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Calca

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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.

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • iPhone
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  1.  Educational

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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Sync with iCloud

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    POX added Calca as alternative to Scientific Calc and Grapher
    20 days ago
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    POX added Calca as alternative to CalcVerter
    2 months ago
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    POX added Calca as alternative to Blinko
    6 months ago
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    POX added Calca as alternative to Hurmet
    7 months ago
  • hced reviewed Calca  
    7 months ago

    Would definitely rate it 5 stars if if wasn't for the fact it feels a bit sparse in added functionality on Windows, like for instance option to automatically open recent file when starting the app, maybe a dark mode, things like that. As for its core functionality, it's a bad ass app for sure!

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Calca information

  • Developed by

    US flagKrueger Systems, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $5.
  • Alternatives

    31 alternatives listed

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  •   Updated Sep 18, 2020
  •   4.53 avg rating
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Calca, and it has gotten 8 likes

Calca was added to AlternativeTo by samuelt on Aug 21, 2013 and this page was last updated Apr 7, 2021.

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hced
Oct 30, 2022
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Would definitely rate it 5 stars if if wasn't for the fact it feels a bit sparse in added functionality on Windows, like for instance option to automatically open recent file when starting the app, maybe a dark mode, things like that. As for its core functionality, it's a bad ass app for sure!

What is Calca?

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 = 9/5*c + 32 and even recursive functions • 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.

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