For decades, Maple has been built around one of the world’s most powerful mathematics engines—helping students, educators, engineers, and researchers explore ideas, solve complex problems, and communicate mathematics clearly.

Maple 2026 builds on that foundation with major advances in the math engine, expanding the kinds of problems Maple can solve while improving reliability and performance.

At the same time, Maple 2026 introduces new AI-powered tools that help you work faster—finding commands, generating visualizations, explaining concepts, and helping you explore ideas. The key difference is that these tools sit on top of Maple’s math engine, so the results are grounded in real computation rather than guesswork.

If you’ve been following along with our recent Mathy teaser videos and sneak peek posts, you may already have seen hints of some of these features. Now I’m excited to finally share them in full.

One of the most exciting additions in Maple 2026 is the new AI Assistant.

AI tools are incredibly useful for exploring ideas, writing code, and learning new topics. But when the mathematics becomes more involved, relying on AI alone can be risky. The Maple AI Assistant brings those productivity benefits into Maple while keeping the mathematics grounded in Maple’s trusted computation engine.

You can ask the AI Assistant questions in natural language and have it help you:

• find Maple commands or formulas
• generate Maple code
• create visualizations
• explain mathematical concepts
• draft examples, worksheets, or reports

Because Maple performs the underlying computations where appropriate, the results are grounded in Maple’s powerful math engine. The AI Assistant becomes a productivity partner that helps you accomplish tasks in Maple faster and more easily, combining the flexibility of AI with mathematics you can trust.

Watch the AI Assistant in action.

Another feature I’m particularly excited about is Document Import.

Many of us have years of mathematical content stored in PDFs, lecture notes, journal articles, slides, or even handwritten pages. Traditionally these documents are static—you can read them, but you can’t interact with the mathematics inside them.

With Maple 2026, that changes.

Document Import allows Maple to convert many document formats—including PDFs, DOCX files, and presentations—into Maple worksheets where the mathematics becomes live and executable. 

The image below illustrates the transformation.

On the left (“Before”), scribbled handwritten notes from a Calculus III lecture were saved in a Word document. The notes include hand-drawn sketches, formulas, and written explanations.

After importing the document into Maple (“After”), the mathematical expressions were recognized and converted into live, editable Maple mathematics. The text was preserved, and the hand-drawn sketches were retained as images. The resulting worksheet supports evaluation, editing, and further computation.

Once imported, you can:

• evaluate expressions
• modify formulas
• extend derivations
• add visualizations
• explore variations of the mathematics

Instead of recreating examples from scratch, you can bring existing material directly into Maple and start exploring.

While the new AI features are exciting, the heart of Maple has always been its mathematics engine—and Maple 2026 delivers significant advances here.

One particularly notable improvement is Maple’s expanded ability to solve linear recurrence equations. Through improvements to the rsolve command and major extensions to the LREtools package, Maple can now solve dramatically more recurrence relations than before, including many third- and fourth-order cases that were previously beyond reach.

In fact, Maple can now fully solve over 94% of the 55,979 entries in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) that that can be shown to satisfy a linear recurrence relation. These advances reflect ongoing research into linear difference equations and their algorithmic implementation in Maple, continuing Maple’s long tradition of advancing the state of computer algebra.

Beyond recurrence solving, Maple 2026 includes many improvements across its core symbolic and numeric algorithms. Maple’s assumption system has been strengthened to improve reasoning under mathematical assumptions, and enhancements to the simplify, combine, and evalc commands allow Maple to produce more compact and mathematically natural forms for a wider range of expressions.

There are also improvements to Maple’s differential equation solvers, polynomial system solving, and numerical solving routines such as fsolve, along with updates to other foundational parts of the math library used throughout the system.

Taken together, these improvements expand the range of problems Maple can solve and improve the robustness, correctness, and efficiency of the results.

Maple has always offered extensive control over plotting options, but achieving consistent visual styling across multiple plots could require specifying many settings each time.

Maple 2026 introduces Plotting Themes, which allow you to define a plotting style once and apply it across many plots with a single option.

Themes make it easy to maintain consistent visual styles in worksheets, teaching materials, reports, and publications, while still allowing individual plots to override specific options when needed.

The image below shows an example of creating and applying a custom plotting theme. 

Maple continues to be widely used in classrooms around the world, and Maple 2026 includes several improvements designed to support teaching and learning.

The Check My Work system has been enhanced so Maple can recognize a wider variety of valid student solution steps and provide more accurate feedback.

Maple 2026 also improves the generation of similar practice problems, making it easier to create variations of a problem while preserving its mathematical structure.

In addition, Maple’s step-by-step solutions have been expanded to support more types of expressions, helping students better understand the reasoning behind the mathematics they’re learning.

Maple 2026 also introduces improvements for developers building advanced applications, along with performance enhancements across the system.

One particularly interesting addition is the new VectorSearch package, which implements a vector database directly inside Maple.

If you’re not familiar with vector databases, one way to think about them is through recommendation systems like Netflix or Spotify. Each movie or song can be represented by a vector containing thousands of numbers describing its characteristics—things like genre, pacing, or mood. When you watch something, the system finds other items whose vectors are closest to it, which is how recommendations are generated.

With the new VectorSearch package, Maple can store thousands (or more) of vectors and efficiently find the ones most similar to a given vector. This makes it easier to build applications involving machine learning, data analysis, and modern AI workflows directly in Maple.

Maple 2026 also delivers significant performance improvements. For example, operations involving quantities with units have been greatly optimized—some computations now run over 90 times faster, making Maple even more efficient for engineering and scientific workflows.

Maple 2026 also expands the benefits available through the Maplesoft Elite Maintenance Program (EMP). The new benefits include access to additional Maplesoft products and services:

• Maple Learn, the online environment for teaching and learning mathematics
• Maple Calculator Premium, bringing the power of Maple to your phone with full access to features like Solution Steps and Check My Work
• Maple MCP, which allows you to connect Maple’s math engine to external AI tools so they can produce mathematical results you can trust

These additions extend Maple beyond the desktop, giving users powerful tools for learning, teaching, and exploring mathematics across web and mobile platforms, as well as through integrations with external AI tools.

This post only scratches the surface of what’s new in Maple 2026. There are many more improvements across the math library, programming tools, and performance.

To learn more about all the new features and enhancements in Maple 2026, visit the What’s New in Maple page on our website.

If one of our posts showed up in your social media feed recently, you may have found yourself staring at a giant maple leaf with feet and thinking, “Wait… who (or what) is that?” you’re not alone. 

Yes, that big, cheerful leaf you’ve been seeing is very real. 
And yes, they have a name. 

Meet Mathy. 

We officially introduced Mathy to the world a couple of weeks ago at JMM 2026 in Washington, DC, but their story actually started much earlier. 

Mathy was originally created by one of our developers, Marek Krzeminski, a few years ago as a fun internal character. Over time, they quietly became our in-office, local mathscot, popping up as mini 3D-printed Mathys around the office and even as a custom emoji someone created. 

Then, sometime last year, someone had what can only be described as a bold idea: 

What if we brought Mathy to life? 

And just like that, the giant maple leaf went from concept to costume. 

Mathy is fun, curious, and a little playful. That’s very intentional. That’s what math should feel like. 

We believe math matters. We also believe math should be approachable, joyful, and a place where curiosity is rewarded. Mathy reminds us, and hopefully others, that math doesn’t have to be intimidating. It can be fun, and it can inspire awe. 

I’ll be honest. When we decided to bring Mathy to JMM, I was a little nervous. Conferences are busy, serious places. Would people really want to interact with a seven-foot-tall maple leaf? 

As it turns out, yes. Very much yes. 

Researchers (from postdocs to seasoned academics), educators, and undergraduate and graduate students all stopped, smiled, laughed, and asked for photos. At one point, people were actually lining up to take pictures with Mathy.

Let’s just say: Mathy was a hit. 

How tall is Mathy? 
About 7 feet. They are hard to miss. 

What does Mathy love (besides math)? 
Dancing. Very much dancing. 
You can see for yourself here: Mathy's got moves!

Does Mathy talk? 
You bet they do. 

Now that Mathy has officially been introduced to the world, you’ll be seeing them more often on social media, at events, and in a few other fun places we’re cooking up. 

So if you spot a giant maple leaf dancing, waving, or talking math, now you know who they are. 

If you spot Mathy, don’t be shy, say hi. 

Over the past year, I have spent a lot of time talking to educators, researchers, and engineers about AI. The feeling is almost universal: it is impressive, it is helpful, but you should absolutely not trust it with your math even if it sounds confident.

That tension between how capable AI feels and how accurate it actually is has been on my mind for months. AI is not going away. The challenge now is figuring out how to make it reliable.

That is where Maple MCP comes in.

Maple MCP (Model Context Protocol) connects large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Cohere, and Perplexity to Maple’s world-class math engine.

When your AI encounters math, your AI can turn to Maple to handle the computation so the results are ones you can actually trust.

It is a simple idea, but an important one: Maple does the math and the AI does the talking. Instead of guessing, the AI can be directed to call on Maple whenever accuracy matters.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open standard that allows AI systems to connect to external tools and data sources. It gives language models a structured way to request computations, pass inputs, and receive reliable outputs, rather than trying to predict everything in text form.

Here is a high-level view of how MCP fits into the broader ecosystem:

MCP lets an AI system connect securely to specialized services, like Maple, that provide capabilities the model does not have on its own.

If you want to learn more about the MCP standard, the documentation is a great starting point: Model Context Protocol documentation

Here is a glimpse of what happens when Maple joins the conversation:

Depending on the prompt, Maple MCP can evaluate expressions symbolically or numerically, execute Maple code, expand or factor expressions, integrate or solve equations, and even generate interactive visualizations. If you ask for an exploration or an activity, it can create a Maple Learn document with the parameters and sliders already in place.

As an example of how this plays out in practice, I asked Maple MCP:

“I'd like to create an interactive math activity in Maple that allows my students to explore the tangent of a line for the function f(x) = sin(x) + 0.5x for various values of x.”

It generated a complete Maple Learn activity that was ready to use and share. You can open the interactive version here: interactive tangent line activity .

In full disclosure, I did have to go back and forth a bit to get the exact results I wanted, mostly because my prompt wasn’t very specific, but the process was smooth, and I know it will only get better over time.

What is exciting is that this does not replace the LLM; it complements it. The model still explains, reasons, and interacts naturally. Maple simply steps in to do the math—the part AI cannot reliably do on its own.

We have opened the Maple MCP public beta, and I would love for you to try it.

Sign up today and we will send you everything you need to get started!

Maplesoft continues to bring technology, collaboration, and learning together. Here’s some of the exciting industry news from the world of web converting and high-precision manufacturing lines, and what’s new with MapleSim for Web Converting Systems software.

How is MapleSim helping web converters and manufacturers?

From EV batteries to flexible packaging and medical films, industries that rely on thin web materials are advancing at remarkable speed. To keep pace, engineers need tools that let them model, simulate, and optimize every detail of their process with accuracy and confidence. Processes that once relied on intuition and trial-and-error are now guided by advanced modeling and simulation, such as MapleSim.

Using MapleSim simulation, engineering teams can perform process validation testing virtually - saving time and money compared to physical testing. The virtual models are used to explore and accelerate production — and the new release of MapleSim delivers a powerful set of features to make that possible.

What’s new in the latest MapleSim release?

The new release (available today) enhances MapleSim’s ability to answer “what-if” questions about industrial systems, easily review and compare results, and find strategies to improve production.

For converters and web material manufacturers, it is now even easier to create models of roll-to-roll systems. The updates to MapleSim for web converting systems include pre-built components for modeling spans and applying control during rewinding and matching tension profiles with PLC settings. There is also a new Utilities section to help users to handle sensor data and perform common calculation tasks.

We have just released updates to Maple and MapleSim.

Maple 2025.2 improvements include fixes to print layout, PDF export, tooltips for keyboard shortcuts, Plot Builder, and more. We recommend that all Maple 2025 users install this update. This update is available through Tools>Check for Updates in Maple, and is also available from the Maple 2025.2 download page, where you can find more details.

At the same time, we have also released an update to MapleSim, which includes enhanced tools for comparing models and analyzing simulation data, and improved runtime performance for MapleSim connectors.You can find more information on the MapleSim 2025.2 download page.

There is still time to register for Maple Conference 2025, which takes place November 5-7, 2025.

The free registration includes access to three full days of presentations from Maplesoft product directors and developers, two distinguished keynote speakers, contributed talks by Maple users, and opportunities to network with fellow users, researchers, and Maplesoft staff.

The final day of the conference will feature three in-depth workshops presented by the R&D team. You'll get hands-on experience with creating professional documents in Maple, learn how to solve various differential equations more effectively using Maple's numerical solvers, and explore the power of the Maple programming language while solving interesting puzzles.

Access to the workshops is included with the free conference registration.

We hope to see you there!

Kaska Kowalska
Contributed Program Co-chair

The full program for Maple Conference 2025 is now available. 

The agenda includes two full days of keynote speakers, presentations from Maplesoft product directors and developers, and contributed talks by Maple users all around the world. There will be opportunities to network with fellow users, researchers, and Maplesoft staff.

The final day of the conference will include three in-depth workshops presented by the R&D team.
The workshops will explore how to:

• Create papers and reports in Maple
• Solve various differential equations more effectively using Maple's numerical solvers
• Solve Advent of Code challenges using Maple

Access to the workshops is included with the free conference registration.

We hope to see you there!

Kaska Kowalska
Program Co-chair

We are pleased to announce that the registration for the Maple Conference 2025 is now open!

Like the last few years, this year’s conference will be a free virtual event. Please visit the conference page for more information on how to register.

This year we are offering a number of new sessions, including more product training options, and an Audience Choice session.
Also included in this year's registration is access to an in-depth Maple workshop day presented by Maplesoft's R&D members following the conference.  You can find an overview of the program on the Sessions page. Those who register before September 14th, 2025 will have a chance to vote for the topics they want to learn more about during the Audience Choice session.

We hope to see you there!

We are a week away from the submission deadline for the Maple Conference!  
Presentation proposal applications are due July 25, 2025.

We are inviting submissions of presentation proposals on a range of topics related to Maple, including Maple in education, algorithms and software, and applications. We also encourage submission of proposals related to Maple Learn. You can find more information about the themes of the conference and how to submit a presentation proposal at the Call for Participation page.

We hope to see there.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during the recent outage of MaplePrimes. The outage was caused by a server issue. We have obtained and configured a replacement to prevent disruptions moving forward. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We are excited to announce that the Maple Conference will be held Novemeber 5-7, 2025!

Please join us at this free virtual event as it will be an excellent opportunity to meet other members of the Maple community, get the latest news about our products, and hear from the experts about the challenges and opportunities that our technology brings to teaching, learning, and research. More importantly, it's a chance for you to share the work you've been doing with Maple and Maple Learn. 

The Call for Participation is now open. We are inviting submissions of presentation proposals on a range of topics related to Maple, including Maple in education, algorithms and software, and applications. We also encourage submission of proposals related to Maple Learn. 

You can find more information about the themes of the conference and how to submit a presentation proposal at the Call for Participation page. Applications are due July 25, 2025.

After the conference, all accepted presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit related content to the Maple Transactions journal for consideration.

Registration for attending the conference will open in July.  Watch for further announcements in the coming weeks.

We hope all of you in the Maple Primes community will join us for this event!

Kaska Kowalska
Contributed Program Co-Chair

Maple 2025.1

We have just released an update to Maple. Maple 2025.1 includes several enhancements to the new interface, as well as various small corrections throughout the product. As always, we recommend that all Maple 2025 users install this update.

In particular, please note that this update includes a fix to the problem where new documents were opening in a new window instead of a new tab.  Thanks for helping us, and other users, by letting us know!

This update is available through Tools>Check for Updates in Maple, and is also available from the Maple 2025.1 download page on web site, where you can also find more details.

MapleSim 2025

We are happy to announce that we just released MapleSim 2025. This release includes a new component library to support the modeling of motor drives and updates to several in-product apps that make it even easier to perform optimization and analysis.

See What’s New in MapleSim for details.

Maplesoft’s CEO, Dr. Laurent Bernardin, has written an opinion piece on Fostering Student Retention through Success in Mathematics. In it, he discusses ways to reduce university dropout rates by turning the technology shortcuts students are already using in their math courses into data-driven insights and interventions that promote student success.

You can read the whole article here:  Fostering Student Retention through Success in Mathematics

You will not be shocked to learn that Maplesoft plays a role in the strategy he proposes. 😊 (But this is a serious problem for a lot of schools, and we really would like to help!)

As a university-level math student, I am constantly working through practice problems. An issue I constantly face is that when I get a problem wrong, it can be challenging to find out which line I did wrong. Even if I use Maple Calculator or Maple Learn to get the full steps for a solution, it can be tedious to compare my answer to the steps to see where I went wrong.

This is why Check My Work is one of the most popular features in Maple Learn. Check My Work will check all the lines in your solution and give you feedback showing you exactly where you went wrong. I honestly didn’t know that something like this existed until I started here at Maplesoft, and it is now easy to see why this has been one of our most successful features in Maple Learn.

Students have been loving it, but the only real complaint is that it’s only available in Maple Learn. So, if you were working on paper, you'd either have to retype your work into Maple Learn or take a picture of your steps using Maple Calculator and then access it in Maple Learn. Something I immediately thought was, if I’m already on my phone to take a picture, I’d much rather be able to stay on my phone.

And now you can! Check My Work is now fully available within Maple Calculator!

To use Check My Work, all you need to do is take a picture of your solution to a math problem.

Check My Work will recognize poor handwriting, so there is no need to worry about getting it perfect. After taking the picture, select the Check My Work dropdown in the results screen to see if your solution is correct or where you made a mistake.

Check My Work will go through your solution line-by-line giving you valuable feedback along the way! Additionally, if you make a mistake, Maple Calculator will point out the line with the error and then proceed with checking the remainder of the solution given this context.  

For students, Check My Work is the perfect tool to help you understand and master concepts from class. As a student myself, I’ll for sure be using this feature in my future courses to double-check my work.

What makes Check My Work great for learning a technique is that it doesn’t tell you what mistake you made, but rather where the mistake has been made. This is helpful since as a student you don’t have to worry about the time-consuming task of finding the step with an error, but rather you can focus on the learning aspect of actually figuring out what you did wrong.

Once you have made corrections to your work on paper, take a new picture and repeat the process. You can also make changes to your solution in-app by clicking the “Check my work in editor” button in the bottom right, which runs Check My Work in the editor where you can modify your solution.

No other math tool has a Check My Work feature, and we are very proud to bring this very useful tool to students. By bringing it fully into Maple Calculator, we continue working towards our goal of helping students learn and understand math.

View the GIF below for a brief demonstration of how to use Check My Work!

We hope you enjoy Check My Work in Maple Calculator and let us know what you think!

Maplesoft now has a new approach to providing customer support for Maple users! The Maple Customer Support Updates allows Maplesoft to provide important updates to our customers as fast as possible. These updates contain a series of improvements and fixes to any area of the Maple library, enabling a rapid response for customer reports and requests. When a Maple user reports a bug or weakness, or requests some missing functionality that can be addressed with an update to the Maple library, such an update can now be provided immediately after the fix or improvement is developed. Furthermore, the update will not just be available to that customer who reported it, but also to any other Maple users who wishes to use them. Of course, not all reports will be able to be addressed quickly, and for those that are, it will be up to the developer's discretion whether to make the fix or improvement available via these new Maple Customer Support Updates. Please note that these Updates may contain experimental elements that could change in subsequent official releases.

The updates are available as a workbook containing a Maple library file that can be downloaded and installed from the Maple Cloud. To install the Maple Customer Support Updates from the Maple Cloud,

• Click the MapleCloud icon in the upper-right corner of the Maple GUI window and select Packages.
• Find the Maple Customer Support Updates package and click the Install button, the last one under Actions.
• To check for new versions of Maple Customer Support Updates, click the MapleCloud icon and select Updates. If the cloud icon in the Actions column of Maple Customer Support Updates has the word Update beside it, then you can click on it to download a new update.

To make the process of installing and maintaining the Maple Customer Support Updates as smooth as possible, we've also introduced a new Maple library package, SupportTools, with 3 commands, Update, Version, and RemoveUpdates.

Edit: With the release of the dot release Maple 2025.1, the SupportTools package is now installed with Maple by default. One result of this is that the RemoveUpdates command now completely removes the Maple Customer Support Updates workbook from the toolbox folder, instead of reverting to version 4. This is the new behaviour in Maple 2025.1 and later releases:

Download SupportTools2025_1.mw

For the record, this was the behavior in Maple 2025.0: