Getting started

Maths Explore is a calculation pad for engineers: you write maths on paginated sheets, every expression is evaluated live in reading order, and units are checked as you type. This guide gets you from no account to a working calcsheet.

Create an account

On the Maths Explore site, choose Sign up (top right). Sign-up opens in a dialog on the page, not a separate registration site. If you already have an account, use Sign in instead.

Once you’re signed in you land on your home page, and the header swaps the sign-in buttons for your account button. While you are on the Free plan or in your trial, an Upgrade button sits beside it. Signing out returns you to the front page.

Try it without an account

You don’t have to sign up to have a look round. The Try Maths Explore button on the front page opens a worked sample straight in the workspace, with no account needed; edit it, change the inputs, watch the results move.

Your changes are kept in this browser from your first edit onwards, so a reload won’t lose them. When you do sign up, the sheet you were working on comes with you into your account, so nothing you tried is thrown away.

The front page’s See plans button goes to the plans and pricing page, and you can browse the full set of worked examples at any time from the Samples page.

Tell us where you’re based

The first time you sign in, Maths Explore asks Where are you based? Pick your country and press Continue.

Your country sets the local currency used for every price you’ll see in the app, plans and AI credits alike. It doesn’t limit how you pay; checkout handles that. One-time step, never asked again.

Your free trial

Every new account automatically starts a 14-day free trial of the Professional plan on first sign-in – no card details, nothing to activate. While the trial runs, the app header shows how many days you have left; click that notice any time to see the plans.

When the trial ends, your account simply moves to the Free plan. Your calcsheets are untouched. Only the paid features switch off until you subscribe.

Note

The trial is tied to your email address and runs once; deleting the account and re-registering with the same email resumes the original clock rather than winding it back.

Create your first calcsheet

Your home page greets you with three ways to start:

• New maths sheet opens a blank calcsheet. The calcsheet options dialog opens with it, so you can pick things like paper size and page style up front, or just close it and accept the defaults.
• New from template lists your saved templates and starts a new calcsheet from the one you pick. On a fresh account this list is empty; you create templates later with Save as template in the worksheet menu.
• Open from local drive opens an existing calcsheet file (.mez) from your computer.

As you return to the home page over time, it also lists your Autosaved calcsheets, meaning everything you’ve worked on in this browser, and under Recent files the calcsheets you’ve opened from disk, so you can pick up where you left off with one click.

Inside the workspace

A few things worth knowing on day one:

• Name your calcsheet by clicking its name at the top of the workspace and typing. The cog button next to the name reopens the options dialog; Calcsheet options covers every setting in it.
• Start another sheet without leaving via the worksheet menu (the ☰ button beside the name) → New. Your current sheet is already saved in the browser, so nothing is lost.
• Your work autosaves. Changes are saved to your browser moments after you stop typing. Watch the save status in the header. Use Save in the worksheet menu when you want a portable .mez file on disk.

What’s next

From here, build one: Your first calcsheet goes from blank page to a live result in ten small steps. The guides in the sidebar then take each topic in depth.