Scientific Calculator * vs DB40X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scientific Calculator *
This app offers a comprehensive suite of calculation tools, including basic and advanced math functions, unit conversions, and financial calculators. It also features a history log for easy access to past calculations and allows for customization of themes.
- Basic and complex calculations
- Unit and currency converter
- Financial calculators (loan, discount)
- Calculation history log
- Customizable themes
- Fraction and trigonometric functions
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The Calculator app is an extremely useful math problem solving app. With full features like a pocket calculator, not only helps you calculate from basic to complex quickly and accurately but also there are many other practical features: unit converter, currency exchange rate. Super Calculator +, fast and accurate calculation app Free calculator app is a tool that not only accurately calculates basic problems, but also quickly handles complex math with calculator keys such as fractions, square root operations, etc. Calculator + easily save a history of all calculations performed and you can copy results, duplicate equations or share problems with friends with just a few simple taps. Features of free Calculator: - Basic calculations from addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with negative numbers, decimals and percentages - Free calculator: Choice of portrait or landscape keyboard - Calculator with fraction, fraction calculator, mixed numbers. Easy to use and accurate fraction calculator. - Free Calculator + allows edit calculations during input. - Calculator + save history of performed math operations. - Select units of calculation in trigonometric functions: degrees and radians - Faster calculation with mnemonic function keys: MC, M+, M-, MR - Instantly display temporary results without pressing the “=” - Option to display results with number of decimal places - Calculator + allows copying, sharing equations and results of operations. - Freedom to design and create your own unique theme Unit Converter Currency, length, weight, width, size, time, speed, pressure, temperature, fuel efficiency, tax... - Currency Converter: Supports 135 currencies in the world, including dollar, euro, yuan, yen, SGD ... - Percentage Calculator - Discount Calculator: Get a discount price by entering the original price and the discount rate. - Loan Calculator: Calculate the total interest, total payments by entering the loan principal and interest rate. - Date Converter, Date difference: Calculates the specific date or anniversary to be remembered! - Health Calculator: Measure the body mass index (BMI), the basal metabolic rate (BMR). - Automobile Fuel Cost: Calculate the fuel costs required for driving a car or traveling. - GPA Calculator: Calculate your GPA! - Tip Converter - Sales Tax Calculator - Unit Price Calculator - World Time Converter: Transforms the time of 400+ or more cities around the world. - Ovulation Calculator: Calculate the time of ovulation, fertility using the menstrual cycle! - Hexadecimal Converter: Converts between decimal and hexadecimal with ease and convenience. - Savings Calculator: If you enter deposit amount, interest rate, time period, the interest after tax, final savings balance will be calculated. Calculator + is optimally designed, so it takes up very little memory, saves device battery life when using the app, but has extremely powerful functions that will be an effective solution if you are not convenient to carry casio handheld computers. We are sure you will be satisfied with those wonderful utilities, free Calculator, unit converter, currency converter and a unique theme store to your liking will bring to you most enjoyable experience. Send feedback to our email if you have any problems or other feature suggestions for Calculator.
DB40X
A high-precision scientific calculator inspired by the HP48 series, offering arbitrary precision computations, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and graphing. It supports RPN and algebraic operations, with over 1000 built-in functions and a hyperlinked help system.
- Arbitrary precision computations
- RPN and algebraic operations
- Complex numbers, vectors, and matrices
- Graphing and plotting
- Engineering units and conversions
- Hyperlinked help system
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DB40X is a high-precision scientific calculator compatible with DB48X and inspired by the legendary HP48 series from Hewlett-Packard. It is not an emulator, but a redesign from scratch, which is faster, and delivers never seen before capabilities like computations in arbitrary precision. Like the original HP48, DB40X supports an unlimited stack, RPN and algebraic operations, complex numbers, based numbers, vectors, matrices, text, symbolic computations, numerical solving and integration, graphing and plotting, statistics, engineering units, and well over 1000 built-in functions. DB40X adds several HP50G capabilities, including a library of equations and constants covering mathematics, physics or chemistry. Using modern technologies, DB40X goes well beyond the original HP48 in many ways: - It is significantly faster, uses less memory, and features a higher-resolution 240x400 pixels graphical display. - Integer and decimal values can have an arbitrarily large number of digits, so you can compute log(pi) with 200 digits in a few keystrokes. - The six function keys feature up to three function per key, giving quick access to up to 18 related functions at a time. - Complex numbers can mix and match polar and rectangular form. - Symbolic operations extend to complex numbers, vectors and matrices. - Based numbers can be in any base from 2 to 36, and support any number of bits, making it easy to emulate a 23-bit or 512-bit processor. - Text is represented using Unicode instead of the proprietary HP encoding, facilitating data exchange with the rest of the world. - Multiple graphs can be distinguished using bitmap patterns. - Engineering units include all the modern evolutions of the SI system, and can be configured by the user, e.g. to integrate currency units with the exchange rate du jour. Converting between USD/hour and EUR/day has never been so easy! - A built-in hyperlinked help system documents functions simply by holding the corresponding key, and combine a quick start guide, a user manual and a reference manual. DB40X will run many user RPL programs as is. However, since it is not an emulator, it will not run any HP binary object, and notably will not run HP48 games or anything involving system RPL. Version 0.7.14 is an early-access release. Please consult https://github.com/c3d/db48x/blob/stable/doc/5-Unimplemented.md for a list of HP48 commands that are not yet implemented. DB40X is part of a family of compatible RPL calculators that include DB48X and DB50X. DB40X lacks the ability to write programs or data to disk, and RPL programs are limited to 40K.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DB40X at none against Scientific Calculator *'s 1. DB40X also leads on ads (none vs shown). Scientific Calculator *'s advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Scientific Calculator * sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DB40X asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Scientific Calculator * against 4.7 for DB40X. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Scientific Calculator *'s written reviews are positive against 67% of DB40X's.
Scientific Calculator * ships an update every 2 weeks, DB40X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scientific Calculator * | DB40X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOWER OF HANOI SOFTWARE COMPANY LIMITED | Christophe de Dinechin |
Customer experience
Scientific Calculator *
DB40X
In-app purchases
Scientific Calculator *
- Remove Ad$4.99
DB40X
No in-app purchases
Questions
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