Nimble For Mac

Nimble is a status bar menu application designed to be a client for the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. The app encourages you to use natural language to find information or to solve mathematical problems.

Upon launch, Nimble places a small icon in your status bar, and you must click with your mouse on top of it to activate the search panel. If you right click on the Nimble status bar icon the app automatically quits.

Note that Nimble does not come with any personalization or customization options: you cannot change the background color of the search and results panels, you cannot set a hotkey to activate its panel, and you cannot change the app’s status bar icon.

However, to get you started, Nimble displays in the search panel various query suggestions that use a natural language. The drawback is that you don't get to use them directly: the text automatically disappears on selection, and you must type the question on your own.

Nimble is using Wolfram|Alpha and math.js to solve mathematical problems right away and show the results directly in its panel. The app can deal with basic mathematical operations and can also draw graphs.

The app should also be able to display the Wolfram|Alpha search results to queries that use natural language.

During our test, Nimble was not able to display some answers directly, even though the Wolfram|Alpha engine provided relevant data when performing the same search in a browser.

Nonetheless, within the Nimble app, you can choose to search further either on Google or Wolfram|Alpha in your default web browser.

To conclude, Nimble offers you the possibility to see the solution for elementary mathematical problems right in your status bar, while also enabling your to run queries on the Wolfram|Alpha engine using natural language.