Calculators

Six tools that do real arithmetic

Everything here runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing needs an account, and every assumption is written on the page that uses it, including where it stops being reliable. That last part matters more than usual on a site like this: some of these questions touch health, and a tool that pretends to more certainty than it has would be worse than no tool.

Tip calculator

What to add at the desk, worked from the full menu price rather than whatever discount you booked at. Handles gift certificates, membership credits and the service charge that some spas have already added without telling you.

Use it: In the car park, thirty seconds before you go in.

Membership break-even

Monthly membership against paying per visit, over any period, with unused rolled-over credits counted rather than quietly ignored and the minimum commitment priced.

Use it: Before you sign anything at the front desk while still in a robe.

Massage style finder

Six questions about your goal, the area, the pressure you want and how you feel about undressing, scored across twelve modalities. Gives you the one to ask for and the sentence to say.

Use it: Before a first booking, and any time the last massage was not what you wanted.

Sauna and plunge planner

A contrast circuit built from the heat source, your actual experience level and the time you have. Errs short on purpose, and states the safety limits instead of implying them.

Use it: The first few times at a recovery studio, before you invent your own protocol.

Budget planner

The annual cost of your booking rhythm with the invisible money included - tips, retail at the desk, parking - and the three levers that change the total, each one priced.

Use it: Once a year, or the first time the credit card statement is a surprise.

License board lookup

The regulator for every state, the four states with no statewide massage license at all, and the questions that actually work when there is no register to search.

Use it: Before a first appointment anywhere, and always before anything medical.

Looking for a studio instead? Browse the directory by state, or read the booking and treatment guides.