Ascend Alternatives

MATLAB

Enterprise-class computing environment and programming language for numerical computation.

Features:

• File-sync
• Simulink
• Batch plotting
• Embedded debugger

GNU Octave

Octave is a computer program for performing numerical computations which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU...

R (programming language)

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at...

Features:

• Automatic data loading
• Data Mining

Mathematica

Definitive technical computing system spanning machine learning and neural networks, data science, visualizations and much more.

Features:

• Symbolic Computation
• Calculus solving
• Constructive geometry
• Equation solving
• Graphing calculator
• Algebra
• Graphical component

Sage

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based...

Scilab

Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is...

Maxima

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary...

Features:

• Symbolic Computation
• Algebra

Spyder

Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a free open-source Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and light-weighted software, available...

Features:

• Python
• Python IDE

wxMaxima

wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima uses wxWidgets and runs natively on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. wxMaxima provides...

Xcos

Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated. Features Palettes Browser ...