All it does is give the answer
Seriously saying, this app is literally just useless unless if you know the answer to math problems and want to check your answers. Otherwise, paying wouldn’t be a consideration for me. For those who are on a tight budget, and have a strong desire to reach their future career, I’d say paying wouldn’t be worth it, especially if you are just doing a living only as a student with no career and if you do not have enough financial support. I’ve lived a long way with this app studying all day and all night and yet there is high demand for paying just to get the work shown to get the idea why a question is answered in a certain way.
This is why nowadays I read reviews from various books titled for math and read books that give a full explanation of how an answer is earned. As a life lesson it’s just good to say the fact that spending is not worth it for this app since there are various places and apps to ask questions related to learning math (at least in my area).
This app should be like a substitute teacher or tutor for those who are having trouble, but the fact that there is such huge fee just ruins the reason why I should install this app. Teachers ask for showing work, and yet I’m stuck, having no idea what to do to get the right answers. This also goes to understanding how an answer is caught as well.
This is why nowadays I read reviews from various books titled for math and read books that give a full explanation of how an answer is earned. As a life lesson it’s just good to say the fact that spending is not worth it for this app since there are various places and apps to ask questions related to learning math (at least in my area).
This app should be like a substitute teacher or tutor for those who are having trouble, but the fact that there is such huge fee just ruins the reason why I should install this app. Teachers ask for showing work, and yet I’m stuck, having no idea what to do to get the right answers. This also goes to understanding how an answer is caught as well.
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Awful update please change it back!!
So frustrating. Everything about the update made it way more difficult to use. Nothing was wrong with it before. Hate that you can’t crop the photos the way you want. Hate that you can’t see all of your work in the same spot. When you click on the past problems you solved, it makes them duplicate in your history, which is so unnecessary. Also hate that when you look at your history, you can’t see the answers to the problems, and so every time you click it just makes it more of a mess. Can’t believe people worked hard on this update and thought it was better than the original??? I mean who tested this out and thought “oh yeah, this is so much better guys”. Also, it seems like it comes up with error messages way more often. Kind of upset because I paid for a full year of this service and now it’s a piece of crap. Fix it. Had I known it was going to update and look like this I would have never let it update.
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5.1.1. Seemed like a downgrade?
The system used before update 5.1.1 was wayyyyyy better in the since that you could take better pictures due to the zoom system. previously, you could ensure that the picture would only capture the equation whereas now the only way to do that is get so close to the problem it the camera is forced to unfocus (with the newer iPhone camera system as well). I like the new history feature but it removed the feature that allows you to see the graph and answer of two or more different problems at once therefore removing multitasking. Overall, the app is still incredible but 5.1.1 brought some unneeded changes.
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Ruined
This recent update just went and undid every redeemable quality about why I use this app and pay for a subscription, it was so simple and fast before but now it doesn’t even work. Every time I try to do a question regardless of what wifi I’m on even at my university(which obviously has great wifi as it’s a place where it’s necessary) it doesn’t it just throws out an "oh no! something went wrong. Check your connection again". The new camera settings aren’t even on par with photo math anymore, who in their right mind though it’d be a good idea to make it impossible to actually zoom and pick out the questions you need to solve on a university paper where they’re all packed close together. It’s absolutely infuriating trying to make this app work now, I’d rather have the old version back because it was way better than this.
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Thorough solutions, too many technical issues
This has been my go to calculator app all throughout college because I found it generally gives the most thorough well explained solutions. There’s always been some issues, where the app would just crash/freeze sometimes, but it was never too big of a deal. I went a little while with out using it and now it has somehow managed to become worse. It freezes/crashes CONSTANTLY, and I am receiving ads even though I pay for a subscription?! I find that odd as I don’t believe that’s common across similar platforms. And since I have to restart the app so often, I keep getting more ads. It’s ridiculous. An app shouldn’t freeze every time my screen locks. Not sure how the app is worse, but I might look into alternative calculators if these issues don’t resolve soon.
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Good Content, Lousy Customer Care
I am extremely disappointed with the Mathway company and would advise anyone considering upgrading in order to receive step-by-step instructions to add a reminder to your calendar to cancel your monthly subscription at the end of the time you need it. Mathway will only send you one email receipt/invoice at the time of your initial payment. After that, they will never alert you to the fact that you are still paying for their monthly service during the summertime when you have no need for it. You could easily end up spending up to $120 for yearly access without realizing it. Perhaps I should go over my credit card bills with a fine-tooth comb every month, but I would prefer to work with companies who don’t want to take advantage of my busy lifestyle as a mom of 5 kids just trying to survive raising them. When I brought this matter to their attention, they refused to upgrade my account to an annual subscription even though my payments had already exceeded the cost of one.
It’s too bad that they are not a company with better customer care because I found the math support to be very helpful.
It’s too bad that they are not a company with better customer care because I found the math support to be very helpful.
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WOULD NOT WORK
I am extremely disappointed that this app didn’t work. I desperately needed help with my homework but no one else in my household knew how to do it and Google wasn’t helping either. So, I searched up ‘maths scan app’ and this came up. I looked at the reviews and everyone had been saying how it was so great, so I got it. I wrote out my question multiple times (it was trigonometry) and it simply wouldn’t scan. I tried everything, but this stupid app WOULD. NOT. WORK. I don’t know why this happened but I am APPALLED at it and will NOT be downloading on any other device. Oh, and after this I will delete it as it clearly doesn’t work and was made without proper thought into all math types.
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It works but the full version hasn’t for me
I have been using this a lot this semester so I decided to pay for the monthly subscription then I could cancel the membership at the end of the semester, but it doesn’t even work. The subscription shows in my subscriptions list in my settings but I still can’t view the steps, and when I attempt to see how the problem is solved it brings me to the menu to subscribe to the paid part of the app. Honestly though, other than that. This app works pretty great, solves problems the right way and you can select the method of how you want the problem solved. You can change what kind of math you are trying to solve, and the answers are pretty spot on. The predictive text is even really good on this, it’ll help solve word problems and you kind of don’t em have to type anything in sometimes. However, the keyboard is very buggy and you can’t type very fast. It’s also kind of hard to navigate as there are like 4 different keyboard menus to choose from, I always forget where to find things and it kind of takes a while to load the text sometimes. But it does solve the problems.
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Response from developer
Sorry to hear of the issues you're having - please select 'restore subscription' from the settings of your Mathway account. This should turn the steps "ON". For further assistance you can reach Mathway customer support by emailing: support@mathway.com.
“Steps” subscription is potentially a scam
I decided to try out the free trial that enables you to view steps. It did not work and I was told that the solution was to use the “restore subscription” button. When I used that button, it hung on that screen indefinitely without doing anything.
Later I forgot to cancel this trial and it charged me ten dollars. I figured I could still use it, and lo and behold: the app still says I had no subscription, and the “restore subscription” button still does not function, meaning ten dollars down the drain.
This app works fine otherwise and I appreciate how it helps me check my work. However, until either Apple accepts my refund request OR the developers of Mathway fix this subscription error, I will have to rate it one star in hopes that others will not make the same mistake.
Later I forgot to cancel this trial and it charged me ten dollars. I figured I could still use it, and lo and behold: the app still says I had no subscription, and the “restore subscription” button still does not function, meaning ten dollars down the drain.
This app works fine otherwise and I appreciate how it helps me check my work. However, until either Apple accepts my refund request OR the developers of Mathway fix this subscription error, I will have to rate it one star in hopes that others will not make the same mistake.
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AMAZING
i use this for my homework and it helps so much definitely recommended
