clean dashboard. Now with private iCloud sync, your portfolio can stay up to date across your Apple devices. Your investment data is stored using your iCloud account and is never collected or accessible by us. DIVIDEND TRACKING Build your dividend portfolio by adding the stocks and ETFs you own. Enter your shares and Drip automatically calculates your estimated dividend income, giving you a clear picture of how much your investments may generate. See estimated dividend income by: • Daily • Weekly • Monthly • Annual Understand your income today and visualize how your dividend portfolio can grow over time. PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW Keep your dividend investments organized in one place. Monitor your holdings, portfolio value, dividend income, and investment progress through a clean interface designed to make portfolio tracking simple. DIVIDEND & PORTFOLIO GOALS Set personalized goals for your portfolio and dividend income. Whether you're working toward your first $100 in monthly dividends, building a long-term passive income stream, or pursuing financial independence, Drip helps you visualize your progress. CONTRIBUTION TRACKING Record deposits and withdrawals throughout the year and keep track of how much you've contributed to your investment accounts. Drip also supports contribution tracking for tax-advantaged accounts including: • TFSA • Roth IRA PRIVATE iCLOUD SYNC Keep your portfolio synchronized across your Apple devices through your own iCloud account. Your investment information remains private. We do not collect your portfolio data, and the developer does not have access to the financial information you store in Drip. PRIVACY FIRST Your investment portfolio is personal. Drip is designed accordingly. • No account required • No brokerage connection required • No portfolio data collected by us • No advertising trackers • Private iCloud synchronization • Your financial information stays under your control BUILT FOR DIVIDEND INVESTORS Drip is designed for investors who want a focused way to track dividend stocks and ETFs without connecting a brokerage account or handing their portfolio information to another financial service. Whether you're investing for passive income, retirement, financial independence, or long-term portfolio growth, Drip gives you a simple way to understand where your dividend income stands today—and where it could go next. Build your portfolio. Track your dividends. Grow your income. Keep your data private.
Retirement Projector
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Retirement Projector models an early-retirement plan year by year, from the age you stop working to age 90. It is a projector, not a portfolio tracker. You enter what you have and what you plan to spend, and it shows what happens to the balances, the tax bill and the health-insurance cost in every year in between. WHAT IT MODELS • Four buckets — taxable brokerage, Roth IRA, traditional IRA and crypto — grown at your assumed nominal return. • An optional run-up from today: current balances and recurring deposits compounded forward to the year you retire, which then become the starting balances everything else runs on. Deposits are entered in today's money and inflated forward, and the result can be read in today's dollars or in the dollars of the year you retire. • A withdrawal plan split into age phases anchored to the ages that actually matter: 59 1/2, 65 for Medicare, your Social Security start age, and 73 for RMDs. • Roth conversion ladders, with the five-year seasoning rule and the 59 1/2 gates enforced in the correct order — contributions first, then seasoned conversions, then earnings. • 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction, long-term capital gains stacked on top of ordinary income, a flat state rate, and the 10% early-withdrawal penalty. • Social Security, including the "tax torpedo": the $25k/$32k taxability thresholds are not indexed to inflation and never have been, so more of the benefit becomes taxable as the years pass. • ACA premium subsidies before 65, under either the 2026 cliff regime or the enhanced regime — because a Roth conversion that pushes MAGI past 400% of the federal poverty level can cost more in lost subsidy than it costs in tax. • Inflation, applied to expenses, benefits, brackets and the standard deduction, with a toggle to read every figure in today's dollars or in nominal dollars. WHAT YOU SEE • Six headline figures: starting total, peak portfolio and the age it peaks, balance at 90, the age the money runs out (or how long it lasts), lifetime tax paid, and the traditional IRA balance still exposed to RMDs at 90. • Three charts — balances by account, annual cashflow against your expense target, and annual taxes paid — each with a drag-to-read scrubber. • Plain warnings when a plan breaks: an income shortfall, an early-withdrawal penalty, or a missed RMD. • A strategy optimizer: six named conversion strategies — no conversions, fill the standard deduction, fill the 12% bracket, fill the 22% bracket, fill to the ACA cliff, and hold MAGI down for the subsidy — each run through the same simulator on your own numbers and ranked by lifetime tax, final net worth or after-tax spendable. A strategy that would break the five-year seasoning rule before 59 1/2 is flagged rather than quietly recommended, and one that fails to fund the plan never outranks one that does. Apply the one you like and it loads into your own phase plan, where you can edit it. • Saved scenarios, and CSV export with one row per year. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. The app makes no network requests at all. Everything you type stays on your phone. The same tool runs in a browser at projector.noobingear.com, and saved scenarios use the same format in both, so a plan built on one can be opened on the other. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE This is an estimation tool, not financial, tax or legal advice. The modeling is deliberately simplified — a single ACA premium as a proxy for a real benchmark plan, a flat state tax on ordinary income only, cost-of-living adjustments equal to inflation — and every simplification is written out inside the app under "How taxes, inflation & ACA are modeled". Check anything that matters with a qualified professional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retirement Projector at none against Drip's 1. Retirement Projector also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). On price, ads and device support 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. Drip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Retirement Projector asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drip ships an update every 3 weeks, Retirement Projector every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drip | Retirement Projector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ANCREATIVE INC. | Victor Acosta |
In-app purchases
Drip
- Drip Premium$9.99
Retirement Projector
No in-app purchases
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