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Get Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone App for Cheap(er)

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 12:33 PM

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Wolfram Alpha is a lot of things. It’s a great way to search for obscure information with free-form search queries. It’s a great way to cheat on your Algebra homework. It’s a great way to impress your friends. On thing it’s not, though, is cheap. The iPhone app has been available on the AppStore with a hefty $50 price tag, a price point most iPhone developers would never dare consider. But, in the spirit of the holidays (and to boost app sales, of course) Wolfram Alpha has reduced the price of its iPhone app to a more palatable $19.99 on the AppStore.

Wolfram Alpha is an iPhone app (and a website) that uses tens of thousands of algorithms, developed over 20+ years, to delivers amazingly relevant and info-packed answers to free-form search queries. Input a math problem however you like, and you’ll get the answer in seconds. Ask a geography question and Wolfram Alpha returns all kinds of geographical data. We tried asking it for a date once, but that didn’t go over so well. Other than that, though, the app is amazing.

The new price point isn’t exactly cheap, but at least it’s cheaper than the original price. The $20 Wolfram Alpha iPhone app offer is only good through the end of the year, at which point the price goes right back to $50, so you’d better jump on this one quick. Seeing as how the iPhone-optimized Wolfram Alpha website is no more, the app is your best bet for cheating on the SATs. We kid, of course – we’ve already taken our SATs.

Wolfram Alpha for iPhone ($19.99) [iTunes link]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Warren

    Is this a paid for advertisement by the company? Even down to the last tag line… Folks, for a limited time only.. so act now..

    BTW, if your order within the next 10 minutes we will include this amazing set of knives…

  • pss

    Why would I want to pay $20 for something I can just open up in Safari?

  • Mark Leeds

    This is not fair to those of us who paid $50 and hoped for more features and more updates. This should be a web app. It must access the internet for every query and does little more than a well designed web app could do. I assume the purpose of this app is to raise money. I wish it did more. Wolframalpha needs updates on both ends.

    They should have come up with a ‘lite’ version for $20, but I don’t know how much less it could do.

    Thank you to Google for not charging us for your services.

  • Will Park

    Not a paid advertisement. You really only have a few weeks left – those that want it should get on it soon. I, on the other hand, will save my $20 and rely on Google instead.