This App Overhauls the Calculator For Mobile Devices

Calculators fall somewhere between socks and toothbrushes on the excitement scale, but one new app aims to make them fun again.

Tydlig, a recently released app for iPhone and iPad, rethinks the calculator-app experience for mobile devices. Unlike most calculator apps — including the default app on Apple devices — which focus on the number pad and offer a select few functions, Tydlig offers graphing features, and opens up more of the screen's real estate for custom math functions.

You can have multiple equations open at once, and link them together so that changes in one are reflected in the other. You can also tap and drag numbers around on the screen. You can even share your calculations with others, which might be useful at work or in school Read more...