Live Computer Algebra and Spectacular Graphing
A symbolic algebra and graphing platform for the rest of us — visual exploration and intuitive interaction without writing code. Looks like math. Feels like math. No programming headaches.
Free LiveMath Viewer Mode · macOS · Windows · Linux Ubuntu · ChromeOS
A steady-state machine — edit, animate, explore.
Notebooks that read like the math on your paper.
Symbolic algebra without scripting headaches.
One app. Mac, Windows, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone & iPad, Android phones & tablets — ARM64 and Intel64.
Not a black box
Unlike other math programs (or now chatbots) that just give you the output answer, LiveMath emulates how you do mathematics on paper. Present as few or as many intermediate steps as you wish, edit anything, and the whole notebook stays live. That’s the LIVE in LiveMath.
Version 4.5 · August 2026
LiveMath 4.0 rebuilt the application on a modern cross-platform foundation. What 4.5 does with that foundation is the larger story: LiveMath now runs on every screen you own, reads for free, speaks fifteen languages, and is faster everywhere. The mathematical engine underneath is the same one you know — the same propositions, the same manipulations, the same notebook philosophy.
LiveMath 4.5 ships simultaneously on macOS, Windows, Linux, iPad and iPhone, Android and Chromebook. A notebook saved on any of them opens on all of them: the .the format is identical everywhere, and Cmd-versus-Ctrl conventions are mapped automatically.
LiveMath is now free to download on every platform. An unlicensed copy reads any notebook — every plot draws, every animation runs — replacing the old time-limited trial. Send someone a notebook and they can read it faithfully with nothing to buy.
New in 4.5: LiveMath reads mathematics aloud. It reads structure rather than symbols left to right, walks a whole notebook karaoke-style with each proposition highlighted, and uses your system’s own voices. It is also a proofreading tool — an expression that sounds wrong usually is wrong.
On phones, tablets and small windows LiveMath runs a single-window shell with a docked vertical palette. Drag a selection to substitute, drag across the notebook to marquee-select, flick to pan or rotate a graph, pinch to zoom the plot window. Several gestures are better than the mouse versions they generalise.
On a keyboardless device LiveMath brings its own keyboard, tuned for mathematics — the characters, operators and navigation keys a notebook actually needs, without fighting the system keyboard’s auto-correct.
The new Flow primitive draws differential equations directly: vector fields, phase portraits, higher-order equations, acceleration fields, flows in three dimensions and in other coordinate systems. Click the graph to drop initial conditions.
Transform, manipulate, invert — and step through every stage of the work, with the derivation staying live on the page.
Graph 2D and 3D inequalities and systems of them, shade feasible sets in three dimensions, and solve linear-programming problems graphically with bounds you can edit.
A Shape primitive with its own library — Platonic and Archimedean solids and more — rendered as real objects you can rotate, animate and dissect.
Render quartics and other implicit surfaces straight from F(x,y,z) = 0 — no special syntax, just write the equation — plus implicit curves in 2D, algebraic space curves, and four-dimensional implicit surfaces.
AddPoints turns a plot into an input surface: click to add points, in two dimensions or with hit-testing in three. Dynamic colouring drives colour, light and line from the mathematics itself.
Gradient, antigradient, divergence, curl and Laplacian as first-class notebook citizens, alongside integration by parts and substitution, limits via factoring and L’Hôpital’s rule, and piecewise integrands.
SVD and eigen factorisation, LUP and QR, pseudo-inverse, matrix exponentiation, row reduction, and conversion between systems of equations and matrix equations.
Fourier and inverse Fourier transforms, fit on basis with goodness-of-fit, tabular function inverses, differential-equation integration, and CSV import and export.
Animate any graph and export it as an MP4 using your system’s own H.264 encoder, or as SVG. Sliders — themselves new in 4.5 — drive the animation and can be replayed aloud by MathSpeak.
Share a notebook, email it, publish it to livemath.com, or open one straight from the web. Copy as picture, PDF or SVG through a multi-format clipboard that interchanges cleanly with other applications.
English, British English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Thai, Irish, Danish and Bulgarian — every menu, dialog and message, and even the bounds a graph displays. Notebooks themselves stay language-neutral.
The symbolic-algebra engine ships as a fully optimised build on every platform. On desktop you feel it in large notebooks; on iPad and Chromebook it is the difference between sluggish and instant. Graph redraws are double-buffered — no white flash while a surface recomputes.
Try before you buy. Same notebooks across every platform.
Learn & teach
Educational services using LiveMath
University-level math courses for academic credit, taught with LiveMath notebooks and personal mentor feedback.
Courses for transfer credit · lower- to upper-division
Since 1984
MathView · Theorist · Since 1984
A forty-year tradition of live, visual mathematics — formerly MathView, originally Theorist — now rebuilt in Qt and going strong.
Long live LiveMath.