Income Lab vs RetireePlan

Income Lab has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

RetireePlan is a free, self-hosted retirement planning app built for Canadians to model finances, compare scenarios, and examine tax outcomes. Its deterministic engine projects income, expenses, account growth, withdrawals, and taxes year by year; Monte Carlo runs use 1,000 trials and can apply normal, log-normal, or historical-bootstrap returns. Canadian tax modeling covers federal and provincial brackets, CPP/QPP, EI, OAS/GIS clawback, pension splitting, and RRIF minimums. A rule-based engine ranks recommendations and assigns dollar values, including possible RRSP meltdown opportunities, OAS clawback avoidance, and TFSA use. Users can model rental properties, principal-residence exemptions, probate, and beneficiary designations, and compare named scenarios. RetireePlan can import YNAB categories and transactions, and its context-aware AI assistant can use local Ollama or GitHub Copilot. It runs on the web or through desktop installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux; Docker containers support self-hosting. Reports export to multi-scenario PDF or annual CSV. The maker says users can run it on their own hardware without sharing data. It is a modeling tool, not financial advice, and tax figures are illustrative.