VA disability calculator and claim filing app for veterans
Calculate your combined VA rating, read the 38 CFR criteria behind each condition, find the conditions and benefits that apply to you, and keep your evidence in order until you file.
No phone handy? Use the free rating calculator in your browser.
40,000+ downloads. Your data stays on your device.
One app with two names: VA Ready on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Vet Ready on Android. It runs natively on Mac and fills the screen on iPad and Android tablets.
See the 38 CFR criteria behind each rating
VA Ready shows the 38 CFR break points for all 765 conditions, every 38 CFR diagnostic code cross-referenced, so you can see why a condition sits at 30 and not 50, using the same criteria your rater reads.
This is an educational tool. It shows you the criteria and does the math. It does not predict what the VA will award you.
Building your claim in the app
- Add conditions from the 15 most-claimed list or search the VA’s full rating schedule.
- Select your estimated rating, or match your symptoms to the full CFR criteria Pro
- The bilateral factor applies on its own for paired extremity conditions under 38 CFR 4.26. Eye and ear conditions stay single, with no left and right split.
- What-If stacks a possible claim, such as a 30% secondary condition, onto your rating with the same rating engine and shows the new combined rating and payment.
- TDIU and P&T math at the 100% pay rate. TDIU separates granted from applying for it, so a pending claim never prints as a rating you hold.
- Most Special Monthly Compensation levels replace your schedular rate. SMC-K adds on top.
- Bilateral flat feet counts as one rating, because 38 CFR rates it as a single condition covering both feet.
The web calculator Free
Combine your ratings with the VA’s math and see your 2026 monthly pay in your browser, no download needed.
Ratings and reviews
out of 5 on the App Store from 600+ ratings, and 4.6 with nearly 100 reviews on Google Play
★★★★★“I entered all of my ailments, and it calculated the exact same rating that the VA certified me for. That gave me a lot of confidence in its accuracy. I also love supporting veteran-owned businesses… I highly recommend this app to any veteran who wants to better understand their VA rating or estimate their benefits.”
Kimberly Marin · Google Play · Jul 23, 2026
★★★★★Recent Updates“The ability to document your evidence, make notations, and review your conditions with periodic updates and comments solidifies this app as the best app there is for viewing, preparing, and filing VA Disability Compensation Claims. Worth way more than the cost of the lifetime subscription.”
ChubbyButFunny · App Store · Aug 21
★★★★★Most detailed“This app is it. The one that hits every function of a claim. Not only just conditions. But what I was missing out on by MOS.”
DanielJ87 · App Store · Apr 12
★★★★★“Love this app! I didn’t know that I had so many benefits in my state. Free license plate and tax exemptions!! Thank you!!”
Carmen Umbria · Google Play · Apr 29, 2026
★★★★☆“4.5 as it is. But this app is a 5/5 for potential. Even if you know all this information, it’s a great repository.”
Ryan Kielty · Google Play · Jul 28, 2026
★★★★★Life changer“This app is great. Tracks all your claims and helps you making sure you do not forget any appointments along the road. Definitely download it if you are about to separate / retire from the Military.”
TreborG89 · App Store · Apr 22
Reviews appear as veterans left them on the App Store and Google Play, four-star ones included. We did not ask for them or pay for them. The calculator gives an estimate. What the VA awards depends on your evidence and your exam.
How it works
Enter your service history, rate each condition, check Claim Intel, attach evidence, and export the summary you use on VA.gov. Everything you enter stays on your device.
Service history by period
Record each period you served with its dates, its component and the MOS you held during it. The same MOS can belong to more than one period. The VA applies different rules to Active, Reserve and Guard time under 38 CFR 3.6, and a rep cannot apply them to one collapsed date range, so each export prints your service history as separate line items.
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Still serving
A Service Status control works out where you are from your separation date, and you can override it either way. The Filing tab then becomes a runway with five stages: get complaints into your service treatment record, chase down missing diagnoses, pull your records while you still have base access, the BDD window from 180 to 90 days out, and a standard pre-discharge claim under 90 days. Your service treatment record freezes the day you sign out.
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BDD screener
Five questions cover the situations the VA handles outside the BDD program, so you know which path is yours. BDD moves the wait to the months before you separate. The decision comes no faster.
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Reserve and Guard periods
Annual Training can service connect a disease. A drill weekend generally covers injury only. The free duty-status check on this site shows which rule applied to each period you served, under 38 CFR 3.6.
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Collateral duties
Save the collateral duties you held, such as SERE, Auxiliary Security Force, Detainee Operations, Drill Sergeant and Airborne, and they print on your claim summary, VSO packet and exposure profile. A collateral duty can carry exposures and claimable conditions your primary MOS does not imply, and your VSO only asks about duties you list.
Conditions linked to your job and where you served
Claim Intel Pro
Claim Intel merges the conditions tied to your MOS, your PACT Act presumptives and your exposures into one ranked list.
- Add secondary and prior roles if you held more than one MOS, and the conditions merge across each job.
- PACT Act presumptive matching, with a presumptive-paths badge on each condition's evidence checklist.
- Tap a condition to see why it is on your list: the source MOS, the exposures that surfaced it, and the citation.
- Tap to add it to your claim. The app warns you about pyramiding before it lands.
- 1,098 MOS, AFSC, rating and designator profiles across all six branches, 213 legacy codes included
- 89 additional-duty profiles: Airborne, Ranger, Pararescue, Combat Controller, MARSOC, Navy SEAL, USCG MSRT, Space Force operators and more
The Exposure Calculator Free Pro
Add the bases you served at and the ships, aircraft and vehicles you worked on. The list of presumptive conditions you may be eligible for grows as you add each one.
Navy nuclear ratings are split between submarine and surface: Machinist’s Mate, Electrician’s Mate and Electronics Technician (Nuclear) each come as MMN-SS, MMN-SW and so on, with their own exposure profile. Engineering Laboratory Technician (ELT), Engineering Watch Supervisor and Nuclear Welder are there as additional duties.
148 aircraft are mapped to their exposures, including the MV-22 Osprey, F-35 and KC-46. The ground fleet covers the HMMWV, MRAP, JLTV and LAV.
- 827 bases tracked: DoD PFAS and EPA Superfund sites, stateside and overseas, and PACT countries
- 56 cited exposures, each tied to VA.gov, 38 CFR, ATSDR or congress.gov
Keep your evidence by condition
A rater and a C&P examiner assess frequency and severity over time, and one exam captures one day. VA Ready labels each document and keeps it with the condition it supports.
Scan paper with the camera, snap a photo, or import a PDF. Each document gets a label that matches the VA’s own document types, a date, and the condition it supports.
Log severity and what it stopped you doing, per condition and side. Tap any entry to view, correct or remove it; the app asks first, because your log is evidence. The 30-day grid, average, days logged and worst day show an examiner what one appointment cannot. Text export is free; PDF export is Pro.
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Evidence checklist
Diagnosis, service records, nexus letter, buddy statements and DBQ review for each condition. Check them off as you gather them, and the claim readiness score shows your evidence completion percentage across all conditions.
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Claim Journal Free
The Claim Journal keeps a dated, searchable record of your timeline, evidence and conditions, including the nexus letter you gathered and never sent, with a yearly reminder to review it.
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C&P exam answers Pro
The rating criteria ask how you are on an average day and a bad one. Answer the questions at your kitchen table: how it started, how often flare-ups hit and how long they last, what a good day looks like. An examiner is not required to accept papers at the exam, so submit your answers on a VA Form 21-4138 beforehand if you want them in your file.
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Buddy statements
Samples show the format only, because the witness must use their own words, and list the qualities the Board of Veterans’ Appeals credited, with citations.
Peer-reviewed studies for each condition
Open a condition in My Claim to see its studies, with the journal, year, key findings and a PubMed link. The library holds 2,403 studies from PubMed and the NIH across 395 diagnostic codes, from PTSD, tinnitus, back and knee to the cancers presumptive under PACT and Agent Orange, and newer coverage of Parkinson’s disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, asbestosis and TBI-related dementia. Each reference matches a record in the live National Library of Medicine database. Pro
VA ratings by condition →Evidence Pack Pro
From a condition’s studies sheet, tap Share for a printable PDF of its studies to bring to your C&P exam, hand to your VSO, or attach to your claim. Your Claim Summary PDF ends with the same evidence appendix.
Filing
Based on your separation date, the app tells you where you are in the VA process and what to do next. You still upload on VA.gov yourself, or a free accredited VSO files for you.
Eight plain steps in the order most first claims go, from a free accredited VSO and an Intent to File to the C&P exam. Steps tick themselves off as you do them.
One tap builds a dated folder per condition: your records, signed buddy statements and symptom logs, each file named with the document type to pick on VA.gov. You still do the upload yourself.
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Export Center New in 3.0 Pro
Pick who the PDF is for: your VSO, your C&P examiner, your doctor for a nexus letter, or yourself to print. The app ticks the sections that person usually needs and builds one PDF with a cover page, a contents list and numbered pages, so a rep can turn to a section instead of shuffling paper. Sending documents out is part of Pro.
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VSO Packet Builder Pro
Your rep has twenty minutes and no view into your notes. Build one numbered PDF with your conditions and ratings, the criteria level you selected, where your evidence stands, presumptives from your bases, ships, aircraft and vehicles, your symptom log summary, your exam answers, and your journal with gathered-but-unsent evidence flagged. The cover lists each service period with its branch and component, so your rep can apply 38 CFR 3.6.
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Filing timeline
Your BDD window, presumptive period and days since separation, an 11-step claim status tracker from “Preparing” to “Decision Made”, action checklists for your filing phase, and C&P exam preparation covering what the examiner will ask.
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Claim Navigator
Tell the app where you are, and the Claim Navigator lists the steps from “getting ready to file” to “decision made” for a new claim, a secondary condition, a PACT Act exposure or a rating increase. Compare filing paths before you start, see the usual wait at each stage, and save or share the plan with your VSO.
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Filing guides
60 filing guides, from Intent to File, BDD, C&P Exam Prep, Nexus Letters, Appeals and the PACT Act to five on the VA moving against an existing rating: proposed reductions, protected ratings (the 5-, 10-, and 20-year rules), total-disability protections, Clear and Unmistakable Error (CUE), and your due-process rights, each cited to the governing 38 CFR section. The Veteran Readiness and Employment (Chapter 31) guide covers the eligibility window: if you were discharged on or after January 1, 2013, there is no time limit on your eligibility.
VA claim guides →
Benefits at each rating
Tap any rating from 0% to 100% and see the federal and state benefits that come with it. The app loads your projected rating from your claim.
- 32 federal benefits, grouped as healthcare, education, housing, financial and dependents: VR&E, the VA home-loan funding-fee waiver, CHAMPVA, Chapter 35 and more
- 644 state benefits such as property tax exemptions, free plates and tuition waivers, fact-checked to official state sources, for all 50 states, DC and five territories (PR, GU, USVI, AS, CNMI) Pro. The free tier previews Texas.
Each benefit shows Qualified, May qualify or Not eligible, an estimated annual dollar value where one can be calculated, and how to claim it, with agency names and form numbers.
Federal veteran benefits · Veterans benefits by state · VA disability pay rates
Find a free, accredited VSO
An accredited Veterans Service Officer helps you file your claim for free. The finder searches 8,949 accredited offices from the VA’s OGC accreditation list by ZIP, town, county or where you are standing, and sorts them by distance. Call or get directions in a tap.
In the app, My VSO is its own tab, with appointment reminders.
Find a VSO →VSO offices, rated by veterans
Veterans rate the office that handled their claim: 51 reviews so far across 48 accredited offices in 24 states, averaging 4.31 out of 5. Read them before you book the appointment, and report or mute any review in the app.
Read the reviews →VA Ready in the community
Veteran-founded and veteran-run. The latest places we showed up in person.
Two Air Force Vets, One Airplane
Waycross-Ware County Airport, Waycross, GA
Brent and Gabby, married Air Force veterans, took turns at the controls out of Waycross-Ware County Airport with Runway One Nine Aviation.
On the Board for Homecoming
Kirk Warner Field, Hinesville, GA
Our board on the jumbotron at Liberty County High School’s homecoming game, in front of the Fort Stewart families we built this for.
A Full Page in the Panther Guide
Liberty County High School, Hinesville, GA
A full page in the 2026 Panther Guide, the program handed out at every Liberty County home game all season.
Plans and prices
Free covers the full claim flow with no account. Pro adds the full 38 CFR rating criteria, every state’s benefits and Claim Intel.
- VA combined-rating calculator
- TDIU and P&T math at the 100% pay rate
- Auto-saving claim list
- 56 cited exposures with primary sources
- Pyramiding warnings before you add
- 8,949 accredited VSO offices, sorted by distance
- Daily Symptom Tracker with text export
- Federal benefits at every rating tier
- Texas state benefit preview
- Everything in Free
- Full 38 CFR rating criteria on every condition
- Claim Intel: 1,098 MOS / AFSC profiles
- 89 additional-duty profiles, six branches
- All in-depth Filing Guides unlocked
- All 50 states, DC, US territories
- Symptom Tracker PDF export
- One-tap add to claim from Claim Intel
- Unlimited claim milestones
- Everything in Pro Monthly
- One charge per year
- Locked-in pricing for the year
- Renew, switch, or cancel any time
- No renewals and no auto-billing
- All future Pro features at no extra cost
- Available on both iOS and Android
All transactions handled by Apple on iOS and Google Play on Android. Free tier requires no account. Pro purchases sync automatically across devices on the same App Store or Google Play account. Prices in USD.
Common questions
Is VA Ready affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs?
No. VA Ready (iOS) and Vet Ready (Android) are independent products and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. All rating criteria come from publicly available federal regulations (38 CFR).
Is the VA disability calculator free?
Yes. The combined-rating calculator with TDIU and P&T math, your claim list, federal benefits, the accredited VSO finder, and the daily symptom log are free with no account required. Pro unlocks the full 38 CFR rating criteria, all 50 states’ benefits, and Claim Intel.
Why is the app called VA Ready on iOS but Vet Ready on Android?
It’s the same app and the same data. Google Play requires a non-government-sounding name, so the Android release is named Vet Ready while the iOS release is named VA Ready.
Does VA Ready keep my personal information private?
Yes. Your profile, claim list, and reminders stay on your device. There are no user accounts and no cloud sync of personal data. Reference content such as rating criteria and benefits is fetched read-only over an encrypted connection.
What does the Exposure Calculator do?
You add the bases you served at and the ships, aircraft and vehicles you worked on, and it cross-references your service against the PACT Act, Camp Lejeune, AFFF/PFAS, K2, Agent Orange, and other presumptive registries to surface the conditions you may be eligible to claim, each linked to a primary source.
Get the app
Free to download, with no account needed for the free tier.
Follow VA Ready
New presumptives, claim tips and VA updates on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
VA Ready (iOS) and Vet Ready (Android) are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or any government agency. This app does not provide legal or medical advice. All information is based on publicly available VA regulations (38 CFR) and documented best practices. Ratings and benefit estimates are for informational purposes only. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical decisions and a VA-accredited attorney or claims agent for legal counsel.