Maxima Alternatives

Maxima is described as 'System for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors' and is a popular app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Maxima for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best Maxima alternative is MATLAB. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try SageMath or Julia. Other great apps like Maxima are Mathematica, Maple, wxMaxima and SymPy.

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  1. WordMat icon
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    WordMat is an add-on to Microsoft Word which creates a tab with math functionality. Part of the Math functionality is provided by other open-source applications like Maxima, GeoGebra, Graph and GnuPlot.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Word
     
  2. FormulaDesk Math is an Excel add-in that brings real symbolic math to Excel. View formulas as equations, plot formulas…instantly. All the tools that engineers and students need every day, now inside Excel.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Excel
     
  3. Chapel icon
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    Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Addi icon
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    Java based and open sourced version of matlab and octave

    Getting more and more compatible over time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  5. MathJournal icon
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    MathJournal is an interactive program for the Tablet PC that provides a natural and intuitive environment for solving mathematical and engineering problems. MathJournal recognizes handwritten mathematical expressions, and then displays a list of relevant solution types to the...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. VisSim icon
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    VisSim™ is a visual language for modeling and simulating nonlinear dynamic systems. With 9 integration methods, 4 optimization methods and over 200 vector and scalar block functions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. calculeaf icon
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    Calculeaf is an online engineering calculation worksheet for unit-aware math, calculation notes, plots, templates, and shareable technical work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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