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Earth pressure related problems are one of the important topics of research in the area of geotechnical engineering to solve problems like retaining walls, ground anchors etc. Very often in the construction of building or bridges it is necessary to retain earth in a relatively vertical position whenever embankments are involved in the construction. The retaining material on the higher level exerts a force on retaining wall may causes its overturning, sliding, bearing etc. A retaining wall is massive structure so it is necessary to design and check stability of retaining wall analytically as well by software as per IS:456-2000. The calculation of wall dimension of particular earth retaining problem require several runs of analysis and thus computer application is desirable. The present research deals with evaluation of cantilever retaining wall by comparison of Excel worksheet & softwares Geo-5, RetainPro & RETWALL for single layered homogeneous ? soil backfill with and without ground water table. The MS-Excel Spreadsheet is to be prepared to carry out stability analysis. The analysis of Retaining wall can be done by using various static earth pressure theories such as Rankine, Coulomb's. Factory of safety against sliding, overturning and base pressure are satisfied without considering shear key & with provision of shear key.