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The retirement questions the other calculators don't ask

Most retirement tools answer one question: will I have enough? These answer the ones that actually decide the outcome — when the losses land, how much you can flex your spending, what care costs, whether the mortgage should go, whether you'd be forced to sell at the bottom, and how much you can give the kids without it costing you.

Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere — only your country choice is remembered, on this device. All figures are yours to change, and every calculator has a worked example at the bottom of its page.

New here? Start with these three

Will your money outlive you?

The big one. Your odds of running short, and the withdrawal rate that fits your own longevity rather than a generic rule.

How much cash should you keep?

The most useful ten minutes here. Enough in reserve that a bad market never forces you to sell at the worst moment.

Why timing beats average returns

The one that changes how people think. Identical returns, different order, completely different outcome.

Getting the income right 4
Risk you can actually afford 4
The long game 3
What you actually own 3
People, paperwork and behaviour 4
The mortgage question 8

What you'll need to hand

Most calculators want the same handful of numbers, so it's worth gathering them once: roughly what you have invested, roughly what you spend in a year, and how much income you receive that arrives regardless of markets — a pension, an annuity, a state pension. Approximate figures are fine. These tools are for comparing options, not for filing anything.

Choosing your country

The picker in the top bar sets the currency and loads sensible starting figures for your part of the world — pension ages and deferral rates, care costs and thresholds, typical tax rates. The maths itself never changes; only the defaults do, and every one of them stays editable. Where a calculator works differently in your country, a short note appears explaining how.

Some of those figures are firm — pension deferral rates are set in law and are verified. Others, particularly care costs, vary so much by region that they can only ever be a starting point. Replace them with local numbers whenever you have them.

What these are, and aren't

These are thinking tools, not advice. There is no tax logic or means-testing logic built into the calculations themselves — those differ everywhere and change often, so the country presets set starting values rather than trying to model any country's rules.

The honest limitation of any calculator like this: change an assumption and you change the answer. That's a feature rather than a flaw. The value isn't in any single number — it's in seeing which levers actually move things, so you know what to focus on and what to stop worrying about.