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 Mathematica is mainly a CAS (symbolic maths), but MATLAB is more for numeric analysis Guest • Dec 2016 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Both are comprehensive mathematics solutions, and have very similar features, as well as even both being commercial. snshepherd • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
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 Sage supports symbolic maths through Maxima vfrico • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Sage needs programming language skills, it doesn't support well symbolic math. Guest • Jul 2015 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
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
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 Octave needs programming language skills, it doesn't support well symbolic math. Guest • Jul 2015 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
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
21 Like Jupyter Good alternative? YES NO Open source, interactive data science and scientific computing across over 40 programming languages. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Multiple languages 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 It's an easy, powerful, really fast language which feels like a mix of Python and Ruby but runs like C. It comes with many mathematical functions, has a good stack of libraries for graphs (including Matplotlib as PyPlot) and can be used with the Jupyter Notebook. Still not at version 1.0, but already a great tool! Guest • Feb 2017 Disagree Agree
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 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
23 Like SymPy Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Equation solving 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
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
16 Like Soulver Good alternative? YES NO Soulver helps you do quick calculations and work things out. Use Soulver to play around with numbers, do "back of the envelope" calculations, and solve... Commercial Mac Natural Language Processing Add a feature
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
19 Like DataCracker Good alternative? YES NO DataCracker is a new web-based survey analysis tool that makes it easy for anyone to find and share insights from their surveys. DataCracker was built on the idea of... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet ... iPad Survey analysis Add a feature
