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> For example, if a user calculates "89 x 15 = 1335" on one calculator and taps the arrow key, the result "1335" will be displayed on the other calculator, allo

by apike 4y ago

> For example, if a user calculates "89 x 15 = 1335" on one calculator and taps the arrow key, the result "1335" will be displayed on the other calculator, allowing the user to continue a problem while the previous equations are still shown on the screen. This makes it easy to notice errors. While the UI is very different, the key benefit described here reminds me a lot of Soulver: https://soulver.app/ https://soulver.app/ I love Soulver for how quickly it lets you throw together quick guesstimates and sanity checks. The ability to incorporate previous results by reference and update those on the fly greatly improves the clarity and my confidence in my experience.

m_eiman 4y ago
I like Soulver, and also Tydlig: http://tydligapp.com/ http://tydligapp.com/
- Y-bar 4y ago
  I love Tydlig! But have not seen a single update in many years now, and there are a few rough edges in iOS 15 I wish they had fixed. Is it abandoned?
nordicio 4y ago
Shameless plug for my app Kalkyl which I just released 3.0 of that adds functionality like this + collaborative editing and sharing, dimensional analysis, arbitrarily complex unit conversions, and possibility to define your own functions. https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kalkyl/id519933025?l=en https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kalkyl/id519933025?l=en
shepherdjerred 4y ago
Oh this looks great! I use Numi but it is a bit too simple. https://github.com/nikolaeu/Numi https://github.com/nikolaeu/Numi
nick0garvey 4y ago
I make heavy use of Soulver. Really quick way to do some quick calculations with good unit conversion. e.g. I can write hosts = 100; disk_space_used = 10MiB/s * hosts * 3 days as TiB And it works as expected. Powerful tool when doing capacity planning or other load calculations.
culturestate 4y ago
I love Soulver, and I hope Zac is at least considering a version for iPad OS. I switched my portable setup from a MacBook to an iPad Pro last year and Soulver is one of a handful of small-but-useful Mac-only apps that I really miss when I’m not at my desk.
- vl 4y ago
  What’s strange is that they used to have Soulver for iPhone/iPad/Mac and then discontinued this version.
donatj 4y ago
I'll need to give Soulver a shot. I use Calca almost every day, and it seems very similar. http://calca.io/ http://calca.io/
- pony_sheared 4y ago
  I loved Calca, paid and used it for years, but it seems to have stopped development and I switched OS... So I ended up falling back to Excel
GranPC 4y ago
A nice alternative for Linux users that I can recommend is NaSC. Unfortunately not very actively maintained, but I'd say it's very much usable: https://github.com/parnold-x/nasc https://github.com/parnold-x/nasc
l1tany11 4y ago
A lot of these apps have really cool features, but what I miss most from my Ti-89 titanium days back in high school was the readability of the input and output formulas. The pretty print feature becomes increasingly useful as computation gets more complex. Adding these natural language features for things like built in dimensional analysis would really take it to the next level (as things like units were a slow pain on the ti). Drawing an integral with limits, fractions, exponents, etc on the screen in normal notation provides much easier error checking when your inputs get longer and contain more and more syntax like commas, parentheses, etc.
- maleko48 4y ago
  Wabbitemu has been my go-to backlit Ti-84 emulator for years on Android. I reach for it before stock calculators every time. :)
- m12k 4y ago
  Have you tried the Wolfram Alpha iOS app? It's my go-to simply because it lets me enter the whole formula, parentheses and all, instead of having to chop it up. But it also pretty-prints the input after you enter it.
- benhurmarcel 4y ago
  I really want to code a calculator app one day that would take input as RPN, but produce an editable pretty print formula instead of just the resulting stack.
etoulas 4y ago
There’s also https://numi.app/ https://numi.app/
Minor49er 4y ago
Every screenshot on the homepage shows an empty window
- phito 4y ago
  They're gifs...
  - Minor49er 4y ago
    Are you suggesting that they're supposed to animate? Because they don't. Edit: No, they aren't even GIFs. They're MP4s. I have to right-click them and select Play to get them to work, probably because I have autoplay disabled in my browser. So they would have worked if they actually were GIFs, incidentally
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insane_dreamer 4y ago
Looks a lot like Numi (https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi), which I've used for years and found to be extremely useful. (In fact, they're so similar, I wonder if one is a riff off the other.) For non-Mac, there's an open-source web app called that's similar and looks nice too (haven't used it much): https://github.com/sharkdp/insect https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
spicybright 4y ago
Plus one for these sorts of apps! I personally use Numi.
wejick 4y ago
I just found vscode extension with similar functionality, I can imagine using this from time to time. saving time of opening spreadsheet https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nortakales.vs-qalc https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nortakal...
gnyman 4y ago
I do think Soulver would be a better choice for many. But it is much more powerful, allowing you to do conversions and labels. So the simplicity of just having two calculators side by side and a fast way to transfer the results is probably exactly what some people need and want. Zero learning curve, just two calculators doing exactly what you expect. I'm always fascinated by apps and programs that does exactly one thing, but does it really well (sometimes referred to as the Unix Philosophy). I feel it's harder to find tools and apps like these nowadays. Not sure if there are less or if they are just harder to find because of the huge number of apps overall. [Edit] Writing this comment actually reminded me of this blog https://onethingwell.org/ https://onethingwell.org/ which highlights software like this. Gonna try to contact the author and see if they want to add this one :-)

by apike 4y ago

m_eiman 4y ago

I like Soulver, and also Tydlig: http://tydligapp.com/ http://tydligapp.com/

Y-bar 4y ago
I love Tydlig! But have not seen a single update in many years now, and there are a few rough edges in iOS 15 I wish they had fixed. Is it abandoned?

nordicio 4y ago

Shameless plug for my app Kalkyl which I just released 3.0 of that adds functionality like this + collaborative editing and sharing, dimensional analysis, arbitrarily complex unit conversions, and possibility to define your own functions. https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kalkyl/id519933025?l=en https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kalkyl/id519933025?l=en

shepherdjerred 4y ago

Oh this looks great! I use Numi but it is a bit too simple. https://github.com/nikolaeu/Numi https://github.com/nikolaeu/Numi

nick0garvey 4y ago

I make heavy use of Soulver. Really quick way to do some quick calculations with good unit conversion. e.g. I can write hosts = 100; disk_space_used = 10MiB/s * hosts * 3 days as TiB And it works as expected. Powerful tool when doing capacity planning or other load calculations.

culturestate 4y ago

I love Soulver, and I hope Zac is at least considering a version for iPad OS. I switched my portable setup from a MacBook to an iPad Pro last year and Soulver is one of a handful of small-but-useful Mac-only apps that I really miss when I’m not at my desk.

vl 4y ago
What’s strange is that they used to have Soulver for iPhone/iPad/Mac and then discontinued this version.

donatj 4y ago

I'll need to give Soulver a shot. I use Calca almost every day, and it seems very similar. http://calca.io/ http://calca.io/

pony_sheared 4y ago
I loved Calca, paid and used it for years, but it seems to have stopped development and I switched OS... So I ended up falling back to Excel

GranPC 4y ago

A nice alternative for Linux users that I can recommend is NaSC. Unfortunately not very actively maintained, but I'd say it's very much usable: https://github.com/parnold-x/nasc https://github.com/parnold-x/nasc

l1tany11 4y ago

A lot of these apps have really cool features, but what I miss most from my Ti-89 titanium days back in high school was the readability of the input and output formulas. The pretty print feature becomes increasingly useful as computation gets more complex. Adding these natural language features for things like built in dimensional analysis would really take it to the next level (as things like units were a slow pain on the ti). Drawing an integral with limits, fractions, exponents, etc on the screen in normal notation provides much easier error checking when your inputs get longer and contain more and more syntax like commas, parentheses, etc.

maleko48 4y ago
Wabbitemu has been my go-to backlit Ti-84 emulator for years on Android. I reach for it before stock calculators every time. :)
m12k 4y ago
Have you tried the Wolfram Alpha iOS app? It's my go-to simply because it lets me enter the whole formula, parentheses and all, instead of having to chop it up. But it also pretty-prints the input after you enter it.
benhurmarcel 4y ago
I really want to code a calculator app one day that would take input as RPN, but produce an editable pretty print formula instead of just the resulting stack.

etoulas 4y ago

There’s also https://numi.app/ https://numi.app/

Minor49er 4y ago

Every screenshot on the homepage shows an empty window

phito 4y ago
They're gifs...
- Minor49er 4y ago
  Are you suggesting that they're supposed to animate? Because they don't. Edit: No, they aren't even GIFs. They're MP4s. I have to right-click them and select Play to get them to work, probably because I have autoplay disabled in my browser. So they would have worked if they actually were GIFs, incidentally

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insane_dreamer 4y ago

Looks a lot like Numi (https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi), which I've used for years and found to be extremely useful. (In fact, they're so similar, I wonder if one is a riff off the other.) For non-Mac, there's an open-source web app called that's similar and looks nice too (haven't used it much): https://github.com/sharkdp/insect https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

spicybright 4y ago

Plus one for these sorts of apps! I personally use Numi.

wejick 4y ago

I just found vscode extension with similar functionality, I can imagine using this from time to time. saving time of opening spreadsheet https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nortakales.vs-qalc https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nortakal...

gnyman 4y ago

I do think Soulver would be a better choice for many. But it is much more powerful, allowing you to do conversions and labels. So the simplicity of just having two calculators side by side and a fast way to transfer the results is probably exactly what some people need and want. Zero learning curve, just two calculators doing exactly what you expect. I'm always fascinated by apps and programs that does exactly one thing, but does it really well (sometimes referred to as the Unix Philosophy). I feel it's harder to find tools and apps like these nowadays. Not sure if there are less or if they are just harder to find because of the huge number of apps overall. [Edit] Writing this comment actually reminded me of this blog https://onethingwell.org/ https://onethingwell.org/ which highlights software like this. Gonna try to contact the author and see if they want to add this one :-)