Free FIRE simulator

Learn to invest with pretend money and a tree.

Buy 60 real funds with fake cash. Watch the tree grow. Fast-forward thirty years and see when you could stop working.

FreeNo adsNo in-app purchasesNo accountNo tracking
Get it on Google Play

Android now. iPhone in progress.

Scroll. This page is a time machine.
Tap the tree
The business model

Free. No catch.

Most free finance apps are a funnel into a broker, a subscription or an ad network. This one isn't. It costs almost nothing to run, so there's nothing to recoup.

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No ads

Not now, not later. No banners, no sponsored funds, no affiliate links.

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No paywall

Every fund, every feature, the full calculator. No premium tier.

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No account

No sign-up, no email, no password. Open it and plant.

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No data collected

Everything lives on your phone. The only network call is an anonymous price download.

The research

60 funds, researched.
Not just a list of trackers.

Every instrument has a note on what it is and why it's there. Start with a global tracker, then meet the vehicles that have compounded money for over a century.

Global & regional trackersUK investment trustsUS closed-end fundsBDCsFamily holding companiesJapanese trading housesBonds & gold
VWRP

Vanguard FTSE All-World (Acc)

The one-fund portfolio: 3,700+ stocks, dividends reinvested into the tree.

FCIT

F&C Investment Trust

Founded 1868. The original pooled investment vehicle, with over half a century of rising dividends.

ADX

Adams Diversified Equity

Est. 1929. Has paid dividends through every crash since the Crash.

INVE-B

Investor AB

The Wallenberg family vehicle since 1916: ABB, Atlas Copco, AstraZeneca, EQT.

BRK.B

Berkshire Hathaway

Insurance float funding permanent equity capital. The archetype.

8058

Mitsubishi Corp

One of the five Japanese trading houses. Learn why Buffett bought all five.

Prices are real and update hourly. The money isn't.

Walkthrough

How to use it.

Eight steps, from the first seed to retiring on paper.

Onboarding screen My Tree dashboard Fund Market Fund detail and trade sheet Holdings on the dashboard Time Machine FIRE calculator Profile and settings
01

Plant your tree

Open the app. No sign-up. Four fields:

  • Your name, so the app knows what to call you.
  • Target passive income (£/year): what you'd want to live on.
  • Monthly contribution (£): what you'd put in each month.
  • Starting amount (£): this becomes your cash to invest.

Your FIRE number updates as you type: target income ÷ 4%. £24,000 a year needs £600,000. Tap Plant my tree. You can change all four later in Profile.

02

Watch it grow

The My Tree tab is home.

  • The tree's size is your portfolio as a percentage of your FIRE number.
  • Tap the tree to replay its growth.
  • Portfolio Value shows your total, today's change and uninvested cash.
  • No holdings yet? Browse Funds takes you to the market.
  • At 100% the tree is fully grown and starts paying out, coin by coin.
03

Browse the market

The Portfolio tab opens the Fund Market. Your cash to invest sits at the top.

  • Filter by category: Global, US, UK, Europe, Thematic, Trusts, US Funds, Holdcos.
  • Trusts, US Funds and Holdcos open with a briefing on that sector's catch: discounts, premiums, withholding tax, leverage.
  • Each row shows ticker, price, today's move, YTD return and annual charge (TER).
04

Read the note. Then trade.

  • Tap any fund for its research note and price per share.
  • Choose Buy or Sell, enter a £ amount and confirm. Fractional shares, average-cost maths.
  • You can't sell more than you hold. Sell all closes a position in one tap.
  • Your recent trades in that fund are listed under the form.
05

Rebalance and review

  • Holdings appear under Your Seeds on the home tab, with value and gain.
  • ⚖️ Rebalance sells everything and rebuys the target mix for your risk profile: 40% bonds if conservative, 20% if moderate, all equities if aggressive.
  • 📜 History logs every trade.
06

Fast-forward with the Time Machine

  • + Plant extra trees: Personal, Family, Child, Friend or Generational. Each gets a name, a starting amount and a monthly contribution.
  • Pick a speed. 1x is a month per second; 100x is about eight years per second.
  • Personal trees switch between 🌱 Adding and 🍎 Harvesting, so you can test retiring early or late.
  • Generational: Gen 1 contributes for 25 years and never withdraws. Every generation after harvests 4% of the tree at handover, keeps contributing, and hands it on 25 years later.
  • ↺ Reset to today puts every tree back to the present.

Scrolling this page does the same thing. Watch the counter bottom-left.

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Run the numbers

  • Three inputs: target income, monthly contribution and starting amount. Tap Calculate My Tree.
  • Returns default to your risk profile: 5% conservative, 7% moderate, 9% aggressive. Advanced lets you override the rate and the horizon (default 50 years).
  • You get your target principal, the year you hit FIRE, a growth chart, and a year-by-year table with monthly income and % to FIRE.
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Set it and forget it

  • Profile holds your FIRE goal, risk tolerance and monthly contribution.
  • Funding frequency: None, Weekly or Monthly. Cash is credited as real time passes, like a standing order to your future self.
  • Show passive income per year, month, week or day.
  • Start fresh wipes everything and replants. There's no undo.
Privacy

Your data stays on your phone.

No servers hold your portfolio, because there aren't any. Uninstall and it's gone. The privacy policy is short.

FAQ

Is it really free?

Yes. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription. It costs next to nothing to run, so it doesn't need to make money.

Is any real money involved?

No. It's a simulator. You can't deposit, withdraw or buy anything real.

Are the prices real?

Yes, refreshed hourly from public market data. Offline, prices fall back to a local simulation.

What's the counter on this page?

£10,000 to start, £1,000 a month, 7% a year, aiming for £24,000 a year of passive income (£600,000 at 4%). The same maths as the app's calculator.

Is this financial advice?

No. The fund notes explain what each vehicle is. They aren't recommendations. Do your own research before investing real money.

iPhone?

In progress. Android is live now.

Who made it?

One developer, building in public on YouTube. Bugs and fund requests: contact@paxiimus.com.

Year 23

The tree pays you.

Plant one. Thirty seconds, no sign-up.

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Year 01% to FIRE
£10,000 £1k/mo · 7% · target £24k/yr