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macOS 15 Rumored to Feature Revamped Calculator App
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Hopefully it's coming to the Mac as a Catalyst app, which would mean they're finally making an iPad calculator!
Since the iPad does not have a calculator, I bought PCalc years ago (onetime $9.99), runs on phone, watch, iPad, Mac. Family sharing means wife can use it to. Tons of themes, conversions (BTU's to KWH or Polish Zlotys to New Zealand Dollars for example), constants, layouts, complex numbers. Has a tape function, layouts galore, keyboard customization, hand off between Apple devices, and is scriptable. More than I could ever use in a calculator.
Apple needs <insert standard Siri Rant>, better tables in notes and a real application for iCloud Keychain. A better calculator does not move the needle.
Apple needs <insert standard Siri Rant>, better tables in notes and a real application for iCloud Keychain. A better calculator does not move the needle.
I came here to say the same thing.
If they are going to put all this energy into the calculator app, the iPad BETTER also get it.
The macOS 15 banner would also annoy me.
- Hey TAFKAS [The App Formerly Known As Siri], how much is 2 + 2 ?
- it depends. Some people generally consider 2 + 2 can vary in value depending on the context and variables involved in the situation. However, when delving deeper into mathematical theory, one can explore the concept of addition as a fundamental operation that represents the combination of two values to find the total quantity. Also, terms and conditions may apply. These terms and conditions create a contract between you and Apple (the “Agreement”). Please read the Agreement carefully. [...]
Yay! Great News!
It always amazed me how in OS's Today/Notifications the Calculator App would be there and show up. So I would start entering numerals into it; the other widgets like Weather, Calendar, etc would still be loading up and Calculator would lose its position while things loaded! so I'd click a digit or +,-,/,* or = and it would've already moved away!
So I noticed on Sonoma, which handles widgets different, it was just gone from the widgets! I was pretty bummed I couldn't ad it to my widgets bar or desktop. But relieved to find the old boy in my installed Apps.
(if you don't care about this news, you're not a Mac users, you're just a casual.) 🤓😆
It always amazed me how in OS's Today/Notifications the Calculator App would be there and show up. So I would start entering numerals into it; the other widgets like Weather, Calendar, etc would still be loading up and Calculator would lose its position while things loaded! so I'd click a digit or +,-,/,* or = and it would've already moved away!
So I noticed on Sonoma, which handles widgets different, it was just gone from the widgets! I was pretty bummed I couldn't ad it to my widgets bar or desktop. But relieved to find the old boy in my installed Apps.
(if you don't care about this news, you're not a Mac users, you're just a casual.) 🤓😆
Two weeks later:
MacOS 15.0.1:
Fixes a bug where Thunderbolt hubs connected to external displays may terminate the app unexpectedly, while causing bluetooth connectivity issues, preventing sleep, when recieving a Message with one of the following emoji: 💩🦄🍋.
MacOS 15.0.1:
Fixes a bug where Thunderbolt hubs connected to external displays may terminate the app unexpectedly, while causing bluetooth connectivity issues, preventing sleep, when recieving a Message with one of the following emoji: 💩🦄🍋.
3 trillion dollar company focuses on a calculator app.
LOL, what a joke.
LOL, what a joke.
Just ask Siri for the answer. She knows (how to search the web for) it. 🤣
This has been discussed for years, and always accompanied by race-to-the-bottom inane comments. Seems many would rather complain than find a solution that meets their needs.
For $10 you can purchase pCalc, a scientific calculator which is almost infinitely configurable, with loads of features including conversions, RPN or algebraic representation, decimal or scientific notation, hex/octal/binary modes, paper tape, configurable layout, and on and on. I've been using pCalc for around 20 years and have never looked back.
Give it a whirl and find happiness. There's even a free version.
For $10 you can purchase pCalc, a scientific calculator which is almost infinitely configurable, with loads of features including conversions, RPN or algebraic representation, decimal or scientific notation, hex/octal/binary modes, paper tape, configurable layout, and on and on. I've been using pCalc for around 20 years and have never looked back.
Give it a whirl and find happiness. There's even a free version.
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I know "snappiness" is a running gag now, but it's actually kind of sad how the macOS UI has gotten less snappy over the years. The amount of time icons bounce in the dock before an app loads is far too high. When it comes to app load times, my six-year-old Windows PC is much "snappier" than my M1 Max MBP.
for $0, vanilla Calculator will give you: 2 + 3 = 5
for $1.99, Calculator Plus will give you: 2 + 3 = 5+ = 5.001
for $5.99, Calculator Pro will give you: 2 + 3 = 5.0 // more cores, more efficient computation
for $9.99, Calculator Pro Max will give you: 2 + 3 = max(2.0, 3.0) = 3.0
for $199.99, Calculator Ultra will give you: 2 + 3 = 5.000000000
Maybe that's Daddy Long Neck's setup. Some people have a long neck, and in the case of DLN, a long torso too. 🤷♂️
I use the calculator a lot too, and the lack of one in the iPad is part of the reason I don't own an iPad (I don't want to use a third party app with intrusive ads).
The windows calculator is one of my least favorite stock apps in Windows. Almost every time I launch that app it launches in full screen. I do not need a 27 inch monitor sized calculator app. Yes it has good functionality, but it is still a POS. I hope Apple shoots more to emulate the stock calendar in Gnome which had all of that functionality long before Windows did yet does not open like an app for blind old people.
Is it weird that I love my old calculator too? Casio FX-7000G. One of the first graphics capable calculators with a dot-matrix LED screen. Back in the 80's this thing was the muts nuts. And I still find it quicker and easier to use than on-device calculators, particularly for engineering calculations.
pCalc is $10, full featured, and with no ads.
Works great on my iPhone and iPads. It's in the App Store. There's also a free lite version.
Your Calculator app is outdated. This is why Apple wants to revamp the Calculator app so that it shows that for $200 you're actually getting 16GB of memory, not 8GB.
Can't be too good. Sherlocking the existing calc apps will mean loss of 30% revenue from their sales. That is why I am pretty sure calculator will never come to iPad. 
