The economist's everyday toolkit

EconRig

27 tools for economists in one iPhone app — data, charts, regressions, papers, central banks, banking supervision and calculators. Free, non-commercial and built for the community.

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EconRig home screen with module tiles: Chart Builder, Graph Digitizer, Table Scanner, Quick Regression, Data Explorer and Econ News

A free public good for economists

EconRig is a free, non-commercial project built for the economics community — students, researchers, teachers, policy economists and supervisors alike. It exists to make the everyday work of economics a little easier, and to keep good tools open to everyone.

FreeNo price, no subscription, no paywalled features.
No adsNothing is sold or promoted to you.
No accountOpen the app and start working.
No trackingNo analytics or third-party SDKs in the app.
Built for the communityModule ideas and feedback from users shape what comes next.

Yield Curves module showing the euro area AAA curve compared with one month and one year earlier — **Yield curves**US, euro area, Bunds, gilts and Canada — rewind, compare, spot inversions.

Currency Converter converting 100 euros to US dollars with a custom rate and a three-month chart — **Currency converter**ECB reference rates, or the rate your bank actually gave you.

Modules

Build the rig that fits your work

Pick the modules you need, arrange them on your home screen and save different setups as profiles — research, teaching, policy, supervision or the job market.

Data & analysis

Chart Builder

Excel & CSV to clean, exportable charts

Graph Digitizer

Turn a picture of a chart into data

Table Scanner

Regression tables to CSV & LaTeX

Quick Regression

OLS, robust & clustered SEs, LaTeX

Data Explorer

1,600+ IMF & World Bank indicators

FRED

Search, chart & cite 800,000+ series

Research & literature

Econ News

By market, edition and field

New Papers

Fresh research in your field

Seminars

Talks around the world

Calls & Jobs

CfPs, conferences, job ads

Cite It

Scan a title or DOI, get BibTeX

Indicators & central banks

Central Banks

Fed, ECB & Bundesbank at a glance

Release Calendar

CPI, jobs, GDP & rate decisions ahead

Yield Curves

US, euro area, Bund, gilt, Canada

Country Profiles

IMF data and forecasts by country

Macro Ticker

CPI, rates, spreads at a glance

Commodity Monitor

Energy, metals & ags: curves, spreads, shocks

Statement Diff

What changed in the statement?

Banking supervision

Supervision Watch

SSM, EBA, BaFin, Fed, PRA, Basel updates

Capital & Liquidity

Capital stack, MDA, leverage, LCR, stress

Bank Metrics

US bank financials, euro area statistics

Buffer & MDA Sandbox

Buffer stacks, distance-to-MDA, what-ifs

Reference

JEL Codes

Browse codes, classify an abstract

Econometrics

Tests, assumptions, Stata/R/Python

Calculators & models

Calculators

Loans, savings, bonds, NPV, break-even

Currency Converter

ECB rates or your own

Policy Models

Taylor rule, Solow, IS-LM

Works offline

Download everything once, then read data on the train or the plane. Saved data shows its age.

Your markets

Switch between the US, Canada, the EU and its member states, and the UK across the whole app.

Your data stays yours

Datasets, scans and saved items stay on your iPhone. Text recognition runs on the device.

Open sources

Official, openly published data from central banks, statistical offices and international institutions.

Data sources & thanks

EconRig stands on the shoulders of institutions that publish their data openly. It is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Data is shown as published by its sources, without warranty. Nothing in EconRig is investment advice.

Contact

Til Slowik

Creator of EconRig. Feedback, bug reports and ideas for new modules are very welcome.

support@econrig.com