Your Addition & Subtraction vs Math Shed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Your Addition & Subtraction
This educational app helps children aged 5-8 learn addition and subtraction skills. It offers interactive exercises for single-digit and double-digit mental math, with a star reward system to track progress and provide positive reinforcement.
- Addition for elementary school
- Mental math for single digits
- Mental math for two digits
- Progress tracking with stars
- Positive encouragement
- Ages 5-8
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This is a fun and simple to use app, developed for children. Made for ages 5-8. - Addition made for elementary school use - Helps children add single digit numbers, ten and multiples of 10 mentally - Helps children add 2 digit numbers mentally (without crossing the tens) - Tracks progress through star reward system - Gives positive encouragement
Math Shed
Practice essential math skills with this fun and easy-to-use application. It covers a range of topics from number bonds and times tables to addition, subtraction, and decimals, offering multiple gameplay levels for learners of all abilities.
- Number bonds practice
- Times tables drills
- Addition and subtraction
- Decimal and powers of ten
- Counting through zero
- Multiple gameplay levels
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Developed by a team of teachers including maths specialists, Math Shed gives a fun and easy-to-use way to practice math skills. The app includes: - Number bonds - Time tables - Related times tables facts - Powers of ten with and without decimals - Addition and Subtraction up to 4 digit numbers - Counting through zero The app also provides three levels of gameplay with Easy and Medium having more scaffolding to support learners where needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Math Shed at Free against Your Addition & Subtraction's $2.99. Math Shed also leads on ratings volume (70 vs 1). Your Addition & Subtraction's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Math Shed is free to download; Your Addition & Subtraction costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Your Addition & Subtraction holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Math Shed has 70 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Your Addition & Subtraction ships an update every 2 weeks, Math Shed every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Your Addition & Subtraction | Math Shed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 64.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 70 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Chichon | Education Shed Ltd |
Customer experience
Your Addition & Subtraction
Math Shed
Bugs and requests
Your Addition & Subtraction
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Math Shed
Reported bugs
5 issues- Keyboard not working
- Timer continues when paused
- App crashes
- Bugs in latest update (score discrepancies)
- Hard to close the app
Requested features
7 requests- Add an extreme mode
- Option to switch timer on/off
- Add KS2 content
- Add an avatar
- Remove timer for children with anxiety/autism
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- App for Amazon Fire
- Option to restrict store/leaderboards during assignments
In-app purchases
Your Addition & Subtraction
No in-app purchases
Math Shed
No in-app purchases
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