Are you a serious user who can pay $50 to find out what relation is your ”mother’s father’s nephew” to you? If yes, as you may know, Wolfram Alpha’s native iPhone app has arrived at the App Store with a pricy tag. It has an optimized interface for iPhone to access the “vast resources” of Wolfram|Alpha computation knowledge engine, as per the company.

The search engine site describes the app like this “The Wolfram|Alpha app is an indispensable tool for almost any iPhone user, including: financial analysts physicians scientists engineers students teachers journalists parents economists nutritionists systems analysts marketing managers pilots sportsmen and many, many more…”

Yes, it’s a tool for everyone who can squander $50 for almost same information that’s freely available through safari browser rather.

Although the app provides more features like special notation keyboard, customized iPhone output, editable history, and integration with maps and other iPhone services on the native client, the required information can be accessed through safari browser.

Here are few safari browser screenshots that I compared against the app’s gallery images. I got same result without burning a hole in my wallet.

Wolfram|Alpha wants to target the app at the high-end iPhone users. Well, I am not one of them like most of the iphone users. If at all I need to compute any formulae, I can do it at free of cost. You know how.

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