Calca 4+

Advanced symbolic calculator

Krueger Systems, Inc.

    • 4.7 • 25 Ratings
    • £4.99

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Description

Calca is a powerful symbolic calculator that updates as you type giving you instant answers. It solves equations and simplifies complex expressions. It's also a rich Markdown text editor so that you can explain your ideas alongside your calculations.

Calca is perfect for professionals and students - anyone who works with numbers and equations. Variables and functions can be created with only a few keystrokes and can be manipulated with a rich library of operators and functions.

Calca updates as you type - just like a spreadsheet. You can declare variables, edit their values and watch everything update before your eyes. Since everything is calculated on the device - no network needed - you get answers instantaneously.

All calculations are stored as plain text so you can easily share them with other editors and move them from device to device. Calca has been designed to work with iCloud documents so all your devices can access your calculations - you'll always have the latest files ready for viewing and editing.

Calca comes with a suite of examples to help you get started covering topics from home mortgages to kinetics. All these examples are fully explained within Calca itself.

Are you still using a desktop calculator? Are you using the silly calculator with the giant buttons that came with your OS? Computers are much more capable than doing simple one-line arithmetic - put your machine to work with Calca!

Calculation Features:

• Variables `x = 42`
• Functions `f(c) = 9/5*c + 32` and even recursive functions
• Units `42 mph in kmph` and currency `¥599 in $`
• Solves equations (`x + 2x + 4x = 42`, what is x?)
• Matrices with inverses so you can solve linear equations
• Sum, prod, map, and reduce operations on lists, matrices, and ranges
• Trigonometry and complex numbers
• Derivatives of functions
• Logic operations and if statements
• Binary math (& and |) and support for binary and hex number (`0xA9` and `0b1010`)
• Keeps track of units (m, s, m/s, m/s^2, etc.) so you can verify your equations as you compute

Please visit http://calca.io to see lots of examples. Thank you for looking!

What’s New

Version 1.5.3

* FIX: round() function in version 1.5.2

Previous changes:
* FIX: Switching between dark and light mode now renders text properly
* FIX: Numbers without leading 0s are now supported with currency and in cultures that use , as the decimal separator
* FIX: Indentation commands and cursor movements when hitting Return in an answer
* NEW: Solutions can now be saved to a new function using the `solve` function:

y = m*x + b
z = solve(x) => y/m - b/m
z => y/m - b/m

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
25 Ratings

25 Ratings

Entro-P ,

Remarkable

I’ve been using Calca to work out how to calibrate various sensors. It is remarkable how I can quickly try different methods and see the results on a graph. This alone saves so much time compared to using a spreadsheet or reams of paper. The cherry on the cake is that I can put the markdown document straight into our design file for others to see my thinking.

tim63 ,

great, but abandoned

several features beginning to rot (e.g. the ability to have google look up a value has been broken for 5 years, and still documented as working in the help, which hasn't been updated in that long.

So, if you can use a neat light-weight text based symbolic graphing calculator then buy it (and pehaps Soulver 3 as well, which is actively maintained). Calca's still easily worth the $5.

Just be aware Calca sadly didn't earn the developer enough money to pay for improvements. Partly Apple's fault, as search on the app store is so weak, most people can't find good products amid the 100s of thousands of games and calculator clones :-(

Guy-Bart ,

Incredibly useful

This is the best app for embedding calculations within markdown formatted text, i.e. the best of note taking (markdown) combined with one of the best, stand-alone (no internet connection required), simple-to-use, unit-friendly, and very powerful mathematics engines. Very impressed! Please do keep improving this magnificient app. There is simply no equivalent out there.

App Privacy

The developer, Krueger Systems, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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