WolframAlpha

The engine itself is great but you're better off using the mobile browser version. There is not search history, tutorials, no way to sign in to pro for more processing time, a terrible keyboard, and the list goes on. Needs LOTS of usability updates. Also as a pro subscriber I would hope that the mobile app would be free. Instead it's 5$ and sucks.

Where do I start... They can answer damn near any math question you've got. With a whole bunch of different representations of the solution. Its incredible. I bought this app twice now... Switched from iphone to android... Worth it both times. Step by step problem solving... Fact checker or just basic research engine really.... Only problem... No camera input so math problems have to be handtyped.

where is my search history? Cache of search results? Where is tutorial mode? Where are news for features and explore mode for all the features? Why there is no side drawer? Show me how awesome is app, i know it is, but hiding info is not goi g to help. Im new to this and dont know what to do except math questions. You have this on your page but mobile app should be friendlier than web that is the reason why i bought app. User experience needs serius work.

This a wonderful tool for me as a computer programmer however.... When I decided to buy this app I was under the impression that I would be able to sign in the Wolfram Alpha website for the full desktop pro edition. You cannot!!! Misleading! Will give 5 stars when I get a lifetime pro membership on the site as I had expected. Please make this clearer on the app stores.

One the keyboard is atrocious it is very in responsive and straight just doesn't work well. One suggestion of mine that would get this up to 5 stars is if there was a "home" page in which there would be like most searched inquiries for the week or month and maybe a top pick of interesting results (or facts ) picked by the staff. In all the app is not bad to any degree and is very functional and helpful I would gladly of paid 5 dollars for it rather than 4. 4/5 stars would recommend again

Speaking as a post graduate student of theoretical mathematics, the mathematical abilities of this app really floored me. Its ability to correctly interpret and solve complex mathematical expressions is very impressive, and I like that it gives all sorts of additional information about it too. The interface is interactive and fluid. Can't thank the developers enough for making something like this, worth every penny and more!

It would be nice if the alphanumeric portion of the keyboard supported SWYPE... There seems to be no way to access a menu, provide feedback, get a tutorial, our anything else within the app. Fortunately, I've used the website for some basic things before, so wasn't entirely lost.

Although Wolfram Alpha is a brilliant piece of software, the Android app could have been made much better and more convenient. The most annoying thing is that there is no history, so when you typed in some longer equation and then something else later on, you have to type the previous thing again if you want to see it again. no multitasking. not even history. that's a shame. obviously no thought whatsoever was put into the development of the app, and what you see is basically just a browser window.

There are so many features but I know the creators can do more. This app will get better and more efficient I know potential when I see it. Maybe connecting to your accounts and compiling data from it. Find other programs that do new and innovative things and emulate them and integrate them. Try. I'm posing the input text box. Have the program ask questions if it cannot understand what is being asked.

I wish they'd add the option to see the way of a solution about series. Where it checks if a series converges or diverges. Right now it only tells you which and what type of test is used to check but the actual way is left off. PLEASE ADD A BACK BUTTON TO SEE THE PREVIOUS QUERY seriously, if you tap the back on your phone it exits the app from every screen... WTF. Why not show the previous query(calculation) that I did instead??

Wolfram Alpha close to the work of science fiction. It's faster and smarter than Google or my TI-84 Plus. Wolfram Alpha can solve any math problem, calculus, algebra, or basic arithmetic (step-by-step explanation included)! Wolfram Alpha can find any information and analyze it for you. Don't let the price fool you, either. At $3, it may be above the market anchor, but it's well worth it. A must have for advanced math students (and infomaniacs). EDIT: I haven't had technical issues as with other reviewers.

Wolfram Alpha rarely understands more than the most basic queries I make. It takes many tries before I find a wording for a query like "what is the size of 1 molecule of water" that returns the result that I want. It's incredibly frustrating to use at times. The app isn't worth the money, the full website in your browser will offer a marginally better experience.

The UI very antiquated, and the keyboard has a maddening input delay that makes fast typing difficult. This app should get a material redesign, but even if that isn't happening it definitely needs sprucing up. Look at the screenshots - the UI hasn't been changed since Jelly Bean at the latest.

I'm currently using this for algebra and after some use I'm changing my 5star rating to 3. The reason for this is because of the user interface. It does show a step by step solution to one form of solving an equation; however, in some cases where there is more than one solution it fails to provide the step by step for those other solutions. allow the user to decide which method to learn and I'll definitely change the rating. The problem was x^2-d=(x+c)(x-12), for d&c. Apparently d=144. Why??

Honestly I don't know why everyone it's complaining about the keyboard, I think it it's amazing! I'm glad you just pay for it once, which it's completely worth it. When I'm going engineering problems and need to type in an integral without doing everything by hand, I go to this app every time.

This app is excellent and highly useful. I actually use it mostly as a dictionary/thesaurus, and the additional functions available just there are quite impressive. Worth it based on that alone. I gather from other reviews that the mathematical capabilities of this app are much more complex and detailed, which is saying quite a bit. A+, guys. I look forward to exploring your other offerings. Thanks for the great app.

Wolfram has helped me in various situations in studying electrical engineering and its subjects, like advanced calculus, linear signals and systems, physics, among many others. However, the mobile app could be even more useful if the option to "zoom in" on graphs, plots and diagrams - especially in the case of frequency responses (besides only increasing or reducing its range), for instance, displaying break points and their values on a bode diagram. Other than that, it deserves all five stars!

This is a cool idea, but I had trouble finding the answer I wanted. I tested it with the question "what alloy is in stainless steel to make it corrosion resistant". Now, I know the answer is chromium. It gave me everything, but the answer of chromium...melting point, hardness, ect...all of the physical properties of it minus chromium, which is what makes stainless steel stainless. I even tried altering my question with no luck.

Their feedback form always fails with a 404 error! 19 out of 20 queries are timing out, so I keep retrying and retrying... Very bitter in a professional app I just paid money for! It would be better if you locally cache results data for when your servers aren't very responsive. At least allow instant recall of history results from local cache.

Amazing app for any STEM related work. Detailed step-by-step is my favorite feature. The only down side is the in-app keyboard is quite slow and not accurate. Like if I want to type a formula a bit too 'fast', 99% of the time the app doesn't register the button I press leading to a typo in the formula. Beside the keyboard is slow, the app is worth to pay for it.

Ask it for statistical operations on a set of data. Or information about chemical mixtures. Or a few other things that I have spent longer trying to get wolfram to understand than it would have taken me to look up the equations and do then myself. This is barely more powerful than a Google search bar, if that.

Quite literally the best math app! I'm studying engineering and this is my go-to app to check if I did everything right. That's this app's strong point, it shows you the steps it took! My only complaint is it doesn't comply with Material Design. If it weren't for that, it would be perfect for sure!

Why should I pay for such useless "English" parsing features... Cannot be used in ANY strict scientific problem. The FREE Wolfram Cloud can be plenty of times up it!

Back button handling is broken. No search history. Not integrated into phone search. Why is this an app again? Mobile web site is just as good, and free. This is an embarrassment. Needs a Material Design refresh and a lot of rethinking.

The typing is unresponsive and a pain to use. Some features (solving systems of equations) don't work as well. Waste of money - you're better off using the website.

I don't understand what half the people complaining expected. They actually thought this app would be their God and do everything they commanded. If you are into mathematics, this is a highly valuable tool, as for everything else, who cares, that's just extra

Wolfram alpha has been an invaluable resource to me. The app works great just about every time with the exception of occasional request timeouts. I wish the app would allow pro subscribers to be able to sign in and have similar features in the app as we do in a browser such as seeing detailed up close graphs and being able to view the results in more detail.

Do you need to figure out how much a blue whale eats and "discharges" as a percentage of its body mass? How about plotting a chart of damage from hypothetical apples hitting different densities of materials at differing speeds? How hot is it if you were flying naked behind a comet, and, assuming there was air, would you even be able to breathe it? Do you just like numbers? Genotypes? Pretty things? THIS APP IS YOUR BEST (and likely only) FRIEND NOW.

Your app fails to provide on screen menu buttons. 3 dots or hamburger will do. So many devices without menu buttons and the app still doesn't support them properly.

The ONLY reason I bought this was so I could have a somewhat similar experience on mobile. However the critical feature of "random" as an entry is sorely missing from the mobile version. It cannot be too tough to implement what is already an auxiliary action on desktop on mobile, especially given that the desktop platform is free.

The options menu is in the way of the integrated keyword wolfram offers, defeating its purpose entirely and forcing you to turn it off. Fix this.

This is a superb app for finding out detailed information about almost any subject. It's like a searchable and automatically cross referencing encyclopaedia. Sadly I'm finding the app currently unusable because it crashes every time it produces a report. Stock 6.0.1 Nexus 6P.

While Wolfram Alpha is quite powerful and useful, the keyboard in this app is difficult to navigate. Two boards with several layers makes it hard to remember where some symbols are located. More focus needs to be paid to UX (and UI for that matter... no application should have 3/4 of the screen real estate dedicated to a keyboard).

Bit programmy on the commands so simpletons like me need to learn it. Useful and made my college course waayyy easier.

Good for doing abstract math problems and personalized trivia-- that's it. No access to economic, financial and commercial information like NFP, LTE, NHS, commercial paper, corporate debt, or even USDJPY -- one of the world's most liquid financial instruments. What little info there is i cant manipulate at all a simple comparison or correlation coefficient). Limited geo maps. This app is better than a it was a year ago, but there's still more work to be done than not.

As usual, as soon as android updates, there are problems with this app's keyboard. The behaviour is weird on android marshmallow, the keys pop ups are flashing and the typing is not so easy and smooth as before.

The uninspired design does little to help along an otherwise useful application, though it's rather useless without Internet access.

Very nice app... Amazing indepth data... About almost any thing! I am stunned by its accuracy and it's coverage... All conceivable aspects about a topic are touched... This is what makes its intuitive too...

I believe this is the definitive companion for math step-by-steps. Although I can only speak for its math database I understand it is an excellent source of other information as well. Although for most general information I don't see how it would trump the simplicity of a quick Google now search. Hindered by occasional hiccups and crashes

I previously gave this app a two star rating for its apparent denseness when trying to get it to recognise non-US centric terms or items. However, that was unfair as using it more, I have to admit when it gets the search right the amount of information retrieved is outstanding. Still 4 stars rather than 5 as it can be infuriating sometimes. If you are a new user of the app, I recommend trying the sample search terms which are buried away in the menu under examples.