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Learn math, check homework and study for upcoming tests and ACTs/SATs with the most used math learning app in the world! Got tricky homework or class assignments? Get unstuck ASAP with our step-by-step explanations and animations.
Photomath is free and works without wi-fi or data. Whether you’re on the bus, in a cave, or just offline, core Photomath is always available.
We’ve got you covered from basic arithmetic to advanced calculus and geometry. You CAN do math!
KEY FEATURES
• Word problem explanations!
• No internet or data required for equation-based problems
• Free to use
• Step-by-step explanations for every solution
• Exclusive how-to animations
• Scroll through multiple solving methods per problem
• Multi-functional scientific calculator
• Interactive graphs
MATH TOPICS COVERED
• Basic Math/Pre-Algebra: arithmetic, integers, fractions, decimal numbers, powers, roots, factors da
• Algebra: linear equations/inequalities, quadratic equations, systems of equations, logarithms, functions, matrices, graphing, polynomials
• Geometry (specific textbooks only)
• Trigonometry/Precalculus: identities, conic sections, vectors, sequences and series, logarithmic functions
• Calculus: limits, derivatives, integrals, curve sketching
• Statistics: combinations, factorials
“An answer isn’t all you’ll get from this free app. Photomath also provides a step-by-step guide of how each problem is solved.” — Huffington Post
“The step-by-step guide is beneficial to students that do not have access to a tutor and struggle with solving math problems.” — Forbes
“A viral video about a new app looks like a dream come true for anyone who struggles with math.” — Time
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Want to boost your learning experience? With Photomath Plus, you get:
EXPERT EXPLANATIONS
High-quality teacher-approved explanations for every problem in select textbooks, including word and geometry problems! Learn or repeat math concepts at your own pace.
ANIMATIONS
Detailed animations that help you visualize and understand each math step.
TIPS & HINTS
Level up your learning by understanding “how” and “why” math problems are solved, or remember forgotten terms and concepts with our embedded glossary.
• Payment will be charged to your Google Play account at the confirmation of purchase.
• A subscription automatically renews unless it’s canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period.
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
• Manage or cancel your subscription in your account settings on the Google Play after purchase.
• Offers and pricing subject to change without notice.
Suggestions or questions? Email us at support@photomath.app
Website: www.photomath.app
Facebook: @Photomathapp
Twitter: @Photomath
Terms of Use: https://photomath.app/en/termsofuse
Privacy Policy: https://photomath.app/en/privacypolicy
Photomath is free and works without wi-fi or data. Whether you’re on the bus, in a cave, or just offline, core Photomath is always available.
We’ve got you covered from basic arithmetic to advanced calculus and geometry. You CAN do math!
KEY FEATURES
• Word problem explanations!
• No internet or data required for equation-based problems
• Free to use
• Step-by-step explanations for every solution
• Exclusive how-to animations
• Scroll through multiple solving methods per problem
• Multi-functional scientific calculator
• Interactive graphs
MATH TOPICS COVERED
• Basic Math/Pre-Algebra: arithmetic, integers, fractions, decimal numbers, powers, roots, factors da
• Algebra: linear equations/inequalities, quadratic equations, systems of equations, logarithms, functions, matrices, graphing, polynomials
• Geometry (specific textbooks only)
• Trigonometry/Precalculus: identities, conic sections, vectors, sequences and series, logarithmic functions
• Calculus: limits, derivatives, integrals, curve sketching
• Statistics: combinations, factorials
“An answer isn’t all you’ll get from this free app. Photomath also provides a step-by-step guide of how each problem is solved.” — Huffington Post
“The step-by-step guide is beneficial to students that do not have access to a tutor and struggle with solving math problems.” — Forbes
“A viral video about a new app looks like a dream come true for anyone who struggles with math.” — Time
___________________________________________
Want to boost your learning experience? With Photomath Plus, you get:
EXPERT EXPLANATIONS
High-quality teacher-approved explanations for every problem in select textbooks, including word and geometry problems! Learn or repeat math concepts at your own pace.
ANIMATIONS
Detailed animations that help you visualize and understand each math step.
TIPS & HINTS
Level up your learning by understanding “how” and “why” math problems are solved, or remember forgotten terms and concepts with our embedded glossary.
• Payment will be charged to your Google Play account at the confirmation of purchase.
• A subscription automatically renews unless it’s canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period.
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
• Manage or cancel your subscription in your account settings on the Google Play after purchase.
• Offers and pricing subject to change without notice.
Suggestions or questions? Email us at support@photomath.app
Website: www.photomath.app
Facebook: @Photomathapp
Twitter: @Photomath
Terms of Use: https://photomath.app/en/termsofuse
Privacy Policy: https://photomath.app/en/privacypolicy
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Best I’ve calculator app I’ve used, but one issue
Jan 30, 2020 My math instructor has been out since October and we’ve been having multiple substitutes that can barely teach. I‘ve started to use PhotoMath again as I used it all the time to help me with homework, yet that being said I discovered that there is a feature new I didn’t notice. PhotoMath Plus. I was trying to learn how to do an equation when one of the steps needed me to pay for PhotoMath Plus to find out how to use it. This isn’t all that helpful when I, and maybe other people, want to learn how to do it correctly because this is probably the best way they can while they’re at home too. I had never seen this feature before and hoped that the developers wouldn’t add it in, but here we are. I’m not saying that it’s terrible and you should remove it, but it’s not the most effective way to get more money. Im conclusion PhotoMath is literally the best calculator app u have ever used, and I have recommended it to others and they enjoy it as much as I do. Five stars.more -
Aug 31, 2020 It's a good app, but should have an alternative where you can see more possible ways of solving the solution. Nonetheless a good app, but education should be cheap/free. This is a very good tool for many young children which is stuck home and can't have a teacher helping them all the time, but they may not be able to pay for the "plus" subscriptions. Which would of helped them even more, understanding the solution.more -
Sep 7, 2020 I really love this app, and couldn't stop myself from rating this app with 5 star. For a mediocre student like me, this app helps a lot not only with all of the steps, but also explaining those steps. But, I have a little suggestion to increase the language support. I sometimes feel uneasy because I learn maths in Bengali. This would be great if more languages would be added to it.more -
Amazing app, but I can’t use it anymore
Aug 16, 2019 I’ve been using this app for 2+ years already and it is truly a life saver. I use it mostly for checking if my home work is correct and it is amazing. Explains everything that happened in the equation in an easy to understand manner. I also very much like the app’s appearance for some reason, it’s very clean and elegant. All of this being said, after all of this time enjoying it I cannot use it anymore. This being because my phone’s camera broke. When it first broke, the app kept working fine. I could still use the calculator that is in the app, but I had to delete the app for some time because I needed space on my phone. When school started once again I downloaded it and the app won’t even let me use the calculator because my camera isn’t compatible. Needless to say I regret deleting it, I don’t understand why it doesn’t work now when it did before and my camera wasn’t working. I really wish you could use the app even if your camera wasn’t working, or at least make it so you can use the frontal camera on your phone, I have seen the frontal camera support in other math apps (none of them are as good as this one though).more -
Aug 28, 2020 It has helped me more than my maths teacher, of course there are a few problems here and there like not scanning the exercises correctly and it never scans "±" this sign but apart from that I really love the app. Although it would be nice to not have to pay for explanations, maybe other features but explanation is an important part.more
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It used to be free now it’s needlessly expensive
Mar 1, 2020 Why is this 10$ a month for what used to be free? You do understand most of your users are young people middle school - college and a lot of us can’t afford another monthly subscription in our budgets especially for something that used to be free. I like to get things broken down and explained on how they go the answer but now with this paywall I can’t do that anymore and it’s irritating because now all I have is the answer but no knowledge of how to do it. I understand if your developing new things with this app and this cost money but why charge for the old functionality why not just charge for the new features? Honestly even if someone wanted to use this to cheat and/or get a quick answer it’s still pointless because 90% of the time the teacher/professor wants to see how you go that answer so this app is useless even on that front too! If this app was a 1 time fee to download or was like a 0.99 - 5$ a month subscription or had different levels of payment for different features then I’d be ok with it and gladly support the devs but this app dose NOT justify 10 dollars a month it doesn’t provide enough value for 10$ a month lower your prices. And this would be the best app I ever downloaded.more -
Math photo changed a bit
Mar 18, 2020 So I’ve been using this app for many years and not a single ad comes up (mainly because I’m not at home) but even if I’m at home using my WiFi and using this app to help check my work there will never be an add but now there is which is kinda annoying I admit but this also tells me that the company who made this app now wants money, maybe not like other companies where they want loads of money for personal uses. But besides that I’m just outright confused on how will the photo math app learn to solve other equations when I can’t find an option that lets me tell suggestions on what kind of math problems it should answer for. Also many schools don’t use math textbooks and I’m wondering if there will be modules from mathematicsvisionproject because they have many math problems that this app can’t even solve. Also there is a paid version which helps you explaining how to do the work and having more textbooks, which I see now that this app is pay to explain which I don’t think it’s worth it. Like why would this company charge for the explanation and more textbooks, not ok to have that because they literally had it for free.more -
Sep 7, 2020 I like photomath a lot. But now they added PhotoMath Plus (which is just making you pay money to access tools that they had for free) and if i dont understand how something was solved (which WAS one of my favorite things about this app) i could have shown solving steps and explained solving steps. Now I have to pay a fee to do that. Its a shame, they could've have 5 stars and helped kids with math (especially now that COVID has messed with education so much with shutdowns and online school)more -
Sep 15, 2020 I don't know what happened, maybe its just happening to me. But this app got so bad at scanning equations since I last used it. A couple minutes ago I scanned a simple Algebra problem and every time I scanned it. It would give me a completely different equation.more -
Aug 26, 2020 This app used to be really good. I used to use it all the time. I used to be able to learn how to do the problems step-by-step, but now, they changed that and they want to get money from you. I'm not going to pay for the explanation. I will just find another app that isn't greedy and I suggest anyone else considering this app to do the same.more
- No need to type! Scan math problems with your camera & get instant results
- Learning made easy! Recieve easy-to-understand instructions on how to solve a math problem, s well as the answer
- Having a hard time drawing graphs? Simply enter the equation & see the graph magically appear on your screen
Reviewed by Antonio Rozich on February 5, 2018
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Best I’ve calculator app I’ve used, but one issue
Jan 30, 2020 My math instructor has been out since October and we’ve been having multiple substitutes that can barely teach. I‘ve started to use PhotoMath again as I used it all the time to help me with homework, yet that being said I discovered that there is a feature new I didn’t notice. PhotoMath Plus. I was trying to learn how to do an equation when one of the steps needed me to pay for PhotoMath Plus to find out how to use it. This isn’t all that helpful when I, and maybe other people, want to learn how to do it correctly because this is probably the best way they can while they’re at home too. I had never seen this feature before and hoped that the developers wouldn’t add it in, but here we are. I’m not saying that it’s terrible and you should remove it, but it’s not the most effective way to get more money. Im conclusion PhotoMath is literally the best calculator app u have ever used, and I have recommended it to others and they enjoy it as much as I do. Five stars.more -
Sep 7, 2020 I really love this app, and couldn't stop myself from rating this app with 5 star. For a mediocre student like me, this app helps a lot not only with all of the steps, but also explaining those steps. But, I have a little suggestion to increase the language support. I sometimes feel uneasy because I learn maths in Bengali. This would be great if more languages would be added to it.more -
Aug 28, 2020 It has helped me more than my maths teacher, of course there are a few problems here and there like not scanning the exercises correctly and it never scans "±" this sign but apart from that I really love the app. Although it would be nice to not have to pay for explanations, maybe other features but explanation is an important part.more -
Great app but....
Sep 19, 2019 I got this app because I was struggling in math and needed to do my homework. I downloaded this app and it seemed pretty great. I copied down all the and the answer and moved on. I didn’t even bother trying to learn it. One I went to school and when math time came around it didn’t go so good. I got all of them right but apparently I didn’t do my work right. My teacher gave a whole speech about how she was aware of the things that we can use to “cheat” and she would catch anyone who did it. I would talk about using the app among my group but I would try not to say it really loud. I think she heard me and she also said that the work was not the way we did it in class. She gave me a 0 on all the homework assignments that she could tell that I’ve used this app. She said that she would of gave me a detention but I was honest with her about using it. I think this app should show different ways of doing the problems. And not just for coping but for learning the way that our school wants us to learn.more -
Sep 12, 2020 It not only helps me check my work, but shows me if/where I've messed up and why. Great resource but do not rely solely on this, as there are times it doesn't read it clearly and will give the wrong answer. But a great back up tool to give you a little confidence in the work you already know how to do!more
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Aug 31, 2020 It's a good app, but should have an alternative where you can see more possible ways of solving the solution. Nonetheless a good app, but education should be cheap/free. This is a very good tool for many young children which is stuck home and can't have a teacher helping them all the time, but they may not be able to pay for the "plus" subscriptions. Which would of helped them even more, understanding the solution.more -
Aug 31, 2020 Even though the app is really powerful, it still can't provide as powerful functionality as, for example, wolfram Solve, Simplify, Reduce etc. functions. The biggest problem I'm having is the inability to export the scans as, for example, latex, and that would be a HUGE timesaver for me (keyboards are slow, everything else, e.g. matpix - not usable). So here's a feature request: please add an ability to export data as latex, especially when the app itself can't provide a solution.more -
Sep 2, 2020 I love this app very much but there is one down problem. Most of the question like multiplication and division has the plus thing on it. I'm only 13 so I can't pay for it but may you (the makers of this app) please take off the plus thing. You will get alot more people downloading your app if you take the plus away. You can put ads on the app instead or another way to figure out how to get money from it. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the plus thing off. I'm in Pre-algebra and I really need this.more -
Hey photomath users and developers
Apr 11, 2019 This is a wonderful app. It’s nice to use after finishing homework and checking to see if I didn’t make any mistakes. This app other than Mathway, are big life savers for high school. Although the app seemed to be working fine, after an update, which I like in some cases has this terrible glitch on the camera. IT WILL NOT FOCUS!!!! 🙄. This is very frustrating because I’ll spend like 10 min trying to get it to focus because it can’t see it. I would really ask if this be fixed. I’ve also did some test, it’s not my phone camera cause I have no problem on the regular camera. I’ve also did many things like make the little scanning rectangle bigger instead of small, further away than close up and it doesn’t help. The only thing that SOMETIMES works is lifting it up at a object far away then very slowly bring it back to the paper. Once again, great app, but please developers, please fix this problem Thanks and have a wonderful day.more -
Sep 5, 2020 I'm such in love with this app and it really helped me a lot with my assignments in online classes in school! The answers to the math problems are almost very accurate and precise! I wanted to buy the PLUS version so badly but it's overpriced. It could've have been at least 50% off the original price. Anyhow, I still enjoyed it! I'm looking forward for new updates :)more
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Amazing app, but I can’t use it anymore
Aug 16, 2019 I’ve been using this app for 2+ years already and it is truly a life saver. I use it mostly for checking if my home work is correct and it is amazing. Explains everything that happened in the equation in an easy to understand manner. I also very much like the app’s appearance for some reason, it’s very clean and elegant. All of this being said, after all of this time enjoying it I cannot use it anymore. This being because my phone’s camera broke. When it first broke, the app kept working fine. I could still use the calculator that is in the app, but I had to delete the app for some time because I needed space on my phone. When school started once again I downloaded it and the app won’t even let me use the calculator because my camera isn’t compatible. Needless to say I regret deleting it, I don’t understand why it doesn’t work now when it did before and my camera wasn’t working. I really wish you could use the app even if your camera wasn’t working, or at least make it so you can use the frontal camera on your phone, I have seen the frontal camera support in other math apps (none of them are as good as this one though).more -
Aug 27, 2020 Good app to instantly get solutions to basic math problems. Rating it 3 out of 5 because it still cannot give solutions to many complex math problems including integration, limits....etc. The graphs cannot be zoomed in or out indefinitely. Scanning of problems almost always happens incorrectly. Many basic math functions (like binomial coefficients, characteristic, mantissa, summation & product of series, statistical tools....etc) are not defined. Considerable improvement needed.more -
Sep 12, 2020 As a student I really needed the explanation. Sure I understand you guys need to make money but you didn't have to make the explanation step a part of the photomath plus experience. It was free before. I'm disappointed. But if you guys make the normal explanation free then that will be beneficial to alot of people. Until then I recommend people use the solution from Microsoftmore -
Sep 14, 2020 This app was very helpful and it was a 5 star but now something that used to be free is now not.I understand they want money as their company grows, but the main reason ppl got It was BECAUSE it gave the solution method.Now that has a fee and you can only see the answer.More people are going to delete the app once they find out.I just scrolled through recent reviews and they all where saying how helpful the solution was for something they didn't get it.your target is mostly students.theycantpaymore -
Used to be one of my favorite life changing apps until...
Mar 9, 2020 I’ve been using this app since 6th grade and it honestly was life changing, i would never do good in homework until I downloaded photomath which was a completely free app that not only gave me the answer to a math problem, but gave me a step by step explanation of how to solve it. Great right? That was until recently when they started pumping the app with ads and won’t tell you a detailed step by step explanation unless you pay $10 for premium a month. This app used to be such a big help for algebra, but now I feel like it’s just about paying to get an answer. I get that everything can’t be free, but for students they don’t really have the money to pay for a monthly premium. I really thought that this app had a charm to it, it was a students learning tool that was completely free. I’ll still use the app for checking my answers, but I can’t really get how those problems were solved.more
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It used to be free now it’s needlessly expensive
Mar 1, 2020 Why is this 10$ a month for what used to be free? You do understand most of your users are young people middle school - college and a lot of us can’t afford another monthly subscription in our budgets especially for something that used to be free. I like to get things broken down and explained on how they go the answer but now with this paywall I can’t do that anymore and it’s irritating because now all I have is the answer but no knowledge of how to do it. I understand if your developing new things with this app and this cost money but why charge for the old functionality why not just charge for the new features? Honestly even if someone wanted to use this to cheat and/or get a quick answer it’s still pointless because 90% of the time the teacher/professor wants to see how you go that answer so this app is useless even on that front too! If this app was a 1 time fee to download or was like a 0.99 - 5$ a month subscription or had different levels of payment for different features then I’d be ok with it and gladly support the devs but this app dose NOT justify 10 dollars a month it doesn’t provide enough value for 10$ a month lower your prices. And this would be the best app I ever downloaded.more -
Math photo changed a bit
Mar 18, 2020 So I’ve been using this app for many years and not a single ad comes up (mainly because I’m not at home) but even if I’m at home using my WiFi and using this app to help check my work there will never be an add but now there is which is kinda annoying I admit but this also tells me that the company who made this app now wants money, maybe not like other companies where they want loads of money for personal uses. But besides that I’m just outright confused on how will the photo math app learn to solve other equations when I can’t find an option that lets me tell suggestions on what kind of math problems it should answer for. Also many schools don’t use math textbooks and I’m wondering if there will be modules from mathematicsvisionproject because they have many math problems that this app can’t even solve. Also there is a paid version which helps you explaining how to do the work and having more textbooks, which I see now that this app is pay to explain which I don’t think it’s worth it. Like why would this company charge for the explanation and more textbooks, not ok to have that because they literally had it for free.more -
Sep 7, 2020 I like photomath a lot. But now they added PhotoMath Plus (which is just making you pay money to access tools that they had for free) and if i dont understand how something was solved (which WAS one of my favorite things about this app) i could have shown solving steps and explained solving steps. Now I have to pay a fee to do that. Its a shame, they could've have 5 stars and helped kids with math (especially now that COVID has messed with education so much with shutdowns and online school)more -
Sep 15, 2020 I don't know what happened, maybe its just happening to me. But this app got so bad at scanning equations since I last used it. A couple minutes ago I scanned a simple Algebra problem and every time I scanned it. It would give me a completely different equation.more -
Aug 26, 2020 This app used to be really good. I used to use it all the time. I used to be able to learn how to do the problems step-by-step, but now, they changed that and they want to get money from you. I'm not going to pay for the explanation. I will just find another app that isn't greedy and I suggest anyone else considering this app to do the same.more
What’s Groovy
The app is okay. For more advanced problems (Pre-Calculus or AP Calculus) the app is close to useless. Yes, they give you accurate answers and some steps, but many of the steps are skipped. You have to pay for the Photomath Plus if you want the explanation of the missing steps or a specific step. The camera is a helpful feature, but the fact that the steps aren't always clear or explained unless I pay, is the reason I rate this app 3 stars.
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This used to me my go to app for help on math homework-mainly to check the steps or for help. I have used the app through my 6th/7th grade year to now. I’m now a junior in high school. They have taken off the option of viewing steps for free. I get the company having to pay expenses as it grows, but now that they have blocked solving steps, this has just become a normal calculator. The steps were the key to the success of the app. There could be other restrictions. Examples such as only blocking text books, video tutorials, having ads, word problems, etc. Now, I don’t know what to do because I don’t agree to paying this much. Annual or monthly fees seem excessive for the amount that they are asking. Especially, considering most of these users are children and young adults ranging from 10-24 years of age. Many people don’t have money or no extra to spend. If they do want to restrict this much then they shouldn’t have it for a monthly or annual fee. I’d probably spend $8 for the app over all, up front. This app is not much cooler than Minecraft which people barely spend $7.99 for. With the amount of people who have this app, if you only charge eight dollars for it all, then you would have just enough to pay expenses. The payments have blocked too many of the things that truly matter. It was a great app until they added all the extra fees.
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Best I’ve calculator app I’ve used, but one issue
My math instructor has been out since October and we’ve been having multiple substitutes that can barely teach. I‘ve started to use PhotoMath again as I used it all the time to help me with homework, yet that being said I discovered that there is a feature new I didn’t notice. PhotoMath Plus. I was trying to learn how to do an equation when one of the steps needed me to pay for PhotoMath Plus to find out how to use it. This isn’t all that helpful when I, and maybe other people, want to learn how to do it correctly because this is probably the best way they can while they’re at home too. I had never seen this feature before and hoped that the developers wouldn’t add it in, but here we are. I’m not saying that it’s terrible and you should remove it, but it’s not the most effective way to get more money. Im conclusion PhotoMath is literally the best calculator app u have ever used, and I have recommended it to others and they enjoy it as much as I do. Five stars. -
It's a good app, but should have an alternative where you can see more possible ways of solving the solution. Nonetheless a good app, but education should be cheap/free. This is a very good tool for many young children which is stuck home and can't have a teacher helping them all the time, but they may not be able to pay for the "plus" subscriptions. Which would of helped them even more, understanding the solution.
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I really love this app, and couldn't stop myself from rating this app with 5 star. For a mediocre student like me, this app helps a lot not only with all of the steps, but also explaining those steps. But, I have a little suggestion to increase the language support. I sometimes feel uneasy because I learn maths in Bengali. This would be great if more languages would be added to it.
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Amazing app, but I can’t use it anymore
I’ve been using this app for 2+ years already and it is truly a life saver. I use it mostly for checking if my home work is correct and it is amazing. Explains everything that happened in the equation in an easy to understand manner. I also very much like the app’s appearance for some reason, it’s very clean and elegant. All of this being said, after all of this time enjoying it I cannot use it anymore. This being because my phone’s camera broke. When it first broke, the app kept working fine. I could still use the calculator that is in the app, but I had to delete the app for some time because I needed space on my phone. When school started once again I downloaded it and the app won’t even let me use the calculator because my camera isn’t compatible. Needless to say I regret deleting it, I don’t understand why it doesn’t work now when it did before and my camera wasn’t working. I really wish you could use the app even if your camera wasn’t working, or at least make it so you can use the frontal camera on your phone, I have seen the frontal camera support in other math apps (none of them are as good as this one though). -
It has helped me more than my maths teacher, of course there are a few problems here and there like not scanning the exercises correctly and it never scans "±" this sign but apart from that I really love the app. Although it would be nice to not have to pay for explanations, maybe other features but explanation is an important part.
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Even though the app is really powerful, it still can't provide as powerful functionality as, for example, wolfram Solve, Simplify, Reduce etc. functions. The biggest problem I'm having is the inability to export the scans as, for example, latex, and that would be a HUGE timesaver for me (keyboards are slow, everything else, e.g. matpix - not usable). So here's a feature request: please add an ability to export data as latex, especially when the app itself can't provide a solution.
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Great app but....
I got this app because I was struggling in math and needed to do my homework. I downloaded this app and it seemed pretty great. I copied down all the and the answer and moved on. I didn’t even bother trying to learn it. One I went to school and when math time came around it didn’t go so good. I got all of them right but apparently I didn’t do my work right. My teacher gave a whole speech about how she was aware of the things that we can use to “cheat” and she would catch anyone who did it. I would talk about using the app among my group but I would try not to say it really loud. I think she heard me and she also said that the work was not the way we did it in class. She gave me a 0 on all the homework assignments that she could tell that I’ve used this app. She said that she would of gave me a detention but I was honest with her about using it. I think this app should show different ways of doing the problems. And not just for coping but for learning the way that our school wants us to learn. -
It not only helps me check my work, but shows me if/where I've messed up and why. Great resource but do not rely solely on this, as there are times it doesn't read it clearly and will give the wrong answer. But a great back up tool to give you a little confidence in the work you already know how to do!
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This app saved my life
IXL. This app helped me conquer the most treacherous challenge I could face. IXL. It all started one day when I came home from school and was like how am I gonna do this IXL. Just then my friend texted me and was like hey what is the IXL. And I told her and I was like I'm stressing from all this IXL. So then she suggested Photomath. After that my whole life changed. An IXL that would usually take me two hours only took me ten minutes. I am so thankful. Whoever is reading this just know whoever created this app should earn an award, they are a genius. So if your ever skeptical about your math, or your having trouble just go to Photomath. And its not cheating either, it actually explains the problem step by step to help you, if cheating feels really uncomfortable for you. I already know how to do the curriculum and our teacher gives us hard IXLs because we are honors and she thinks we can handle it. But each of those problems take like an hour to work out. THANK YOU PHOTOMATH YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!!! -
Works very well and it's very helpful of how it shows step by step directions instead of just showing a final answer. Only thing you have to make sure is that the scanner scans the problem correctly, and if it does scan the problem wrong, try scanning a second time and it will usually work then. Overall, very helpful and useful app.
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I Love it
I love this app, not only do the app tell you the answer but it explain how they got the answer, it helps me a lot. Thing
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Best I’ve calculator app I’ve used, but one issue
My math instructor has been out since October and we’ve been having multiple substitutes that can barely teach. I‘ve started to use PhotoMath again as I used it all the time to help me with homework, yet that being said I discovered that there is a feature new I didn’t notice. PhotoMath Plus. I was trying to learn how to do an equation when one of the steps needed me to pay for PhotoMath Plus to find out how to use it. This isn’t all that helpful when I, and maybe other people, want to learn how to do it correctly because this is probably the best way they can while they’re at home too. I had never seen this feature before and hoped that the developers wouldn’t add it in, but here we are. I’m not saying that it’s terrible and you should remove it, but it’s not the most effective way to get more money. Im conclusion PhotoMath is literally the best calculator app u have ever used, and I have recommended it to others and they enjoy it as much as I do. Five stars. -
I really love this app, and couldn't stop myself from rating this app with 5 star. For a mediocre student like me, this app helps a lot not only with all of the steps, but also explaining those steps. But, I have a little suggestion to increase the language support. I sometimes feel uneasy because I learn maths in Bengali. This would be great if more languages would be added to it.
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It has helped me more than my maths teacher, of course there are a few problems here and there like not scanning the exercises correctly and it never scans "±" this sign but apart from that I really love the app. Although it would be nice to not have to pay for explanations, maybe other features but explanation is an important part.
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Great app but....
I got this app because I was struggling in math and needed to do my homework. I downloaded this app and it seemed pretty great. I copied down all the and the answer and moved on. I didn’t even bother trying to learn it. One I went to school and when math time came around it didn’t go so good. I got all of them right but apparently I didn’t do my work right. My teacher gave a whole speech about how she was aware of the things that we can use to “cheat” and she would catch anyone who did it. I would talk about using the app among my group but I would try not to say it really loud. I think she heard me and she also said that the work was not the way we did it in class. She gave me a 0 on all the homework assignments that she could tell that I’ve used this app. She said that she would of gave me a detention but I was honest with her about using it. I think this app should show different ways of doing the problems. And not just for coping but for learning the way that our school wants us to learn. -
It not only helps me check my work, but shows me if/where I've messed up and why. Great resource but do not rely solely on this, as there are times it doesn't read it clearly and will give the wrong answer. But a great back up tool to give you a little confidence in the work you already know how to do!
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This app saved my life
IXL. This app helped me conquer the most treacherous challenge I could face. IXL. It all started one day when I came home from school and was like how am I gonna do this IXL. Just then my friend texted me and was like hey what is the IXL. And I told her and I was like I'm stressing from all this IXL. So then she suggested Photomath. After that my whole life changed. An IXL that would usually take me two hours only took me ten minutes. I am so thankful. Whoever is reading this just know whoever created this app should earn an award, they are a genius. So if your ever skeptical about your math, or your having trouble just go to Photomath. And its not cheating either, it actually explains the problem step by step to help you, if cheating feels really uncomfortable for you. I already know how to do the curriculum and our teacher gives us hard IXLs because we are honors and she thinks we can handle it. But each of those problems take like an hour to work out. THANK YOU PHOTOMATH YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!!! -
Works very well and it's very helpful of how it shows step by step directions instead of just showing a final answer. Only thing you have to make sure is that the scanner scans the problem correctly, and if it does scan the problem wrong, try scanning a second time and it will usually work then. Overall, very helpful and useful app.
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THANK YOU
Big thumbs up to this app!! It is very helpful with making problem solving simple! it not only helps you find the correct answer to a difficult problem but also shows you the steps to get there which is how I learn!! Thank you for making this app!!!!! I don’t use this app to get me out of doing assignment... I struggle with math and I will try to figure out step by step a problem and then will compare my steps with photo math and then will do a similar problem by using the steps photo math provided. Boomers will say lazy students only use this app and that is not true at all. I’m an honors student because I worked to get there. And this app has not carried me there. It has only gave me a stepping stone there. This app does not work for everything but is so helpful to a lot of things. If your using this app and Acing assignments but then bombing tests that’s your own fault. Use this app to learn... Thats the reason it was made. -
As a college student who struggles with algebra like...horrendously...this has been a very helpful tool. Although you have to pay to get the step by step solving instructions I usually don't need them and subsequently this has aided me in trail and error. It is very useful!!! It's kind of like having Sheldon Cooper breathing down your neck to ensure you get things correct, which is a massive compliment, dudes.
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The developers deserve fame and fortune
This is the first review I have ever written. I felt obligated to write it because of how great this app is. I want to respond to the notion that this is an app primarily used as an easy way out in high school math classes. It is so much more. I am a researcher in an area that requires a lot of math to understand. I have a deep understanding of how to use math but had a poor education in lower level mathematics. This map is an enormously helpful tool for professionals to skip over the tedious algebraic processes and focus on the meaningful applications and theories. It is a tool to overcome the failings of your 8th grade teacher, and let you focus on the problem at hand. This is the kind of meaningful innovation the world needs more of. And the developers choice to release it as a free app is nothing less than benevolent. This app deserves more attention than it has recieved. Seriously, thank you for making this.
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It's a good app, but should have an alternative where you can see more possible ways of solving the solution. Nonetheless a good app, but education should be cheap/free. This is a very good tool for many young children which is stuck home and can't have a teacher helping them all the time, but they may not be able to pay for the "plus" subscriptions. Which would of helped them even more, understanding the solution.
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Even though the app is really powerful, it still can't provide as powerful functionality as, for example, wolfram Solve, Simplify, Reduce etc. functions. The biggest problem I'm having is the inability to export the scans as, for example, latex, and that would be a HUGE timesaver for me (keyboards are slow, everything else, e.g. matpix - not usable). So here's a feature request: please add an ability to export data as latex, especially when the app itself can't provide a solution.
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I love this app very much but there is one down problem. Most of the question like multiplication and division has the plus thing on it. I'm only 13 so I can't pay for it but may you (the makers of this app) please take off the plus thing. You will get alot more people downloading your app if you take the plus away. You can put ads on the app instead or another way to figure out how to get money from it. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the plus thing off. I'm in Pre-algebra and I really need this.
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Hey photomath users and developers
This is a wonderful app. It’s nice to use after finishing homework and checking to see if I didn’t make any mistakes. This app other than Mathway, are big life savers for high school. Although the app seemed to be working fine, after an update, which I like in some cases has this terrible glitch on the camera. IT WILL NOT FOCUS!!!! 🙄. This is very frustrating because I’ll spend like 10 min trying to get it to focus because it can’t see it. I would really ask if this be fixed. I’ve also did some test, it’s not my phone camera cause I have no problem on the regular camera. I’ve also did many things like make the little scanning rectangle bigger instead of small, further away than close up and it doesn’t help. The only thing that SOMETIMES works is lifting it up at a object far away then very slowly bring it back to the paper. Once again, great app, but please developers, please fix this problem Thanks and have a wonderful day. -
I'm such in love with this app and it really helped me a lot with my assignments in online classes in school! The answers to the math problems are almost very accurate and precise! I wanted to buy the PLUS version so badly but it's overpriced. It could've have been at least 50% off the original price. Anyhow, I still enjoyed it! I'm looking forward for new updates :)
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Great app
I love this app a lot it has helped me so much. But I have a few issues that I would like to be fixed. I really wish that it had more solutions and different methods. It doesn’t have everything for classes like pre-cal, calculus, or trig. It has most of the course work but some things just aren’t there. And sometimes it’s really frustrating. Also the app something likes to cut out my music, and doesn’t like to work when I’m listening to music. If I have music playing and then go into the app it will cut it out and pause it. Or if I already have it open but I go to different app and then go back to it by double clicking my home button, and then it will pause my music. And if I had previously had the flash on, and then go back into the app it will just not work completely. So then when both of these things happen I’ll have to close the app, and open it again. Sometimes this will happen multiple times while I’m using it. -
Best math app by far
I’ve been using this app for a while for help the teachers seemed to never be able to give me because either they were bad at explaining or didn’t know what exactly they were teaching. It doesn’t just only give you the answers, which is cool, it’s always helped me figured out exactly what I’m supposed to be doing and how to do it step by step. However recently I’ve come back to it because school started up again and I got frustrated that you now have to pay to see the steps just like many other math apps. I lived for the fact it was totally free and was probably my favorite of app of all time for school. Now it’s just a little irritating that I can’t see the step by step explanations anymore, but I only see the answer. I still am in love with the app though, just a little bummed out at the fact that I now have to pay for it, and I would pay for it but I’m a student so that doesn’t really work out too well. -
I love this app it is amazing!!!!!! I just really wish that u would make it to where u could scan word problems. I have sooooooo much trouble with them. Please take this in consideration never the less I love this app but that is why I am giving it a 4 🌟 instead of a 5.
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Fine, but one aggravating problem!!
Let me start by saying that this is a great app. I’m in grade 8 and in honors math. For the first quarter, I got the worst grades I’ve gotten in my whole life! I just didn’t get it. Now, I have a tutor and that’s been helping me tremendously. On nights when my tutor doesn’t come and I have hw, I can use this app to help me do it. It gives a great explanation that I can apply towards the rest of my assignment. The one HUGE problem, however, is that it never focuses!!! I have to wait a whole two minutes for the thing to focus, if I’m lucky, or just have to type it into the calculator. My solution (now, I’m no app developer but I think this would work) is to have that little feature where you can click on the screen to get it to focus. I have an iPhone 6s so I’m pretty sure that has the autofocus feature but it still doesn’t work. Please do something about this!!
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Amazing app, but I can’t use it anymore
I’ve been using this app for 2+ years already and it is truly a life saver. I use it mostly for checking if my home work is correct and it is amazing. Explains everything that happened in the equation in an easy to understand manner. I also very much like the app’s appearance for some reason, it’s very clean and elegant. All of this being said, after all of this time enjoying it I cannot use it anymore. This being because my phone’s camera broke. When it first broke, the app kept working fine. I could still use the calculator that is in the app, but I had to delete the app for some time because I needed space on my phone. When school started once again I downloaded it and the app won’t even let me use the calculator because my camera isn’t compatible. Needless to say I regret deleting it, I don’t understand why it doesn’t work now when it did before and my camera wasn’t working. I really wish you could use the app even if your camera wasn’t working, or at least make it so you can use the frontal camera on your phone, I have seen the frontal camera support in other math apps (none of them are as good as this one though). -
Good app to instantly get solutions to basic math problems. Rating it 3 out of 5 because it still cannot give solutions to many complex math problems including integration, limits....etc. The graphs cannot be zoomed in or out indefinitely. Scanning of problems almost always happens incorrectly. Many basic math functions (like binomial coefficients, characteristic, mantissa, summation & product of series, statistical tools....etc) are not defined. Considerable improvement needed.
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As a student I really needed the explanation. Sure I understand you guys need to make money but you didn't have to make the explanation step a part of the photomath plus experience. It was free before. I'm disappointed. But if you guys make the normal explanation free then that will be beneficial to alot of people. Until then I recommend people use the solution from Microsoft
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This app was very helpful and it was a 5 star but now something that used to be free is now not.I understand they want money as their company grows, but the main reason ppl got It was BECAUSE it gave the solution method.Now that has a fee and you can only see the answer.More people are going to delete the app once they find out.I just scrolled through recent reviews and they all where saying how helpful the solution was for something they didn't get it.your target is mostly students.theycantpay
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Used to be one of my favorite life changing apps until...
I’ve been using this app since 6th grade and it honestly was life changing, i would never do good in homework until I downloaded photomath which was a completely free app that not only gave me the answer to a math problem, but gave me a step by step explanation of how to solve it. Great right? That was until recently when they started pumping the app with ads and won’t tell you a detailed step by step explanation unless you pay $10 for premium a month. This app used to be such a big help for algebra, but now I feel like it’s just about paying to get an answer. I get that everything can’t be free, but for students they don’t really have the money to pay for a monthly premium. I really thought that this app had a charm to it, it was a students learning tool that was completely free. I’ll still use the app for checking my answers, but I can’t really get how those problems were solved.
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It used to be free now it’s needlessly expensive
Why is this 10$ a month for what used to be free? You do understand most of your users are young people middle school - college and a lot of us can’t afford another monthly subscription in our budgets especially for something that used to be free. I like to get things broken down and explained on how they go the answer but now with this paywall I can’t do that anymore and it’s irritating because now all I have is the answer but no knowledge of how to do it. I understand if your developing new things with this app and this cost money but why charge for the old functionality why not just charge for the new features? Honestly even if someone wanted to use this to cheat and/or get a quick answer it’s still pointless because 90% of the time the teacher/professor wants to see how you go that answer so this app is useless even on that front too! If this app was a 1 time fee to download or was like a 0.99 - 5$ a month subscription or had different levels of payment for different features then I’d be ok with it and gladly support the devs but this app dose NOT justify 10 dollars a month it doesn’t provide enough value for 10$ a month lower your prices. And this would be the best app I ever downloaded. -
Math photo changed a bit
So I’ve been using this app for many years and not a single ad comes up (mainly because I’m not at home) but even if I’m at home using my WiFi and using this app to help check my work there will never be an add but now there is which is kinda annoying I admit but this also tells me that the company who made this app now wants money, maybe not like other companies where they want loads of money for personal uses. But besides that I’m just outright confused on how will the photo math app learn to solve other equations when I can’t find an option that lets me tell suggestions on what kind of math problems it should answer for. Also many schools don’t use math textbooks and I’m wondering if there will be modules from mathematicsvisionproject because they have many math problems that this app can’t even solve. Also there is a paid version which helps you explaining how to do the work and having more textbooks, which I see now that this app is pay to explain which I don’t think it’s worth it. Like why would this company charge for the explanation and more textbooks, not ok to have that because they literally had it for free. -
I like photomath a lot. But now they added PhotoMath Plus (which is just making you pay money to access tools that they had for free) and if i dont understand how something was solved (which WAS one of my favorite things about this app) i could have shown solving steps and explained solving steps. Now I have to pay a fee to do that. Its a shame, they could've have 5 stars and helped kids with math (especially now that COVID has messed with education so much with shutdowns and online school)
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I don't know what happened, maybe its just happening to me. But this app got so bad at scanning equations since I last used it. A couple minutes ago I scanned a simple Algebra problem and every time I scanned it. It would give me a completely different equation.
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This app used to be really good. I used to use it all the time. I used to be able to learn how to do the problems step-by-step, but now, they changed that and they want to get money from you. I'm not going to pay for the explanation. I will just find another app that isn't greedy and I suggest anyone else considering this app to do the same.
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It used to be free now it’s needlessly expensive
Why is this 10$ a month for what used to be free? You do understand most of your users are young people middle school - college and a lot of us can’t afford another monthly subscription in our budgets especially for something that used to be free. I like to get things broken down and explained on how they go the answer but now with this paywall I can’t do that anymore and it’s irritating because now all I have is the answer but no knowledge of how to do it. I understand if your developing new things with this app and this cost money but why charge for the old functionality why not just charge for the new features? Honestly even if someone wanted to use this to cheat and/or get a quick answer it’s still pointless because 90% of the time the teacher/professor wants to see how you go that answer so this app is useless even on that front too! If this app was a 1 time fee to download or was like a 0.99 - 5$ a month subscription or had different levels of payment for different features then I’d be ok with it and gladly support the devs but this app dose NOT justify 10 dollars a month it doesn’t provide enough value for 10$ a month lower your prices. And this would be the best app I ever downloaded. -
Math photo changed a bit
So I’ve been using this app for many years and not a single ad comes up (mainly because I’m not at home) but even if I’m at home using my WiFi and using this app to help check my work there will never be an add but now there is which is kinda annoying I admit but this also tells me that the company who made this app now wants money, maybe not like other companies where they want loads of money for personal uses. But besides that I’m just outright confused on how will the photo math app learn to solve other equations when I can’t find an option that lets me tell suggestions on what kind of math problems it should answer for. Also many schools don’t use math textbooks and I’m wondering if there will be modules from mathematicsvisionproject because they have many math problems that this app can’t even solve. Also there is a paid version which helps you explaining how to do the work and having more textbooks, which I see now that this app is pay to explain which I don’t think it’s worth it. Like why would this company charge for the explanation and more textbooks, not ok to have that because they literally had it for free. -
I like photomath a lot. But now they added PhotoMath Plus (which is just making you pay money to access tools that they had for free) and if i dont understand how something was solved (which WAS one of my favorite things about this app) i could have shown solving steps and explained solving steps. Now I have to pay a fee to do that. Its a shame, they could've have 5 stars and helped kids with math (especially now that COVID has messed with education so much with shutdowns and online school)
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I don't know what happened, maybe its just happening to me. But this app got so bad at scanning equations since I last used it. A couple minutes ago I scanned a simple Algebra problem and every time I scanned it. It would give me a completely different equation.
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This app used to be really good. I used to use it all the time. I used to be able to learn how to do the problems step-by-step, but now, they changed that and they want to get money from you. I'm not going to pay for the explanation. I will just find another app that isn't greedy and I suggest anyone else considering this app to do the same.
- No need to type! Scan math problems with your camera & get instant results
- Learning made easy! Recieve easy-to-understand instructions on how to solve a math problem, s well as the answer
- Having a hard time drawing graphs? Simply enter the equation & see the graph magically appear on your screen
Reviewed by Antonio Rozich on February 5, 2018
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