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{{See Wiktionary|the software developed by Apple Inc.|-grapher|suffix}}<!-- Grapher has been discontinued by Apple in the macOS 10.15 Catalina update. The application still works as a download, but is no longer built into macOS. -->{{Infobox software

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Before Grapher and [[Mac OS X]], [[Mac OS 9]] was bundled with Pacific Tech's [[NuCalc|Graphing Calculator]], a similar program to Grapher that had been included with over 20 million Macintoshes since 1994 with [[System 7 (Macintosh)|System 7]]. No versions of Mac OS X prior to [[Mac OS X v10.4]] included a bundled graphing calculator application. On July 22, 2004, Apple bought Arizona Software's "Curvus Pro X," and renamed it “Graphing Calculator”, before deciding on “Grapher”. The news was publicly announced on September 15, 2004 at AppleInsider.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://appleinsider.com/articles/04/09/15/apple_acquires_curvus_pro_x_to_power_new_mac_os_x_tiger_application|title=Apple acquires Curvus Pro X to power new Mac OS X Tiger application|last=Jade|first=Kasper|date=September 15, 2004|website=AppleInsider|language=en|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425211255/https://appleinsider.com/articles/04/09/15/apple_acquires_curvus_pro_x_to_power_new_mac_os_x_tiger_application|url-status=live}}</ref>

Version 2.0 of Grapher was bundled with [[Mac OS X v10.5]], and version 2.1 with [[Mac OS X v10.6]]. It was notable for being one of the few applications bundled with 10.6 to ship without [[64-bit]] support.<ref>{{cite web |last=Siracusa |first=John |url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/5 |title=Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review |publisher=Ars Technica |date=August 5, 2009 |accessdateaccess-date=September 2, 2009 |archive-date=October 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009161632/http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/5 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of [[OS X 10.9]], it became a 64-bit application.

Grapher is a fully featured [[graphing calculator]], capable of creating both 2D graphs including classic (linear-linear), polar coordinates, linear-logarithmic, log-log, and polar log, as well as 3D graphs including standard system, cylindrical system, and spherical system. Grapher is a [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]] application which takes advantage of Mac OS X [[API]]s. It also supports multiple equations in one graph, exporting equations to [[LaTeX]] format, and comes with several pre-made equation examples. It is one of the few sophisticated graphing programs available capable of easily exporting clean vector art for use in printed documents, (althoughbut exporting 3D graphs to [[Vector graphics|vector]] is not possible). Animation of graphs is also supported in both 2D and 3D, generating a [[QuickTime]] file.