FigureBetter is an independent personal-finance site. We build calculators that answer a question the moment you land, guides that explain the math behind them, and a live markets dashboard that pulls rates, filings, and prices straight from primary sources. There’s no account to create, no paywall, and nothing to install.
The goal is simple: take the decisions people find stressful — a mortgage, a payoff plan, a first investment, a trade’s position size — and make the number in front of you trustworthy enough to act on.
What we stand for
- Answer first, always. Every tool shows the result immediately. No signup, no drip-feed, no “enter your email to see the total.”
- The formula is visible. Methodology, assumptions, and the primary sources sit right on each page, so you can check our work instead of trusting it blindly.
- Your numbers stay yours. Calculations run in your browser. We don’t store your inputs or send them to analytics — see the privacy policy.
Our editorial approach
Guides are written to be understood, not to pad a word count. Each one cites its primary sources, shows the formula it’s built on, and carries the date it was last reviewed. Where a calculator makes an assumption — a compounding convention, a rounding rule — we say so on the page. Nothing here is personalized financial, investment, tax, or legal advice; it’s information to help you think, and big decisions are worth talking through with a qualified professional.
Corrections
If a number looks wrong, it might be — and we want to know. We correct confirmed errors quickly and update the page’s review date when we do. Email info@figurebetter.com with the page and what looks off.
Who’s behind it
Roland Balabekyan. Builds and maintains FigureBetter. Wrote the calculation engines behind every tool on the site — each one a pure function covered by unit tests — and the pages that show the formula and the sources behind every number.
FigureBetter is built and maintained independently — no outside investors, no advertiser shaping the math. That independence is the point: the numbers answer to you, not to anyone paying to change them.
For how the calculations are produced and tested — and what this site explicitly does not claim — see the methodology page.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or ideas for a tool we should build: info@figurebetter.com.