MathStudio vs Maple Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MathStudio
This powerful app offers a symbolic graphing calculator with a scripting language for complex computations and visualizations. It bridges the gap between technology and imagination, allowing users to create interactive plots and animations. Ideal for students, teachers, and engineers, it provides hundreds of mathematical functions and syncs across devices.
- Symbolic graphing calculator
- Expressive scripting language
- Interactive plots and animations
- Hundreds of mathematical functions
- iCloud document syncing
- Computer algebra system
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MathStudio brings unprecedented computational power to your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. From building simple algorithms to creating interactive plots and animations, MathStudio bridges the gap between technology and your imagination. "It is a programming tour-de-force, and really does provide a substantial subset of the functionality of desktop powerhouses like Mathematica and Maple." ▸ Simply the best calc app by ilachina Develop your ideas to their fullest extent with MathStudio's expressive scripting language that features new syntax to do amazing things with just a few lines of code. Research and development in the scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields almost always involves the need for a scripting language to take your results one step further. Sync your documents with iCloud and have access from any device including your Mac. "Perfect app for quick, powerful computation and visualization. I keep using it instead of Mathematica on my home computer because it's just so convenient. I can't believe how well it renders the evolution of such complex systems. I am blown away." ▸ Mini Mathematica by Professor Dave MathStudio goes beyond a traditional graphing calculator by combining the power of the fastest proprietary computer algebra system available on iOS that can create cartesian, parametric, polar, implicit, vector fields, cylindrical, spherical, regression and image plots. Plot time graphs using the T variable to create animated plots that graph in space and time! "This app really goes beyond your typical graphing calculator as well. How? By allowing you to interact with the graphs that you generate by touching them! I could go on and on about this app, but If you're still reading this review, let's just say that you're probably not going to find a better graphing calculator than this in the App Store." ▸ Replace your old graphing calculator! by AppShouter From basic calculations to college calculus, MathStudio is a full featured scientific calculator and is an indispensable tool for students, teachers and engineers. It provides features that go beyond what you will find in traditional TI calculators with a modern and intuitive interface with hundreds of mathematical functions that cover Basic Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Statistics, Finite Math and Linear Algebra. "This app is way more than a graphing calculator. Capabilities like solving differential equations, preforming matrix factorizations and many more place it in a league of its own for hand held computation. The interface is simple and the extensive catalog makes it easy to quickly learn how to execute any operation. As an undergraduate math and physics student, this app has completely replaced my TI and drastically reduced the time I spend on MATLAB and Mathematica. I would recommend MathStudio to anyone!" ▸ Amazing Capabilities by Mac-Lover From unit conversions to compound unit arithmetic, MathStudio includes complete support for units with intuitive syntax. Plot lists of data with powerful regression analysis functions, invert and multiply matrices, calculate determinants, solve derivatives, integrals, limits, differential equations and more with the most powerful computing app available on iOS. "This app offers so much, and everyone can learn from it. Amazing 3D graphics, intuitively designed with the end user in mind. It is apps such as MathStudio, that show us why the App Store for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is by far the best for mobile devices." ▸ Creatively genius by howwaya Are you a user from Mathematica or MATLAB? MathStudio offers much of the same functionality! For more help getting starting using MathStudio visit our discussion forums. http://discuss.mathstud.io
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Maple Calculator at Free against MathStudio's $19.99. Maple Calculator also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 170). MathStudio's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Maple Calculator is free to download; MathStudio costs $19.99 up front. Maple Calculator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. MathStudio asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for MathStudio against 4.7 for Maple Calculator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maple Calculator has 1.5K ratings behind it against 170, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of MathStudio's written reviews are positive against 62% of Maple Calculator's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MathStudio | Maple Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (170 ratings) | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better | 62.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 170 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pomegranate Apps LLC | Maplesoft |
Customer experience
MathStudio
Maple Calculator
Bugs and requests
MathStudio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
MathStudio
No in-app purchases
Maple Calculator
- 1 month$6.991 Month
- 6 months$25.996 Months
- 12 months$29.991 Year
Questions
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