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MATLAB

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 32 - Reviews of MATLAB

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ZU

Zain U.  
student  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Matlab"

July 26, 2019

4.0

I am a student and this software helps alot to done my projects.

Pros

It is excellent for coding. It is also use for to model any circuit and to check the output with different parameter. By all this we can know about the many hurdle to implement the circuit.

Cons

This software requires more space because it has multi-function.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Mechanical Application Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best mathematical calculation software with graphical outputs"

July 27, 2018

5.0

Made great use of it for university projects during my Mechanical Engineering Degree

Pros

Perfect for its application. You can use it to identify exactly what your output requirements are, and also do complex analytical calculations.

Cons

The user interface could be a little more interactive and easier to pick up for less experienced users especially university students who have just started using the software.

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Francisco Javier A.  
Especialista de Oferta/Bid Manager  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Every calculation by yourself"

July 13, 2020

5.0

I'm satisfied making programs and resolving hard equation with this program.

Pros

I can do a lot complex calculation and resolv hard equation just thinking and compiling the easy ways. This program can offer its result with graphics and tables.

Cons

This program need a lot experience in calculation and programation, if someone doesn't have knowledge could be hard to use.

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Alison R.  
Software Development Engineer  
Computer Networking  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "MATLAB software is the powerful tool that is used for analyzing data quickly."

July 21, 2018

5.0

Pros

It is high level technical computing language that helps people in solving different simple and complex calculations. This software repeats algorithm to solve different scientific and engineering problems. Its computation is very fast that consists of large matrix operations.

Cons

When I talk about cons I would say there are definitely no cons. The only drawback of this software I found is due to the implementation of large number of functions and data handling. This software sometimes becomes a little slow but it is not a big issue.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Product Engineer  
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Serious Number Cruncher"

June 18, 2020

5.0

Extremely positive! I have created my own g-code slicer, heat transfer simulation, test lab simulations and data acquisition, and much more. Endless possibilities!

Pros

The possibilities are nearly endless with MATLAB. The amount of simulation that is within the capability of the software is mind blowing.

Cons

There is a learning curve to teach yourself to get the most out of the software.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Mechanical Design Engineer  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Amazing Computation Tool!"

April 5, 2018

5.0

Pros

While most of the calculations I have done in this software deal with the Chemical industry, it has the capability to do nearly any math I have ever done.

Cons

It takes quite a bit of time investment to understand the software language and to program equations outside of math typically done. If you plan to do distillation column equations or anything like that - be prepared to learn.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
CEO  
Biotechnology  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "The math language!"

May 25, 2021

5.0

Matlab helped me solve different difficult analysis for my customers. The programming language is reliable to perform any matemathical and calculous intense task.

Pros

Once mastered the language it becomes an easy and reliable tool to do data analysis and for some programming.

Cons

It is pricey, in my line of work I use also the R statistical programming language that thanks of being free has an amazing comunity that surrounds it. Can't say the same about matlab.

Switched from

[RStudio Desktop](https://www.capterra.com/p/210152/RStudio/)

I still use both the product depending on the client requirements.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
R&D Engineer  
Automotive  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Strong Iterative Solver with Simple GUI"

October 17, 2019

4.0

I use Matlab for my daily jobs as a post processor tool. I can gain time with Matlab while doing repetitive jobs.

Pros

MATLAB has strong iterative solver, strong community, very powerful customer service and simple GUI that you can follow.

Cons

Licencing cost are very expensive. It is hard to buy all of the modules. It can be implemented to much more simple licensing system.

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AH

Abdul H.  
Project Coordinator  
Renewables & Environment  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Matlab is an ultimate solution for Research Simulation"

September 9, 2021

5.0

Overall this is the best application for your research projects.

Pros

Matlab has everything you need for a research project in all engineering fields. You can build your project in Matlab and you can analyze your project by adding different pieces of equipment to your project.

Cons

It's a little complicated for the new users.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Instructor  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A software that can be used for multiple tasks"

September 18, 2019

5.0

Pros

There are a number of specialized libraries and toolboxes that can be used in research purposes of different engineering fields. The availability of an impressive help section provides the user the opportunity to learn through the software.

Cons

The coding can be bit hard sometimes since it is little different to other programming languages.

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AM

Akash M.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Highly useful tool for our AI software and visualization tool development"

September 27, 2021

4.0

It has a steep learning curve, but learning and using experience has been great.

Pros

It has a mobile app unlike other computing environment from which we can run scripts and interact with 3d figures.

Cons

It has slow build time and consumes more resources, very difficult to run on old hardware.

Alternatives considered

[United Language Group Octave](https://www.capterra.com/p/217819/unitedlanguagegroupoctave/)

Reason for choosing MATLAB

huge community is present here

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Propulsion Engineer  
Airlines/Aviation  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A staple in engineering"

January 24, 2021

5.0

Pros

Definitely a staple for mechanical and aerospace engineers. It’s so easy to use and is a great fix for a lot of daily automation or calculations we need to make our life easier, without trying to learn a more complex software.

Cons

Support could maybe be a little better from within the program itself, but there are plenty of online resources.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Industrial Eng  
Airlines/Aviation  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Decent software"

March 26, 2021

4.0

Good

Pros

Easy to learn for new users. Most people can get used to it easily.

Cons

Matlab is a bit archaic, its slightly old and its functionality is outdated

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AB

Abdul B.  
Student  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "As a user"

May 16, 2019

5.0

I love to use MATLAB and its SIMULINK for my Engineering Studies

Pros

MATLAB can handle data such as images, sounds and signals in a very adaptive manner. MATLAB functions provide us advance level mathematical operations and Modeling. The best thing is we can use it for many engineering Modeling

Cons

In start you need a supervised learning to access the full features. also the price is somehow high

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MB

Morteza B.  
Student  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best computing software ever!"

August 23, 2019

5.0

Pros

I've been using Matlab for a long time. It's flexible, multi-purpose, and very powerful. Most of its advanced functions are written very efficiently and are reliable (exp. the optimization and signal processing toolboxes). It's also very easy to learn. Totally recommend it.

Cons

Sometimes it crashes! This is the only problem I have with Matlab. Otherwise, it's a very smart app!

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Oussama S.  
ingénieur automatisme  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "complexity of Matlab "

September 4, 2021

5.0

It was a good experience, I used it as a student, under my professor's supervision, results were not precisely as we expected, but it gave us preliminary ideas about how our systems behave.

Pros

reach on term of libraries. models programed by specialist existing online . SIMULINK give you access to graphical results . resolve complicated equations . solid tool for modeling and simulation

Cons

complicated to use. poor client service. no tutorial for Beginners

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FH

Frank H.  
Actuary  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Flatter Learning Curve with a Cost"

September 12, 2018

4.0

Pros

Matlab was first introduced to me many moons ago in college as the modeling software of choice for mathematicians and statisticians. It provides a fairly simple UI that gets new users up and running quicker than it might a first time R or Python user to learn each respective syntax. Matlab provides many existing tools and functions without the need to code, and does - as it advertises - provide reliability by removing the pain of coding. And what coding you do perform, Matlab's debugging option allows for quick remedying of faulty code.

Cons

Cost is the biggest negative to Matlab. Also, the diversity of packages available in open-source R has not only minimized the gap between Matlab and R but, in my opinion, puts R (again, at no cost) above Matlab.

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Dikshya S.  
Graduate Research Assistant  
Research  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "MATLAB for statistical analysis "

May 5, 2022

5.0

Pros

This software is easy to use and has predefined functions. The GUI is awesome.

Cons

Newer version requires new codes which is quite frustrating.

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MM

Maryam M.  
Student  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "As a user"

December 11, 2018

5.0

Overall this is best tool for designing and simulation of different systems.Its helps me a lot for power system designing.

Pros

Matlab is best tool for data analyzing and visualization. It is best tool for computation of non linear equation. It has large number of built in functions which make it easy for development of power system circuits.

Cons

It slows down system, because in Matlab code is compile line to line. It does not work properly in slow computer.Sometimes it is very difficult o understand the error given by the tool.We can not use the components of different library at same time.

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AB

Amirfarzad B.  
Research assistant  
Civil Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great software for research "

October 17, 2019

5.0

I use matlab for structural analysis of steel-concrete composite systems

Pros

You can experience the high performance computation without the hassle of writing mpi code in cpp. Optimized blas and lapack packages can easily be used,

Cons

It does not work in distributed memory parallel systems. For instance when running matlab on a supercomputer, you can not use several nodes to run your code

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Deepu K.  
Teacher  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best software for designing circuits and charts."

December 13, 2022

5.0

Pros

It is the software I am using for logic circuit simulation in my class.The interface is simple and the control over the objects is simple and fine.keyboard shortcuts will reduce the effort while handling the size of the objects.

Cons

Users need to understand coding skills.price can be a little low.Sometimes it took time to respond.

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Gabby R.  
Student  
Civil Engineering  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Awesome for organizing data"

August 24, 2019

5.0

I used matlab in research to manipulate data into identifiable patterns.

Pros

Matlab was really useful for turning huge quantities of data into easily visualized and organized research. Its very versatile and can be used for any number of applications.

Cons

Without prior knowledge of coding language its a difficult program to use. You can do a lot but you have to know how to make things run.

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Del T.  
Student  
Research  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "An useful software to processing and analysis data"

March 21, 2019

5.0

the big difference that Matlab has, compared with other processing data software like Microsoft Excel is, Matlab can perform all the processing data task at one run and that outputting a graph that ready to analyze.

Pros

with Matlab, I can process a lot of data with simple programming code. Matlab comes with their own programming language that easies to learn. to do analysis with the data, Matlab provides a lot of graphs that can help visualize the data.

Cons

sometimes it takes a lot of time to open the software for pc below 2GB of RAM.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Software Development Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great software package for scientist"

February 25, 2019

5.0

Pros

This is a really great software package for scientist, professors and students. It allows you to very quickly create POC of your idea as it comes in bundled with a ton of libraries, which include ready-to-use algorithms. Just call a function and you're done. It's already implemented for you.

Cons

Sometimes it's hard to figure out how to use some library, or even know that something is already implemented/available. If you want to continue using it for commercial use, the pricing is pretty steep if you're just starting.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very powerful tool for performing operations and calculations"

September 5, 2019

5.0

Matlab is an impressively powerful and capable program!

Pros

Matlab has great functionality for processing large sets of data and performing complicated math with just a few lines of code. It's a must for any engineer or programmer!

Cons

Requires a pretty extensive understanding of discrete mathematics, although this is not a fault of the program itself. The UI can be clumsy at times.

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