Features
Everything in one app, the way Canadian retirement works.
After-tax income per person, modelled using current Canadian federal and provincial tax rules. Ask by voice or text and get answers from your own numbers. Nothing held back. No add-ons. No upsells.
Your plan
One number, after tax.
What you will actually have each month in retirement, what your plan needs, and how far apart those two are. Everything else on this page exists to move these numbers.
Your plan
Dean & Mary
$7,888/mo
your income in retirement after taxes
your plan needs $8,450/mo, $562/mo more than this
Your savings cover the difference every year, funded through to 90.
When can you retire?
The question behind every other one.
Pick any retirement age from today to 75 and TruePath answers with your own numbers: whether the plan survives it, the most you could spend, and what reaches your family at the end.
When can you retire?
Dean & MaryAs early as 59that is today
The earliest age Dean can retire and still cover the full $5,320/mo, with savings lasting to 90. Drag the marker to compare any age.
27 yrs
Years in retirement
$4.3M
Estate at 90
Retire at 63 and your plan could carry up to about $6,750/mo of spending, against the $5,320/mo you plan, funded through your plan age of 90.
The earliest age that actually works. The first age your savings still cover the full monthly need, for each person.
Every other age, side by side. Drag the years and watch the spending ceiling, estate and run-dry age move together.
Honest about the years that fail. Ages that leave you short are greyed out, with the age the money runs dry.
Staggered retirements handled. One can stop while the other works. The plan prices the overlap.
Where your money comes from
Multiple income streams, two tax calculations.
A bank calculator gives you one household number before tax. Retirement income does not arrive that way: it comes from CPP, OAS, a pension, an RRIF, a TFSA and whatever sits outside registered accounts, and each spouse is taxed on their own.
Where your money comes from
Dean & MaryTaxed separately, the way Canada actually does it.
Dean
Retiring at 63
Mary
Retiring at 61
Every stream, named and dated. CPP, OAS, pensions, RRIF, TFSA and non-registered, each with its start age.
Per spouse, not per household. Two calculations, combined at the end. The lower earner's room is the whole reason withdrawal order and splitting matter.
Before tax and what you keep. On the same row, so the gap between them is impossible to miss.
Start ages you control. Move CPP or OAS and every downstream year re-runs, clawback included.
Test different return rates
What if the markets do not cooperate?
Pick a return rate and the whole plan re-runs in front of you. The stress test is the one worth sitting with: the same plan at 2% still reaches 90, but it finishes with almost nothing left over.
Test different return rates
SusanPick a rate and the whole plan updates: net worth, income, taxes and plan health. The one you leave selected becomes your assumption.
At 4% the savings fund every year through to 90.
Four rates, one tap apart. Stress test, Baseline, Strong and Optimistic. The axis is labelled every time it moves, so a rescale between scenarios is never hidden from you.
Told in words, not just bars. When a rate runs your savings dry, the card names the age it happens, rather than leaving you to read it off a chart.
Split by account. RRSP and RRIF, TFSA and non-registered, drawn separately, so you can watch the registered money go first and the tax-free pool last.
The rate you leave becomes your plan. No separate settings screen. Choose the assumption you believe and every other number on the page follows it.
Net worth projection
See when the money could get tight.
A year-by-year picture of your investments, real estate and liabilities through retirement. Spot the dip before it surprises you, and stress-test your plan against four market scenarios.
Net worth projection
SusanHow your assets and debts may evolve through retirement.
Today's dollars: what these amounts would buy now, after stripping out 2.5% inflation.
The mortgage clears at 70 and the savings hold to the end of the plan. The orange keeps growing either way, which is why net worth alone never tells you whether the spendable half is safe.
Year-by-year projection. Watch your net worth move from today through your planning age. Estimated returns, inflation and withdrawal rates baked in.
Savings goals for big purchases. A vehicle, a roof, a trip, a second property. Set the amount and the year, pick the account that pays for it, and watch it move through the projection. An RRSP-funded goal is grossed up for the tax.
Stress-test to optimistic market scenarios. Four market outcome lines on one chart, Stress test, Baseline, Strong and Optimistic, show you the range of possibilities so you can see how resilient your plan is across them.
Real estate vs investments. Sees your home as an asset but not as spendable income. Tracks the difference clearly so you know what is actually spendable.
Today's dollars or future dollars. Toggle between nominal values and inflation-adjusted purchasing power so the numbers mean something real to you.
Spending plan
Build a realistic retirement spending budget.
Most tools ask for one monthly income target. TruePath breaks your retirement spending into essentials, lifestyle and irregular costs so you can see what your number is built on and which levers to pull if it needs adjusting.
Your spending through retirement
SusanEverything your plan spends each year. The mortgage drops off at payoff, time-bounded costs show up as steps, and a diamond marks a one-time gift.
What these amounts would buy today.
The mortgage clears at 70, long-term care starts at 80 and travel winds down after it. A single flat spending number would hide every one of those.
Essential costs. Housing, food, utilities, transportation, healthcare and insurance. The non-negotiables that anchor your plan.
Lifestyle spending. Travel, hobbies, dining out and family support. The things that make retirement worth having. Toggle each on or off to see the impact.
Irregular and future costs. Long-term care, one-time gifts and emergencies. Modeled so they don't catch you off guard when they arrive.
Live plan status. Add or remove a spending item and your plan status updates instantly. Green means you're covered. Red shows how much ground there is to close.
Tax strategy
After-tax income is just the start.
After-tax monthly income for each person, every year of retirement, under current tax and benefit rules. Then the levers that change it: withdrawal order, which bracket each dollar lands in, RRSP versus TFSA, and the OAS clawback.New to these terms? Free plain-English explainers: the OAS clawback, CPP timing and RRIF minimums.
RRSP or TFSA?
Which account fits Dean’s next dollar?
Most people use both. An RRSP wins when the tax you save now beats the tax you pay later.
Tax saved now
43%
into an RRSP
Tax later
30%
your marginal rate then
RRSP is about 13% ahead per dollar
$4,341
back at tax time, and about $1,376 ahead of a TFSA once the retirement tax is paid
- The refund only stays ahead if you invest or use it, not spend it.
- Contributions count for this tax year until 60 days into the next.
- An RRSP is a container, not an investment. Cash left inside does not grow.
Withdrawal order, compared. All three orders on screen at once, each with its lifetime tax and how long the savings last. The lowest-tax and longest-lasting are labelled as exactly that. Pick one and the plan re-simulates.
OAS clawback protection. Flags the year the clawback starts, prices what it costs, and shows the TFSA withdrawals that would keep you under the threshold.
Pension splitting, quantified. Where splitting eligible pension income would cut your combined bill, the saving is shown with the dollars attached. It is never applied without you.
Property tax deferral, where it exists. Some provinces let older homeowners defer property tax against the home. TruePath models the real programs, British Columbia from 55 and Alberta from 65, and shows what the estate repays.
CPP timing, compared. CPP at 60, 65 or 70 side by side, in after-tax dollars, with the breakeven age and the monthly difference spelled out.
Legacy and estate
Plan what you leave behind. Before it becomes someone else's problem.
Without a spouse to roll it over to, an RRSP is generally taxed in full on the final return. TruePath shows what actually reaches your family, line by line: the final tax bill, probate, the wishes you want honoured and whether the estate can even pay its own bill.
Net to your heirs, line by line
One waterfall from your projected estate to what your family actually keeps: debt, the final tax return, probate at your province's rates, second-property capital gains, life insurance added and planned gifts paid out. Every line visible, nothing netted silently.
The wishes you want honoured
Set a funeral budget, charitable bequests and gifts for the people you love. They are paid from the estate before the remainder reaches your heirs, so what matters to you is never cut first.
Will there be enough life insurance?
Where a beneficiary is named, a registered account can pass outside the estate while the tax bill stays with it. TruePath checks whether the estate's cash covers tax, debt and probate, and flags a shortfall that would force a sale.
The right documents for your province
Named the way a local lawyer would, across all 13 provinces and territories: Ontario's Power of Attorney for Property, Quebec's Protection Mandate, BC's Representation Agreement. Each carries the hand-off details.
Spend it well
How much is the money for?
Most plans answer one question: does the money last? That never asks what you wanted it for. Name the estate you would rather leave and TruePath solves the trade for you.
Spend it well
Dean & MaryWhat is this money for?
Your plan leaves about $4.3M at 90. Choose what you would like to leave behind and see what the rest could fund.
I would like to leave behind
today’s plan $4.3M
Extra you could spend
+$580/mo
spending target $5,900/mo in today’s dollars
Lifetime tax
$347K
+$50K vs today’s plan, from larger withdrawals
If you live past 90
Savings last to
your plan runs to 90; living longer is the risk this trades on
Spend more, every month. Leave $3.7M instead of $4.3M and this plan funds $580 more a month, every month.
Or retire sooner instead. The same trade priced the other way: how many years earlier you could stop.
Your home is the floor. Savings run down, the house does not. Going below it means moving.
Floored, never flattered. Every figure rounds down, so the number is one the plan can actually carry.
Seen enough? Put your own numbers in.
Everything above runs on your figures in about fifteen minutes. Fourteen days free, and you leave with a clear answer either way.
Card collected at signup, nothing charged until day 14.
Plan health
A score that shows its working.
One number out of 100, built from four checks you can see. It is a score, not a probability. Rather than compress your plan into a single odds figure, TruePath shows you the scenarios and lets you judge the range yourself.
Plan health
SusanYour plan at a glance. Select any bar to learn more.
Income coverage
Tax efficiency
Debt position
Longevity buffer
Plan completeness
How are these scored?
Four checks, all visible. Income coverage, tax efficiency, debt position and longevity buffer, each scored. When the total moves, you can see which check moved it.
Completeness sets the ceiling. Defaults cannot score like your real numbers, so completeness caps the score. The app names the exact inputs still missing.
Your path to the next band. The moves that would lift your score on your numbers, each priced in points, plus what they are worth applied together.
What if...?
Try the questions that scare you. Safely.
More than forty ready-made Canadian scenarios, grouped the way the app groups them, plus your own in plain words. Nothing changes in your plan unless you choose to keep it.
What if...?
Safe to explore. Nothing changes in your plan unless you choose it.
When you retire, and when you turn CPP, OAS and your savings into income.
Or ask your own scenario
Ready-made, and Canadian. Snowbird winters, a lower-tax province, delaying CPP, selling the cottage.
Run against your numbers. Real costs and CRA rules, not a generic illustration.
The full impact, honestly. Monthly gap, after-tax income and net worth, before and after.
Nothing changes unless you say so. Save it, try another, or hand it to Ask TruePath. Your plan stays put.
Ask TruePath
Answers on call, any time you ask.
Ask anything about your retirement in your own words and get an answer worked out from your own numbers. Plain English, educational only, never product sales.
Ask TruePath
Can I retire two years early?
Yes. Retiring at 63 instead of 65 still covers your $3,680/mo spending plan, and your savings last to 95, five years past your plan. The trade-off is two fewer years of saving: the most the plan could carry drops from $4,250 to $3,800 a month, and what reaches your family at 90 goes from $1.88M to $1.54M.
Want me to show what delaying CPP to 70 would give back?
Yes, please
Ask TruePath anything...
Plain-English answers. No jargon. No pages of disclaimers. Straight answers that match your specific numbers and stage of life.
Knows your full plan. Your RRSP and TFSA balances, your CPP and OAS estimates, your pensions and debts, all in context. It sees what you see.
Educational, not advice. We are clear: this is general education, not personalised financial advice. We have no financial products to sell you, and no commissions to earn.
Try before you commit. Available the moment you sign up. Use it during your trial. Decide if it adds value before you ever pay.
Voice and accessibility
A Canadian retirement tool you can talk to.
Every input has a microphone. Speak your question and Ask TruePath answers in writing, with a link to the exact screen if you decide to change something. Built for people who learn by talking, not by squinting at spreadsheets.
Voice input everywhere
Mic icon on every field and every chat. Talk through your numbers like a conversation, not a form.
Answers that point the way
Every Ask TruePath answer about a change ends with a link to the screen where you make it. You stay in control of every edit.
Built for accessibility
16-point minimum body text, strong colour contrast and full keyboard navigation. Built for everyone, however comfortable you are with apps.
Calm, non-judgmental tone
Plain language. Never alarmist. Honest about trade-offs. Designed for the question that keeps you up at night.
Education savings
RESP planning for the kids, or the grandkids.
An opt-in card on your plan for households with education to fund. Turn it on in Settings and TruePath projects each child's Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP), the government grants they earn and the monthly amount that fully funds the goal.
Education savings (RESP)
Save $590/moTo fully fund Bob and Sally’s education, save $590/mo
Contributions up to $417/mo earn the 20% grant; the rest covers the remaining cost.
Save $590/moProjected RESP balance
A shortfall shows a decade early, while there is still time to close it.
Every grant dollar counted. Ottawa matches 20% of RESP contributions through the CESG, up to $500 a year and $7,200 per child. Each child's grant is tracked separately, because each earns on their own contributions.
Catch-up room included. Started late? Unused CESG room carries forward, and contributions can earn up to $1,000 of grant a year until the room is used. The projection models the catch-up automatically.
The number that funds it. Tuition is projected to each child's actual school years, with education costs growing 2.5% a year, then solved backward into one monthly contribution that fully funds the goal.
Coverage by school year. A year-by-year table shows what is available against each child's costs, for family or individual plans, so a shortfall is visible a decade early instead of at enrolment.
Privacy and output
Your data stays yours. Your plan is portable.
No bank linking, ever. Canadian-stored. Encrypted. And when you want to share or print your plan, we make it easy.
No bank or brokerage links
You enter your numbers yourself. We never connect to or scrape any external account. Period.
Canadian data residency
Your plan data is encrypted at rest and in transit and stored on Canadian servers. Payments, email, the AI assistant and voice input use service providers outside Canada; the privacy policy lists each one and what it receives.
PDF plan export
Download your full plan as a clean PDF to keep, share or hand to a planner of your own.
Cancel any time
Stop paying the day it stops being useful. Your data is exportable. Leaving is never hard.
Why TruePath
How TruePath compares.
The usual options each leave a gap. Here is what they miss, and what TruePath does instead.
Bank calculators
One pre-tax household number. Pointed at their own products.
Spreadsheets
Hours of work. Easy to break. No real tax modelling.
Financial advisor
$2,000+ a year. Often tied to assets under management.
TruePath
Everything in one Canadian retirement plan.
$289 a year, for one person or two. 14 days free, cancel any time.
- After-tax income for each person, not one household guess
- Withdrawal sequencing and OAS clawback modelled to CRA rules
- What if...? life changes, voice input and answers from your own numbers
Your retirement plan, kept current as life changes.
Fourteen days free. Start fast. Keep refining as your real life moves. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you pay nothing.