Changelog

What's new on DoCalc, in reverse-chronological order. Have a request? Let us know.

August 9, 2026

Added

• Seven more Insurance calculators: Life Insurance Premium (by age, gender, term, and health class), COBRA Cost (the 102% rule), Medicare Supplement (Medigap), Flood Insurance (FEMA Risk Rating 2.0), Long-Term Care Insurance (2025 Genworth cost data), Final Expense Insurance, and Pet Insurance — bringing Insurance & Protection to fifteen live calculators.
• Seven new blog articles covering those calculators: How Much Does Life Insurance Cost, COBRA Insurance Cost Explained, Medicare Supplement: Plan G vs Plan N, Do You Need Flood Insurance, How Much Does Long-Term Care Cost, Final Expense Insurance Coverage, and Pet Insurance Cost Guide — each cross-linked to its calculator and to related articles.

Improved

• Ad targeting simplified from per-page checkboxes to six broad page types (Homepage, Calculator Pages, Utility Tool Pages, Blog Pages, Company Pages, Legal Pages), so an ad can target a whole section at once instead of needing every page ticked individually.
• Fixed a bug where saving two or more new ads in the same "Save all" click could silently drop all but one, caused by parallel save requests overwriting each other; saves are now a single atomic request.
• Redesigned the in-content text ad to a cleaner "Sponsored" card layout — label above the box, headline with an inline arrow icon, no separate button text.
• Added more padding inside calculator and result panels, most noticeable on the Number to Words tool where the icon toolbar previously sat close to the card edges.

August 8, 2026

Added

• Launched the Insurance & Protection category, now with eight calculators: Life Insurance Needs (DIME method), Auto Insurance, Home Insurance, Health Insurance Subsidy (2026 ACA rules), Term vs Whole Life, Umbrella Insurance, Renters Insurance, and Disability Insurance.
• Six new blog articles: How Much House Can You Afford, 15-Year vs 30-Year Mortgage, Debt Snowball vs Avalanche, How Much Do You Need to Retire, When to Refinance Your Mortgage, and Good Churn Rate for SaaS.

Improved

• Ad slots are now strictly typed — square and the new full-width leaderboard slot are image-only, the in-content sidebar slot is text-only and stacks multiple active ads with dividers instead of showing one at random.
• Ad targeting in the admin panel moved from broad page categories to individual per-page checkboxes, grouped by section.
• Related-calculator links across calculator and blog pages are now regular-weight with a divider line, instead of bold text with no separation.

August 5, 2026

Added

• An Editorial Policy explaining how we research, build, verify, and correct calculators and articles.
• A Disclaimer page spelling out what our calculators are — and aren't — a substitute for.
• A Sources & Methodology page listing the authoritative references behind our formulas and benchmarks, by category.
• An Editorial Team page, plus a visible byline and correction contact on every blog article.
• Six new Finance calculators: Auto Loan, Debt Payoff (snowball vs. avalanche), Credit Card Payoff, Home Affordability, Retirement Savings, and Savings Goal — bringing the Finance category from 3 to 9 live calculators.
• Six more Finance calculators: Net Worth, Emergency Fund, Investment Return (CAGR), Refinance, HELOC, and Rent vs. Buy — bringing Finance to 15 live calculators.
• Four new SaaS/startup equity calculators: Cap Table Dilution, SAFE Note Conversion, Vesting Schedule, and ARR per Employee.

Improved

• Rewrote the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to remove placeholder "template" language and accurately describe what's actually live (Google Analytics, first-party ads, no third-party ad network yet).
• Added a founder/team background and clearer "what our calculators are/aren't" section to the About page.
• Added a dedicated correction-report email and response-time expectation to the Contact page.

August 3, 2026

Added

• Real currency conversion — switching currency now converts every calculator's numbers using live exchange rates, not just the displayed symbol.
• Cookie consent banner, ahead of analytics going live.
• "Download PDF" on every calculator result — a branded, one-page PDF you can save or share.
• "Print result" on every calculator, with a dedicated print layout.
• Shareable calculator links — your inputs are saved in the URL, so a shared link opens pre-filled.
• A "Recently viewed" strip on the homepage for calculators you've visited.
• Manual dark mode toggle, independent of your OS setting.
• Site-wide header search across every calculator and article.
• An RSS feed for the blog.
• Three new guides: MRR vs ARR, CAC Payback Period benchmarks, and the Rule of 40 explained.
• The Number to Words Converter utility, with cheque-writing format and South Asian (Lakh/Crore) numbering.
• Previews of planned calculators on the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate "coming soon" pages.

Improved

• Fixed low-contrast text and added keyboard focus trapping to the search and currency modals, for WCAG AA compliance.
• Sourced and cited the benchmark figures used across the SaaS calculators.
• Compressed blog images for faster page loads.