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You can stop searching, because almost all free online college savings calculators are below

All of our free financial calculators, are on the Time Value of Money Tools demo, except for these, which are here:

The world's most functional free online retirement calculator (a scaled-down version of the RP Retirement Planner)

The bond calculator's demo has the most functional free bond yield to maturity calculator ever to be on the web

We also think our free personal budget software is the best the web has ever seen for free downloading too

We listed almost every free online college calculator on the web.

There are hundreds of websites with free online financial calculators, but the vast majority just "rent" usage of them from the vendors below. Paying them rent allows webmasters to put the financial calculators on their site in a manner that makes it look like their site built them (when they really just go to a site like Dinkytown to calculate and display the results). So most financial calculators are the same. For example, FinanceCalc.com just uses VisualCalc.com's financial spreadsheets and MoneyToys uses Wheatworks.

Please keep in mind that Tools for Money didn't make the ones listed below, they're just links to other free online financial calculator websites. Bloomberg's financial calculators are the best.

Most calculate the numbers as advertised, but there are so few input fields, that you can't account for most of the details that will dramatically alter Real World results. But what do you expect for free? Use these simplistic results at your own peril! If you don't like financial peril, you can always get detailed Real World results by paying a few bucks to use our financial calculators instead.

Time Value of Money and Financial Calculator Terminology

TVM = Time value of money - the basic concepts of what these financial calculators are all about.  PV = Present Value (beginning investment values, or how much something is worth today).  PMT = Payments (constant contributions or withdrawals each compounding period, usually added or subtracted to the scenario monthly).  I = Compound interest rate (interest rate or growth rate that is applied at each N compounding period).  N = Number of compounding periods (how many times the calculations are done that compound money at the given interest rate, usually in months or years. E.g., If you have $100 and you compound, or add, 10% annual interest, then you'd have $110 as a future value over this one compounding period. If N=2, then it would compound twice, and your ending value would be $121, which is $110 plus 10%).  FV = Future value (usually the result, or the amount of money accumulated over N compounding periods).  P = Principal, or how much money is being lent or borrowed.  ARM = Adjustable Rate Mortgage.  APR = Annual Percentage Rate.

 

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Dinkytown.net

Financial Calculators.com

Same as FinCalc.com

Won't work unless you accept their cookies, have your Java turned on, and pop-up blocker turned off. It also won't work the first time because it needs to put a cookie on your computer. So click on another calculator after the first attempt fails, then they should all work.

Interest.com

Same as Calculators.interest

Moneytoys.com

Same as Wheatworks

VisualCalc.com

Same as FinanceCalc

All go to a main menu where you have to choose the calculator you want again

College Savings Calculators Yes the most comprehensive ever created, but not free. 8 inputs calculate the PV of a college education, the FV of savings, and what annual PMT needs to be to fund it. 4 inputs show the college fund depleting as it's used to fund college. Input data for up to six kids that needed college funding.

Similar to above but with less input fields.

Advantages of the Coverdale ESA.

No No A few inputs calculate monthly savings PMT needed (Click on "College planner calculator")
Dorm vs. Staying at Home Calculator Yes the most comprehensive ever created, but not free. No No Input data to compare expenses of living at home vs. dorm while attending college. No No No
Calculate the Payments of a PLUS Student Loan No plans to make one No No Input four student loans and calculate an amortization schedule. No No No
Future Value of a College Education No but coming soon No No 6 inputs calculate the economic value until age 65 of having a college education vs. not. No No No
Advantages of 529 College Plans Yes the most comprehensive ever created, but not free. No No 5 inputs calculate the benefits of using a Section 529 college plan. No No No
529 Comparator   iShares has the only 529 plan comparator          
Student Budget Yes the most comprehensive ever created, but not free. No Several inputs are used to calculate the budget of a full-time college student. No No No No

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