Comparison

SlipStick vs Matrix

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Virtual slide rule reproduction
  • Multiplication and division
  • Logarithm calculations
  • Trigonometry calculations
  • Classic engineering tool
Features
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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.

About

Matrix

Features
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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!

Screenshots

SlipStick4 screens
Matrix4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SlipStick costs $0.99 and Matrix $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SlipStick ships an update weekly, Matrix every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SlipStick versus Matrix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlipStickMatrix
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteve GlennerOm Prakash Chapagain

In-app purchases

None

SlipStick

No in-app purchases

None

Matrix

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SlipStick free?
SlipStick costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Matrix free?
Matrix costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SlipStick or Matrix have ads?
Neither SlipStick nor Matrix shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SlipStick or Matrix?
SlipStick ships an update weekly, and Matrix every 5 weeks. Most recently, SlipStick was updated on September 16, 2026 and Matrix on August 16, 2026.

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