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#Shopping app soulver full#

For instance, the app comes with full undo/redo support: to activate this, you can swipe right or left, respectively. I use Calzy because it blends powerful features with delightful gestures and animations. When revealing the bottom drawer, Calzy cleverly snaps the inline expression viewer to the top of the screen, so the main display will be hidden, but you’ll still have some context as to what you were doing. You can disable sounds by swiping up from the bottom to reveal a drawer that also contains buttons for rotation lock, settings, and history. While likeable, sounds can be distracting – or maybe you just don’t want other people at the store to look at your iPhone while waiting in line. Upon tapping numbers, you’ll notice that Calzy has some nice sound effects within the range of “woops” and “blops” (at least, that’s how I picture the onomatopoeia in my head). A small touch that I really like is the color-coding: numbers are light gray and they become white when you tap them operations are blue parentheses, percentage, and equal signs are white when the display has no numbers, the “C” button is orange, but it becomes a big, yellow backspace as soon as you add an operation. Basic operations are supported alongside percentages and parentheses. I don’t need quotes when I’m buying groceries, so I disabled it.Ĭalzy’s main screen contains the numeric pad and a display at the top.

Calzy has no customizable themes: the only settings you can tweak are buttons to enable the iOS status bar (I did) and disable a “scroll to tweet” menu that shows interesting quotes you can share on Twitter. I don’t need Calzy on the iPad, but it’s nice to see the developers are supporting the platform. But I’m just some guy who regularly buys bread and milk (and, yes, pasta).Ĭalzy is a $0.99 calculator with some clever touch interactions and a Universal bundle. I would buy PCalc if I had more advanced requirements, because the new version looks amazing. Soulver feels cramped on the iPhone’s screen, whereas I want a simple, full-screen solution with large keys and quick access to undo and history. While I initially settled with Soulver – which I bought years ago – and even used it for weeks in “real life” scenarios, I don’t think Soulver is the best solution for a mobile grocery shopping calculator. Soon after tweeting about Calcbot, I received tons of recommendations about various calculator apps worth trying. Calcbot works fine, but I wanted to see whether I was missing out on new calculator apps that were ready for the iPhone 5 and had comparable feature sets.

The problem with Calcbot, as I tweeted in March, is that the app still hasn’t been updated for the iPhone 5’s taller screen, and, as MacStories readers know, I can’t stand looking at a letterboxed app on a daily basis. You could say that, like image editors, I seek out for non-destructive calculators: I want to have access to a stacked list of the single operations I have entered and to be able to delete items inside the expression list. I have been using Tapbots’ excellent Calcbot app for years: unlike Apple’s built-in calculator, it comes with proper support for undo and history, which allows me to easily keep track of the items I’m buying at the grocery store. When it comes to iPhone calculators, I have simple needs: they have to help me when I’m buying groceries.