Alternatives to Numbat
Calculate with physical units in a typed scientific language. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Numbat
Calculate with physical units in a typed scientific language.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Numbat.
fend
An arbitrary-precision calculator for the terminal that understands units and converts between them.
fend is an MIT-licensed command-line calculator with arbitrary precision and unit conversion, without Numbat's typed language and dimension checking.
Wolfram|Alpha
A computational knowledge engine that answers math, science and everyday questions typed in plain language.
Wolfram|Alpha is a freemium, closed-source web service that accepts plain-language questions and gives step-by-step math solutions, but needs an internet connection.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
SageMath
A free open-source mathematics system built on NumPy, SciPy, Maxima, GAP and many other packages.
Desmos
Free online graphing, scientific, geometry and 3D calculators, plus a math notebook.
Veusz
A scientific plotting package that produces publication-ready PDF and SVG figures, built by combining plotting widgets.
Jupyter
Browser-based notebooks, JupyterLab and the classic Notebook, that combine live code, text and visualizations.
GeoGebra
Free interactive math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, algebra and calculus, used in browsers and apps.
