PlanMode vs Retirement Estimator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlanMode
This app helps you plan for your financial future by projecting your wealth over your lifetime. It analyzes potential shortfalls in retirement savings and allows you to test various financial scenarios to ensure you have sufficient resources.
- Lifetime wealth projections
- Retirement savings gap analysis
- Scenario testing for financial decisions
- All-in-one financial dashboard
- Detailed financial profile integration
- Comparison of financial alternatives
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COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL & RETIREMENT PLANNING Stop wondering if you will have enough to retire. PlanMode is the comprehensive financial planning app designed to take the guesswork out of your future. By projecting your current financial profile, PlanMode analyzes whether you will have sufficient resources for your entire lifetime. KEY FEATURES • Lifetime Projections: Visualize your wealth trajectory from today until age 95+. • Gap Analysis: Instantly identify potential shortfalls in your retirement savings. • Scenario Testing: What if you retire at 62 vs 67? See the impact in seconds. • All-in-One Dashboard: Integrates your budget, investments, and savings in one display. Don't just save—plan with confidence. Start with PlanMode today. COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM PlanMode is a comprehensive financial & retirement planning system for analysis needed to answer questions like- • How does my projected financial profile look? • Should I start taking Social Security benefits at age 66 or wait for larger payments at age 70? • When will I have enough capital to retire on my terms? • What will be the bottom-line impact of a new investment? • Is buying a house is better for me than continuing to rent? • Is my family protected for their needs if I am disabled or die? PlanMode can help you analyze these and other situations. It is easy to use and its usage is limitless; you could use it to analyze almost any financial scenario which impacts just in the current year or many years to come. KEY FEATURES • Complete financial profiles, including- - Bank accounts - Retirement accounts - Business & Investments - Stocks & Bonds - Insurance policies - Real estate - Mortgages & loans - Cash management simulation - Social security - Income taxes • Compare financial alternatives - Unlimited what-if scenarios • Prepare retirement profile automatically - Determine lifelong capital needs - Analyze liquid capital sufficiency - Alternatives to fill capital shortfall • Prepare disability profiles automatically - Analyze cash flow sufficiency - Alternatives to fill cash shortfall • Prepare death profiles automatically - Determine survivor’s capital needs - Analyze income sufficiency - Alternatives to fill cash shortfall REPORTS & CHARTS PlanMode has a complete set of financial & retirement planning statements. PlanMode provides you with comprehensive analysis of retirement and other financial scenarios for lifetime capital needs and the capital available for its fulfillment. When capital resources are not sufficient PlanMode provides suggestive courses of action that may fill the shortcoming. The following reports are available for each scenario- • Financial Planning illustration • Retirement Planning illustration • Income Statement • Balance Sheet • Cashflow Statement • Supporting Information • Capital Needs Analysis • Pie charts for annual snapshots • Line charts projecting full profile COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING APP Additional financial & retirement planning features include - • Profiles for singles and married spouses • Planning span of up to 100 years • Retirement planning profile and analysis • Disability profile and analysis • Survivor’s profile and analysis • Automatic cash management simulation • Detailed annual cash flow analysis • Personalized data input items • Customizable financial statements • Ample graphs & charts for quick overview • Scenario comparison for what-if analysis • Export data to ExecPlan or Express • Definable national & local income taxes • Built-in USA income taxes • Predefined product structures for- • Individual Retirement Accounts • Company Retirement Plans (401k) • Self-employed Retirement Plans • Mortgages • Life Insurance • Fixed & Variable Annuities • Charitable Annuities • Reverse Mortgages ABOUT US Sawhney has been providing professional financial systems for over four decades. Our application, ExecPlan was the first commercially available such software in USA in 1976.
Retirement Estimator
Simulate and visualize personal financial scenarios for retirement planning. Experiment with income, investments, and expenses to understand future financial outcomes with privacy and precision. Generate visual charts and export data for detailed analysis.
- Simulate financial scenarios
- Estimate income, investments, and expenses
- Strategic fund allocation
- Visualize future financial trends
- Generate CSV reports
- Local data storage
- Password and biometric authentication
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Retirement Estimator is your personal pocket financial assistant for simulating and visualizing financial scenarios days to decades into the future. EXPLORE YOUR RETIREMENT POSSIBILITIES Model any combination of income streams, investments, and expenses with full control over monetary value, taxes, anticipated growth rate, and time horizon. Simulate transfers between income, investments, and expenses to explore "what if" scenarios. Run Monte Carlo simulations to model a range of possible financial outcomes and estimate the probability that your retirement plan succeeds. Then experiment by adjusting income sources, investments, and expenses to see how each decision shapes your projected results. VISUALIZE YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE • Track income, investments, and expenses with clear, color-coded line graphs • Estimate your Probability of Success with Monte Carlo simulation • Export detailed CSV reports to Excel, Numbers, or any spreadsheet app • Simulate fund transfers between income, investments, and expenses • Model scenarios from days to decades into the future PRIVACY FIRST. ALL DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Everything you enter is stored locally on your device and is never transmitted to ITDT LLC or any third party. No account required. SECURE ACCESS Protect your financial data with Face ID, Touch ID, or a PIN.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Retirement Estimator at none against PlanMode's shown. Retirement Estimator also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). PlanMode's advantage is ratings volume (105 vs 11). On price, rating, 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. PlanMode sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Retirement Estimator sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for PlanMode against 4.5 for Retirement Estimator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlanMode has 105 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of PlanMode's written reviews are positive against 100% of Retirement Estimator's.
PlanMode ships an update every 3 months, Retirement Estimator monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlanMode | Retirement Estimator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (105 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sawhney Systems | ITDT LLC |
Customer experience
PlanMode
Retirement Estimator
In-app purchases
PlanMode
- 1-Week Premium Activation$0.99
- 1-Month Premium Activation$5.99
- 1-Year Premium Activation$19.99
Retirement Estimator
- Unlimited Finance Entry$1.99
- CSV Reports$1.99
- Import/Export Data$1.99
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- Premium Package$4.99
Questions
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