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Calca App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Calca app received 23 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Calca? Can you share your negative thoughts about calca?
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✓ Wanted to love it, but implementation disappointsI love the idea and design of this app. Combining Markdown and Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha presses all the right buttons for me. As soon as I read the app description, I needed it in my life. I was ready to donate before even downloading it. However, once I downloaded the app, I found it... lacking. The idea is great, but the app is buggy/"quirky". I find myself fighting with the interface, tapping on something over and over to get it to register the right action. The Markdown syntax extensions for doing calculations sounds great, but the app makes it hard to enter the correct equations, and get the desired result. Even the built-in example notebooks, which should showcase the app's features, don't completely work (one notebook, for instance, uses an undefined variable, causing it to fail to run). Overall, the quirks and bugs make the app more frustrating to use than not. For now, I'm sticking with Tydlig for interactive, explanatory calculations, and will copy+paste results into my Markdown editor if I need to write up text..Version: 1.4
✓ In-App PurchasesVery upset at the intrusive “Become a Patron” buttons, especially after paying for this software on both Mac and iOS..Version: 1.4
✓ Does not work with iPad keyboard - 12 months waitingHas not worked with the iPad magic keyboard for more than 12 months..Version: 1.5.1
✓ CrashesNeeds fixing ASAP - Opens initially , but on re launching it Crashes on opening. Uninstalled and re-installed but still crashes every time (iPad4 iOS8.4).Version: 1.4
✓ In app purchases?!?I just updated hoping it would fixed the crashing and cursor bugs, but am slightly annoyed with the “optional” in app purchases (which don’t add any features) in the form of multiple ads on the file list. I have paid for the app and never really used it yet due to bugs, and they now want me to pay extra for no reason? I really have high hopes for this app and might be inclined to make that donation if the bugs are gone and the request is less obtrusive. Fine, show it in the settings and/or maybe ask for it once in a blue moon. Don’t put it as both an icon in the file list as well as a banner that makes the file list smaller..Version: 1.4
✓ Great but abandonwareNo support for files app or document browser. Documents have to be on iCloud/local only, which really holds it back for my use case..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Not supportedApp crashes and it doesn’t look like it’s supported any longer..Version: 1.4
✓ Hi there?Anybody update the app? The buttons cannot adapt to iOS 13. I can’t click some of them!.Version: 1.5
✓ Horrible on iPadOSThe macOS app is great so obviously I went to get the iPadOS version. However, this is this version is buggy to the point of being unusable. Typing digits with a keyboard does bizarre things. For a numerical calculator it's pretty important that I can actually enter numbers ffs..Version: 1.5
✓ OverratedDifficult to use not very friendly. If you have not used this type of app before don't bother to use this one. It lacks a user guide. Took me an hour to figure it out to perform a caculation..Version: 1.2.2
✓ Not functional with Magic KeyboardThis is really too bad because I have been using Calca for years, and there still isn’t anything that compares. You can work around the input bugs by changing your calculations to text with a #, but it’s a pretty bad experience..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Obnoxious 'donate' pop upsThe creators call it a voluntary donation, but I have never seen an app that forces even half as many "would you like to give us money?" pop ups while using it. What's worse is it disrupts your workflow as you can only make the pop up go away by specifically pressing the small "done" button on it..Version: 1.4
✓ Text selection no longer worksUsed to be a dope app. I’m guessing something on the iOS API side broke the old behaviour…. or else the text selection behaviour is just stupid. I have been trying to select BEFORE a number and it keeps incrementing/decrementing the values instead of allowing normal text selection to work..Version: 1.5.1
✓ No longer usable on iPadWhen you're using the Magic Keyboard, you can't type in numbers anymore. Once you type a number, it switches into this weird overwrite mode, where every number you type overwrites the current number. For example, let's say you want to type 1234. You'll type 1, which will appear. Then 2 overwrites 1. And then 3 overwrites 2. And then 4 overwrites 3. So instead of 1234, you just get 4. Useless..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Just crashes on my iPad 3I'm giving this five stars because I'm so excited about the concept of a text editor that also allows freeform calculation in a text editor. I should note, that I've been unable to run it on my iPad, it immediately crashes on start up. I've tried rebooting my iPad, to no avail. Looking forward to the first update that hopefully fixes this crash bug. (Edit: today, it still crashes, but it shows a little lined area on the left side of the screen before crashing) Follow-up: one year later, October 2014: I just installed iOS 8.1, and deleted calca and reinstalled it - no luck, continues to just load up a white screen and crash. Having two versions of iOS over two years, and never having managed to actually get it to load, I'm going to have to downgrade this application to One star ..Version: 1.2.2
✓ DeadPls optimize for X/Xs screens. ya dig?.Version: 1.4
✓ Has good potential but currently lacking.It's a decent app but it's actually lacking in useful features that makes it barely stand out against proper spreadsheet, calculator and note taking apps. At the moment it's better to get separate apps then to use this, IMO. Firstly, it's really quite awkward at times. The swipe to change number is more annoying than useful with no way to turn it off. There should also be more of a distinction between "code" and text — indenting is OK, but it's better to have a set area for code ala XML tags or Mathematica. Secondly, considering it says it "loves" units, it doesn't support creating more complicated units that are not directly proportional such as °C or °F (which aren't in the app) or logarithmic like decibels. Finally, plots are good but the plot function isn't consistent and can't support more than one parametric plots at once, which is quite terrible for plotting experiments, etc..Version: 1.5
✓ Fantastic app being ruined by poor maintenanceEasily one of my favorite and most useful apps. Unfortunately I have been relegated to mostly using this on my mac these days because it doesn't work in landscape with the on screen or bluetooth keyboards. PLEASE Fix this so I can go back to recommending this and making it a 4-5 star app again. For those that like it, seems it works in portrait mode now... doesn't help if you have a case/keyboard that has you using landscape most of the time... but at least it works..Version: 1.3.1
✓ Fix Key Press issueNo matter how well the app computes Math, it does not respond to key presses. Having to repress keys constantly is a non-starter. Reviews Indicate this has been a problem for more than 2 years. It cannot be hard to fix..Version: 1.5
✓ Buggy with external keyboardThe app works well when it’s detached from an external keyboard. However when attached with an external keyboard, it’s not usable at all . The cursor keeps jumping back and forward. Please please fix the usability issue with external keyboard. I really want to love this app. Thanks..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Really wanna like this appSeems like google doesn’t know the answer to a lot of questions i’m no good at maths thought this might help.Version: 1.4
✓ Buggy on iPad ProWorks well on my iPhone, but seems buggy on new iPad Pro... keyboard is truncated in portrait mode and => key doesn’t work in landscape mode..Version: 1.5
✓ Lack of support and featuresWe've been waiting for almost 2 years for simple date calculation to be implemented... I had high hopes.Version: 1.4
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