Comparison

My Dividend Tracker vs Retirement Projector

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

Head to head
About

My Dividend Tracker

This app helps investors meticulously track dividend payments and understand their income streams. It provides clear breakdowns of monthly, yearly, and lifetime dividend earnings, alongside position profitability insights without trading clutter.

Highlights
  • Track all dividend payments
  • View monthly income at a glance
  • See yearly and lifetime totals
  • Broker-level income breakdowns
  • Monitor position profitability
  • Record income after position sale
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Dividend Tracker is built for investors who focus on income. Track every dividend payment with clarity and precision. See your monthly income at a glance and understand how each position contributes. Dividend income first. Position profitability second. Nothing extra. INCOME, CLEARLY STRUCTURED Keep a clean, organized record of your dividend history across brokers. Every payment is preserved—even after a position is sold. View: • Monthly dividend income • Yearly totals • Lifetime income • Broker-level breakdowns Your income record remains intact. No distortions. No projections—just what your portfolio actually paid you. PROFITABILITY, WITHOUT DISTRACTION Monitor each position’s performance with straightforward profitability insight. See: • Current value • Cost basis • Unrealized gains or losses All without trading clutter. BUILT FOR LONG-TERM INVESTORS Dividend Tracker is designed for clarity and discipline. It is not a trading platform. It does not chase trends. It shows you what your portfolio pays you—and how your positions are performing. If you invest for income, this is your system. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Retirement Projector

Features
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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.

Screenshots

My Dividend Tracker4 screens
Retirement Projector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retirement Projector at none against My Dividend Tracker's 2. Retirement Projector also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Dividend Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Retirement Projector asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Dividend Tracker ships an update every 4 months, Retirement Projector every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
My Dividend Tracker versus Retirement Projector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Dividend TrackerRetirement Projector
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSam VentimigliaVictor Acosta

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Dividend Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Live Market Data$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Dividend Tracker Pro$14.99
None

Retirement Projector

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Dividend Tracker free?
My Dividend Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Retirement Projector free?
Retirement Projector is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Dividend Tracker or Retirement Projector have ads?
Neither My Dividend Tracker nor Retirement Projector shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Dividend Tracker or Retirement Projector?
My Dividend Tracker ships an update every 4 months, and Retirement Projector every 4 days. Most recently, My Dividend Tracker was updated on October 25, 2026 and Retirement Projector on October 20, 2026.

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