SlipStick vs Matrix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SlipStick
This app is a fully functional digital reproduction of a classic engineering slide rule. It allows users to perform complex calculations like multiplication, division, logarithms, and trigonometry, just like the original manual tool.
- Virtual slide rule reproduction
- Multiplication and division
- Logarithm calculations
- Trigonometry calculations
- Classic engineering tool
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A reproduction of a classic engineering tool - the slide rule. This fully functional manual calculating device was the engineer and math student's means of quickly solving multiplication, division, logarithm and trigonometry calculations until the invention and wide spread use of electronic calculators.
Matrix
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The MatrixAnalysis is carefully designed to be a simple and elegant app. This app has tools to help you analyze matrices like finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, QR, SLU, LU factorization. This app can also be used to do matrix operations like, finding inverse, determinant, dot product, cross product, and much more. You can also do elementwise operations and scalar operations. Want to do fast fourier transform (FFT) or inverse fourier transform (IFFT), this app is capable of IFFT Want to find an pseudo inverse of a non-square matrix, this app has you covered Want to know a rotation matrix for a given angle or rotate a vector by the given angle? This app has you covered. The expressions and the solutions are displayed in beautiful mathematical way. Once the expressions are solved, a beautifully written solutions are created that you can share with other or save it locally. It automatically saves your hard work locally on your device so you can come back and pick up from where you left off as your great effort will not be lost. There is also a Study page to help you with learning some important matrix vector formulas and some useful technique. This is an app for all student groups. From high school to college to university students. Be creative. Enjoy the app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SlipStick at weekly against Matrix's every 5 weeks. SlipStick also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
SlipStick costs $0.99 and Matrix $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SlipStick ships an update weekly, Matrix every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SlipStick | Matrix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Glenner | Om Prakash Chapagain |
In-app purchases
SlipStick
No in-app purchases
Matrix
No in-app purchases









