The app is a fantastic tool for all sorts of tasks and problems - especially those related to STEM - and could be considered an “all-purpose calculator” of sorts. There are a few rough spots though:
1) Some annoying bugs.
1a) It seems that the app is unable to correctly interpret some prompts despite the website handling them fine.
1b) There also appears to be a bug where pressing buttons like “more” to get more information only work once and then lock you into the original results otherwise. Not sure how common this is but it’s an issue for me.
2) Some features to be desired.
2a) Interactivity with 3D plots would be nice.
2b) For pro users a keyword or option to automatically allocate more runtime when needed would be a great quality of life improvement (and more efficient?).
2c) Some more minor quality of life issues that I know exist but can’t think of at the moment.
Despite these problems, the app is still extremely useful (and fun, for nerds like me at least). I use it quite often and it usually gives me everything I need and more. There is some room for improvement but overall it’s an excellent software!
I’m a community college professor of mathematics, and I use the WolframAlpha app to enhance my teaching online and in-person. I use WolframAlpha on my iPhone, Ipad, and my MacBook Pro. With the new Apple silicon M1-pro Chip, I am now able to do all the awesome calculations on my MacBook Pro with the WolframAlpha App that I only used to do on my iPhone. With my new Liquid Retina display, the math work is displayed as beautiful and precise as ever. I don’t allow WolframAlpha on exams and it’s very easy to check when you require students to show hand-written work and not computer work. The steps students take by hand in solving Calculus problems is very different from steps in WolframAlpha.
Awesome, cool etc
Somehow this site/app
Fits like a ‘hand’ and a glove
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“learning is the primary form of brain damage”
Re this site has been a big, unique asset and source of fellowship for yours truly!
For that, thank you 😊
This is a must have app for people that need answers to just about anything, quick and fast. It doesn’t have answers for everything but about 90% of the time it’s spot on with what I need. Definitely recommend
It has tools to help you, whether you are studying economics to physics to data science. The natural language processing allows for many questions to be asked and lots of information can be provided from a simple search.
Very useful application.
I made the mistake of taking trigonometry over an online course. So there I was, with no instructor to teach me what I didn’t understand. I was failing miserably when I sought out a tutor…Then, my old high school Geometry teacher told me about Wolfram Alpha. It is, hands down, the best application I’ve ever spent money to access. It was only 1.99 when I bought the app in 2016. I passed Trigonometry with a solid B thanks to the way this app breaks down the work and lays it all out for you. Thanks, devs. You guys are the real heroes.
This app is honestly better than Google. It has information on everything I need instantly, without looking through multiple web pages to no avail. It’s so easy to get any research I may need for school. And, it’s not biased in any way. They do not promote any political party over the other. What I’m getting is unbiased acts only - you won’t get that from any web browser! Overall, this app is 100% worth the price and is incredibly useful for anybody who needs to quickly search something and get answers fast. It makes homework so easy, giving step-by-step solutions. I would recommend this app to everybody. Thank you WolframAlpha!
This is seriously an excellent app. It may seem confusing to use at first but once you have figured out how to use the notations and how it works it is actually incredible. While you do have to pay for it, I still recommend buying it. Having one of the worlds best calculators in your phone is amazing. Finding limits, graphing, solving logarithms, anything is easy with this. Seriously a must have for any high school to college math student. Thank you WolframAlpha
I’ve had this app for years. Sometimes it gets deleted off the phone but I always come back to it. It’s almost always needed again at some point. Especially concerning mathematical computations or just about anything else you need to know.
This is an update to a previous 3-star rating. I was having an issue with this application after downloading iOS 14.4 for my iPad Pro.
When I would enter a query it would show the computing message and the moving line but would not retrieve the data. It would eventually stop. This acted very much like my older iPad when its iOS could no longer be updated and this app would not run on it.
After my 3 star evaluation, I received a note from a developer. In the meantime, I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it and it began functioning again.
I have used this app in the kitchen nearly everyday for several years as I am working on creating gluten-free versions of family vintage recipes. I have found the data I need for converting from volume to weight measurements using this app. It is also great for calculating the nutritional values of the recipes.
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