macOS Notepad Calculators: Calca, Numi, Parsify, Soulver. Help me choose

Notepad calculators. Text files that can do calculations. And conversions. Some even charts.

I don’t know how popular this cagegory of apps is. I don’t remember when I first learned about them. I used one, now and then, when I needed to save some formulas that I can reuse at a later time to recalculate things based on input.

It’s been a while since then. Today I took a look at the notepad calculators category again.

I have started with the two I knew: Calca and Soulver. The AppStore version of Calca has been last updated 3 years ago. Call it dormant? Dead? Soulver has reached version 3.

And then there’s Numi and Parsify.

This brings me to the main question of this post: which one? Calca seems dormant, Soulver is nice and costs a bit, I can’t find anything about Numi, and Parsify seems to be actively developed but Electron based.

If you are using any of these and have nice things to say about it, or not so nice, I’d appreciate a reply at @al3x.

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