Summa vs Calcanto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Summa
A clean, fast, and beautifully designed calculator for everyday math, scientific calculations, and quick conversions. Features live preview, history, favorites, and smart gestures for effortless and accurate calculations.
- Live preview of results
- History and Favorites for calculations
- Scientific functions (exponents, roots, trig)
- Built-in unit and currency converter
- Smart gestures for interaction
- Multiple themes and icon options
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Summa - Precision Made Simple is a clean, fast, and beautifully designed calculator for iPhone and iPad. Built for everyday math, scientific calculations, quick conversions, and everything in between, Summa makes calculating effortless, accurate, and genuinely enjoyable. With live preview, a fast history bar, and natural gestures, Summa helps you move quickly without losing context. Results appear as you type, past calculations stay within reach, and Favorites make it easy to save the numbers you return to most. Powerful features, simply presented: - Live preview - see results instantly as you type - History and Favorites - revisit, reuse, and save important calculations - Exponents and roots - x^2, x^y, square root, and y-th root - Trigonometry - sin, cos, tan, and inverse arc functions - Degree and radian support - easily switch between DEG and RAD - Mathematical constants - π and e - Logarithmic functions - ln for natural logarithms - Smart gestures - swipe, tap, and interact naturally A calculator with a capable converter: Summa includes built-in conversions for money, temperature, length, weight, volume, energy, area, and data size. Convert currencies by name or country, work with fiat and crypto rates, or quickly switch between everyday units without leaving the app. For market data, Summa offers flexible refresh behavior with adjustable fiat and crypto cache timing. Relay mode can route fiat and crypto market refreshes through Studio Elytra15’s cache for a more private path. Designed to feel personal: - Multiple themes, including light, dark, and crafted color themes - Alternate Home Screen icons - A calm, polished interface for iPhone and iPad - Completely free - no ads, no in-app purchases, and no tracking Whether you’re at home, at work, in class, or on the go, Summa is your reliable, elegant calculator companion. Precise math, beautifully simple.
Calcanto
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Calcanto is a calculator that says its results out loud, changes its look, and gets the arithmetic right. 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 The basic engine works in Decimal rather than binary floating point, so that sum comes out as 0.3 and not 0.30000000000000004. Results carry 15 significant digits, rounded half-up. IT SPEAKS, IN TWO LANGUAGES A female and a male voice. Each language reads a number the way that language does: 120 is "one hundred twenty" in English and 一百二十 in Chinese, never a digit-by-digit spell-out. Keys are announced as you press them and the whole result is read at the end. Every clip ships inside the app and is stitched together on the device, so the readout works in Airplane mode with nothing sent anywhere. Press = and a string is plucked. Each theme has its own pluck, and it is a separate switch from the spoken readout — turn narration off and the pluck is still there. FIVE THEMES, SWITCHED WHILE YOU WATCH Onyx, Seaglass, Bubblegum, Titanium and Neon Noir. All five are in the app. None is behind a purchase and there is no theme store to visit. Changing the theme changes the sound of = with it. THREE MODES Basic — four operations, percent, sign, decimal point, backspace, clear. Multiplication binds before addition, and pressing = again repeats the last operation. Scientific — sin, cos, tan and their inverses, the hyperbolic set and theirs, ln, log₁₀, x^y and the y-th root, x², x³, √, ³√, x!, 1/x, e^x, 10^x, EE, Rand, π, e, parentheses, mc / m+ / m− / mr, 2nd, and a Rad / Deg switch. Convert — five categories. Currency covers nine: USD, CNY, EUR, JPY, GBP, HKD, KRW, AUD and CAD, on live rates labelled with when they were fetched. Length, weight, temperature and area never need a network at all. HISTORY YOU CAN PUT BACK Expression, result, time and mode are all kept. Tap an entry and it drops straight back into the input. Delete one, or clear the lot. ACCESSIBILITY, NOT AN ACCESSIBILITY MODE Every key carries a VoiceOver label written to be heard rather than read: "+" is announced as "plus", and a toggled key says which way it is currently set. Dynamic Type scales the display and the keypad as far as a fixed grid can take them, while Settings, History and the sheets keep the full range. When a key fills with its theme's accent colour, the label colour is re-picked at runtime so it stays readable. ENGLISH AND CHINESE, SWITCHED INSIDE THE APP Settings → Language applies at once, with no restart. It is independent of the system language, and independent of which language the readout speaks — an English interface reading its results in Chinese is a legitimate combination. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account, no sign-in, no ads, no subscription, no analytics or advertising SDK — there is no third-party SDK in it at all. History, theme and voice settings stay on your device and sync nowhere. The app makes exactly one kind of network request, for exchange rates; never open Convert and it never goes online. Free, with no in-app purchase. iOS and iPadOS 17 or later, macOS 14 or later — one download covers all three.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Calcanto at fortnightly against Summa's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Summa ships an update every 5 weeks, Calcanto fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Summa | Calcanto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ville Scholin | Beijing CloudWest Technology Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
Summa
No in-app purchases
Calcanto
No in-app purchases









