Soulver 2 App Reviews

I wish more programs followed the design principles of Soulver. It does one particular thing very well, which is to act as a bridge between the features of a calculator and a spreadsheet. This solves a surprising number of the numerical exercises that I go through every day, both in the realm of finance (job) and electronics (hobby). By allowing you to save your sessions, you can encapsulate knowledge in a way thats more transparent than a spreadsheet, where the formulas must be examined cell by cell and cant be scanned holistically, as Soulver allows you to do. Can you replicate Soulver with Excel? Of course. But do you need to wait for Excel to load, utilize the memory it uses, etc.? Not for a great many problems. Soulver sits open on my desktop most of the time, and I tend to use it for scratch calculations, thought exercises, and rapid prototyping of numerical algorithms. Very useful, not expensive, and well designed.

Computer calculators have always been one of those funny idiosyncrasies of interface design, giving you onscreen keypads that looked like the desk calculators of yore, but usually without even having a tape. What are you going to do, click on the numbers with your mouse? It never made any sense. Soulver is different. Its the perfect blend of human, natural language description and computer-based calculation. Its far more natural and sensible than either a calculator with a big clickable keypad or a spreadsheet, not binding you into either metaphor when youre trying to work through a multi-step question of just get some simple math done. Youll still need a spreadsheet if you have big tables of data, but most of us dont work with that kind of data on an everyday basis, and for the numbers that actually show up in our lives, whether its figuring out a price or idly wondering how long it will take Voyager 2 to travel a light year, Soulver is an excellent tool. If you like it, note that there are iPad and iPhone versions too.

I found this app to be intuitive and much easier to use than a calculator or spreadsheet. The author of this app is a genius for creating an app that is so natural to use. I especially like the integration between the desktop app and the iPhone and iPad apps.

Ive know about Soulver for a while and finally took the plunge (thanks in part to the discount). OMG. What a great app. Ive only just begun to understand its power and already its done so much for me. Id give it 10 stars if they let me. Trust me. Ditch the calculator. Buy Soulver. Even at full price it will be well worth it.

This is a wonderfully useful tool. Much easier to use than a calculator (on or off screen). Mixes English and arithmetic easily. I use it for jotting notes involving calculations and it works like a champ. Very pleased I picked this up on sale this week.

This is a really nifty little app. I use it mostly for tricky unit conversion ("cubic meters per second to gallons per day", that kind of thing) and its great at that. Would love to see more technical features (in particular, math functions - "integral wrt x of 3*x^2 from 1 to 5", and potentially subject-specific extensions - "reynolds number of water at 20 degrees flowing at 5 m/s in a 5mm pipe"… but that may be asking too much). More than anything, NEEDS FULL RETINA DISPLAY SUPPORT…some icons are jagged and pixelated. Overall, great app. Too good, in fact. Makes me wish for all these other features.

These plain language apps are starting to get some traction. . A bit pricey for what it does, but it is a fun app. I prefer the sohistictaion of WolframAlpha, but this one is good for quick calcs.

Im horrible at doing math in my head and found myself using stickies or TextEdit for a scratchpad in concert with the Calculator app when I needed to crunch a bunch of numbers. That is horrible and I am dumb - having this app open at all times is smart.

I dont usually write reviews, but I have to for Soulver. This app is simply awesome. It does so many simple conversions. I have just started trying things and am surprised at how many works. For example I was comparing premiums, but some were monthly and some were every 2 weeks. It has built in conversion to be able to handle calculations and do comparisons based on these different time values. It blows my mind how many different scenarios this app covers. Its not an app I use daily, but it is one that when I need to do some math it is worth the price.

Its more than just a calculator app, it helps solve problems. I do a lot of calculations a day with a lot of variables. For simple things, I use Alfred. I also used to use Excel, but its rather cumbersome. When I need to turn my math into English, I use Soulver.

Looks nice but lacks most functions a standard physical calculator would have (ex binomial coefficient is missing). Site like wolphram alpha are much more comprehensive. Also reference appears in a silly sub window with small buttons and tiny text. Theres no graphical way to enter functions and using the reference is very awkward.

Soulver allows you the pleasure of filling a sheet of paper with math and then goes ahead and does all the hard stuff for you. Its a joy to use.

This is soooo useful and really well implemented ... thank you ! So often the traditional calculator is too light and a spreadsheet too heavy, this fills that gap for me.

Thanks for the update! :)

thanks for the update. looking forward for more units and physical constants! Handy app.

This app is awesome. After using it, you wont be able to go back to the other calculator apps out there. It can even replace Excel for the smaller tasks you were probably using it for. The customer service for this app is also great, they are very responsive. Overall, I am a happy camper!

finally, after all this time, someone has put together a little app the blows away every other calculator app out there on Mac and Windows alike. Dont understand why every dumb calclator app has a stupid fake calculator interface and a display that only shows one line. Much much better that those calculator apps. Great for little calculation tasks when to dont want to go to the trouble of pulling out the big spreadsheet.

At first, I was skeptical. But I used it for one minute, and OMG. Its JUST AMAZING. Congratulations people. Very nice work

The app is easier to use for my stocks than a spreadsheet, partially because of how easy and fast it looks up stock prices and mostly because its just easy to use. Ive found Acqualia customer service to be personable and responsive.

Great calculator, very well designed and implemented. But what is with the constant updates? The most common task I perform with Soulver is to update it. I understand that the developer wants us to have the latest features, but seriously its almost weekly that there is a new version. How about an update every six months or something? The world of math is not moving that quickly.