PlanMode vs SALT Microfinance
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.
SALT Microfinance
This app streamlines community savings groups, making financial transactions more accurate and transparent. It simplifies earnings calculations, loan amortization, and reporting for smallholder farmers, aiding agricultural development.
- Community savings group management
- Fair member earnings calculation
- Loan amortization calculations
- Transparent transaction reporting
- Agricultural field trial tracking
- Support for smallholder farmers
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Simplify, improve accuracy, transparency and fairness in community-based savings groups by allowing communities to rise out of poverty and flourish. Difficult manual transactions such as fair time-bound member earnings, loan amortization calculations, and transparent reporting of all transactions are made easy. Agricultural development with smallholder farmers will appreciate the ability to track field trials and pilots to help farmers thrive and better provide for their families.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SALT Microfinance at 5.0 against PlanMode's 4.3. SALT Microfinance also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). PlanMode's advantage is ratings volume (105 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. SALT Microfinance asks for nothing beyond the download.
SALT Microfinance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlanMode has 105 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of PlanMode's written reviews are positive against 100% of SALT Microfinance's.
PlanMode ships an update every 3 months, SALT Microfinance weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlanMode | SALT Microfinance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (105 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sawhney Systems | Financial Literacy International |
Customer experience
PlanMode
SALT Microfinance
In-app purchases
PlanMode
- 1-Week Premium Activation$0.99
- 1-Month Premium Activation$5.99
- 1-Year Premium Activation$19.99
SALT Microfinance
No in-app purchases
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