GeoGebra
Shares rank 6 of 11 math software by recommenders
Recommended for visual geometry and math intuition, such as seeing complex numbers and quickly catching procedural errors. Caveat: one critic found it less challenging and less deep than MA.
Recommended for visual geometry and math intuition, such as seeing complex numbers and quickly catching procedural errors. Caveat: one critic found it less challenging and less deep than MA.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Visual, geometric intuition for math
“worth exploring for its novel visual approach, but is much more rudimentary, less challenging, and less deep than MA”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science” “to give a geometric intuition how the complex numbers behave”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity”
Other math software people recommend
The four most recommended other math software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfram Mathematica | 103 | 55 | 65% | 12 | 21 yrs5 owners | — |
| Wolfram Alpha | 28 | 9 | 76% | 11 | — | Approved |
| SageMath | 16 | 3 | 84% | 8 | — | Approved |
| SymPy | 13 | 7 | 65% | 8 | — | — |
| GeoGebraThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“to give a geometric intuition how the complex numbers behave”
“polygons are a series of separate line segments, not a closed path”
“the replacement is Python and GeoGebra, not the built in calculator”
“which quickly showed me the error in my procedure”
“here are a few things I enjoy using”
“worth exploring for its novel visual approach, but is much more rudimentary, less challenging, and less deep than MA”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.