All Tools
201 free simulators to help you make better life decisions.
💰 Financial Tools (40) 🧠 Career & Psychology (14) 💪 Health & Habits (10) ⏰ Time & Productivity (12) 📚 Learning & Skills (6) 🏠 Housing & Property (10) 👨👩👧 Family & Life Events (8) 🌱 Sustainability & Green Living (5) 🚀 Entrepreneurship (15) 🚗 Transportation & Vehicles (5) 📈 Investing & Wealth Building (12) 🛡️ Risk & Resilience (6) 🧓 Retirement & Aging (7) 💳 Debt & Credit (9) ❤️ Relationships & Money (8) 🎓 Education & Student Debt (8) 🧾 Tax Strategy (10) 🌐 Digital Spending & Subscriptions (8) 🏛️ Estate Planning (8)
💰 Financial Tools
40 tools →"Will I have enough?"
🤔 → 📈 → 🏠 → ☀️ → 🔥 → 💸 → 💡 → 📊 → 🎯 → 💰 → 💎 → 💼 → 💻 → 📈 → 📜 → 🚀 → 📉 → 🧾 → 🎯 → 🏦 → 📋 → 🛟 → 📉 → 🏛️ → 🏥 → 🛡️ → 📜 → 🏠 → ⚡ → ☀️ → 🚗 → ⚡ → 🚙 → 💼 → 🚀 → 💡 → 💳 → 🏖️ → 🏛️ → 🧾 →
Buy vs. Subscribe
Compare the true cost of buying outright vs. recurring payments.
Compound Interest
Visualize real returns after inflation.
Rent vs. Buy
Full financial picture of renting vs. homeownership.
FIRE Calculator
Monte Carlo simulation of your path to financial independence.
Personal Inflation
Build your spending basket and discover your real inflation rate.
Loan Payoff
Pay off debt faster or invest the extra?
Opportunity Cost
What would this money be worth if invested instead?
DCA vs Lump Sum
Invest all now or spread it out? Monte Carlo simulation.
Value Averaging vs DCA
Edleson's Value Averaging on 5 market regimes — terminal, IRR, and the cash drag VA quietly demands.
Dividend Income
How much monthly income can you build from dividends?
DRIP vs Cash Dividends
Reinvest dividends for the snowball, or take them as income? See the wealth gap.
Salary Impact
How much is a small raise really worth over a career?
Tech TC Breakdown
Software engineer total comp: base + bonus + RSU + 401(k) + ESPP, COL-adjusted across cities.
RSU Vesting + Cliff Trap
How equity grants pay out under cliff + vest schedules. What you forfeit if you leave year 1.
ISO Exercise + AMT
The phantom tax bill on ISO exercise — see your AMT, total cash needed, and break-even sale price.
Promo vs Job Hop
5-year TC under both paths, probability-weighted, with new-job cliff penalty modeled honestly.
Stock Valuation
Is this stock fairly priced? 11 valuation methods.
Net Worth
Assets minus debts — your financial snapshot in one number.
Savings Goal
When will you hit your savings target with compound growth?
Mortgage Calculator
Monthly payment, total interest, and amortization breakdown.
Budget Calculator
The 50/30/20 rule — customized for your income.
Emergency Fund
How big should your emergency fund really be? Risk-scored — 3, 6, 9, or 12 months based on your specific situation.
Investment Fee Drag
What fund expense ratios actually cost you. The compounding 1% that eats 25-30% of your terminal wealth over 30 years.
Roth vs Traditional
Apples-to-apples after-tax comparison: Roth vs Trad + side taxable. See how marginal-rate differential actually decides the winner.
HSA Optimizer
Triple-tax-advantage math: spend, stealth-Roth invest, or skip HSA — which actually wins on your numbers?
Life Insurance Needs
How much coverage does your family actually need?
Insurance IRR
What's the real return on your insurance policy?
Renovation ROI
Will this renovation increase property value enough to justify the cost?
Utility Savings
Will energy-efficient upgrades pay for themselves?
Solar ROI
Is installing solar panels worth it?
Car Ownership
Buy, lease, or take public transit — which saves the most?
EV vs Gas
Is an electric car actually cheaper than gas over time?
Used Car Cost
The true cost of owning a used car, including repairs and depreciation.
Freelancer Rate
What hourly rate do you need to charge to hit your income goal?
Startup Cost
How much runway do you need before launching a business?
Side Hustle Income
What can you realistically earn from a side hustle after costs and taxes?
Debt Payoff Strategy
Avalanche vs. Snowball vs. Minimum-Only — see which strategy saves the most interest and how it compares to investing instead.
Retirement Withdrawal Calculator
How long will your savings last? Model withdrawals, inflation, and safe withdrawal rate.
401(k) Tax Savings Simulator
Pre-tax retirement contribution this year + the compounded retirement balance — both timescales at once. Shows the surprisingly small paycheck hit after the IRS rebates your marginal rate.
Tax Refund Opportunity Cost
Your refund is a 0% loan to the government. See what those withholdings would have grown to if invested instead.
🧠 Career & Psychology
14 tools →"Am I on the right path?"
🧭 → 😰 → 📅 → 📱 → 📲 → ⏳ → ⚖️ → 💻 → 📈 → 📜 → 🚀 → 🎯 → 🔋 → 🔮 →
Career Aptitude (RIASEC)
30-question assessment to find your career fit.
Stress Cost
How much is chronic stress actually costing you?
Meeting Cost
The true cost of that recurring meeting in time and money.
Screen Time Cost
What is your screen time really costing you in lost hours?
Social Media Time
How much life are you scrolling away each year?
Procrastination Cost
What does delaying 1 year cost you in compound growth?
Job Offer Comparison
Compare two job offers: total comp, commute cost, equity, and 5-year wealth impact.
Tech TC Breakdown
Software engineer total comp: base + bonus + RSU + 401(k) + ESPP, COL-adjusted across cities.
RSU Vesting + Cliff Trap
How equity grants pay out under cliff + vest schedules. What you forfeit if you leave year 1.
ISO Exercise + AMT
The phantom tax bill on ISO exercise — see your AMT, total cash needed, and break-even sale price.
Promo vs Job Hop
5-year TC under both paths, probability-weighted, with new-job cliff penalty modeled honestly.
Decision Detox
Rank your options through pairwise comparison — cut through indecision one A-vs-B at a time.
Social Energy Battery
Map your week's events and predict when your social energy hits the danger zone.
Regret Simulator
Compare action vs. inaction regret across 1, 5, and 10-year horizons. Fear fades. Regret grows.
💪 Health & Habits
10 tools →"What will this habit cost me?"
🌱 → 🧬 → 🌙 → 🏃 → 😴 → 🪑 → 🥤 → ⚖️ → 💧 → 🏥 →
Habit Compound Simulator
What does a daily 30-minute habit compound to in 5 years? Linear time vs exponential skill.
Body Composition Simulator
Mifflin-St Jeor + TDEE — project your weight + BMI 6 months out at any calorie delta.
Sleep Cycle Simulator
90-min cycle alignment + sleep debt + intervention comparison. When to wake to feel rested.
Exercise ROI
Is your gym membership paying for itself in healthcare savings?
Sleep Impact
How much is sleep deprivation costing you in productivity and health?
Sitting Cost
The hidden healthcare cost of sitting all day at a desk.
Diet Habit Simulator
What does a daily food or drink habit cost over 10 years?
BMI Calculator
Your Body Mass Index, healthy weight range, and where you stand.
Water Intake
How much water should you actually drink based on your body and habits?
Health Insurance Comparison
Low premium vs high premium — which plan actually costs less for you?
⏰ Time & Productivity
12 tools →"What is my time really worth?"
⏱️ → 🚗 → ⏳ → 💼 → 🛒 → 🏠 → 🌍 → 📉 → 🛂 → 🌴 → 🏘️ → 🔥 →
Real Hourly Rate
Your true pay after commute, prep time, and work expenses.
Commute Cost
Live close (high rent) or far (cheap rent + commute) — which costs less?
Procrastination Cost
What does delaying 1 year cost you in compound growth?
Overtime Value Calculator
What do you actually take home per overtime hour after taxes and commute?
Purchase Hours Calculator
How many hours of work does this purchase cost you?
Remote Work Savings
How much does working from home save you annually in commute, food, and reclaimed time?
Geo-Arbitrage Calculator
Same salary, different city — savings rate boost + 10-year wealth gap from relocating.
Remote Pay Cut Tradeoff
Company offers remote with -15% pay cut. Break-even cut % and 10y wealth impact.
Digital Nomad Tax
US person abroad with FEIE + FTC + state-claim modeling. Honest tax-burden comparison.
Sabbatical ROI
Honest cost of taking 6, 12, 18 months off — cash + foregone earnings + lifetime compound.
Slow Travel vs Rent
Going abroad 3-12 months: keep empty, sublet, or break lease — cheapest option detected.
FIRE Abroad
Retire in Lisbon/Mexico/Bangkok with 50%+ less savings — COL + healthcare adjusted SWR target.
📚 Learning & Skills
6 tools →"Is this worth learning?"
🎯 → 🕐 → 📜 → 🗣️ → 💻 → 📖 →
Skill Investment ROI
Is learning this skill worth the time and money?
Learning Time Estimator
How many hours to reach your target skill level?
Certification Value
Is this certification worth getting?
Language ROI
Is learning a new language worth the investment?
Online Course Value
Is this course worth the price — accounting for completion rates?
Book ROI
Is reading this book worth the time investment?
🏠 Housing & Property
10 tools →"Is this the right place to live?"
🏠 → 🏦 → 🔨 → ☀️ → ⚡ → 📦 → 🏘️ → 🔨 → 🏖️ → 🏡 →
Rent vs. Buy
Full financial picture: opportunity cost, appreciation, and long-term wealth.
Mortgage Calculator
Monthly payment, total interest, and amortization breakdown.
Renovation ROI
Will this renovation increase property value enough to justify the cost?
Solar ROI
Payback period, lifetime savings, and CO2 reduction from going solar.
Utility Savings
When do energy-efficient upgrades (LED, insulation, smart thermostat) pay for themselves?
Moving Cost
True relocation cost and break-even timeline when moving to a cheaper area.
Rental Property ROI
Full investment model: NOI, cash-on-cash, IRR, vacancy, and tax impact over your holding period.
Fix & Flip ROI
Model fix-and-flip profit: renovation, loan interest, capital gains tax, and break-even sale price.
Airbnb vs. Long-Term Rental
Compare short-term vs long-term rental profit after platform fees, taxes, and occupancy reality.
Home Trade-Up Calculator
Plan your move up: net sale proceeds, new mortgage, cash requirements, and max home price.
👨👩👧 Family & Life Events
8 tools →"Am I prepared for the big moments?"
👶 → 🎓 → 🏫 → 💍 → 📦 → 🐾 → ♻️ → 🌍 →
Child-Raising Cost
How much does it cost to raise a child from birth to 18?
Education Fund Planner
How much to save monthly for your child's education goal?
College Savings
How much to save monthly to cover future tuition costs?
Wedding Budget
Wedding cost breakdown + opportunity cost of that budget.
Moving Cost
The true cost of relocating and how long it takes to break even.
Pet Cost
The true lifetime cost of pet ownership — no surprises.
Reusable vs Disposable
When does buying a reusable item pay for itself?
Carbon Footprint
Your CO2 emissions and what it would cost to offset them.
🌱 Sustainability & Green Living
5 tools →"Is my lifestyle hurting the planet?"
☀️ → ⚡ → 🌍 → ♻️ → ⚡ →
Solar ROI
Payback period, lifetime savings, and CO2 reduction from going solar.
Utility Savings
When do energy-efficient upgrades (LED, insulation, smart thermostat) pay for themselves?
Carbon Footprint
Your CO2 emissions from travel, diet, and energy — and what it costs to offset.
Reusable vs Disposable
When does buying a reusable item pay for itself over single-use alternatives?
EV vs Gas
Is an electric car actually cheaper than gas over time?
🚀 Entrepreneurship
15 tools →"Is working for myself viable?"
💼 → 🚀 → ☁️ → 📊 → 💰 → 💡 → ⏱️ → ⏳ → 🏠 → 🌍 → 📉 → 🛂 → 🌴 → 🏘️ → 🔥 →
Freelancer Rate
What hourly rate do you need to charge to match your current salary after taxes and costs?
Startup Cost
How much runway do you need before launching? Model your burn rate and survival timeline.
Cloud Bill Estimator
AWS/GCP/Azure cost estimate for solo dev / small team. The egress trap line included.
SaaS Metrics → Profitability
LTV, CAC, churn, payback — and the month MRR replaces your day-job take-home.
Founder Salary Sustainability
What's the safe salary your indie SaaS can pay you today, given MRR, margin, and tax reserve?
Side Hustle Income
What can you realistically earn from a side hustle after costs and taxes?
Real Hourly Rate
What does your current job actually pay per hour after commute and work costs?
Procrastination Cost
What does delaying the launch of your business cost in compound growth?
Remote Work Savings
If you go fully remote as a freelancer, what's your annual savings on commute and office costs?
Geo-Arbitrage Calculator
Keep the SF/NYC salary, move to a cheaper city — savings rate boost + 10y wealth gap.
Remote Pay Cut Tradeoff
Company-imposed pay cut on relocation — break-even cut % and net wealth impact.
Digital Nomad Tax
US person abroad: FEIE 330-day rule, Foreign Tax Credit, and state-claim risk.
Sabbatical ROI
Quantify the financial cost of taking time off — cash, foregone, lifetime impact.
Slow Travel vs Rent
Three-option lease comparison for 3-12 month trips abroad.
FIRE Abroad
How much earlier can you retire abroad? COL + healthcare adjusted SWR target.
🚗 Transportation & Vehicles
5 tools →"What is my car really costing me?"
🚗 → ⚡ → 🚙 → 🚗 → 🏠 →
Car Ownership
Buy, lease, or use public transit — which saves the most over 5 years?
EV vs Gas
Is an electric car actually cheaper than gas over time? Full 10-year cost model.
Used Car Cost
The true cost of owning a used car, including repairs, depreciation, and opportunity cost.
Commute Cost
Live close (high rent) or far (cheap rent + commute) — which actually costs less?
Remote Work Savings
What's your annual financial gain if you eliminate the commute entirely?
📈 Investing & Wealth Building
12 tools →"Is my money working hard enough?"
📈 → 📊 → 🎯 → 💰 → 💎 → 📉 → 💡 → ☀️ → 💸 → 📉 → 🏛️ → 🏛️ →
Compound Interest
Visualize real returns after inflation. See the gap between nominal and real growth.
DCA vs Lump Sum
Invest all at once or spread it out? Monte Carlo simulation of both strategies.
Value Averaging vs DCA
Edleson 1988 Value Averaging vs DCA across five market regimes — terminal value, IRR, and peak monthly buy.
Dividend Income
How much monthly passive income can you build? Model your dividend portfolio growth.
DRIP vs Cash Dividends
Reinvest for the snowball or take cash now? Compare total wealth on both paths.
Stock Valuation
Is this stock fairly priced? 11 valuation methods from P/E to DCF.
Opportunity Cost
What would this money be worth if invested instead of spent?
FIRE Calculator
Monte Carlo simulation of your path to financial independence.
Loan Payoff vs Invest
Pay off debt faster or invest the extra? Which builds more wealth?
Investment Fee Drag
What fund expense ratios actually cost you over 30 years. Bogle's 1% argument made visible.
Roth vs Traditional
Apples-to-apples after-tax comparison with side taxable for the tax savings — when marginal rate differentials change the winner.
401(k) Tax Savings Simulator
Pre-tax retirement contribution: this year's federal tax saved AND the 30-year compounded balance, side by side.
🛡️ Risk & Resilience
6 tools →"What if something goes wrong?"
🛟 → 💊 → 🛡️ → 🏥 → 📜 → ♿ →
Emergency Fund
How big should yours actually be? Risk-scored to 3 / 6 / 9 / 12 months based on income concentration, dependents, job stability, unemployment insurance.
Medical Event Cost Estimator
What would an ER visit, surgery, or hospital stay cost YOU given your plan's deductible / coinsurance / OOP max?
Life Insurance Needs
How much coverage does your family actually need to replace your income, pay debts, and fund education?
Health Insurance Comparison
Low premium high deductible vs the inverse — which plan actually costs you less given expected usage?
Insurance IRR
What's the real return on your insurance policy treating it as an investment?
Disability Income Gap
If you couldn't work for 6 months / 2 years, how long would savings + SSDI + LTD + spouse last?
🧓 Retirement & Aging
7 tools →"Will my money outlast me?"
☀️ → 🛤️ → 🏖️ → 🏛️ → 🏛️ → 🛡️ → 🇺🇸 →
FIRE Calculator
Monte Carlo across thousands of market scenarios — what's your real probability of clearing your retirement target?
FIRE Path Comparator
Lean / Regular / Fat / Coast / Barista / Geo-Arb — see 6 paths to financial freedom side by side from one set of inputs.
Retirement Withdrawal
How long will your savings last? Model withdrawals, inflation, and safe withdrawal rate across the full distribution.
401(k) Tax Savings Simulator
Pre-tax retirement contribution: this year's federal tax saved AND the 30-year compounded balance, side by side.
Roth vs Traditional
Apples-to-apples after-tax comparison with side taxable for the tax savings — when marginal rate differentials change the winner.
Life Insurance Needs
How much coverage does your family actually need? Includes pre-retirement income replacement and legacy planning.
Social Security Claim Age
62 vs FRA vs 70 — which age maximizes lifetime present value given your longevity assumption?
💳 Debt & Credit
9 tools →"Am I paying more than I have to?"
💳 → 🔄 → 🧮 → 💳 → 💸 → 📊 → 🏦 → 🔁 → 🎓 →
Credit Card Payoff
Minimum payment vs a fixed monthly amount — see the years and thousands in interest the minimum-payment trap quietly costs.
Balance Transfer
Does the 0% intro offer beat the 3-5% transfer fee? Break-even, plus whether you clear it before the rate jumps.
Debt Consolidation
Does one loan beat your blended rate after the origination fee? Compared against the avalanche method.
Debt Payoff Strategy
Avalanche vs Snowball vs Minimum-Only — which order clears your debts for the least interest?
Loan Payoff vs Invest
Pay down debt faster or invest the extra? Which builds more wealth at your rates?
Credit Utilization
How far to pay down before the statement closes to clear the 30% and 10% score thresholds.
Mortgage Calculator
Monthly payment, total interest, and full amortization breakdown.
Mortgage Refinance
Break-even on closing costs from the lower payment — plus the lifetime-interest catch when you reset to a fresh 30-year term.
Student Loan Refinance
Interest saved from a lower rate vs the federal protections (IDR, PSLF, forbearance) you permanently give up.
❤️ Relationships & Money
8 tools →"Love is free. The logistics aren't."
⚖️ → 💑 → 👩👧 → 🛋️ → 💔 → 💍 → 👶 → 😰 →
Fair Expense Split
50/50 vs proportional-by-income — see the burden each split puts on each partner when incomes differ.
Marriage Tax: Penalty or Bonus?
Does filing jointly raise or lower your federal tax? Equal earners are a wash; single-earner couples get a bonus.
The Second Income Trap
After childcare, commute, and the household marginal rate, what does the second paycheck actually net?
Cohabitation Savings
Two can live cheaper than one — what moving in together saves vs living apart, invested over 10 years.
Cost of Divorce
Beyond the asset split: legal fees plus the ongoing cost of running two households instead of one.
Wedding Budget
Wedding cost breakdown + the opportunity cost of that budget invested instead.
Child-Raising Cost
The $250K-500K reality of raising a child from birth to 18.
Stress Cost
When money strain turns chronic — the health and productivity price tag.
🎓 Education & Student Debt
8 tools →"Will the degree pay off?"
🎓 → 🧮 → 🏛️ → ⚡ → 🎓 → 🧠 → 📜 → 🎓 →
Degree ROI
4-year tuition + 4 years foregone earnings vs the lifetime salary premium — and the year it breaks even.
IDR Repayment
PAYE/IBR cap + balance trajectory + 20/25-yr forgiveness with the tax bomb honestly priced through 2025 brackets.
PSLF Calculator
120 qualifying payments → tax-free forgiveness for public-service workers. Federal→private refi kills it — warning included.
Bootcamp vs Degree
Short cost + fast payoff vs long cost + higher ceiling. Lifetime delta and the breakeven year — assumes you land the job.
Grad School ROI
$80K + 2 years off vs the post-grad salary bump. Many master's barely pay back; top-tier programs do.
Skill ROI
Smaller skill investments: a course or cert vs the salary bump.
Certification Value
When the credential is worth the prep time and fee.
Student Loan Refinance
Interest saved vs the federal protections (IDR, PSLF) you permanently give up — read the PSLF warning first.
🧾 Tax Strategy
10 tools →"Pay the right amount, not a dollar more"
🪜 → 📉 → 💼 → 🪜 → 📅 → 🏛️ → 🏛️ → 🧾 → 📜 → 💑 →
Marginal vs Effective Tax
A $1k raise costs marginal-rate × $1k, never more — debunks the 'bracket bump' myth.
Capital Gains Harvesting
0% LTCG bracket headroom for tax-gain harvesting + 1:1 loss offsets + $3k against ordinary income.
Self-Employment Tax
The 15.3% SS+Medicare on top of income tax that hits new freelancers. SS wage-base cap + 0.9% additional Medicare.
Roth Conversion Ladder
Fill low brackets in gap years — convert traditional → Roth when now-rate < expected later-rate.
Quarterly Estimated Tax
Safe harbor: 100% (or 110%) of last year's tax, split into four. Avoid the IRS underpayment penalty.
Roth vs Traditional
Apples-to-apples after-tax comparison for NEW contributions, with the side-taxable account.
401(k) Tax Savings
Pre-tax retirement contribution: this year's federal tax cut + the long-run balance.
Tax Refund Opportunity Cost
Your refund is a 0% loan to the IRS — what those withholdings would have earned invested.
ISO Exercise + AMT
The phantom AMT bill on ISO exercise. Total cash needed + break-even sale price.
Marriage Tax
Does filing jointly raise or lower your federal tax? The bracket truth.
🌐 Digital Spending & Subscriptions
8 tools →"The recurring charges no one reviews"
📊 → 📺 → ☁️ → 📱 → 📈 → 🤔 → 💡 → 📱 →
Subscription Audit
Every recurring charge totalled — monthly, annual, and 30 years invested.
Streaming Stack vs Cable
Have you re-bundled without noticing? Compare your stack to cable benchmark.
Cloud Storage Right-Sizing
Paying for 2TB to hold 200GB? Cost per used GB across iCloud + Google + Dropbox.
Device Upgrade Cycle ROI
Phone every 2 years vs every 4 — 10-year cost gap with resale value baked in.
Subscription Inflation Tracker
Where Netflix's price lands in 5 years, and the 'real' premium above CPI.
Buy vs Subscribe
The canonical buy-vs-recurring math, with opportunity cost.
Opportunity Cost
The general 'what would this money be worth invested' framework.
Screen Time Cost
The time-side of digital spend — hours lost instead of dollars.
🏛️ Estate Planning
8 tools →"What you leave, and what gets taken"
🏛️ → 🎁 → 📈 → ⏳ → 💝 → 🛡️ → 🪜 → 💑 →
Estate Tax Exposure
Federal + state estate tax exposure at death. 2025 exemption $13.99M individual / $27.98M MFJ.
Annual Gifting Strategy
$19K/recipient/yr × N × years sheltered before estate tax (40% top federal rate).
Step-Up Basis at Death
Sell now (LTCG) vs hold to death (heir gets stepped-up basis tax-free). When NOT to sell.
Inherited IRA 10-Year RMD
SECURE Act drawdown for non-spouse heirs — equal annual vs lump strategies compared.
QCD Strategy
From 70½, route up to $108K (2025) from IRA directly to charity. AGI-preserving.
Life Insurance Needs
Liquidity for estate tax + replacement income; the canonical estate-planning insurance tool.
Roth Conversion Ladder
Convert traditional → Roth to reduce future RMDs and taxable estate at death.
Marriage Tax
MFJ portability of unused estate exemption — doubles the per-couple exemption.