iPhone App Reviews

Acc Calculator

Jason O'Donoghue | Oct 30, 2011 Utilities

User rating: (4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Acc Calculator ($0.99) by Digital Mind Co., Ltd.

Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Carrying out a search for the word “calculator” on the App Store brings up 6601 results (for iPhone apps alone). It’s safe to say that the market is pretty crowded out there. So when we were asked to review Acc Calculator, I was wondering whether or not the app could make a big enough dent to get noticed.

The first thing I noticed about the app, even before launching it, was how busy the app’s icon is! That aside, it doesn’t look too bad on the home screen and I guess what other type of icon could you use for a calculator any way?

Acc Calculator offers basic arithmetic calculations that are packaged in a pleasantly slick looking user interface. It operates in both portrait and landscape views, with the latter also offering a rather useful paper tape perspective showing calculation steps.

After using it for a while, I think that some of the developer’s interface decisions are peculiar. Seven rows of buttons are viewable in landscape mode and only six can be seen in portrait view (the memory related buttons are only viewable in landscape mode). In both views the iPhone’s status bar area is hidden. I would prefer this not to be the case, at least in portrait mode.

Apart from a few user interface issues, it works well, with nicely sized buttons (including an enlarged addition button) and a clean looking interface. The expected functions are present, including thousand separators, copy and paste and number rounding. It also has a button ‘clicker’ sound that can be enabled/ disabled as desired, which means you don’t have to rely on the iPhone’s mute switch to silence sounds.

I’m not convinced that the Acc Calculator will make a big enough splash to stand out in the App Store; but if you’re after a very simple, basic calculator that has a paper tape then it might be a good choice for you.

Tags: Calculator, Utilities