NestEgg: FIRE Calculator
Kalden Ficklin Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touch
NestEgg: FIRE Calculator is a free Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Kalden Ficklin. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 41 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 3
- 2026 · v1.4.0
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About NestEgg: FIRE Calculator
Most retirement calculators ask for three numbers and hand you a year. That's not a plan, that's a guess. NestEgg is a retirement planner and early retirement calculator that models the mechanics actually deciding whether you make it: your real return after inflation, the tax treatment of every account you draw from, and how much Social Security at 62 versus 70 changes the number you need. WHAT'S IN IT Your FIRE number, five ways — Traditional, Lean, Coast, Barista and Fat. Financial independence means something different at $40k a year than at $150k, and the app doesn't pretend otherwise. Your retirement age, not just your number. A year-by-year projection to age 95 in today's dollars, with your target drawn on the chart, the crossing year marked, and a depletion warning if the money runs out first. Withdrawal strategies. Fixed inflation-adjusted spending, percent-of-portfolio, or guardrails that trim 10% after bad stretches and take a raise after good ones. Income that isn't your portfolio. Social Security at any claim age, pensions, rental income, part-time work. Coast FIRE math falls apart if you skip this. Tax drag. Traditional, Roth and taxable modelled separately, with long-term capital gains treatment, RMDs, Roth conversion ladders and an early-retirement healthcare (ACA) bridge. Built on current IRS and SSA figures — brackets, standard deduction, 401(k) and Roth IRA limits, the wage base — updated each year. Scenario comparison. Save as many what-ifs as you like and put them next to each other. "What if we moved somewhere cheaper" is a real question with a real answer. Plan with a partner. Two incomes, two retirement ages, one shared date. YOUR DATA No ads, ever, and your figures are never sold or shared. Start with no sign-up at all — explore as a guest and attach an account later only if you want your plan to sync across your devices. You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings, instantly. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO It doesn't connect to your bank or track your spending. It's not a budgeting app and there are good ones already. NestEgg answers one question: when can you stop working, and what has to be true for that to hold. It doesn't run Monte Carlo simulations. Projections use a steady real return you pick — conservative, balanced or optimistic — so you can see the mechanics rather than a probability you can't interrogate. It's also not financial advice. It's a model, and every model is wrong about something. Use it to think, not to decide. NESTEGG PRO $1.99/month, cancel anytime — or $19.99 once, yours forever. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A monthly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://runebyte.app/fire-path/terms Privacy Policy: https://runebyte.app/fire-path/privacy Built by one independent developer. Bug reports get read and usually fixed within a week.
What’s new
Version 1.4.0 · Updated September 3, 2026
Editing an expense no longer commits as you type. Tapping + opens an empty line item and nothing joins your plan until you press Save, so backing out of one leaves nothing behind. Save and Remove stay pinned to the bottom of the sheet however long the form gets, and the category you added the item under is the category it keeps — it no longer re-files itself while you type the name. Categories are yours to manage. Name one when you add it instead of living with "New category", rename any of them, and delete a custom one. If it still holds spending you choose what happens to it: move those items to Other and keep the money in your plan, or delete them along with the category. Every sheet in the app is solid now rather than translucent, and you can drag one down to dismiss it. Keep swiping past the top of a long form and it closes. The keyboard no longer pushes a tall sheet off the top of the screen, so the field you're filling in and the button that saves it both stay where you can reach them. An hourly rate keeps its cents. $28.75 an hour stays $28.75 instead of rounding to $29 and quietly changing the salary it derives. Fixes: the household split no longer counts a once-a-year bonus toward your monthly take-home — that figure now matches the one Income & Taxes shows for the same paycheck — and its comparison bars give each person's share as a percentage as well as an amount. The FIRE year is one number everywhere: Today, the milestone timeline, the Plan tab, Retirement and Projections all read the year your assets actually reach your number, instead of some of them reading the date you've planned to stop working.
App privacy
The developer, Kalden Ficklin, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Financial Info: Other Financial Info
- Contact Info: Email Address, Phone Number
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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