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Our
Financial Calculators
are Fast, Flexible & Easy-to-Use
Pine Grove Software has been publishing calculators for personal computers since 1983. Today, our calculators are used by hundreds of thousands of professionals and home owners who have many financial questions that they need to have quickly and accurately answered.
Our calculators can be found online, ready for immediate use or they are available bundled together in several programs to run on computers with Microsoft Windows installed. You can try fully functioning copies of all of our Windows programs at any time. Just click on any download link found at the top of all of our web pages and follow the easy, step-by-step instructions.
Which calculators are better?
The ones you download and run
on Windows or the online calculators?
And the answer is, that depends on your needs. We've prepared the following comparison to help you decide:
Windows calculators...
These calculators you download and install. They generally offer the following benefits...
- Customize schedules — add/skip payments or deposits. Change dates and amounts as needed in any schedule.
- Save Your Work — save your work to disk for later review and edits.
- More Report Options — print attractive reports or create PDFs.
- Export Data — send calculations via email or save to Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel files, or export to other common file formats.
- More Calculators to Choose From — multiple dozens of calculators to meet your needs.
And they may have the following detractions for some...
- Run Only on Windows Computers — If you use Macs or Linux, we're sorry, you can only use our online calculators.
- Not always available — If you work on different computers from time to time then download and install an evaluation copy to use. Evaluation copies are always available.
- Slight Cost — True, many of the calculators are not free. But generally the calculators cost less than $3 each. (Recently we helped a gentleman prepare a custom loan schedule that he used to prove to his lender how he owed over $10,000 less than the lender said was owed on his loan. We think he would agree, that the price he paid for SolveIT! was cheap.)
Web calculators...
Generally have the following benefits...
- Nothing to download. Nothing to install. — just click on a link and use the calculator immediately.
- Always up to date — you never have to be concerned if you are using the most current version of a calculator.
- Use from Anywhere — use the calculators on any computer with an internet connection.
- Use on Any Device — the calculators work with Windows, Macs or Linux computers as well as on many smart phones.
- FREE! — need anything else be said? Well, yes. Please visit a sponsors web site. The sponsors make these calculators possible.
And they may have the following detractions for some...
- No internet? — Or internet down? Then no calculator.
- Not as sophisticated — need a schedule with payments or deposits on irregular dates? Need to change deposit or payment amounts? Need to skip a payment or deposit? You can't do any of these things with the online calculators
- Do you want to validate someone else's work? — web calculators generally are not a suitable tool for auditing because you cannot save your work or they are not flexible enough.
- Some calculations are too complex — this is changing but for now, data entry is either too slow or too awkward for online calculators. This is why we currently offer about three times the number of calculators for Windows as we offer online.
Online Calculators
These are three of our most popular online calculators...
Calculators for
Microsoft Windows
We now offer over 40 calculators bundled together in four programs.
Software Development & Consulting Services
We have been offering consulting services since 1989. Here are just a very few, randomly selected services that we offer.
- Software design and database architecture.
- Project mentoring — we'll work with your developers, review their work and help them over any development hurtles that they may be facing.
- Search engine optimization. (Did you find us via a search engine?)
- We have a solely owned subsidiary, Karl Thompson & Associates that specializes in developing software for the hedge fund industry and money managers.
We can work on or off-site.
