Google is somehow the only company that is able to completely ruin a calculator app. Even before installing, Google outs themselves with how much data they collect:
- App info and performance: Crash logs and Diagnostics
- Personal info: Email address
- Device or other IDs
- App activity: App interactions
And of course the encouraging message:
Data can’t be deleted
The developer doesn’t provide a way for you to request that your data be deleted
As soon as you try to install it, the app requests network access. I’m glad to be using GrapheneOS where this can be restricted.
The app doesn’t crash on launch, which is a new concept for Google, since most of their apps won’t even start without Google Play Services installed. Maybe that means the calculator app can calculate 1+1 without requiring installing the most invasive software known to man, right?
Of course it can’t. It crashes the moment you press the plus sign. Thank you, Google, for requiring Google Play Services for your calculator app to do basic addition. You know what calculator doesn’t require Google Play services to do math?
In all seriousness, OpenCalc is a near 1:1 match to Google Calculator, so I suggest anyone use that instead.
The cherry on top is Google’s calculator app is bundled with a privacy policy, which on its own is a treat to read through: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Congratulations, Google, you can spy on math now.
On the cli my favorite calculator of all time is Qalc. It’s fucking amazing.
You can be like “1 km to mi” and it will give it to you.
For some reason the screenshots show the gui but imo the cli is where it’s at
Thanks I’ve uninstalled Google’s calculator and installed OpenCalc
Why does a calculator need my fucking email address? We’re not pen pals, just do this arithmetic.
Data can’t be deleted
The developer doesn’t provide a way for you to request that your data be deleted
Not big fans of the GDRP I assume 😂
2 plus 2 is 4 minus 1. That’s 3. Quick maths.
How many lights do you see?
They need to spy on math. To see if the User is stupid enough to fall for scam ads, or is a math student which cant fall for numbers.
fossify calculator ☞ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.math
Welcome to 2025 where we discuss FOSS Calculators that don’t collect your data… how did we get here again?
Congratulations, Google, you can spy on math now.
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Also nice GeoGebra, OpenSource from Austria (EU), online, Android, iPhone
Not FOSS but great, OmniCalculator from Poland (EU), online, free, a collection of 3718 calculators for every task.
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Funnily enough, calculator is one of the few proprietary apps I’ve paid for and still happily lose. Wolfram alpha just does many things that other calculators don’t.
Nowadays even calculators have terms of service and a privacy policy that is longer than many novels. Some probably have forced arbitration also.
What’s wrong with GrapheneOS calc app?
It’s “com.android.calculator2” which suggests it’s the AOSP calculator or a close fork of it.
I have no issues with it. It calculates. That’s all I need it to do.
It’s terrible to use, and it has no themes, so using it at night is a death sentence for your eyes.
Fair point
What is u calculating in the middle of the night tho 🤣
How many hours of sleep I’ll be losing /s
The last time I wanted to do something for privacy, someone laughed at me saying “They don’t want to make a google mail because google spies on us”. Eh I wish you could read all this shit but you’re old and you don’t care about privacy ig
I have a good experience with CalcYou.
I’ve personally found the behavior of ‘clear’, spacing of buttons, and lack of customization capable of fixing those to be rather annoying. They’re the same complaints I have with Fossify’s calculator app. I’m currently using OpenCalc since they don’t have those issues.
You mean the margins between the rounded buttons?
