#Calcbot for ipad update

On the iPhone, History is available if you swipe to look above the calculator’s screen, but on the iPad, it’s given the right half of the screen automatically when the device is in wide orientation, and hidden otherwise. Where Calcbot steps beyond its free rival is “History,” a tape feature that actually records your calculations for later reference-another useful addition if you’re trying to do more than just one-off math problems. Swipe on the screen and you can pull up a collection of additional scientific calculator buttons, a trick that works to expand Calcbot’s computing abilities, but is more complex than the orientation rotation trick Apple developed to add similar features to Calculator.

Small button changes on the main screen include a new delete key for correcting input mistakes-useful-plus square root, normal exponent and engineering exponent keys rather than the memory keys found on Apple’s Calculator, while the numeric display has been split into two rows so that the smaller bottom one can show you an entire multi-step computation before you hit the equal button to perform it.

#Calcbot for ipad update

On pocket devices, Calcbot initially appears to be little more than a reskinned version of Calculator, using Tapbots’ familiar metallic interface and sound effects to modestly update Apple’s three-year-old iPhone app. Currently priced at $1 with a likely $2 asking price in its near future, Calcbot is noteworthy in that it’s the first Tapbots release that looks fundamentally different when used on an iPad, though it’s also unusual for this developer in that it overlaps a lot with the Calculator app included with every iPod touch and iPhone.

After the success of its earlier robot-themed tool applications Weightbot, Convertbot, and Pastebot, the developers at Tapbots went back and updated all of their apps with iPhone 4 compatibility, then released a fourth one: Calcbot-Calculate Intelligently.