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Pointer: Soulver

As far as I can tell, Soulver is the only real advance in calculator technology since calculators were invented. It’s a fundamentally different—and cleverer—way of doing math. Enter numbers and calculations as if you were writing them on a sheet of paper, and Soulver will take care of doing the math for you just like a calculator. With Soulver, though, you can easily combine the output of any arbitrary set of lines, updating the combined output when any of those lines changes, which makes back-of-the-envelope calculations a whole lot less traumatic. The iPad and Mac versions also ignore words following numbers, allowing you to easily label items in a budget or shopping list just as you would on paper.

Soulver Desktop has built-in conversions for standard items like distance, time, weight, cooking, and data units, and even connects to the web for up-to-the-minute currency conversion rates and stock and commodity values, so you can figure out the value of international trade deals—if that’s your thing.

I’m doing a poor job of explaining just how awesome and useful (and fundamentally clever) Soulver is, so if you do anything at all with math, I highly recommend trying it out. The Mac version has a free trial, and I can pretty much guarantee that once you’ve used it on the desktop, you’ll want it everywhere. 

Affiliate links:

  • Soulver for iPhone ($2.99)
  • Soulver for iPad ($5.99)

Also check out:

  • Soulver for Mac ($24.95)

UPDATE: Those who find Soulver for iPhone and iPad too expensive may want to check out Tapbots’ just-released Calcbot; it’s not as capable or innovative as Soulver for iPad, but it keeps a history ‘tape’ of past calculations and should serve as a solid and inexpensive Calculator replacement for many people.

Affiliate link:

  • Calcbot for iPhone and iPad ($0.99)
    Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Tagged with: pointermeta
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      It’s true.
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      Drunky sez: I’m binary and hex deficient. Soulver is a godsend.
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