Free Maple Alternatives

The best free alternative to Maple is Wolfram Alpha. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Maple and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Maple are SageMath, R (programming language), Spyder and Julia.

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  1. Wolfram Alpha icon
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    Wolfram Alpha is a "Computational Knowledge Engine" - different from a search engine, it answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer.

    59 Wolfram Alpha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
     
  2. SageMath icon
     158 likes

    SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more.

    63 SageMath alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    SageMath vs Maple Comments
    Guest
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    it is free. It combines the abilities of many open source systems. The user interface is fairly simple and easy to learn.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
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    Excellent alternative to Maple and Mathematica for the serious user ; may alleviate Matlab needs (except for dedicated toolboxes, which may or may not have a Python/Sage equivalent). Users need to invest some time in learning Python and some basics of undergraduate mathematics. Not much shiny interface gadgets, but a trove of mathematical gems. Excellent tools for the production of reproducible research/actie documents. Definitely recommended if openness is important.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • SageMath is Free and Open SourceMaple is Paid and Proprietary
    • SageMath is LightweightMaple is not according to our users
  3. 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 Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be consider.

    96 R (programming language) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    R (programming language) vs Maple Comments
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    R does not perform symbolic computations

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • R (programming language) is Free and Open SourceMaple is Paid and Proprietary
    • R (programming language) is Customizable and LightweightMaple is not according to our users
  4. Spyder icon
     71 likes

    Combines advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionalities with data exploration, execution, and visualization capabilities. Expandable using its powerful plugin system and API, providing flexibility for custom integrations.

    48 Spyder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Julia icon
     67 likes

    Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Julia vs Maple Comments
    RemovedUser
    Positive
    1

    Opensource and will lots of math capabilities + jupyter notebooks ecosystem

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Julia is Free and Open SourceMaple is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Maxima icon
     75 likes

    Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors.

    31 Maxima alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Maxima vs Maple Comments
    huunghia160799
    Positive
    1

    I liked it because it is powerful! With the right commands, you can do what you would typically do with Maple.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    1

    Pitty the idea of this program is not as bad as it could be, but it's not even close a match for maple.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Maxima is Free and Open SourceMaple is Paid and Proprietary
  7. fxSolver icon
     60 likes

    Online math solver, equation editor and database, graphing calculator and science/engineering problem helper.

    152 fxSolver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. wxMaxima icon
     52 likes

    wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations.

    41 wxMaxima alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  9. SymPy icon
     31 likes

    SymPy is a Python library for symbolic computation. The stated goals of the library are to become a full-featured computer algebra system and to keep a simple code base to promote extensibility and comprehensibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Calcpad icon
     10 likes

    Calcpad is a lightweight mathematical platform for cloud and desktop. It parses simple text scripts and converts them into professional Html reports. Supports complex numbers, variables, functions, graphing, units and numerical methods.

    45 Calcpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  11. Xcos icon
     17 likes

    Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated.

    98 Xcos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. OpenAxiom icon
     7 likes

    OpenAxiom, fork of Axiom , is an open source platform for symbolic, algebraic, and numerical computations. It offers an interactive environment, an expressive programming language, a compiler, a large set of mathematical libraries of interest...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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