382 Like Wolfram Alpha Good alternative? YES NO Wolfram Alpha is a "Computational Knowledge Engine" - different from a search engine, it answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from... Freemium Web Android iPhone Windows Phone iPad Kindle Fire Built-in search engine Add a feature
158 Like MATLAB Good alternative? YES NO MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language. Maintained by The MathWorks, MATLAB allows easy matrix manipulation, plotting of functions and... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Embedded debugger Add a feature
144 Like R (programming language) Alternative? YES NO R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
114 Like Sage Good alternative? YES NO Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Symbolic Computation Add a feature
142 Like GNU Octave Good alternative? YES NO Octave is a computer program for performing numerical computations which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
119 Like Mathematica Good alternative? YES NO Mathematica is a computational software program used widely in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web Calculus solving Symbolic Computation Add a feature
75 Like Scilab Good alternative? YES NO Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
36 Like Spyder Good alternative? YES NO Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a free open-source Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and light-weighted software, available... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
36 Like Julia Good alternative? YES NO Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Parallel Computing Add a feature
55 Like Maxima Good alternative? YES NO Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Symbolic Computation Add a feature
43 Like wxMaxima Good alternative? YES NO wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima uses wxWidgets and runs natively on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. wxMaxima provides... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
36 Like python(x,y) Good alternative? YES NO Python(x,y) is a free scientific and engineering development software for numerical computations, data analysis and data visualization based on Python programming... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
36 Like Maple Good alternative? YES NO Maple is a general-purpose commercial computer algebra system. Users can enter mathematics in traditional mathematical notation. Custom user interfaces can also be... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
36 Like Microsoft Mathematics Alternative? YES NO Microsoft Mathematics is a desktop graphing calculator that can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. Microsoft Mathematics... Free Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.0, released in January 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.
14 Like Freemat Good alternative? YES NO FreeMat is an environment for rapid engineering and scientific processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks and IDL from Research... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2, released in June 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge
