Comparison

Pearcal vs VaultPony

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pearcal

Features
Read full description

CALCULATOR Change a number or operator in a finished expression and the result updates. LIFE COST - Enter monthly take-home and essentials once, then type a price to see the working days of pay it costs and the leftover income it uses. - Prices on a webpage show the working days they cost. CURRENCY Convert with live rates. Enter large amounts without counting zeros. TIME AND DAY Count the days between two dates. Add or subtract days, weeks, or months, including repeating intervals. SAVE YOUR CALCULATION - Star a calculation in history and add a note to it. - Keep converted amounts, Life Cost receipts, and date calculations. ASK - Ask your calculator a question in words and get the answer with the calculation behind it. - Amounts and dates you saved can be used by name, in a question or on a line you type. - Apple Intelligence enhances the questions Ask understands. Available where Apple Intelligence is enabled. ICLOUD SYNC History, receipts, notepad, and conversions stay in sync over iCloud. Access them on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

About

VaultPony

Features
Read full description

VaultPony creates and opens encrypted containers on iPhone and iPad. A vault is a single encrypted file that holds a private filesystem, and only your password opens it. The containers are compatible with VeraCrypt, so you can open the same vaults on the desktop and back. There is no account, no cloud, and no network access. Your vaults are just files, kept wherever you choose, On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, or a third-party storage provider. Features: Create and open VeraCrypt-compatible containers, with a choice of cipher, hash, and filesystem (FAT or exFAT). Hidden volumes: conceal a second vault inside the first. Two passwords, and the outer one gives no sign the hidden one exists. The outer volume can be write-protected so normal use will not overwrite the hidden data. Header backup and recovery, in-place password change, and keyfiles. Face ID unlock, auto-lock when the app leaves the foreground, a privacy screen that hides vault content in the app switcher, and a no-trace mode that never writes decrypted content outside the vault. A full split-view layout on iPad; browse and preview side by side. Localized in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. VaultPony is free and open source, built on a shared Rust core you can inspect. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by IDRIX; VeraCrypt is a registered trademark of IDRIX.

Screenshots

Pearcal4 screens
VaultPony4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pearcal and VaultPony are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pearcal ships an update fortnightly, VaultPony every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pearcal versus VaultPony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPearcalVaultPony
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBraveyo LLCKevin Stewart

In-app purchases

None

Pearcal

No in-app purchases

None

VaultPony

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pearcal free?
Pearcal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VaultPony free?
VaultPony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pearcal or VaultPony have ads?
Neither Pearcal nor VaultPony shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pearcal or VaultPony?
Pearcal ships an update fortnightly, and VaultPony every 2 weeks. Most recently, Pearcal was updated on October 10, 2026 and VaultPony on October 25, 2026.

Other comparisons