Financial calculators that show the time value of money

Investing, debt, pricing and business decisions, with interactive charts, a plain-language reading of every result and a PDF report.

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Navy line drawing: a family with a child, people working, cycling and walking a dog, financial charts, a piggy bank, a clock and a calendar, an office building, a factory with solar panels and wind turbines, a house, a delivery truck and a retired couple relaxing on the beach.
From the family budget to the company’s cash and to retirement: every money decision depends on time and interest.
Our purpose

PersonalCalcs exists so that anyone can see how time and interest change money before deciding: investing, borrowing, hiring or setting a price. The calculators are free, show the formulas and assumptions behind each number and explain every result in plain language. They are educational: they do not make investment recommendations or replace advice from a qualified professional.

96calculators
5areas, from personal finance to startups
3languages
PDFsummary and full report
Investing

Compound interest with monthly contributions

What comes from your pocket, what comes from interest and what the total is worth in today’s money after inflation. Change the term or the rate and watch the curve pull away.

Run the compound interest calculator →
Compound interest with monthly contributions
Retirement

When your savings can pay your income

Follows your savings while you contribute and after you stop, and compares them with the contribution needed to reach the goal and keep the income to the end of the horizon.

Calculate financial independence →
When your savings can pay your income
Debt

The shortest way out of debt

Compares avalanche, snowball, paying only the minimum and switching to a cheaper loan: when each path clears the balance and how much interest it costs.

Build the payoff plan →
The shortest way out of debt
Business

Selling price and break-even

How many monthly sales cover fixed costs, at the suggested price and at your current price, and how much profit is left at each volume.

Calculate the selling price →
Selling price and break-even

Charts that explain the result

Every calculation comes with interactive charts and a short text that says, in plain language, what the numbers mean.

Your scenario against a benchmark
Your scenario against a benchmark

The same contributions at different rates: the gap between the lines is what a rate difference does over 20 years.

Rent or buy a home
Rent or buy a home

The wealth of buying against renting and investing the difference, year by year, with the home’s appreciation.

What is inside the price
What is inside the price

How much of each sale goes to cost, taxes, fees, fixed costs and profit.

From your numbers to a PDF report

01Pick a calculator

Use search or the menus at the top: personal finance, investing, work, business and startups.

02Replace the example with your numbers

Every page opens with a worked example. Results, charts and the explanation update instantly.

03Save the PDF report

Download the summary or the full report, with inputs, formulas, assumptions, sources and the rules review date.

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Standard financial formulas · compound interest · present and future value · NPV and IRR · amortization · break-even