Calca Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers

  This looks fantastic. I will definitely give it a spin. I've been tracking what I call "computational scratchpad" apps for a while now but haven't found one that fits my environment/workflow yet. Maybe Heynote will. Here are some others that I've looked at: * https://soulver.app Granddad of them all, Mac-only, proprietary, expensive * https://numi.app Mac-only, proprietary, semi-expensive. Has a Github and claims... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Frequently asked questions about charging, costs, and range

  This is all in calca syntax so you can download that for free and copy-paste this whole post into it and change the numbers for your car or electric rates. Calca is like a spreadsheet met a text editor, it's great. I don't work for Calca it's just a great tool. Source: 5 months ago

• Software Developer Mac Apps

  Soulver. Useful to do calculations. I often find it useful while coding. Calca is even more powerful (you can almost program in it), but a lot less polished. Source: 12 months ago

• Julia 1.9 Highlights

  The flip side to this is that Julia is a very capable general purpose engineering calculator and simulator. For example, calculating friction in hvac ductwork, voltage drop in long electrical circuits, solar gains for windows or solar panels facing various directions, cost/benefit analyses of thicker or thinner roof insulation and so on... These are all 1 to 10 lines of code so there isn't a big porting cost in... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Notepad Calculator

  There are a bunch of these shared here over time. https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/notecalc https://dedo.io/ https://numbr.dev/ https://github.com/iaredreich/calcutext https://calca.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Notepad Calculator

  Neat! I remember a Mac app with a similar concept from ages ago: http://calca.io/ Glad to see something like it for the web! - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• New plugin: Equals (#=)

  Thanks, yeah there are more similar plugins (I didn't know sniprun), the idea came from calca, which is great, but it lacks linux support. What I was missing from similar plugins was persistence, I mainly use it for small calculations for electronics, which I then include in the repository and I wanted for the results to stay there. Source: over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

  Have you tried Calca? https://calca.io/ It works really great on mobile too (even their website is not updated it works fine on latest OSs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)

  This seems to be a shadow of Calca. https://calca.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

  I've found that the Calca[†] format hits a nice sweet spot between using an ordinary calculator and running a spreadsheet. [†]: http://calca.io It's particularly suited to calculations I'm doing by fetching various numbers from websites, and for the most part it 'composes' by just copypasting a calca into another one. Basically where the numbers mean something, aren't stable / I don't know them all when I start,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

  Looks nice! Making the result blocks non-text is handy. Any plans to open source this or sell a desktop version? I've long been a fan of http://calca.io but it doesn't run on Linux. There's some other versions out there but they tend to be flaky. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Six programming languages I’d like to see

  For calculator languages, I think there are several choices. Depends a bit on what you know, and what you need... Frink (https://frinklang.org/) has been around for ages, and is rooted in physical unit conversions Calca (http://calca.io/) has come up a handful of times. It looks pretty reasonable R, if that's your flavor Anything with a REPL. Though the OP suggests these are cumbersome, I'd counter argue that... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Is Numi or Soulver 3 better?

  If you’re a bit technical I’d strongly advice giving Calca a go. I use it for alll kinda of stuff from basic math to testing out programming logic. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Calculator with units

  It might be overkill, but Calca is excellent and handles units well (among other things). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Tinysheet

  Http://calca.io is a decent alternative that‘s available on Windows and still maintained on mobile. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Numi - the only calculator app you will ever need

  I’ve used Numi, Soulver, and Calca. For day-to-day use Numi feels the most enjoyable to me; however, when I need something more heavy duty, Calca can’t be beat http://calca.io/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Numi. Beautiful calculator app for Mac

  Another good one is http://calca.io, very like Soulver but also has simple graphing, runs on mac, iOS and Windows. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Numi. Beautiful calculator app for Mac

  My favorite is still Calca (http://calca.io) - it hasn't been updated for a while, the developer has been working on other things, but it still works for me. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago