Comparison

FirePath vs FIRELab

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

Head to head
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FirePath

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Plan your journey to Financial Independence (FIRE). Calculate exactly when you can retire early, track your progress toward freedom and explore your financial future with 11 powerful, beautifully designed calculators. No accounts, no ads, everything stays on your device. YOUR FIRE DATE, LIVE Move a slider and watch your retirement year change in real time. No forms, no calculate buttons. Your age, spending, investments and monthly contributions turn into one clear answer: the year you can stop working. KNOW YOUR ODDS One straight projection line is a guess. The Monte Carlo simulator runs 1,000 possible market futures and tells you the probability of reaching FIRE within your horizon, including lucky and unlucky scenarios. 11 CALCULATORS, ONE APP - FIRE Calculator: your retirement year, live - Monte Carlo: your chance of making it - Coast FIRE: when growth alone carries you to retirement - Lean FIRE, Fat FIRE and Barista FIRE: three lifestyles, three targets - Compound Interest: the eighth wonder of the world - 4% Rule and Rule of 25: the classics, done beautifully - Savings Rate: the strongest FIRE lever there is - Withdrawal: how long your portfolio lasts while paying you TRACK EVERY MILESTONE A calm, gold-on-black dashboard shows your Financial Independence percentage, passive income coverage and milestone medals from your first 10k to full FIRE. WIDGET ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Your FIRE progress at a glance, updated automatically whenever your plan changes. SAVE SCENARIOS What if you invested 300 more per month? Moved somewhere cheaper? Save plans and compare their FIRE dates side by side. SHARE YOUR PROGRESS Generate a clean progress card to share your journey with the FIRE community. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No server. FirePath is fully offline and everything stays on your device. FirePath is a planning tool, not financial advice. Projections are mathematical illustrations based on assumptions you enter yourself.

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FIRELab

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Know your FIRE number. Then find out whether you're actually getting there. Most FIRE calculators give you a number and forget you. FIRELab gives you five, then tracks your real net worth month after month so you can see the gap between the plan and reality. FIVE MILESTONES, ONE PLAN Enter your spending once and see every FIRE target at the same time, ordered by which one comes first: Coast FIRE โ€” stop contributing and let compounding finish the job Barista FIRE โ€” part-time income covers part of the lifestyle you choose Lean FIRE โ€” a simpler life, a smaller number Regular FIRE โ€” your current lifestyle, indefinitely Fat FIRE โ€” room for comfort and travel No re-entering the same numbers on five different screens. Change your withdrawal rate and watch all five targets move together. TRACK WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS Record your net worth once a month. FIRELab separates the money you contributed from what the market added โ€” or took away. That distinction is what makes a return number honest, and almost no app bothers with it. Your history feeds the projection. Miss a few months and the math still holds: returns are measured over elapsed time, not over the entries you happened to record. THE CHART THAT MATTERS A single timeline showing your projected path, with each milestone marked where your curve crosses it, and the exact time to each one listed below. Not just how much โ€” when. BUILT FOR HOW FIRE ACTUALLY WORKS Real returns, so your target means the same thing in today's money Coast FIRE measured against a target that rises as your deadline approaches โ€” the calculation most tools get wrong Time-weighted returns, so heavy contribution months don't distort the number Savings rate calculated from what you actually saved, not what you planned to Withdrawal rates from 2.5% to 5% PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No bank connections. No analytics. Your net worth never leaves your iPhone โ€” because a number that personal has no business on someone else's server. Works fully offline. Available in English and Portuguese, with support for USD, BRL, EUR, GBP, CAD and AUD. FREE AND PREMIUM Everything above is free, including unlimited monthly tracking. FIRELab Premium is a single purchase โ€” no subscription โ€” and unlocks: Your real annualized return, after inflation Plan vs reality: your actual net worth against the plan you set Contributions vs growth: what you put in versus what the market added A prompt to update your expected return once your own history is long enough to trust FIRELab is an educational tool. Projections are estimates based on the assumptions you enter and do not predict actual investment results. This app does not provide financial, tax, or investment advice.

Screenshots

FirePath4 screens
FIRELab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FirePath at 16.4 against FIRELab's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
FirePath versus FIRELab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirePathFIRELab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better18.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB5 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperDaan KoemanGilberto Jose de Nazare

In-app purchases

None

FirePath

No in-app purchases

None

FIRELab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FirePath free?
FirePath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FIRELab free?
FIRELab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FirePath or FIRELab have ads?
Neither FirePath nor FIRELab shows ads.

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