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My favourite desktop calculator so far is Qalculate![0] for similar reasons, and I basically never have the keypad shown. It uses libqalculate, which also provides a console version of the same library.
It's incredible and I love it.
[0] https://qalculate.github.io/
I recommend https://insect.sh (you can install it through NPM to use it locally). Does simple maths well, does functions, does units, does conversions... pretty cool shell calculator.
I love this, great idea! I don't need the majority of the fancy features but I can see the use case for them.
I built my own calculator app a while ago [0]. I've used an HP-41C as my main calculator for many years and I have not yet found a good RPN calculator app available on ALL platforms. I wanted a simple calculator that felt like an HP-41C that I can use on my phone + all desktop operating systems and get the same experience.
[0] https://github.com/shamus03/ralc (if you're on desktop, it looks much better if you install it as a PWA and resize to your preferred size)
I haven't seen Soulver, but it looks very similiar to the one I use on Mac, called Numi. On Android, I use an app called CalcNote which works in a similiar way. Neither does graphing, but you can do common formulas and functions like cos/sin/rad. I use numi for simple calculations, and find it fantastic when I'm trying to figure out project stuff. A recent use is entering wall dimensions to figure out square footage and compare different building materials. I often leave most of my old calculations in numi like a long-lived numerical memory.
https://numi.app/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burton999....
> The only calculators I know that makes keypad optional/hideable are SpeedCrunch and Qalculate!, and now this.
or theres "invisible" calculators like this[1] that do away with GUI altogether. microsoft's onenote has something similar built in as well
1: https://github.com/davebrny/in-line-calculator
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