140 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 GNU Octave is actually a free replication of MATLAB. Guest • Aug 2015 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree It is really an alternative since it is compatible with nearly all scripts created on matlab. Guest • Dec 2016 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree If you are a student and want to perform numerical analysis most of the times Octave is a great alternative to Matlab. Guest • Sep 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It is actively developing open source project cryoff • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree It is an open source clone of MATLAB. Save for a few features that have yet to be updated/added, the syntax and functionality are identical between the two. Guest • 12 days ago Disagree Agree
142 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
112 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
118 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 MATLAB is a Software to find Numerical solutions for Mathematical Problems while Wolfram is a CAS system Guest • May 2016 • 1 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
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
69 Like SciPy & Numpy Good alternative? YES NO SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific... 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
22 Like fxSolver Good alternative? YES NO Online math solver, equation editor and database, graphing calculator and science/engineering problem helper. Free Web Built-in editor Equation solving Shared links 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 Simple user interface 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
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
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
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.
18 Like Orange Good alternative? YES NO Orange is an open-source, cross-platform data mining and machine learning suite. It features visual programming as intuitive means of combining data analysis and... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Visual Programming Add a feature
