Looking for an unit converter application? Here’s a free open-source tool that supports 200+ units of measurement and 30+ currencies!
You can easily search in your web browser to convert currencies and/or units. But what if you do the conversion frequently, or your device even does NOT have an internet connection? Convert NOW is a good choice that can do the job in Android, Windows, and Linux machines.
Except for updating the currency data, the tool can work completely offline. With it, you can convert following units all in one app window:
- Currencies: Dollars, Euro, Pound, Rupee, Yen, Chinese Yuan, and other 31 currencies.
- Length: meters, inches, miles, yards, light years, feets, etc.
- Area: square meters, hectares, acres, etc.
- Volume: cubic meters, liters, gallons, pints, spoons, etc.
- Time: seconds, hours, days, years, weeks, millennia, etc.
- Temperature: Centigrade, Fahreneit, Kelvin, etc.
- Speed: meters per second, kilometers per hour, knots, etc.
- Mass: grams, pounds, tons, atomic mass units, etc.
- Force: Newton, dyne, pound-force, poundal, etc
- Pressure: pascal, bar, atomsfere, psi, etc.
- Energy: Joule, calories, kilowatt hours, etc.
- Power: Watt, kilowatt, horse power, etc.
- Fuel consumption: Miles per Gallon, Kilometres per liter, etc.
- Numeral systems: decimal, binary, hexadecimal etc.
- Torque: Newton metre, pound-force foot, poundal metre, etc.
- Digital data: Nibble, bit, byte, kibibit, kibibyte, etc.
- Shoes size: UK, India, Europe, USA, Japan, etc.
- Angles: degree, radians, minutes, etc.
- SI prefix: kilo, mega, giga, tera, milli, micro, nano, etc.
The app is super fast, juststart typing and immediately you have the real-time conversion with all the other units. It also has a built-in calculator that works in every page.
How to Install Convert NOW!
Depends on your device, the application is available in Microsoft Store for Windows, Google Play for Android.
For Ubuntu user, it’s available to install as Snap package using Ubuntu Software app.
TIP: Ubuntu Software may not work sometimes, in the case open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command
snap install converternow
Linux Mint 21 can also search for and install it directly from Software Manager. Though, other Linux needs to first enable Flatpak support, and finally open a terminal window and run command:
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.ferraridamiano.ConverterNOW.flatpakref
Once installed, open the tool either from start menu or by searching from ‘Activities’ overview depends on your desktop environment and enjoy!
Uninstall Converter NOW
For Ubuntu and Linux Mint, just remove the tool via either Ubuntu Software or Software Manager.
Other Linux can remove the flatpak package by running a single command in terminal window:
flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.ferraridamiano.ConverterNOW
And run flatpak uninstall --unused to clear useless runtime libraries.
