This app is a novel calculation sandbox that combines the functionality of calculators, spreadsheets, concept maps, and programming languages into a single, visually intuitive interface. It aims to make complex computing abilities accessible to a wider audience through explicit visual representations.
What We Love
- 💡 Innovative concept
- 💡 Creative approach to calculations
- 💡 Visualizing problems and solutions
- 💡 Useful for prototyping and debugging
- 💡 Good for "what-if" analysis
- 💡 Unique mind-mapping for calculations
- 💡 Makes math more fun
- 💡 Good for data migration and BI
- 💡 "Back of the envelope" calculations electronically
- 💡 Combines mind mapping, spreadsheet, functions, logic, calculator
- 💡 Reinventing problem-solving approach
- 💡 Excellent for illustrating complex processes
- 💡 Visual design of formulas
- 💡 Easier to trace precedents and dependents than Excel
- 💡 Entertaining calculator
- 💡 Makes iPhone interesting
- 💡 Useful productivity app
- 💡 "Work of art" conceptual leap
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Poor documentation
- 🐛 Trial and error learning curve
- 🐛 Mac version unclear
- 🐛 Subscription too expensive
- 🐛 Apple-exclusive
- 🐛 Crashes on launch
- 🐛 No recent updates
- 🐛 Lost functionality
- 🐛 Dropbox links no longer work
- 🐛 Keyboard issues
- 🐛 Lacks manual/help file
- 🐛 Lacks loop structure
- 🐛 Lacks graphing/graphics capabilities
- 🐛 Subscription not automatically renewed
- 🐛 Abandoned project feeling
- 🐛 Interface not intuitive
- 🐛 Clunky on-screen instructions
- 🐛 On-screen hints don't rotate
- 🐛 Odd, unwieldy interface
- 🐛 Tutorial limited to making bubbles
- 🐛 Lacks comprehensive help files
- 🐛 Video tutorials inaccessible for some
- 🐛 Interface prevents feature use
- 🐛 Crashes regularly
- 🐛 Tedious
- 🐛 Custom UI elements instead of standard iOS
- 🐛 Not ready for prime-time
- 🐛 No statistical functions
- 🐛 Difficult to move/link bubbles
- 🐛 No array from spreadsheet/data table
- 🐛 Can't save calculation web
- 🐛 Can't zoom
- 🐛 Interface not intuitive
- 🐛 Frustrating to begin with
- 🐛 Limited capability
- 🐛 Sketchy in-app help
- 🐛 Price seems high for alpha
- 🐛 Limited in-app help
- 🐛 Problems with online forum
- 🐛 Less mental processing than Excel
- 🐛 Needs Undo/Redo
- 🐛 Needs centering
- 🐛 Needs cut/paste formula
- 🐛 Needs colors
- 🐛 Needs search and save
- 🐛 Background fades slowly
- 🐛 No audio feedback option
- 🐛 No statistical functions
- 🐛 Too difficult to move and link bubbles
- 🐛 Help documentation nonexistent
- 🐛 No array of numbers from spreadsheet or data table
- 🐛 No zoom
- 🐛 No scrollbars
- 🐛 Black background poor choice
- 🐛 No labels for boxes
- 🐛 No separation in box between references and numbers
- 🐛 Can't move a box once placed
- 🐛 No visual sign of connections
- 🐛 Needs more functions
- 🐛 Hard to use and get lost
- 🐛 Trippy version of Apple calc
- 🐛 Odd to use
