Math Facts Fluency vs Making Cents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Math Facts Fluency
This app helps children achieve fluency in addition and subtraction math facts through timed practice and a reward system. It offers progress tracking and is designed for both typical and special needs children, as well as adults learning English or dealing with aphasia.
- Addition and subtraction facts in learnable groups
- Built-in timers for fluency
- Progressive skill mastery
- At-a-glance reporting
- Reward Center for motivation
- Designed for special needs and adults
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** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom’s Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** Math Facts Fluency: Easy-to-use, built-in rewards and excellent reporting. The only app you'll need to ensure your child is completely fluent in addition and subtraction math facts. What parents say about our awesome apps: *** 5 stars! My son tried other apps, but after using them, I couldn't tell how well he knew his math facts. Was he done? Did he still need practice? With your app, I know exactly how he is doing - and best of all, he LOVES working for the reward game. *** 5 stars! I like how my son can progress independently. The timer feature really ensures fluency. His recall is MUCH improved. Thanks! Math Fact fluency is *vital* for math success. Fluency frees up your learner's working memory, allowing more "brain space" for problem solving. Make math easier for your child by ensuring they know their math facts fluently (should be able to answer in about one second!) Math Facts Fluency Builder provides: -- Addition and subtraction math facts introduced in learnable groups. -- Built-in timers to ensure fluency at all levels. Earlier levels allow more time. Final levels require FAST answering! -- Students progress only when mastery of the current skill is demonstrated. -- 'At a glance' reporting shows you instantly how your learner is progressing. -- The fun Reward Center motivates even hesitant learners. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! Our apps are also suitable for adults dealing with aphasia or learning English as a Second Language. To evaluate the app, download the free version, which has four free levels. Additional levels and additional players can be accessed with in-app purchases. (All levels can be purchased for $2.99 -- price may change.) If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the School Edition of this app, which includes all levels and up to 10 players. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web or social media access. We conform to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
Making Cents
This app simplifies money calculations for purchases, including sales tax. It's designed for students learning life skills and about money, offering visual and audio feedback to help users determine if they can afford an item.
- Purchase cost calculation with tax
- Visual feedback (thumbs-up/down)
- Auditory feedback for buttons and results
- Customizable tax rate
- Large, easy-to-tap buttons
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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Making Cents is a simplified money/purchase calculator with life skills applications. It was designed for students with special needs in mind, but it is also good for kids learning about money and sales tax. Input how much money you have, add together the prices of what you're purchasing, apply tax, and view the result! Lets you see if you have enough money for a purchase when tax is added to what you want to buy. It has large visual buttons: Start Over, Erase (separately erases the Have or Buy), Have, Buy, Tax, +, -, and =. Simply Enter * How much money you have * Cost of what you want to buy * Press Tax * Get your results — Can you afford the purchase or not? Visual, audio, kinesthetic, and tactile features * Visual — Vibrant colors, green thumbs-up & red thumbs-down * Audio — When tapped, talking buttons tells you how much money you have, how much you want to buy, green thumbs-up says “you have enough money” and red thumbs-down says “you don’t have enough money.” * Kinesthetic & Tactile — Touch screen activated, touch buttons or words. Settings * Easily set or change the tax rate for your city or county * Turn on/off voice (defaults to on) * Remembers last settings * Can reset tax to default 8%
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Making Cents at 4.8 against Math Facts Fluency's 3.0. Making Cents also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). Math Facts Fluency's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 16.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Math Facts Fluency sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Making Cents sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Making Cents holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Math Facts Fluency's written reviews are positive against 67% of Making Cents's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Math Facts Fluency ships an update every 53 months, Making Cents every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Math Facts Fluency | Making Cents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 53 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janine Toole | Michael Patini |
Customer experience
Math Facts Fluency
Making Cents
In-app purchases
Math Facts Fluency
- 2 Users$0.99
- All Levels$1.99
- 10 Users$2.99
Making Cents
- Tip a Chocolate$2.00
- Tip a Coffee$5.00
- Tip a Burrito$12.00
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