A curated list of awesome MATLAB toolboxes, applications, software and resources. Inspired by awesome-R.
High quality commercial toolboxes from organisations other than The MathWorks
- Multiprecision Toolbox for MATLAB - This toolbox equips MATLAB with a new multiple precision floating-point numeric type and an extensive set of mathematical functions that are capable of computations with arbitrary precision.
- NAG Toolbox for MATLAB - Over 1700 functions across numerous areas of numerical mathematics. Developed by The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
- MOSEK Optimization Tools - The MOSEK tools provide access to the powerful MOSEK optimization solvers from inside the MATLAB environment either by a classical Toolobx or by the modern object-oriented API Fusion .
- FEATool Multiphysics - Finite Element FEM Simulation toolbox for Matlab and Octave featuring an easy to use GUI, integrated CAD, geometry, grid generation, solvers, and postprocessing functionality.
Fun projects that make you say 'Cool!'
- Engima - MATLAB version of the Enigma machine
Toolboxes for managing data
- Database toolbox - Official database toolbox from The MathWorks.
- go-redis - Free Redis Mex client for MATLAB.
- mex-sqlite3 - Free Sqlite3 Mex client for MATLAB.
Fully playable games developed in MATLAB.
- 2048 - 2048 is a game originally created by Gabriele Cirulli. This is a MATLAB implementation of the game.
- Flappy bird - As one of the most popular games on app stores before being taken down, Flappy Bird does not need any further introduction. Now, it has come back alive, on MATLAB.
## Hardware
- MATLAB Mobile - MATLAB on Android and iOS mobile phones and tablets.
- Octave - Octave on Android.
- Raspberry Pi Support from MATLAB - Acquire sensor and image data from your connected Raspberry Pi.
- Rasperry Pi IO Support for Octave - Control Rasperry Pi GPIO Port from Octave.
- Computer Vision System Toolbox - The official computer vision toolbox from The MathWorks.
- Image Processing Toolbox - The official Image Processing Toolbox from The MathWorks.
- MatConvNet - MatConvNet is a free MATLAB toolbox implementing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision applications. It is simple, efficient, and can run and learn state-of-the-art CNNs. It provides pre-trained CNNs for image classification, segmentation, face recognition, and text detection.
- Piotr's Image and Video Toolbox - This free toolbox facilitates the manipulation of images and video in MATLAB. Its purpose is to complement, not replace, MATLAB's Image Processing Toolbox.
- VLFeat - The VLFeat free and open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms specializing in image understanding and local features extraction and matching. It is written in C for efficiency and compatibility, with interfaces in MATLAB for ease of use, and detailed documentation throughout.
- MexOpenCV - MATLAB MEX interface for OpenCV, i.e. one of the leading libraries for computer vision.
- SLICOT - SLICOT Model and Controller Reduction Toolbox.
- emgr - Empirical gramian framework for model reduction and system identification.
- MORE - a MOdel REduction Toolbox.
- drtoolbox - Matlab Toolbox for Dimensionality Reduction.
- SiMpLIfy - Structured ModeL reductIon.
- MORLAB - Model Order Reduction Laboratory.
- SMORES - A Matlab tool for Simulation and Model Order Reduction of Electrical Systems.
- sssMOR - Sparse State-Space and Model Order Reduction Toolbox.
- MORPACK - Model Order Reduction PACKage.
- RBmatlab - is a MATLAB library for model order reduction with Reduced Basis Methods for various discretization types and application settings.
- MESS - The Matrix Equations Sparse Solvers library, is the successor to the Lyapack Toolbox.
- KerMor - Model order reduction for nonlinear dynamical systems and nonlinear approximation.
- C/C++ mex routines - C/C++ MEX files allow to call C/C++ functions from within MATLAB.
- Fortran mex routines - Fortran MEX routines allow you to call Fortran code from within MATLAB.
- MATLAB Engine for Python - The MATLAB Engine for Python provides a Python package named
matlabthat enables you to call MATLAB functions from within Python. - Python - How to call Python functions from within MATLAB.
- matlab kernel - To run MATLAB code inside IPython / Jupyter notebooks.
- octave kernel - To run Octave code inside IPython / Jupyter notebooks.
- MATLink - To run MATLAB code inside Mathematica / Wolfram Language notebooks.
- MATLAB QuickLook - QuickLook preview generator for MAT files. This shows the contents of your MAT files in Finder. The binary is only compatible with 64 bit OS X.
- MATLAB-git - A thin wrapper to call
gitfrom within a MATLAB console. - JSONlab - Toolbox to encode/decode JSON data files from within MATLAB and Octave.
- Software Carpentry lessons in MATLAB - Teaching basic lab skills for research computing.
- YAGTOM: Yet Another Guide TO MATLAB - This MATLAB® tutorial starts from the basics and builds up to advanced concepts such as object-oriented programming (Note the Speedup Tricks).
- MATLAB Academy - MATLAB Onramp - Brief MATLAB introduction including language syntax and common workflows. Complimentary access with MATLAB license.
- Control Tutorials for MATLAB and Simulink - This site contains quite a bit control theory, some practical applications and how to implement these in MATLAB and SimuLink.
- Rosetta Code (MATLAB category) - Rosetta Code is a community comparing algorithms in different languages.
Third-party tools to produce publication quality figures.
- export_fig - produces better vector/bitmap graphics than standalone MATLAB®.
- matlab2tikz - exports MATLAB® figures to TikZ code for seamless inclusion in LaTeX documents.
- plot2svg - exports MATLAB® figures to Scalable Vector Graphics format. This is particularly useful in older MATLAB® versions that don't support
print -dsvg. - Plotly MATLAB Library - exports MATLAB® figures to the online plotting service plot.ly.
- saveFigure - exports MATLAB® figures to PDF, SVG, EPS and PNG with improved support for transparancy.
- hq-matlab-figs - Creating high-quality graphics in MATLAB for papers and presentations.
- antijet - An alternative to the problematic "jet"-colormap.
- xkcdify - xkcd-style plots.
- GNU Octave - GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It can run many MATLAB programs unmodified.
- Scilab - Scilab is free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
- FreeMat - FreeMat is an open source MATLAB interpreter for a subset of the MATLAB language.
- MathScript - MathScript is an interpreter for MATLAB® code for the LabView programming language.
High quality free toolboxes in subject areas that don't yet have their own section
- Chebfun - Chebfun is an open-source package for computing with functions to about 15-digit accuracy.
- IFISS - IFISS is a graphical package for the interactive numerical study of incompressible flow problems which can be run under MATLAB or Octave.
- Wavelab - WaveLab is a collection of MATLAB functions related to wavelet analysis.
- MPITB - MPI Toolbox for Matlab (MPI Toolbox for Octave).
- Lightspeed - Microsoft Lightspeed Utilities Toolbox.
- bct - Brain Connectivity Toolbox.
- OpenCL Toolbox - OpenCL support for MATLAB.
- UQLab - The Framework for Uncertainty Quantification.
- Octave Forge - Extra packages for GNU Octave.
- Matrix Computation Toolbox - for constructing test matrices, computing matrix factorizations, visualizing matrices, and carrying out direct search optimization.
- Uiextras GUI framework - GUI layout framework - cross compatible with both Octave and Matlab.
Where to discover new MATLAB resources.
- MATLAB File Exchange - File Exchange lets you find and share custom applications, classes, code examples, drivers, functions, Simulink models, scripts, and videos.
- Cody - A website with programming challenges that consist of writing MATLAB® code. A fun way to improve your skills.
- ThingSpeak - An internet of things (IoT) platform that allows to collect, analyze and act upon various data sources. You can enter your own MATLAB® code to process and plot your data.
- Octave-Online - An online Octave interpreter.
- Matlab FAQ on Wikia
- MATLAB category on DMOZ
- Cleve's Corner: Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing - Cleve Moler is the author of the first MATLAB, one of the founders of The MathWorks, and is currently Chief Mathematician at the company.
- Developer Zone - Developing, testing, and integrating production grade software using MATLAB.
- Guy and Seth on Simulink - Guy Rouleau and Seth Popinchalk are Application Engineers for The MathWorks.
- Loren on the art of MATLAB - Loren Shure works on design of the MATLAB language at The MathWorks.
- Steve on Image Processing - Steve Eddins has developed MATLAB and image processing capabilities for The MathWorks since 1993.
- Undocumented MATLAB - Yair Altman blogs about the hidden underbelly of MATLAB®. This is the place to be for discovering new and awesome features.
- WalkingRandomly - The MATLAB tag of WalkingRandomly.
- xcorr: comp neuro - MATLAB relevant post of XCORR.
- Matlab Tips - Learning Matlab for new and advanced users.
- Matlab Tricks - Growing Collection of Matlab tips.
- Matlab Geeks - Matlab Blog, Tutorials and Expertise.
- Matlab Cookbook - Set of various tutorials.
- Accelerating MATLAB Performance: 1001 tips to speed up MATLAB programs - A superb guide to making MATLAB code faster.
- Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming - A great guide on MATLAB® and its Java interface (e.g. for GUIs or interaction with JVM software).
- The Elements of MATLAB Style - Coding guidelines for the MATLAB language.
- MATLAB for Dummies - A good beginners books.
- MATLAB Quick Reference - by Eric Peasley, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- MATLAB Quick Reference App - for Android.
- MATLAB Reddit
- Octave Reddit
- MATLAB on Facebook - Official Facebook page for MATLAB
- MATLAB on Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other.
- Octave on Stack Overflow - and Stack Overflow has an extensive back catalogue of many answered questions.
- MATLAB on Twitter - Official MATLAB twitter account
- Matlab Tricks Club - A Community Page about MATLAB
Massive open online courses.
- Introduction to Programming with MATLAB - Vanderbilt University MOOC that teaches basic programming concepts using MATLAB. You get a free time-limited license to use MATLAB with this course.
- Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers - Hands-on introduction to Linear Algebra using MATLAB.
- Guidelines for writing clean and fast code in MATLAB - A guide with best practices in MATLAB® programming to which anybody can contribute.
- Writing Fast MATLAB Code
- MATLAB Array Manipulation Tips and Tricks
- MATLAB Vectorization Tricks
- Matlab / Octave Efficiency Notes
- Matlab Tips and Tricks
- MATLAB Style Guide 1
- MATLAB Style Guide 2
- Octave and MATLAB Snippets - Collection of code snippets.
- knkutils - MATLAB utility functions written by Kendrick Kay.
- Alex's MATLAB Library
- Advanced Numerical Linear Algebra - MATLAB Code
- Lanczos Algorithm for SVD - MATLAB Code
- Jie Chen's Software - Collection of companion codes (mostly MATLAB).
- SSP RK - Strong Stability Preserving Runge-Kutta Codes.
- BV78 - Shampine's Adaptive Block Vectorized Runge-Kutta 7-8.
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