Calcbot - The Smart Calculator App Reviews

It is great minimalistic masterpiece!!! get 5 stars, please.

This app is a pleasure to use while being useful and beautiful all at once. Nothing less than I expect from Tapbots at this point. They always hit them out of the park.

It is an OK calculator. A bit buggy sometimes but does the job. The unit conversion is clunky. Better products out there, but you will not find a nicer website design for a calculator. The website is a must see for designers.

A great take on the calculator that stays true to the Tapbots way of making apps. The implementation of unit conversions and the various functions available with the calculator history tape are wonderful. They add that extra layer of functionality that makes the purchase worthwhile. Having said that, Tapbots is guilty of neglecting great apps and are generally very slow to update. With the exception of Tweetbot, Tapbots has failed to deliver to their paying customers time and time again. There will be a new version of Calcbot for iOS and in all likelihood people will have to pay again for that. It will have iCloud sync which will be great. I hope to see widget integration in the future, as well as a new versions of Pastebot for all platforms. Considering the fact that Tapbots has 4 apps that were not even updated to support iOS 7 or even the 4” iPhone 5, it is buyer beware. There is an endearing quality and uniqueness to all their apps. Whether it is user facing features that are well thought out, quirky sounds, or icons loaded with personality, Tapbots knows how to get people to buy in. I really hope they don’t let us down this time around. Update: The reason I bought this app was to sync and favourite transactions between my Mac and my iPhone. For months this has been broken. It has been reported to them via social media and email by numerous people, and “we’re working on it” is all we hear. As brilliant as Tapbots are, they are arrogant, rude, and lazy as developers. They made a killing on Tweetbot (rightfully so), and now they could care less about their customers. They are just cashing in any way they can. This app is junk and doesn’t work as advertised. Very sad to see this attitude from a company I once loved. Even Tweetbot is starting to lag as Twitterrific for iOS has blown them out of the water. The long awaited Tweetbot for Mac update was underwhelming, and the iPad version has been vapourware for 2 years. Stay away and save your money.

• No cursor, so I can’t fix wrongly entered numbers. Just like a real calculator. Yahoo! • I also can’t copy the expression for use in other apps, but I can DRAG IT! Found that by accident. • Can I DRAG back into the expression view from another program for instance? No. One directional only. • Can I copy or drag form the main expression view? No. Only when the list is open. • When I type a new conversion type (US Dollars), why do I type it into the value/calculated field? Very weird and confusing. Changing the conversion type should be typed into the place where it’s displayed. Super weird. • No themes like on iOS either.

Call me crazy, but for years when people asked me what my favorite app on my phone was, I had to respond with Calcbot. Sure, I may use other apps more often, but Calcbot is just such a simple way of doing something that everyone uses occassionally and few apps do well. Even without updates on iOS, I still use it regularly. All that greatness and more is in this app for Mac. Being able to backspace is by itself one of the most obvious, yet rare features for a calculator. It would be nice if there was a notifications center widget to go along with the app though.

The app looks great with the Yosemite style. The results tape alone makes Calcbot more useful than the built-in calculator app. I’m excited to see Calcbot 2 for iOS. I love the conversion abilty integrated with the app. I would love to see currency conversions for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

I frequently used the original Calcbot for iOS until I got the iPhone 5 and could tell they were never going to update it. But I’m very excited to see the return of Calcbot on the Mac and soon to be iOS once again. Very simplistic design yet it still “pops” on your screen. Glad to see the cloud syncing features as well as unit/currency converter. Appreciate the History Tape so I can see all my calculations and even the ability to share them with people. For the rare occasion I’ll use it I’m glad it has support for scientific calculations. Overall a fantastic little app packed with useful features. The only problem I have with it is the sound effect when typing in, it sounds like someone is banging an icepick in your ear. I’d like to have more options for sound but other than that Calcbot has already earned a coveted spot on my dock!

I can definitely say I wasn’t expecting to see this be the next app that Tapbots released. And I don’t mean that in a flattering way; it really makes no sense; the Mac has plenty of good calculator apps and Calcbot for iOS, which Tapbots has left to fester and rot, hasn’t seen an update in years (and no iPad version to boot, which is really sad because iPad needs a good calculator app). But all that bitterness aside, they nailed it on the visuals of this app. It’s a really brilliant exploration of the new design language Yosemite is bringing us. It’s beautiful and colorful, and looks great on my screen. The only big fail I see here is that the dots on the division symbol are really light (looks like just one pixel on my non-Retina screen) and easily mistaken with a minus sign. One piece of whimsy I’m sad to see go away: the lack of all the aural feedback most of the -bot apps Tapbot is so well known for. The app has some serious issues, though. When interacting with it with my keyboard I see the calculator register strokes on screen but they don’t get added to my expression, which is kind of a “you had ONE job” type of failure. And the expression I can enter has the unnecessary limitation in that I don’t have a cursor, preventing me from going back and correcting my mistakes in the expression. If I need to surround something in parentheses, I better remember up front to have them, because I can’t go back and add them later. That limitation is logical on a physical calculator, but on a computer it’s just needlessly constraining. For most of my calculating needs I’ll probably just keep using Alfred, which just lets me type a mathematical expression into it (cursor and all) and it’ll give me live feedback which I can copy to clipboard easily.

You lost a start because of no programmer mode! Everything else is amazing. Its a beautiful calculator with very useful feedback, conversions and history tape. Worth the money :] (Did I mention I want programmer mode?)

It is what you would expect from Tapbots. Always Apple (and sometimes over!) quality over what they do.

Far and away the best calculator app for iOS has finally arrived on mac! Very excited about this. My only wish is that Tapbots added a notification center widget, or a dashboard widget to the app package so that I can use calcbot to perform quick calculations without opening the app itself. I have used calcbot for iOS since the day it came out, and I can’t wait for Calcbot 2. Love the Mac version guys, hopefully the notification center functionality is on your roadmap. Love this app!

The sound it makes is a super high pitched awful noise, and doesn’t sound like a pleasant tick like it does on the iphone version. I can’t seem to turn it off, or change the sound, so I have to mute my mac in order to use the app. Otherwise, it’s amazing! Sweep back through all your old apps and launch version 2 of them, I’ll pay, I promise!

I bought it mostly to say thank you to the developers for coming back to this app. It will be useful for me once I can keep my calculation history in sync with my iOS devices. I also love soulver which I consider another great app for tackling math problems on both iOS and OSX. My only request would be let me label history items so can remember what the calculation was. Maybe upon starring a calculation it quickly/optionally lets me type in a title.

I mainly bought this app to support the folks at Tapbots. I’m really looking forward to the iOS version of Calbot and the update to the MAS version of Tweetbot. That doesn’t mean that this isn’t an awesome app. Its great and a must have for people who do a lot of conversions or calculations on the Mac.

Must be incompatible with something else I have installed and/or running. Shame, I was excited to see this in the app store. :(

This is a great first version! Would love to see integration with Alfred or a similar quick entry mode like Spotlight.

Great! The default calculator should be a lot more like this. “C” on the keyboard should clear the calculator (and it does in Calcbot). Love the tape too, and all the conversions - particularly volume which I do often as a homebrewer. Great stuff

I really like and want the history feature, but the app could use keyboard shortcuts for clearing inputs, favoring results, and entering numbers using voice commands.

As a Tweetbot fan, I was excited to see this app and bought it sight-unseen for my calculating needs. For the most part, it’s a solid app, but it has one fatal flaw for fast typers: if you release Shift before you release a shifted key, it doesn’t register. This is a huge deal because when I’m typing quickly, I usually do this. No other application I’ve ever used has an issue with it—only Calcbot. Keys I can’t enter reliably include parenthesis, the plus sign, and the multiplication symbol. I have to slow way, way down when using Calcbot—to the point it’s not very useful and degrades from a top-quality app to a highly frustrating one. I hope an update will fix this issue. I’ve reported it via email support and on Twitter, but have yet to hear anything besides “we’ll look into it”. Here’s hoping for a fix.