WalkAwayFI
the FIRE planner that keeps your data on your device
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WalkAwayFI.com · US + Canada · private by design

When can you actually walk away?

Not because you hate your job — because optional changes everything. Most retirement calculators guess your taxes with one flat rate. WalkAwayFI uses real US + Canada tax engines to give you one honest estimate: the day work becomes optional.

Open the planner — free What's included No sign-up. Runs in your browser.

Try the idea — drag your numbers

Your FI number
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Walk-away year
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Years to go
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Invested today—
Saving per month—
Spending per year, retired—

Deliberately simplified: 4% rule, 5% real returns, no taxes. The real app answers this with your actual accounts, government benefits, and full US/CA tax math — which usually moves the date by years.

See it in 80 seconds

Why WalkAwayFI exists, and what it does differently. Then short, no-fluff walkthroughs on the full channel.

The whole plan, year by year

Every year from today to the end of the plan — starting from today's balances, with the current year counted only for the months still to come: income, taxes, withdrawals, and what's left. Coast, Lean, FIRE and Fat milestones get dated along the way, and you can open any single year to see where every dollar went. The projection engine, milestones and money-flow detail are free for everyone.

Real tax engines, not effective-rate guesses

US: federal brackets, LTCG stacking, NIIT, RMDs, Roth conversion ladders, 72(t), state presets. Canada: every province, RRSP meltdown, OAS clawback, RRIF minimums. Plus a Pro optimizer that searches withdrawal order and savings priority together to estimate your earliest realistic retirement date.

Your portfolio and your strategy, tested

Enter your actual holdings, account by account — then change the investment strategy and watch the projection react: allocation, withdrawal order, concentration risk (Portfolio tab, Pro).

Two honest survival numbers — and what moves them

Your dashboard shows two odds, free for everyone, and says exactly what each one assumes. Monte Carlo runs thousands of random futures at your expected return — the planning number. S&P 500 history replays your plan through what actually happened from every start year, 1928–2024, with each year's real inflation — the stress test. A plain-language guide tells you how to read the two together, and a flexible-spending rule lets the plan trim discretionary spending while markets are down instead of pretending you'd spend the same through a crash. Pro's Insights go deeper: what happened to every run, why the failed ones failed, and lever tests — retire later, spend less, part-time income, flexible spending — ranked by how much each one moves both numbers, plus what it would take to reach your target (failure analysis, retirement-year heatmap, survivor & conversion analysis included).

Your numbers never leave your machine

Use it right in your browser — your data lives on your device, never on our servers. No account, no telemetry, zero network calls until you ask for one. Your finances are nobody's business — including ours.

Why is it free?

Because helping people build a real plan is the point. The free planner isn't a trial and isn't bait — full projections, both tax engines, Monte Carlo and the S&P-history replay, for everyone, for good. You never need Pro to reach FI. Pro's $29/yr does one job: it keeps the project maintained — tax rules current, features shipping, servers paid. No investors, no ads, no data to sell. More about the project →

Everything you need to plan is free.

No account, no card, no trial clock. Pro is a set of optional extras for people who want to go deeper — and a way to keep the lights on.

Free free forever

$0 · no sign-up

  • Full projection engine — real US + Canada tax math
  • Monte Carlo + S&P 500 history survival odds (1928–2024, real inflation) — with a guide to reading them
  • Flexible-spending rule — trim discretionary spending while markets are down
  • Life phases, experiences & gifts — spend while you're able, give while you're alive
  • Dashboard, milestones, FI progress
  • Accounts, debts, assets, income & expense streams
  • Year-by-year projection with money-flow detail
  • Progress snapshots — plan vs. actual
  • Multiple scenarios · quick-start wizard · guided tour
  • JSON backup — export & restore anywhere
Open the planner — free →

Runs in your browser. Your data stays on your device.

Pro optional

$29 USD/yr (≈ C$40)

  • Optimizers — the earliest you can retire and still die with zero, or how much more you could spend — at the survival odds you require
  • Insights suite — simulation charts, failure analysis, heatmaps
  • Lever tests — which single change moves your odds most, and what it takes to reach your target
  • What-If sensitivity & tax analytics
  • Retirement Playbook & Compare
  • Portfolio tracking — real tickers, live quotes
  • RSU modeling & walk-away analysis

Unlock in-app whenever you want it · cancel anytime · 30-day money-back.