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The base calculator on iPhone is pretty horrible in my experience, but I guess I'm not the target audience. I've really enjoyed eduCalc Classic. It has graphing functionality plus a "guess the function" game based off graph + table which has become my go to plane activity. The unit converter is super useful too.

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What is even worse is the ipad has no default calculator (or weather app).

I was so surprised it did not exist I ported the iphone app as a pwa using Typescript and wrote about it here.

https://mejuto.co/the-ipad-did-not-have-a-calculator-so-i-po...

iPad finally [0] has a default weather app in iPadOS 16, but still no calculator.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23156804/apple-weather-app...

What’s even harder to understand is why there isn’t a good 3rd party iPad calculator app. This doesn’t feel like a difficult problem to solve, and yet here we without an intuitive, good looking calculator for the iPad.

just wanted to link Craig's response to why there isnt a calculator for iPad: https://youtu.be/Q2aaCDNjWEg?t=900

Yea yea yea. That’s why I said 3rd party. I know they long ago decided not to make an app and have given up on the idea. But you’d think someone would step up in their place and make something useful.

Last time I link to my project, I promise. I think it really applies in this case. https://getcalculator.app/

It is a pwa, so you can add it to the home screen.

I saw that but I don’t like it because it uses periods instead of commas.

I see, you mean for the thousands separator. It was not localized, you are right.

iPhone calculator apps are one of those areas I'm "happy to pay for an app but I don't want to pay for a dozen of them to figure out which are garbage and which I like"

This app has a lite version you can try for free.

The one on windows is terrible and getting worse with each iteration. It's obvious no one with any authority cares and doesn't understand why they should.

Can you drag and drop a number into the calculator? No. I rest my case.

It's open source, just add the feature yourself

The default macOS calculator app is also terrible. I can't figure out how to do simple multiplication on it. I'm sure there's an answer but I also don't care to find out. If me typing `5*6` then clicking enter doesn't yield the expected result then the UX is the problem, not me.

If you have an Enter button on the screen, then you are in RPN mode [1]. See the View menu to turn off RPN mode.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

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