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Math Solver Google & Microsoft Math Alternatives

Published November 2, 2026 · By Sumzo team (AI-assisted)

Microsoft Math Solver was retired in July 2025. What Google offers for maths now, other alternatives, and how to choose a solver that shows its working.

If you are looking for a math solver from Google or a replacement for Microsoft Math Solver, here is the short version: Microsoft retired Math Solver in July 2025, and Google’s maths help now lives mainly in Google Lens and in Photomath, which Google owns. Below is what each offers and what to look for in an alternative.

What happened to Microsoft Math Solver?

Microsoft Math Solver was a free app and website that solved equations with step-by-step solutions and included tools such as a graphing calculator, a unit converter and a triangle solver. According to Wikipedia, Microsoft Math was retired on 7 July 2025, and the iOS app had already left the App Store in August 2024. Earlier, Math Solver had also been removed from the Microsoft Edge browser’s tools.

If you still have the app installed it may keep working for a while, but it will not get updates, so it is worth moving to a tool that is still supported.

Is there a math solver from Google?

Google doesn’t have one product called “Google Math”, but it offers maths help in a few places:

• Google Lens: point your phone camera at a problem to get help with it. Google built this homework help into Lens from 2020, using technology from Socratic, a homework app it had bought.
• Photomath: Google agreed to buy Photomath in 2022 and completed the purchase in 2023. Photomath is a phone app that scans a problem — even a word problem — and shows the solution step by step.
• Google’s AI assistant (Gemini): like other chatbots, it can explain maths in conversation.

Alternatives to Microsoft Math Solver

What made Math Solver useful was the combination: steps, a graph and free access. These tools cover the same ground:

• Sumzo — type or photograph a problem in the Sumzo AI solver and get the answer with every step. The math engine solves equations exactly and checks each answer by substituting it back. There are also formula calculators and a free graphing calculator.
• Photomath — the phone-camera experience Google now owns.
• Desmos and GeoGebra — free online graphing tools, excellent for seeing equations as graphs.
• Wolfram|Alpha — a computational engine that answers maths queries; its fullest step-by-step features are part of a paid Pro plan.

How to choose a maths solver

Before you settle on one, try it on a problem you can already solve and check:

• Does it show the working? An answer alone doesn’t help you on a test.
• Does it check the answer? The best tools substitute the solution back into the problem.
• Exact or rounded? $x = \frac{-1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}$ is exact; 0.618 is rounded. You usually need the exact form in algebra.
• Can it read photos and words? Useful for homework sheets and word problems.
• Does it graph? Seeing $y = x^2 - 2x - 3$ cross the x-axis at $-1$ and $3$ makes the algebra click.

Worked example: what “steps” should look like

Solve $2x^2 - 4x - 6 = 0$.

• Divide every term by 2: $x^2 - 2x - 3 = 0$.
• Factor: two numbers that multiply to $-3$ and add to $-2$ are $-3$ and $1$, so $(x - 3)(x + 1) = 0$.
• Set each factor to zero: $x = 3$ or $x = -1$.
• Check: $2(9) - 12 - 6 = 0$ and $2(1) + 4 - 6 = 0$.

Any solver you choose should give you steps you can follow like these — and you can compare by trying the same problem in the quadratic equation solver.

Where to find each Microsoft Math Solver feature now

If you used Math Solver for something specific, here is where the same job lives on Sumzo — all free, in the browser:

• Step-by-step equation solving: type the equation into the equation solver, or any problem into the Sumzo AI solver.
• Graphing: plot up to four functions, read the x-axis crossings and a table of values in the graphing calculator.
• Unit conversion: lengths, masses, areas, volumes, temperatures and time in the unit converter.
• Triangles: missing sides and angles with the triangle solver.
• Photos of problems: upload a photo, screenshot or PDF to the photo math solver and check the text it read before it solves.

A second example: two numbers from one sentence

Good solvers don’t stop at equations you type. Try this one: two numbers add up to 30, and one is 4 more than the other. What are they?

• Let the numbers be $x$ and $y$: $x + y = 30$ and $x - y = 4$.
• Add the two equations: $2x = 34$, so $x = 17$.
• Then $y = 30 - 17 = 13$.
• Check: $17 + 13 = 30$ and $17 - 13 = 4$.

A tool that only accepts symbols can’t start this problem; one that reads words has to turn the sentence into those two equations first. When it does, look at the equations it wrote — if they are wrong, the answer will be too, however neat the steps look.

Getting help without skipping the learning

Solvers are most useful when you have already tried the problem. Work it on paper, then compare your steps with the solver’s. Where they differ, find the first line that disagrees: that is the step to practise. Sumzo’s AI homework helper is built around this — it can check your own answer and point to where it went wrong. For a whole topic you missed, a short lesson in the Learning Center followed by a few practice questions works better than solving one problem after another.

Frequently asked questions

Is Microsoft Math Solver still available? Microsoft retired Microsoft Math on 7 July 2025, so it no longer receives updates. Installed copies may still open, but you should not rely on them.

What is the Google math solver called? There isn’t a single one. Google’s homework help is in Google Lens, and Google also owns the Photomath app.

Which free alternative shows steps? Several do. Sumzo shows every step for free, and checks answers with its math engine when it can.

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