Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows


Freemat is described as '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 Systems, but is Open Source' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Freemat for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Freemat alternative is GNU Octave, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Freemat are MATLAB, SageMath, Mathematica and Spyder.

