Google is somehow the only company that is able to completely ruin a calculator app. Even before installing, Google outs themselves with how much data they collect:
- App info and performance: Crash logs and Diagnostics
- Personal info: Email address
- Device or other IDs
- App activity: App interactions
And of course the encouraging message:
Data can’t be deleted
The developer doesn’t provide a way for you to request that your data be deleted
As soon as you try to install it, the app requests network access. I’m glad to be using GrapheneOS where this can be restricted.
The app doesn’t crash on launch, which is a new concept for Google, since most of their apps won’t even start without Google Play Services installed. Maybe that means the calculator app can calculate 1+1 without requiring installing the most invasive software known to man, right?
Of course it can’t. It crashes the moment you press the plus sign. Thank you, Google, for requiring Google Play Services for your calculator app to do basic addition. You know what calculator doesn’t require Google Play services to do math?
In all seriousness, OpenCalc is a near 1:1 match to Google Calculator, so I suggest anyone use that instead.
The cherry on top is Google’s calculator app is bundled with a privacy policy, which on its own is a treat to read through: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Congratulations, Google, you can spy on math now.
They need to spy on math. To see if the User is stupid enough to fall for scam ads, or is a math student which cant fall for numbers.
What’s wrong with GrapheneOS calc app?
It’s “com.android.calculator2” which suggests it’s the AOSP calculator or a close fork of it.
I have no issues with it. It calculates. That’s all I need it to do.
It’s terrible to use, and it has no themes, so using it at night is a death sentence for your eyes.
Fair point
What is u calculating in the middle of the night tho 🤣
How many hours of sleep I’ll be losing /s
fossify calculator ☞ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.math
I have a good experience with CalcYou.
I’ve personally found the behavior of ‘clear’, spacing of buttons, and lack of customization capable of fixing those to be rather annoying. They’re the same complaints I have with Fossify’s calculator app. I’m currently using OpenCalc since they don’t have those issues.
I mean, there are a gazilion of calculator apps around?
Nowadays even calculators have terms of service and a privacy policy that is longer than many novels. Some probably have forced arbitration also.
I’ve been looking for a calculator app for years now that fits what I need I need it for and have yet to find a good one. There was a good one a few years ago called function-something which allowed you to create your own mathematic expressions and it was super awesome, but it’s been discontinued… :(
There’s also Arity. It isn’t the best interface, but it has functions, variables, and graphs.
I was also using Unitto for unit conversions, but apparently the creator doesn’t want forks or for f-droid to host it, so I’m looking for another one.
yetCalc?
I don’t know if it’s on the play store.
did you try calculator++? on fdroid. it has a lots of operations, a function plotter and a floating window mode
If you have ever used an HP RPN calculator (which are clearly the best calculators), there is Droid48, which emulates the HP 48GX.
RealCalc is nice - it emulates a scientific calculator, and doesn’t ask for any permissions.
That’s the one I use. I even paid for mine since I like it so much.
Thanks I’ve uninstalled Google’s calculator and installed OpenCalc
Congratulations, Google, you can spy on math now.
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Why does a calculator need my fucking email address? We’re not pen pals, just do this arithmetic.
Also nice GeoGebra, OpenSource from Austria (EU), online, Android, iPhone
Not FOSS but great, OmniCalculator from Poland (EU), online, free, a collection of 3718 calculators for every task.
I use this one. It isn’t FOSS, but it’s a one-time purchase to remove ads. It has a lot of added features, like algebra and unit conversions, and requires no permissions.
On the cli my favorite calculator of all time is Qalc. It’s fucking amazing.
You can be like “1 km to mi” and it will give it to you.
For some reason the screenshots show the gui but imo the cli is where it’s at
Welcome to 2025 where we discuss FOSS Calculators that don’t collect your data… how did we get here again?
Desmos scientific calculator isn’t open source but it is what I end up using most of the time. It just does float stuff though, it can’t handle something like (10100+1)-10100
It also doesn’t support nearly as many features as the graphing calculator does, for some reason. But it formats everything very nicely and you can copy and paste as latex
