GeekWire's app of the week: Calcul8

BY Jamie Skorheim  on December 3, 2012 @ 9:43 am (Updated: 10:43 am - 12/3/12 )

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One of the features of the Calcul8 app is a sale calculator. (Image courtesy iTunes) | Zoom
A recent meeting at KIRO Radio involving numbers inspired this week's app of the week.

GeekWire host Todd Bishop says he was sitting around with a crew of people in a meeting facing some calculations they couldn't do by hand and he said, "You know we really need a math app."

He says the rest of the group looked at him like he was a nut because there's already a very useful device for this type of problem already available on most phones: a calculator.

But as a result, Bishop did find an app that he finds very useful.

"It's kind of like a calculator for dummies."

The app he discovered, Calcul8, works in a slightly different manner than your typical calculator.

Calcul8's app description says it's built for everyday situations. It includes six calculators, one for percentage, a sale price calculator, a date calculator, a gratuity calculator, and a loan calculator.

"CalCul8, really does it in English," says Bishop. "What I like about it is it says, 'hey, figure out the percentage for this, here's the beginning and the end, and what the percentage would be.'"

The app is regularly $2, but for a limited time is available for 99 cents as part of a holiday sale.

GeekWire can be heard on KIRO Radio Saturdays at 7 a.m and 9 p.m., Sundays at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Available anytime ON DEMAND at MyNorthwest.com.

Jamie Skorheim, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Whether it's floating on Green Lake, eating shrimp tacos at Agua Verde, or taking weekend drives out to the Cascades, she loves to enjoy the Pacific Northwest lifestyle as much as humanly possible.
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  • Bucket Dad wrote...
    Proverb updated
    December 3, 2012 1:44 pm
    A fool and his money are soon parted.

    Flash forward to 2012, a Dummy and his $2.00 (or $0.99) are soon parted.

    By the way, why put it on sale? The dummy who needs this app, by definition, would not be able to determine if this is a good deal or not, right?

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  • cop4hire wrote...
    Bucket Dad....
    December 4, 2012 5:36 am
    The Readers Digest version of your comment might be, it's designed for an IPhone user. That pretty much describes the level of user with Apple. I love how these writers just assume that everyone uses the IPhone. Nowhere in the article does it state that this wonder App is IPhone specific. I refuse to go over to the dark side. I'll stick with my Android, thank you very much.
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