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Everything you need to cover RetireSmartIRA

Boilerplate, founder bio, downloadable assets, and quick facts — for journalists, bloggers, podcasters, and content creators. Need something not here? Email retiresmartira@gmail.com.

Quick facts

App name

RetireSmartIRA

Current version

1.8.1 (released May 14, 2026)

Platforms

iPhone (iOS 18+), iPad (iPadOS 18+), Mac (macOS 15+)

Price

Free to download

Company

Alamo Ventures Group LLC

Press contact

retiresmartira@gmail.com

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Boilerplate (copy-paste ready)

Short — 1 sentence

RetireSmartIRA is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that helps retirees and pre-retirees make this year's tax decisions — Roth conversions, RMDs, IRMAA, ACA cliffs, Social Security claiming, and charitable timing — with full visibility into what each one costs.

Long — 1 paragraph

RetireSmartIRA is a native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app built for retirees and pre-retirees who want to understand the annual tax decisions that shape their long-term wealth. While most retirement planning tools answer "Can I retire?", RetireSmartIRA answers "What should I do this year?" — modeling Roth conversions, IRA withdrawals, Medicare IRMAA tiers, ACA subsidy cliffs, Social Security claiming, RMDs, QCDs, and charitable timing in one integrated engine. The app reflects every interaction (state tax, NIIT, SALT cap, surviving-spouse bracket) in real time so users can see what each decision actually costs across federal tax, state tax, and Medicare premiums. RetireSmartIRA stores all financial data on-device — no cloud accounts, no data harvesting. The app was built by John Urban, co-founder of GTNexus (now InforNexus), trusted by the world's largest global supply chains.

Founder

John Urban, founder of RetireSmartIRA

John Urban

Founder, RetireSmartIRA

John Urban is the founder of RetireSmartIRA. He was co-founder of GTNexus (now InforNexus), trusted by the world's largest global supply chains. Two decades of building mission-critical enterprise software taught him that the hardest problems are the ones where a dozen variables interact in non-obvious ways.

He built RetireSmartIRA after years of managing his own retirement tax planning on spreadsheets and the backs of napkins — every December figuring out this year's Roth conversion, this year's charitable gift, this year's estimated taxes. The existing retirement tools showed him a 30-year picture, but not the annual decisions that actually shape it.

Downloadable assets

All assets are licensed for editorial / press use. Please credit RetireSmartIRA / Alamo Ventures Group LLC.

Complete press kit

33 marketing screenshots (iPad / iPhone / Mac) + app icon + founder headshot + README. ZIP, ~23 MB.

App icon

1024×1024 PNG, transparent corners, ready for App Store / feature article use.

Founder headshot

John Urban, founder. 1200×1800 JPG.

Live screenshots

Want to see the app in context? The full landing page showcase has 11 interactive screens across all three platforms, click-to-enlarge.

Reviews you can quote

Verified App Store reviews. Quote freely, please attribute.

Tools like Boldin help with long-term retirement planning, but leave a hole when trying to see the impact of competing financial decisions for a single year. RetireSmartIRA uses sliders and graphs to show benefits and tradeoffs of different contributions, conversions, and withdrawals.
RP C510 · App Store · v1.8
It even helped identify a flaw in a homemade spreadsheet I had made for the same questions.
Kaveat Emptor · App Store · v1.8
Gave me insights and guidance I would not have clued into anywhere else. Best tool I have in the toolbox for retirement planning.
GregorJames · App Store · v1.6

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Press inquiries

Interview requests, fact-checks, custom screenshots, or anything else you need.

retiresmartira@gmail.com

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