Comparison

Matix vs Know Your Plays

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Matix

Engage in fun and effective mental math practice designed to boost your arithmetic skills. Track your progress, conquer challenges, and climb leaderboards in this engaging math game. Become quicker and more confident with numbers through daily training and custom practice scenarios.

Highlights
  • Mental math practice
  • Progress tracking
  • Leaderboards
  • Custom training scenarios
  • Arithmetic challenges
  • Playful rewards and achievements
Features
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Join hundreds of thousands of players improving their mental math, start your math game journey now, climb the leaderboards, collect hats, take on challenges and see your mental math progress in a fun and easy way. Matix is here to help you, become quicker and more confident with mental math now. Carefully designed math game training scenarios, will ease you in to bigger and more advanced arithmetic question, it is fun when your brain starts to automatically do the math questions for your. Why Matix? • Matix has exiting math areas for every skill level and age, jump right in to this awesome experience. • By doing daily math training, you will soon see an improvement like many others already have. • Track your progress. Work toward your math learning goals with playful rewards and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit! • The training area is for advanced user, where you can configure your own custom training setup. Practice exactly what your want addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponent, square root, percentages and tables. • Become ready for your exam, job interview or just your daily math challenges :) We wish you all the best with your math training :D Send any feedback to support@onecolorgames.com Follow us on socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatixApp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MatixApp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MatixApp

About

Know Your Plays

This app helps coaches quiz their players on team plays and track their readiness. Players can practice plays, draw them on a field, and get feedback. Coaches can manage teams, view player progress, and build playbooks from various sources.

Highlights
  • Team playbook quiz
  • Player readiness tracking
  • Customizable playbooks
  • Play designer
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Play simulator
  • Lock Screen widget
Features
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Your players have the playbook. Do they know it? Know Your Plays (formerly PlayLock) is a playbook quiz for teams. A coach makes a team code, players join with a jersey number, and the coach sees one word per play per player - ready, learning, or not yet - and who is not ready before game day. No accounts, and nothing about anyone's phone or screen time is ever shared. FOR COACHES - Create a team in seconds on the Team tab and share a six-character code. Every coach feature is free, and players join free. - The board: every player, every play, one word each. "3 not ready for Friday" at a glance. - Build the playbook from the built-in library, a photo of a play sheet, or the PDF you already send. - Up to 60 plays on your team's board. - The game-day report: one picture of who is ready for which play, to share with your assistants or the team chat. - Remove a player from the board when the roster changes. - An optional heads-up the night before a game, with how many players are ready. It is a reminder on your own phone; nothing is pushed to anyone. FOR PLAYERS - Quiz on YOUR playbook: tap the diagram, answer the call, name the assignment. Spaced repetition brings back what you're about to forget. - Chalk it up, then run it: draw a play on a real field or court, then run it against a real defense - football coverages, basketball drop, hedge, switch and ICE on the pick-and-roll - and get a verdict on every route. - Streaks with grace, mastery % per playbook, and a Lock Screen widget that counts the plays left before game day. - Optional Gate: if you want the extra push, lock the apps you choose until you pass a quiz. Off by default - your device, your call. FREE: the quiz, the built-in playbook library, one playbook of your own, the Play Designer, and team codes with every coach feature. PRO (for players who want more): unlimited playbooks and cards, adding your own plays to shared playbooks, unlimited Play Simulator runs (the first 3 are free) and game-day pause. Pay once, keep it for good. Football first, basketball properly - plays are plays. Everything stays on your device unless you create or join a team code. Then our server holds only what the team board needs: for a player, a nickname and one readiness word per play; for a coach, the team name, sport, play names and game date. Players can report a team, and a person reads every report. No ads, no tracking. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://playlock-worker.mcggmjhp5p.workers.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Matix4 screens
Know Your Plays4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Know Your Plays at none against Matix's shown. Know Your Plays also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Matix's advantage is ratings volume (180 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Matix sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Know Your Plays sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Matix against 5.0 for Know Your Plays. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matix has 180 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Matix ships an update fortnightly, Know Your Plays every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Matix versus Know Your Plays: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMatixKnow Your Plays
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (180 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings180 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOne Color Games ApSTom Nguyen

Customer experience

Matix

All ratings180 ratings
Positive98.3%
Neutral1.1%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive88.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.0%

Know Your Plays

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Matix

One-time6
  • Challenge Single$0.99
  • Donation one$0.99
  • Training Main$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Donation two$1.99
  • Remove advertisement$3.99
  • Donation three$4.99
2 purchases

Know Your Plays

Subscriptions1
  • PlayLock Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • PlayLock Pro — Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Matix free?
Matix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Know Your Plays free?
Know Your Plays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Matix or Know Your Plays?
Know Your Plays is rated higher. Matix averages 4.9 out of 5 from 180 ratings, while Know Your Plays averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Matix or Know Your Plays have ads?
Matix shows ads; Know Your Plays does not.
Which is updated more often, Matix or Know Your Plays?
Matix ships an update fortnightly, and Know Your Plays every 2 days. Most recently, Matix was updated on October 21, 2026 and Know Your Plays on October 21, 2026.

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