Kelo - FIRE Retirement Planner
Monte Carlo, Private, Offline
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
What if you retired in 2000? Stress-test your plan against 1966, 2000, and 2008 cohort returns — then export the full year-by-year table. Free. On-device.
Kelo is a privacy-first FIRE retirement planner that runs 100,000 Monte Carlo simulations on your iPhone — no signup, no bank logins, no tracking.
Most retirement calculators use a single assumed rate of return and call it a day. Bank-connected trackers want your login credentials and sell your data. Neither helps you stress-test early retirement against the real history of markets.
Kelo is different. Every simulation runs on 98 years of historical US market data (1928 to present) using the same block-bootstrap method researchers use for retirement research. Nothing leaves your device.
WHAT YOU GET
• Rich, Broke or Dead? — actuarial survival overlay shows the 3-way split (funded, broke, deceased) for every future year, so you see if your money will outlast you — powered by SSA Period Life Tables (Free)
• 100,000 Monte Carlo runs on your iPhone
• Full FIRE, Barista FIRE, and Coast FIRE modes
• Three withdrawal strategies: Constant Dollar, Guyton-Klinger guardrails, and Floor / Ceiling
• Social Security claim-age modeling at 62, 67, and 70 — with COLA and NPV delta
• ACA MAGI cliff visualization with premium estimates and subsidy waterfall
• Side-by-side scenario comparison (Pro)
• PDF scenario export (Pro)
• Home-screen widget showing your FIRE progress ring
• Optional encrypted iCloud sync — off by default
• Compare to History — run your plan against 1966, 2000, or 2008 cohort returns to stress-test SORR (Free)
WILL YOUR MONEY OUTLAST YOU?
For most FIRE planners, a long, well-funded retirement is far more likely than running short — the antidote to one-more-year anxiety. Rich, Broke or Dead overlays SSA actuarial life tables to split each year into alive & funded, alive & broke, and deceased. Free. Based on public actuarial data, not a personal health prediction.
WHAT IF YOU RETIRED IN 2000?
1966 and 2000 are the FIRE community's worst-case SORR benchmarks — stagflation and the dot-com+GFC sequence. Compare to History overlays your exact plan on those returns. One verdict line on your Monte Carlo fan: green if the cohort survived your horizon, red if it depleted. No fabricated returns. Free.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Enter your portfolio, savings rate, and target spending
2. Pick a FIRE mode and stock / bond allocation
3. Run the simulation — see your success rate, median trajectory, and percentile fan chart
4. Save scenarios, compare them, and tune until you're confident
PRICING & SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Kelo is free to download and use. A Pro subscription unlocks the full toolkit:
• $6.99 / month or $49.99 / year
• 1-month free trial
• Up to 5 saved scenarios, Barista & Coast FIRE, Guyton-Klinger, Floor / Ceiling, 50- and 60-year horizons, full percentile bands, NPV delta, full ACA subsidy waterfall, scenario comparison, PDF export, and widget quick-update
Payment charges to your Apple ID. Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings.
By subscribing, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PRIVACY, BY DESIGN
• No analytics. No telemetry. No third-party SDKs.
• No bank connections. No account required.
• No network calls from the simulation engine.
• Optional iCloud sync uses Apple's end-to-end encrypted CloudKit private database — your data, your Apple ID, nobody else's.
LEGAL
Privacy Policy:
https://www.kelofireplanner.com/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA):
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Additional Terms:
https://www.kelofireplanner.com/terms
DISCLAIMER
Kelo provides educational projections based on historical data. Past performance does not guarantee future results. This is not financial advice. Kelo is not a registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, or tax professional. Consult a qualified financial advisor for personalized guidance.
Plan your freedom privately. Download Kelo and run your first simulation in under a minute.
Ratings & Reviews
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Export your numbers — and sharper Coast FIRE math.
v1.2.1 adds free CSV export: tap the share icon on any results screen to export your full year-by-year projection table — balances, withdrawals, and percentiles for every year of your plan. Open it in Numbers, Excel, or Google Sheets and dig in. No Pro required.
This release also fixes Coast FIRE simulations. Running a Monte Carlo in Coast mode now models your growth years — your portfolio compounds from today until your target retirement age before any withdrawals begin — instead of assuming you retire today. Coast plans that are on track now read as on track. Social Security timing in Coast mode is corrected to match.
Also in v1.2.1:
• The results screen opens on your median projection by default
• A quiet, one-tap way to rate Kelo after a successful run — never a nag
As always: no bank logins, no signup, no tracking. Your data stays on your device.
The developer, Gurinder Singh, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Gurinder Singh
- Size
- 5.9 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Kelo Pro Monthly $6.99
- Kelo Pro Annual – Save 40% $49.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Gurinder Singh
