Comparison

Maple Calculator vs Words in Context

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Maple Calculator

This app provides comprehensive math homework assistance, offering step-by-step solutions for a wide range of high school and university level problems. It functions as a graphing, scientific, algebra, calculus, and integration calculator, with the ability to visualize equations in 2-D and 3-D.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step math solutions
  • Camera and handwriting input
  • 2D and 3D graphing
  • Scientific and algebra calculator
  • Calculus and integration solver
  • Built-in math game
Features
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Powered by Maple, the most powerful math engine in the world, this all-in-one calculator solves math problems, generates 2-D and 3-D visualizations, and provides step-by-step solutions for a wide variety of math homework problems encountered at high school and university. [STEP BY STEP MATH SOLUTIONS FOR HOMEWORK] This app is a graphing calculator, scientific calculator, algebra calculator, calculus calculator, and integration calculator combined all into one! Take a picture of your problem using your phone's camera or enter it via the app's built-in math editor to see the final answer or get step-by-step solutions. [QUICK AND POWERFUL MATH SOLVER] No matter how you enter your problem, you can find derivatives and integrals, factor polynomials, invert matrices, solve systems of equations, solve ODEs, and much more. Our calculator has the power of the world-leading Maple math engine behind it, so it can do a LOT of math! [GRAPH PROBLEMS AND RESULTS] See 2-D and 3-D graphs of your expressions instantly, and watch how the graph changes as you change the expression. On this calculator you can zoom in, pan, and even rotate 3-D plots to get a closer look at areas of interest. [PLAY A BUILT-IN FUN MATH GAME] Play our calculator’s built in game, Sumzle, which is like Wordle but for math and equations. FEATURES: • Enter Math Problems Using Your Camera Or By Drawing them with the Handwriting Palette Or By Entering Directly with the Built-in Math Keyboard • Do All Sorts Of Math Operations And Get Step By Step Solutions • Get Answers Even When You Are Offline • Take Quality Math Notes Through Maple Learn. Use The Calculator Camera To Automatically Send Your Handwritten Steps To Maple Learn Where You Can Uncover Mistakes And Share Your Work With Others. • You Can Upload Mathematical Expressions From Our Calculator To Maple Desktop • International Language Support (English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Hindi, And Simplified Chinese) MATH CAPABILITIES ON OUR CALCULATOR: • Basic Math: Arithmetic, Fractions, Decimals, Integers, Factors, Square Roots, Powers • Algebra: Solving And Graphing Linear Equations, Solving And Graphing Systems Of Equations, Working With Polynomials, Quadratic Equations, And Functions, Logarithmic And Exponential Functions, Trigonometric Functions, Trigonometric Identities • Precalculus: Graphing, Piecewise Functions, Absolute Value, Inequalities, Implicit Functions • Linear Algebra: Finding The Determinant, Inverse, Transpose, Eigenvalues, And Eigenvectors, Solving Matrices (Reduced Echelon Form & Gaussian Elimination) • Differential Equations: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations • And more

About

Words in Context

Features
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Words in Context is a calm home for the words you meet while reading, listening and talking. Save a word in seconds, keep it with the sentence it came from, and let it come back when it's time. SAVE WORDS IN SECONDS • Type, paste or dictate a word, or scan it from a page with the camera. • Share text from other apps straight into your Inbox. • Add words from your Apple Watch with your voice, Scribble or the keyboard. LEARN FROM CONTEXT • Keep the translation, transcription (IPA), pronunciation, example sentences and dictionary links with each word. • Hear any word in the iPhone's own voice, even offline. • Write your own examples, or let Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones or your own Gemini key suggest some. WORDS COME BACK GENTLY • Spaced repetition with two simple answers: "Not yet" and "I know this". Each button shows when the word will come back. • Review everything, one folder or just your Inbox, 10, 30 or 50 words at a time. • Tap the speaker on a card, or let each word play by itself. • No streaks, badges or pressure. ORGANIZE YOUR WAY • Folders, an Inbox for new words, and search. • Import word lists (CSV, TSV, TXT or Markdown) and back up your whole library to Files. • Create themed word lists with AI: in the app with your own Gemini key, or with a ready-made prompt for your favorite AI chat app. LEARNING RUSSIAN? Russian basics teaches the alphabet with everyday words, the main pronunciation rules and numbers, with a number builder that turns any number up to 999,999 into Russian blocks you can hear. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Your vocabulary stays on your device. • Online dictionaries and Gemini work only after you turn on Online services, and your Gemini key stays in your Keychain. The interface is in English and Russian, and the app helps you learn English or Russian.

Screenshots

Maple Calculator4 screens
Words in Context4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Words in Context at none against Maple Calculator's 3. Maple Calculator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.6). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Maple Calculator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Words in Context asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Maple Calculator versus Words in Context: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaple CalculatorWords in Context
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaplesoftPracticallyZen, LLC

Bugs and requests

Maple Calculator

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • When trying to take a photo in the app the camera quality appears to blurry, and a picture cannot be taken
  • This app is honestly bad. It gets questions wrong and doesn't answer them correctly at all
  • Entering an equation by typing has been a frustrating experience, if not impossible
  • Ne se met pas en mode paysage
  • Does not work for iPad, why does this not work for iPad ?

Requested features

4 requests
  • More options
  • Zoom for graphs in double direction separately
  • Support for landscape mode
  • Fundamental physical constants, or the ability to assign letters to constants

Words in Context

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Maple Calculator

Subscriptions3
  • 1 month$6.991 Month
  • 6 months$25.996 Months
  • 12 months$29.991 Year
None

Words in Context

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maple Calculator free?
Maple Calculator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Words in Context free?
Words in Context is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Maple Calculator or Words in Context have ads?
Neither Maple Calculator nor Words in Context shows ads.

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