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Compare a 30-year vs 15-year mortgage, see exactly how much a 1% rate cut saves over the life of the loan, find your break-even on a refinance, and budget for closing costs before you sign anything.
Translate a salary offer into real take-home pay by state, compare an hourly contract to a salaried role, and stress-test whether a relocation makes sense after taxes, cost of living, and benefits.
Find your daily calorie target with Mifflin-St Jeor TDEE, dial in a sustainable deficit, track BMI and body-fat trends, and build a training plan around heart-rate zones and realistic running pace.
Calculate your current GPA, weight every assignment by syllabus category, and find the exact score you need on the final to lock in the grade you want — without guessing or scrolling through Reddit threads.
Run cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR, and full multifamily, hotel, retail, office, or industrial proformas in seconds — the same math brokers and analysts use, without an Excel template or a paid platform.
Count business days until a deadline, line up meetings across time zones with full DST handling, convert recipes from cups to grams, or estimate concrete, paint, and tile before a weekend renovation.
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Plan everyday financial decisions with mortgage, loan, paycheck, tax, tip, discount, savings, retirement, and investment calculators.
Monthly payment, taxes, insurance, and required income.
Monthly savings, break-even point, and lifetime savings from refinancing.
Compare the true 5-year cost of renting versus buying.
Monthly car payment including tax, trade-in, and down payment.
Monthly payment and total interest for any personal or auto loan.
How much to save monthly to hit any goal by a target date.
Project your investment growth over years or decades.
Project your retirement balance with employer match and growth.
Total return, profit, and annualized CAGR for any investment.
Estimate take-home pay after federal, state, and FICA taxes.
Add sales tax, GST, HST, or VAT to any price and see the final total.
Calculate tips and split the bill between any number of people.
Find the sale price after any percentage discount.
What a dollar from any year is worth today — adjust for the inflation rate.
How long it takes — and how much interest you'll pay — at your current monthly payment.
Add up assets, subtract liabilities, see your total net worth.
Convert hourly wage to annual salary (and back) with custom hours per week.
Estimate 1099 SE tax, federal and state income tax, and quarterly payments.
Home equity line of credit: max borrow, interest-only payment, and full repayment cost.
Convert between APR and APY for any compounding frequency.
Live exchange rates between major world currencies — updated daily (ECB).
Salary you need in another city to maintain the same standard of living.
Standard wedding budget breakdown across venue, catering, photo, attire, flowers, music, and more.
Annual and biweekly net pay after federal, FICA, and state income tax — all 50 states plus DC.
Profit margin, markup, and revenue from any combination of cost, selling price, and target margin.
Count days, calculate exact ages, add work hours, plan sleep cycles, and compare time zones for deadlines, travel, and schedules.
Countdown to any future date — birthdays, holidays, deadlines.
Your exact age in years, months, days, hours, and minutes.
Add up hours worked between start and end times, minus breaks.
Convert any date and time between time zones — DST aware.
Today's moon phase, illumination percent, and the next full moon, new moon, and quarter moons.
How many lunar months, full moons, and new moons between any two dates.
Days, weeks, months, and years between any two dates — with optional business-days-only count.
Add or subtract days, weeks, months, years, or business days from any date.
What date is 30, 60, or 90 days from today? Calendar days or business days, with day of the week.
Drift-free stopwatch with laps and a countdown timer with audible alert — millisecond accuracy.
Count business days between two dates or add/subtract working days from any date, with custom holidays excluded.
How long it's been since any date — years, months, days, hours, minutes, and live-ticking seconds. Birthdays, quit dates, milestones.
Enter the day your relationship started and see exactly how long you've been together — to the second. Perfect for anniversaries.
Enter your wedding date and see your exact marriage length in years, months, days, hours, and seconds — with traditional anniversary gifts.
Estimate wellness numbers including BMI, calories, hydration, sleep timing, pregnancy due dates, and running pace.
Body mass index in metric or US units, with category.
Keep your waist under half your height — the simple cardiometabolic risk screen.
Models the body as an ellipse from waist and height — predicts mortality risk better than BMI.
Daily calories to lose, maintain, or gain weight using Mifflin-St Jeor.
How many ounces, cups, or liters you should drink each day.
Best bedtime or wake time based on 90-minute sleep cycles.
Estimate your due date and current week of pregnancy.
Pace per mile/km and average speed from time and distance.
Convert your daily step count to miles and kilometers — see both at once.
Daily protein, carbs, and fat targets for cutting, maintenance, or bulking based on your TDEE.
Basal metabolic rate using Mifflin-St Jeor and Harris-Benedict, with activity-multiplier TDEE.
Estimate body fat percent with the US Navy circumference method, plus a BMI-based check.
Estimate your 1RM from a working set using Epley, Brzycki, Lombardi, O'Conner, and Lander formulas.
Estimate ideal body weight from height, sex, and frame using Hamwi, Devine, Robinson, and Miller formulas, plus the healthy-BMI range.
Calculate your five training heart-rate zones from age and resting HR using Tanaka, Fox, Gulati, or Karvonen heart-rate-reserve formulas.
Estimated ovulation date, six-day fertile window, and next expected period from your last menstrual period and cycle length.
Convert your dog's age to human years using the AVMA size-aware method or the 2019 epigenetic clock, with small/medium/large/giant adjustments.
Daily calorie target for weight loss at your chosen pace, plus weeks to your goal — companion to the TDEE calculator.
Measure project materials and costs for home improvement, flooring, room area, concrete slabs, patios, and construction jobs.
How much beer, wine, liquor, ice, and cups you need based on guests, hours, and drink mix.
How many appetizers, ounces of main, sides, and desserts you need per person.
Food quantities, staff count, and total bill (with service charge, tax, gratuity) for any event style.
Area in sq ft, m², and sq yd with waste factor and material cost.
Cubic yards needed for slabs, driveways, and patios — plus bags and cost.
Rolls needed including pattern-repeat waste, doors, and windows.
Tiles and boxes needed with grout joint width and waste buffer.
Gallons of paint needed for a room or surface — adjusts for doors, windows, coats, and ceiling.
Annual kWh production, first-year electric-bill savings, simple payback in years, and 25-year savings from rooftop solar.
Cubic yards, cubic feet, bags, and tons of mulch, gravel, topsoil, or sand to cover a rectangular area at any depth.
Calculate board feet for dimensional lumber. Add multiple sizes for total board feet, lineal feet, waste, and cost.
Solve common school and study calculations with quick percentage tools and GPA calculators for academic planning.
Three modes: X% of Y, A is what % of B, and % change.
Calculate your semester or cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale.
Find the GPA you need on remaining coursework to hit a target cumulative GPA.
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers — results returned simplified, as a mixed number, and as a decimal.
Mean, median, mode, range, sample/population standard deviation, variance, quartiles, IQR, and SEM for any list of numbers.
Weighted course grade from assignments, quizzes, and exams. Shows current grade plus the score needed on remaining work.
Free online scientific calculator with trig, logs, exponents, square roots, parentheses, and constants pi and e.
Find the area of a circle from its radius, diameter, or circumference with the exact formula A = π × r².
Find the circumference of a circle from its radius, diameter, or area using C = 2 × π × r.
Volume and surface area of any cylinder from its radius and height using V = π × r² × h.
Volume and surface area of a sphere from its radius or diameter — uses V = (4/3) × π × r³.
Volume, slant height, and surface area of a cone from base radius and height using V = (1/3) × π × r² × h.
Volume, surface area, and diagonal of a rectangular box from length, width, and height (V = L × W × H).
Mean, median, mode, sum, count, min, max, and range for any list of numbers.
Generate random integers between any minimum and maximum, with or without duplicates — for raffles, drawings, dice rolls, and sampling.
Solve any proportion a/b = c/d for the missing value using cross-multiplication.
Percent change between any old and new value, with the formula and direction shown.
Convert rise and run into decimal slope, percent grade, angle, and 1:N ratio — for ramps, roofs, roads, stairs.
Convert a value to a z-score, percentile, and tail probabilities using the standard normal distribution.
Find P(X<x), P(X>x), and between-range probabilities for any normal distribution with mean μ and SD σ.
Compute P(X=k), cumulative probabilities, mean, and variance for n trials with success probability p.
Model rare events with rate λ — get P(X=k), cumulative probability, mean, and variance.
Compute nPr (order matters) and nCr (order doesn't) with full counting-principle explanation.
Update prior beliefs with new evidence using Bayes' rule — posterior probability with tree diagram.
Compute z or t confidence intervals for a mean, with margin of error breakdown.
One-sample and two-sample t-tests with t-statistic, p-value, and rejection regions.
Goodness-of-fit and independence tests with expected counts, chi-square statistic, and p-value.
Pearson correlation coefficient r with scatter plot, regression line, and interpretation guide.
Least-squares slope, intercept, R², and predictions for any paired (x, y) data.
Required sample size to estimate a proportion or mean at a chosen confidence level and margin of error.
Convert everyday units quickly, including length, weight, volume, and temperature across metric and imperial systems.
Length, weight, and volume between metric and imperial.
Convert between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin instantly in either direction.
Convert between m² and ft² — plus square yards, acres, and hectares.
Cups, tablespoons, grams, ounces, and milliliters — plus oven temperature conversions.
MPG from miles and gallons, plus total trip fuel cost at any price per gallon.
Convert between Arabic numbers and Roman numerals — both directions, 1 to 3999, with validation.
Convert shoe sizes between US (men's & women's), UK, European, Japanese (cm), and foot length in centimetres.
Convert milliliters to fluid ounces — covers both US (29.57 ml) and UK Imperial (28.41 ml) fluid ounces.
Convert fluid ounces to cups (US and UK), with tablespoons and milliliters.
Convert inches to centimeters using the exact international factor (1 in = 2.54 cm) — plus mm, m, and feet.
Underwrite commercial real estate by property type — multifamily, hotel, retail, office, and industrial. NOI, cap-rate value, DSCR, and cash-on-cash for brokers, appraisers, and investors.
Pick a property type — multifamily, hotel, retail, office, or industrial — and underwrite it.
Apartment building NOI, cap-rate value, value per door, and DSCR.
ADR × Occupancy × Keys → RevPAR, NOI, and value per key.
Strip center / NNN proforma: rent PSF, CAM recovery, NOI, value per SF.
Office building NOI, rent PSF, expense recoveries, and value per SF.
Warehouse / distribution NOI, NNN rent PSF, and value per SF.
Mixed-use retail + multifamily: per-component NOI, weighted cap rate, value, DSCR.
Mixed-use retail + office: rent PSF, CAM, weighted cap rate, NOI, value, DSCR.
Mixed-use hotel + ground-floor retail: ADR, RevPAR, NNN rent, NOI, value, DSCR.
Three-use mixed-use: hotel, retail, and multifamily rolled into one NOI, value, DSCR.
Capitalization rate from NOI and value, or solve for value, NOI, or required cap rate.
Annual cash flow divided by cash invested — the levered return on a rental property.
Gross and net rental yield from purchase price, monthly rent, expenses, and vacancy.
Maximum offer for a flip — 70% of ARV minus repairs, with adjustable spread for any market.
Commercial mortgage payment with DSCR, interest-only period, balloon balance, and max loan sizing.
Buyer closing-cost breakdown by line item — lender, title, government, prepaids — plus cash-to-close.
Deferred gain, recognized boot from cash and debt relief, federal tax owed, and carryover basis on a like-kind real estate exchange.
Cash boot, mortgage boot, and the tax owed on a partial 1031 exchange when you buy down in price or debt.
45-day identification and 180-day completion deadlines for a 1031 like-kind exchange from any closing date.
Underwrite a self-storage facility: NRSF, GPI, vacancy, NOI, cap-rate value, and value per square foot and per unit.
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