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24 alternatives to Stride – local-first Markdown-based engineering calcs and documentation
Hey everyone, I’m Weike, one of the founders of Stride, a more modern technical documentation + calculation software for engineers and other calculation-driven professionals. I worked as a structural engineer before and have always found the tools to create calculations (Excel and Mathcad mainly) to be unintuitive, terrible at communicating the intent of the calcs, and hard to integrate with my other tools. Honestly lots of it was just doing stuff on Excel, then screenshottinng it, and then putting it in a PDF document. Years later, I worked as a software engineer and saw all the fantastic…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stride – local-first Markdown-based engineering calcs and documentation launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Stride▲149The AI workspace that plans, designs and ships with you.
Jun 2026 · stride.page · its alternatives →
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A new calculator software cannot really bring attention (https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/) However, I wrote a full article explaining why I had to build something "new" that does not behave like usual desktop calculator softwares : TL;DR All "small" calculator softwares I know share the same design flaws. And the GUI is not the only stumbling block in their poor efficiency. Handling correctly numerical approximations - expected or not - is crucial to trust the results. It is usually not done in lightweight tools. It should. So I prove that if I could do it, OS manufacturers…
2022 · its alternatives →
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I launched NumPad v1 on here a few years ago, and back then it wasn't much more than a thin CodeMirror wrapper around the calculator engine I'd written. Now I've rewritten it as a PWA that supports multiple documents, persists them to IndexedDB, and has a syncing service for paying customers. Syncing is handled by Automerge[1] under the hood, which should make it relatively easy to get document sharing working too. [1] https://automerge.org/
2022 · numpad.io · its alternatives →
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HERO▲382Hey HN! I’m Kevin, the founder of HERO. Thank you so much for checking out our launch today. We built HERO because serious work deserves better tools than paper-based documents built with word processors built in the 90s. If your team works on contracts, policies, SOPs, technical specs, or any structured, formal documents, you know the pain: - information buried across multiple files, sections, exhibits, etc. - repeated copy-pasting - outdated definitions - impossible cross-referencing - version chaos - hours wasted searching for the right clause, number, term, or page HERO solves this by…
Dec 2025 · myhero.so · its alternatives →
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Hi all, just posting an update to my previous Show HN, where I announced a side-project I worked on which was a (web version) of a multi-user, notepad style calculator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997 After a couple of user requests (and having a good think about it) I decided to migrate the web UI to create a Mac and Windows desktop app. After using it a little bit, I feel this is a much better experience than the webapp, and reduces a lot of the friction if I wanted to run a few small calculations. You can find the download links below:…
2022 · figr.app · its alternatives →
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Simple Qt-based programming calculator. Contribute to fellerts/procal development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I figured I needed to work on my coding skills before building the next groundbreaking AI app, so I started working on this free tool site. Its basically just an aggregation of various commonly used calculators and unit convertors. Link: https://www.calcverse.live Tech Stack: Next, React, Typescript, shadcn UI, Tailwind CSS Would greatly appreciate your feedback on the UI/UX and accessibilty. I struggled the most with navigation. I've added a search box, a sidebar, breadcrumbs and pages with grids of cards leading to the respective calculator or unit convertor, but not sure if…
2025 · calcverse.live · its alternatives →
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2016 · stacktile.io · its alternatives →
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Markdown defined task runner. Contribute to joerdav/xc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal based bit manipulator in ncurses. Contribute to mellowcandle/bitwise development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple command-line calculator written in Go. Contribute to alfredxing/calc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CalcMate▲88calculate numbers, dates, units within notes
2023 · accounts.google.com · its alternatives →
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I was finally able to finish this open-source project that I built to about 90% completion nearly 2 years ago when my daughter was born, during my 1-month parental leave, and then sadly left untouched until a few weeks ago. Hope you enjoy trying out the app and looking at the source code! :) GitHub link here: https://github.com/jaredreich/calcutext
2022 · calcutext.com · its alternatives →
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Find information, resources and relevant links for fofpx.com. This domain may be for sale.
2020 · fofpx.com · its alternatives →
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Stride▲3Study planner that adapts when life gets in the way.
Jul 2026 · app.stridebyexam.com · its alternatives →
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A new Flutter project.
2022 · calc-o-pad.thejunkland.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I am a solopreneur in the evenings and a software engineer during the day. In the past, I have created lots of calculators for my web projects and freelancing friends. These were pretty basic, but users always welcomed them. I also used currently available builders, but the problem was that they were either slow, broke on mobile devices, had nonsense page view limits, or were expensive. Some even ticked all those boxes. So I have decided to create my own, with a simple interface, and called it Creative Widgets (if it ever takes off, I plan to add more exciting stuff like charts, etc,…
2024 · creativewidgets.io · its alternatives →
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Free calculators for architects, builders & DIYers.
Jul 2026 · archikist.com · its alternatives →
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During my (ongoing) engineering degree, I've often looked up formulas and been frustrated at the lack of reliable results. Some formulas (usually the easy ones) get their own blurb on Google results, while others are a few clicks away, or are most easily accessed by looking at random university slides on Google images. It felt like, in this day and age, there should be a site that serves the small but noble purpose of being a source of truth for formulas, while leveraging modern website technology to provide a fast and user-friendly experience. So, I made stemformulas.com (with some…
2023 · stemformulas.com · its alternatives →
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Building calculations made easy for tradespeople
Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A smart tool to calculate construction materials in seconds
Jun 2026 · buildcalc-dugt.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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