![]() I’ve been in meetings in downtown Chicago where I couldn’t get a cell signal to save my life. I like Wolfram Alpha, and it can do things that none of the calculators I’ll discuss here can do but you can’t depend on always having a good connection. It cannot rely on an internet connection. Apps like Graphicus can be very useful, especially to students, but our focus here is on efficient calculation, not visualization. Even if an app has no obvious bugs, if it isn’t updated periodically, it won’t be able to take advantage of new phone features like the bigger screens of the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and their successors. ![]() Apple’s built-in calculator couldn’t even deal with π properly when version 2.0 was released. ![]() You’d be surprised at how many bugs can crop up in a calculator app. There are several apps that slavishly imitate well-known, even beloved, physical calculators, and therefore don’t take advantage of the flexibility that an app provides. ![]() A physical calculator has restrictions-in button layout, for example-that a calculator app shouldn’t have. This is not a complaint about skeuomorphism. It has to be a real app, not an emulation of a physical calculator. Here are my criteria for pruning the vast tree of calculator apps down to just three that are worth your attention: By joining the Sweet Setup community you’ll also get access to our other guides, early previews to big new reviews and workflow articles we are working on, weekly roundups of our best content, and more. The custom templates and the guide are available for FREE to our email subscriber community. These templates are right out of our popular productivity course. Plus, we also have included a couple of our custom productivity templates for you to get started with.
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