Calca Reviews

Awesome

andyfang_dz

Frankly the map/reduce function really shocked me a lot. As a programmer this app is extremely helpful for me.

79 - 10% => 78.9 the expected answer should be 71.1. If Calca does not understand the syntax it is better to show an error than to give the wrong answer. Another example, cos(0)/sin(0) => 0 which also is wrong. The answer is n/a or infinity. In addition the app crashes on me frequently. Not recommended.

Amazing

GrahamCGreen

I find new uses for it daily. Google search and map/reduce are awesome.

Broken in iOS 8

GreenPrell

Won't load my documents. Update: The document Calca wouldn't load is now completely blank. That is really bad.

Just crashes on my iPad 3

Ghshephard

I'm giving this five stars because I'm so excited about the concept of a text editor that also allows freeform calculation in a text editor. I should note, that I've been unable to run it on my iPad, it immediately crashes on start up. I've tried rebooting my iPad, to no avail. Looking forward to the first update that hopefully fixes this crash bug. (Edit: today, it still crashes, but it shows a little lined area on the left side of the screen before crashing) Follow-up: one year later, October 2014: I just installed iOS 8.1, and deleted calca and reinstalled it - no luck, continues to just load up a white screen and crash. Having two versions of iOS over two years, and never having managed to actually get it to load, I'm going to have to downgrade this application to One star .

Text selection is broken

graveltech

I love the desktop version but on the iPhone this is unusable. It's impossible to edit the text. Enter an expression like 9*8+12*8 then try and change the plus to a minus. It keeps selecting ranges over the numbers instead of letting you position the cursor. I guess the answer is to just insert a lot of spaces to work around the "cleverness" of the app. Update: the spaces don't work because it helpfully ignores them and goes into select mode.

Good but in need of an update!

I am Jedi

I like the functionality mostly. However it needs to be updated for the iPhone 6/6 Plus. As well as better dropbox support. Calca seems to wants to sync my entire Dropbox directory structure which takes several minutes.

Extremely versatile and powerful tool

Jordan McCommons

I obviously use Calca for complex calculations but found it became my default method to define and think through a problem. Combine it with Mac integration and it's practically as essential in my workflow as a text editor or command line. I love this app!

Great app, occasional crash

Supra621

This is one of my favorite apps for taking notes that require math calculations, though it does crash on my iPad. A few bug fixes would earn this an easy 5-star rating.