Life Calculator

Calculators that show their working

66 free tools for health, money, dates, maths and everyday problems. Every one states the formula it uses and walks through a worked example, so you can check the answer by hand if you want to. Nothing you type is ever sent anywhere — it is all computed in your browser.

Health & Fitness

Body composition, energy requirements, training zones and the everyday health numbers people actually look up — with the limits of each formula stated plainly.

See all 21 health & fitness calculators →

Finance & Money

Loans, savings, interest, salary and the arithmetic of everyday money decisions, worked through step by step rather than hidden behind a black box.

See all 14 finance & money calculators →

Maths & Numbers

Percentages, ratios, averages, geometry and algebra, each with the method written out so you can reproduce the answer without the calculator.

See all 12 maths & numbers calculators →

Date & Time

Ages, durations, deadlines, working days and time zones — the calculations that are deceptively easy to get wrong by one day.

Unit Conversion

Exact conversions between metric and imperial units, with the definitions and conversion factors the numbers come from.

See all 7 unit conversion calculators →

Home & Everyday

Practical calculations for the house, the car, the kitchen and the shop — quantities, costs and the comparisons that save money.

See all 7 home & everyday calculators →

Why another calculator site

Most calculators on the web are a box that produces a number. You put figures in, a result appears, and you have no way of telling whether it is right, what assumptions it made, or why a different site gave you a different answer.

Every tool here does three additional things. It states the formula it applies, in notation you can follow. It works through an example with real figures, so you can verify the implementation yourself. And it says what the formula ignores — because every model simplifies, and knowing where the simplification bites is the difference between a useful estimate and false precision.

Your numbers stay on your device

There are no accounts, no logins and no saved profiles. The calculations run in JavaScript on your own machine, which means the weight, salary, loan balance or medical figure you type is never transmitted to us and never stored. You can verify this by opening your browser's network tab while using any tool on the site — nothing is sent. The site is free because it carries advertising, not because your data is the product. The details are in our privacy policy.