Press & Reviews

Press Contact

If you are interested in an interview or other press communication, please email kalid@instacalc.com.

Reviews

I’m happy to say that a lot of people have found InstaCalc useful. Here’s what a few had to say:

  • “Instacalc just blows my mind. It’s such a simple idea, brilliantly executed…” -Download Squad
  • “…a fast, loose way to share numbers and formulas in a blog post or other site. It’s really quite remarkable, I think.” -TechCrunch
  • “Hey, Math/Science teachers, have you seen Instacalc yet? Consider introducing this nifty resource to your students. It makes solving word problems fun and allows you to integrate technology in a meaningful manner. The cool thing is that it’s so darned easy to use!” - SEGA Tech
  • “Cool eh? This is pretty useful for doing some quick calculations, but [a] normal calculator couldn’t do [it] justice because it is too simple, or spreadsheet is an overkill for it.” -Lifehack.org
  • “InstaCalc (http://instacalc.com/ ) is an on-line service, set up for helping its users generate customised web based calculators. Besides providing tools for doing usual arithmetic, InstaCalc provides facilities for unit conversion, making charts and so on. A notable feature of the service is its real-time nature — it displays results as you type… In an educational setting this could turn out to be a good teaching aid.” The Hindu, India’s National Newspaper

User Testimonials

There are hundreds of comments about InstaCalc in the bloglines search results. Here are a few:

  • User quotes from del.icio.us:
    “This is great! Real time calculator (results also come in charts) that you can embed in your site.”
    “An astonishing mixture between a simple calculator and a spreadsheet application.”
  • “I almost got bored of all these web 2.0 sites.. but this one again surprised me with a simple but impressive idea: Instacalc.”
  • “InstaCalc is a web based calculator with lots of bells and whistles including spreadsheet capabilities, unit conversions and programming commands. It’s great for freelancers because you can send clients links to any of your calculations, put a calculator on your website or create charts and graphs from your calculations.” Yoav Ezer, Top 100 Freelance Tools
  • “Web Based Calculator On Steriods…It’s not a spreadsheet and not the typical calculator, and it’s web based: It’s Instacalc. Although it is capable of replacing Windows Calc, it goes a step further to support complex tasks, and even display the results in bar, pie or line charts…there are several features that I couldn’t find in any other web based calculator: logical operators, an IF statement, and a RANDOM function.” - 50 Best Tools
  • “Most Used sidebar app — This is my most-used and most-useful sidebar app. Instant answers as you type. No need for a calculator. I hate using the onscreen calculator so much I used to use Excel to perform basic calculations, now I just use instacalc. Great app.” - JHantla on Windows Live Gallery
  • “There is no registration needed. Sweet!” - WidgetsLab
  • “It’s a very clever idea on the age old calculator… Best part is that it supports variables, making ‘complex’ calculations easy to follow.” - Tee Dot
  • “It’s a rather clever service that lets you enter formula, and works them out on the fly - with all manner of intelligence built into the parser - you can enter common measurements, or units and it makes sense of them.” - PluggedOut
  • “I have a duty to share this with you. While surfing the net for useful tools to increase the efficiency of my surfing…I mean homework, I came across InstaCalc as a sidebar gadget for Windows Vista. Simple and effective it does the job… Little did I know that there was a whole website to go along with it. BEHOLD! A brilliantly simple web page opened with my calculation and more tools for me to use. I was amazed. Yes. Amazed.” — Mike Benton
  • “Now this is my idea of the future. Instead of showing you my result, instead even of showing you my calculation, I can publish my calculator and let you play with it. What better way to let you test my assumptions, challenge my ideas, and generally robustly query my work.” - ThoughtPath
  • “…it is really impressive. It’s the kind of project that people have talked about for years - one can type equations into the program and it just calculates the results.” - Alfred Thompson, Computer Science Teacher

International

A nice side effect of a building a calculator is that it can be used by people around the world. Alphabets may change, but people recognize 2+2 = 4 pretty much everywhere. Bloggers in other countries have chimed in with their thoughts:

German

Italian

Chinese:

Spanish:

You can do an advanced search on Google, specify the language you want, and have the results translated.

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