MATLAB Mobile vs Wolfram Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MATLAB Mobile
Access MATLAB commands, create and edit files, and visualize data from your mobile device. Connect to the cloud for expanded storage and access to add-on products. Acquire data from sensors and your camera for real-time analysis.
- Command-line access to MATLAB
- Create, edit, and run MATLAB files
- 2D and 3D data visualization
- Data acquisition from device sensors
- Cloud storage with MATLAB Drive
- Image and video acquisition
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Connect to MATLAB® from your iPhone or iPad. Evaluate MATLAB commands, create and edit files, view results, acquire data from sensors, and visualize data – from the convenience of your mobile device. CONNECT TO THE CLOUD Use your MathWorks Account to connect to MathWorks Cloud from MATLAB Mobile™. Linking a license that is current on MathWorks Software Maintenance Service to your MathWorks Account increases your storage quota and unlocks access to other add-on products on the license. With your MathWorks Account, you can: • Access MATLAB from the command-line • View, run, edit and create files from the Editor • Acquire data from device sensors • Store your files and data on MATLAB Drive (you receive 5 GB of cloud storage) Link a license that is current on MathWorks Software Maintenance Service to your MathWorks Account to unlock the following features: • Access to other add-on products on your license • 20 GB of cloud storage on MATLAB Drive FEATURES • Command-line access to MATLAB and add-on products • MATLAB Copilot for AI-assisted coding with a valid license • 2D and 3D plots to visualize data • Editor to view, run, edit and create MATLAB files • Data acquisition from device sensors • Image and video acquisition from the camera • Cloud storage and synchronization with MATLAB Drive • Custom keyboard to enter typical MATLAB syntax LIMITATIONS The following features are not supported: • Using MATLAB Apps, such as Curve Fitting • Creating apps with App Designer • Interacting with 3D figures • Opening or creating models using the Simulink graphical environment Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. ABOUT MATLAB MATLAB is the leading technical computing software for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. MATLAB is used in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology.
Wolfram Cloud
Access and interact with your deployed code and content on the go. Build and deploy production-scale applications using the powerful Wolfram Language directly from your mobile device.
- View deployments on the go
- Deploy code and content at production scale
- Interact with mobile deployments
- Leverage Wolfram Language capabilities
- Develop and deploy applications quickly
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View your deployments on the go with the Wolfram Cloud mobile app. Whatever your target, the Wolfram Cloud lets you deploy your code or content at production scale in an unprecedentedly powerful and simple way, and now you can view and interact with your deployments on mobile. Building on more than 25 years of technology development, the Wolfram Cloud brings the revolutionary capabilities of the Wolfram Language to bear on creating and deploying production software systems and applications. With its philosophy of building in vast algorithmic and knowledge resources, and its commitment to maximum automation, the Wolfram Language dramatically changes the economics and possibilities of programming. We’ve made the Wolfram Language available in Desktop and Cloud, so that you can write, test, and deploy your code directly in the cloud, and now you can access it on mobile too. By leveraging the Wolfram technology stack, the Wolfram Cloud makes it possible for you to develop and deploy a useful application in minutes—and build a major production system in days or weeks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MATLAB Mobile at 3.2 against Wolfram Cloud's 2.4. MATLAB Mobile also leads on review sentiment (36% vs 26%) and ratings volume (179 vs 46). Wolfram Cloud's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MATLAB Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 179 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of MATLAB Mobile's written reviews are positive against 26% of Wolfram Cloud's.
MATLAB Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Wolfram Cloud every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MATLAB Mobile | Wolfram Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (179 ratings) — better | 2.4 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.0% of reviews — better | 26.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MathWorks | Wolfram Group LLC |
Customer experience
MATLAB Mobile
Wolfram Cloud
User reviews
MATLAB Mobile
From 179 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Exceptional performance on iPad/iPhone
- 👍 Great for school work and projects
- 👍 Useful for visualizing sensor data
Room to improve
- 🐛 Plots do not scale properly
- 🐛 Buggy UI and keyboard issues
- 🐛 Crashes on iPad Pro M1
- 🔒 Requires internet connection
- 🔒 Cannot save or edit live scripts offline
Wolfram Cloud
From 46 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Powerful computational system
- 📱 Mobile access to Wolfram Language
- 💡 Interesting possibilities for mobile coding
- 👍 Streamlined and user-friendly (for some)
- ✅ Latest versions work fine (for some)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 🐌 Slow performance and responsiveness
- 🚫 Lacks basic iOS functionality
- 💻 Not a full desktop replacement
- 💸 Business practices criticized
Bugs and requests
MATLAB Mobile
Reported bugs
3 issues- Plots show outdated data
- Cursor and typing issues with live scripts
- Frequent disconnections and reconnection problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add Simulink support
- Optimize for iPad Pro and new iPadOS
- Allow local file storage and editing
- Improve plot handling and reset functionality
Wolfram Cloud
Reported bugs
59 issues- Cannot copy and paste
- App breaks up pasted code incorrectly
- Inexplicable reversions of notebooks
- Unable to connect to Wolfram Cloud
- Graphics content rarely loads or takes forever
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- Editing frequently glitches
- Keyboard shortcuts not supported
- Notebooks don't refresh or reload
- Slow to open notebooks
- Multitasking not supported
- Voiceover doesn't announce add button
- Insertion point doesn't move as desired on Mac
- App is largely inaccessible with Voiceover
- Sign in screen stuck on loading
- Cannot adapt to iPad mini 6, large black borders
- Files accessible only for 60 days
- Logs out every 30 minutes of inactivity
- On-screen keyboard has no copy/paste buttons
- On-screen keyboard obstructs view of functions
- Unable to type
- Unable to log in
- Frequent connection dropouts
- On-screen keyboard takes up more than half screen
- On-screen keyboard sometimes does not show up
- Cannot copy/paste individual parts in text boxes
- Cannot mark or copy text when coding
- Cannot move cursor using keyboard
- Cannot get a connection for several days
- App is hopelessly unresponsive and sluggish
- Notebooks do not fit screen size well
- Zooming in is a pain
- Copying and pasting is impossible
- Incompatible with iPad Pro keyboard
- Page scrolling is not responding well
- Keyboard sometimes does not show up
- Plot range does not work
- On-screen keyboard covers input cell
- Cursor will not stay on the line being edited
- Cannot hide input cells easily
- Cannot log in to the app (but can in Safari)
- App doesn't work on iPhone X
- Cannot show notebooks on Apple Watch
- Arrow keys for keyboards don't work
- Cannot edit anything with the keyboard
- Browser app doesn't work
- Not usable in its current form
- Cannot select input cell sometimes
- External keyboard not accepted
- Creating and editing input is a hassle
- Cannot create a cell on iOS 9.2.1
- Panel at the bottom of the screen is invisible
- App doesn't respond to keystrokes from keyboard
- Doesn't respond to cursor inputs from keyboard
- Intermittent bug with keyboard input
- Cannot use notebook
- Cannot use Mathematica offline
- Creating a notebook gives a blank page with no input
- Mostly blank space with no controls visible when creating a notebook
- Suffers from lack of touch UI optimization
Requested features
12 requests- Add support for direction keys on iPad Pro Smart Keyboard
- Improve UI for iPhone X display
- Allow offline use of Mathematica
- Enable manipulation of plotting results and animations
- Support using iPad sensors and camera for functions like CurrentImage[]
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- More frequent updates
- Improve copy and paste functionality
- Allow importing and exporting documents via local storage
- Enable full Mathematica experience without separate CDF Player
- Improve touch UI optimization for selecting cells and activating cursors
- Add dark mode option
- Provide a user manual or directions on how to use the app
In-app purchases
MATLAB Mobile
No in-app purchases
Wolfram Cloud
No in-app purchases
