Comparison

Hyperbolic Games vs Matrix

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

Head to head
About

Hyperbolic Games

Explore mathematical concepts through interactive games on curved surfaces. This app illustrates hyperbolic geometry and topology, offering a unique educational experience for advanced students. Discover different models of the hyperbolic plane and their relationship to spheres.

Highlights
  • Interactive hyperbolic plane exploration
  • 2D and 3D multi-connected spaces
  • Beltrami-Klein and Poincaré disk models
  • Visualization of Klein quartic surface
  • Sudoku puzzles with high symmetry
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The Hyperbolic Games are similar in spirit to the Torus Games, but played on curved surfaces. Most people will want to start with the Torus Games instead, which offer a selection of easily playable games, designed for children ages 10 and up, all implemented in multi-connected spaces in 2 and 3 dimensions. The Hyperbolic Games, by contrast, are for math students — advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. These games are more challenging than the Torus Games because they combine a multi-connected topology with a non-Euclidean geometry. Mathematically they illustrate the following: - The hyperbolic plane, as a live scrollable object. - The under-appreciated fact that the two traditional models of the hyperbolic plane are simply different views of the same fixed-radius surface in Minkowski space: the Beltrami-Klein model corresponds to a viewpoint at the origin (central projection) while the Poincaré disk model corresponds to a viewpoint one radian further back (stereographic projection). Players may pinch-to-zoom to pass from one to the other, or stop to view the model from any other distance. - The strong — but also under-appreciated — correspondence between the hyperbolic plane and an ordinary sphere. In particular, central projection of the sphere corresponds to the Beltrami-Klein model of the hyperbolic plane, and stereographic projection of the sphere corresponds to the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane. - The Klein quartic surface, viewed with its natural geometry. The sudoku puzzles take full advantage of the Klein quartic’s tremendous amount of symmetry.

About

Matrix

Features
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The MatrixAnalysis is carefully designed to be a simple and elegant app. This app has tools to help you analyze matrices like finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization, QR, SLU, LU factorization. This app can also be used to do matrix operations like, finding inverse, determinant, dot product, cross product, and much more. You can also do elementwise operations and scalar operations. Want to do fast fourier transform (FFT) or inverse fourier transform (IFFT), this app is capable of IFFT Want to find an pseudo inverse of a non-square matrix, this app has you covered Want to know a rotation matrix for a given angle or rotate a vector by the given angle? This app has you covered. The expressions and the solutions are displayed in beautiful mathematical way. Once the expressions are solved, a beautifully written solutions are created that you can share with other or save it locally. It automatically saves your hard work locally on your device so you can come back and pick up from where you left off as your great effort will not be lost. There is also a Study page to help you with learning some important matrix vector formulas and some useful technique. This is an app for all student groups. From high school to college to university students. Be creative. Enjoy the app!

Screenshots

Hyperbolic Games4 screens
Matrix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Hyperbolic Games at none against Matrix's shown. Hyperbolic Games also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Matrix's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hyperbolic Games ships an update every 7 months, Matrix every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and December 3, 2025 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hyperbolic Games versus Matrix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHyperbolic GamesMatrix
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeff WeeksOm Prakash Chapagain

In-app purchases

None

Hyperbolic Games

No in-app purchases

None

Matrix

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hyperbolic Games free?
Hyperbolic Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Matrix free?
Matrix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hyperbolic Games or Matrix have ads?
Matrix shows ads; Hyperbolic Games does not.
Which is updated more often, Hyperbolic Games or Matrix?
Hyperbolic Games ships an update every 7 months, and Matrix every 5 weeks. Most recently, Hyperbolic Games was updated on June 1, 2026 and Matrix on December 3, 2025.

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