ScicosLab is described as 'Software package providing a multi-platform environment for scientific computation. It is based on the official Scilab 4.x (BUILD4) distribution, and includes the modeling and simulation tool Scicos and a number of other toolboxes' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ScicosLab for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best ScicosLab alternative is R (programming language), which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ScicosLab are GNU Octave, SageMath, MATLAB and Spyder.