Soulver 2 App Reviews

Can you please add a way to work with integers? I’m a programmer and I’d like a way to jot down quick integer calculations before I work them into my code. Otherwise, sweet app

Really helpful. I was working on some complicated junk and it was really helpful to visualize everything. I wish the default coloring matched Xcode. Spent a few minutes to make it match. Other than that, I’m 100% happy with this app. (And my color preference isnt a big deal.) Excited to use it a lot.

Used to be an MS Excel power user and would use Excel as my go to calculator. Then I found Soulver. You have to love (and take time to review) well-made intuitive apps. Its kind of like Excell or Numbers without the cells. Instead, you just type your text/question/reasoning and the numbers in the sentence calculate. I havent opended Excel against since Ive been using Soulver. I consider this app one of my top-10 must haves for work.

The power of this little tool is amazing. I mainly use it to calculate a lot of statistics and effect sizes that the various applications won’t, and this is excellent to do to compare different options. It’s also great to calculate grades that are percentage based (e.g., 25% of a grade is exams, 10% is participation, etc.), and also help determine the curve of those grades. Long story short, this is great if you have to do more than a regular calculator, and to be able to edit formulas, etc. as you go. I would really like it, however, if the developers had a manual somewhere, or some listing of all the different formulas it can do out of the box.

Pretty good. Needs more metric units for speed. km/h, m/s, km/s are missing. Lots of other units missing too. Slug, all angular units e.g. rpm, cps, period, missing all units of acceleration, m/s/s, etc. Good idea but with a little work could be improved a lot. To really make up for a normal calculator it needs to have exhaustive comprehension of units, equivalent to the might of google or wolfram alpha.

At first I found this to be a novelty. A little tip calculator or something I could use to convert currency while traveling. Instead, it is just to most aweome little (in size not power) tool I have. I use it for all sorts of calculations and re-occuring number crunching. This kind of _tool_ is an example of why the Apple OSX way of working is productive, clean, and easy. They took a calculator + spreadsheet and created a very useful tool for any kind of number exploration. I have it on my iPhone and Macbook Pro and share files between devices using iCloud (which is automatic if you choose iCloud as the storage location). I have already gifted it to a few people who play with numbers in a similar way to what I do. I have a gained much benefit from this app and it is now part of my daily tool box. UPDATED: I continue to find this tool extremely valuable. It is one of the handiest numericial tools I have. This should be on every Mac and iPhone. It is a swiss army knife for numbers.

I like Soulver in concept, but in practice I found it difficult to use. Then I found Calca, which is way better & I use it all the time. Maybe it is just better suited to the way my brain works. They are both cheap, so I suggest getting both.

I just discovered this application has iCloud support, which makes it much more useful for managing and sinking Soulver documents. Before using iCloud I was saving documents to various different folders, not realizing it has iCloud support. With Soulver, I can review calculations and easily change them without hunting down. Thanks for all the updates and improvements.

Do yourself a favor and purchase Soulver. You’ll never open Calcuator.app again.

For many, many calculations, Soulver completely replaces spreadsheets, like Excel or Numbers, which can be much more cumbersome to use. Soulver is simple to learn, but very powerful. Definitely worth checking out.

I’ve had this app on my wish list for a long time and finally took the punch. I can say that without exception this has become my default calculator app on my Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not only does it allow me to perform calculations with notation and description but I can save them as documents so that I don’t have to re-create them when I need to get back to where I was. Not only that but the docs are saved to iCloud and then are available on my iOS devices. I am really glad that I bought this app.

This is on my list of must have apps. When I use someone else’s computer I miss it almost immediately. Developer is very responsive too, can’t ask for much more.

I use Soulver mostly as a lightweight spreadsheet and for that task alone it is worth the price of admission. The text-based formatting is a very neat idea. Soulver excels (not a pun!) at train-of-thought work. I constantly find myself firing Soulver up to work out a little problem that’s a bit too involved for mental math. The app is updated frequently and was ready for Yosemite as soon as I installed it. Can’t complain!

I never understood the “calculator” apps that look like desk calculators: I have a keyboard in front of me, so why would I want to click on a number pad on the screen? Soulver drops the outdated interface metaphors and presents me with a functional tool that can take advantage of everything that a modern computer can do with a physical keyboard interface: it can store constants, do multi-line math, show calculations in an intuitive way like I’d do them on paper, include units, do conversions, etc. It’s exactly what a computer calculator app should have been all along.

Ive been using the iOS version for a couple of years: its been my favorite way to calculate scenarios such as budget forecasts or mortgage comparisons. These are tasks I dont do often, but when I do, Soulver makes them all the more bearable because it lets me jot down my thoughts in a way thats similar to what Id do on a piece of paper, only with live calculations. The desktop version looks to make that process even more natural given the increased flexibility of having a full-size keyboard and the rich features available in Mac OS X and my other various utilities such as LaunchBar with its clipboard history. iOS <-> Mac OS X sync is a bonus, if an obvious one. TL;DR—Soulver costs about the same as a classic Moleskine, and for calculation-based note taking, its well worth the cost of its paper-based cousin.

Great application for simple calculations and more that you would do on a scratch paper. Still playing with the features but definitely much more helpful than others because of the ease of use as well as dynamic between word use and math functions makes it easy to define variables and write out equations you want to calculate. Adding in Subscript/Superscript features would really enhance the use of this application.

Thank you for making these apps!!! My only suggestion would be to implement HANDOFF support (betweein iOS and Mac - the total spent on both apps warrants it). I use this app daily at work and at home. The iCloud sync is great - keeps all my Soulver docs in sync everywhere (phone, ipad, Mac). It is simple and powerful for ORGANISING and TAGGING your expenses and calculations in general.

Very easy to pick up, especially useful for small tasks where Mathematica feels like overkill and takes too much to set up. Far superior to clicking buttons on a virtual calculator on your screen. Documents easily serve as guides for setting up spreadsheets, or larger Mathematica documents, or to simply share the work with coworkers or professors. Even if they don’t have Soulver, its Send to Mail feature generates a correctly formatted, editable table in the mail message that preserves line numbers, values and results. The only reason I don’t give all five stars*: ratios of dimensions can occasionally lead to incorrect results. For example: (20 g/L) / (5 g/L) correctly gives 4, but (20 mg/L - 5 mg/L) / (20 mg / L) gives 750 L/meter^3 Although the answer is technically a correct answer (you can verify this in Wolfram|Alpha), the desired behavior is to instead cancel the units and not perform any scale conversions to fundamental SI units. However, there is a workaround using the num() function to strip the units: (num(20 mg/L) - num(5 mg/L))/num(20 mg/L) correctly gives 0.75 So, just be aware that this can happen, and know when to use the workaround. *The developer is aware of the issue and is investigating.

I think this might just be the best all-around calculator Ive ever used. Very handy!

I’ve used this tool to do all kinds of things that I’d have used a spreadsheet for - budgeting, travel expenses (in multiple currencies), heck, I once used it to make a quick cheat sheet for Celsius to Farenheit conversion. It’s pretty much completely bug free, and it does what it does well, in a fairly obvious fashion. Highly recommended.