Comparison

Maya's Math vs Nerdish

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

Head to head
About

Maya's Math

This app offers a fun and encouraging way to practice fundamental math skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It adapts to various skill levels and includes a bonus game to reinforce learning. Unlock hidden sounds and enjoy playful voice and visual effects in the Funhouse.

Highlights
  • Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Adaptive skill level adjustment
  • Bonus game for reinforcement
  • Unlockable hidden sounds
  • Funhouse with voice and visual effects
  • No advertising
Features
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Maya's Math is a cute and charming way to make math practice fun. It was originally created for my daughter Maya and her classmates to build skills and nurture a positive attitude toward math. It was a big hit in our school and we hope you'll love it too! FEATURES - Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a fun-filled encouraging environment. - Adapts to your skill level whether you're a kid (5+1) or a smarty pants adult (99x99). - Optional bonus game at the end re-enforces your learnings. Shake your device while in the bonus game for more fun. - Unlock hidden sounds as you play. - No advertising, free to use! FUNHOUSE Challenge yourself, your friends, and your family with crazy voice and visual effects!  - Hide the questions - Rearrange the keyboard - Speed up the voice - More... Here's what one family said when we showed them the Funhouse: "Oh my God!" - Joe (10 years old) "This is crazy!" - Joe's sister (6 years old) "Why would anyone want to do this?" - Joe's Mother "I have to play again!" - Joe "Me too!" - Joe's sister MAYA The credit for Maya's Math belongs to my daughter Maya who came up with the idea and whose voice you hear in the game. Thank you Maya, I love you!

About

Nerdish

Expand your general knowledge with concise, engaging articles on diverse topics like science, history, and art. Designed for busy adults, this app delivers quick, fact-checked reads in 5-10 minutes daily to foster lifelong learning and personal growth.

Highlights
  • Concise articles on science, history, art, and more
  • Daily 5-10 minute learning sessions
  • Fact-checked and well-structured content
  • Connects key ideas for deeper understanding
  • Topics include psychology, technology, and daily life
Features
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Nerdish is a learning app that helps you grow your general knowledge. The articles inside are our own — written to show you things you'd never thought to look up, feed your curiosity, and help you learn more about the world. You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans. What's inside: - Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written. - Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them. - Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once. - Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day. - Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays. - Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins. - A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them. We built Nerdish for people who: - would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome. - enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it. - want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working. - want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months. - want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue. Why it works: There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated. Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do. Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing. Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows. Learn with us about: - Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works. - History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things. - Science and technology: space, evolution, physics, AI, inventions, and everyday phenomena explained properly. - Daily things: why déjà vu happens, how coffee was discovered, where common ideas come from. - Art and culture: painting, music, architecture, design, literature, and the movements behind them. - Food: where dishes come from and why we like what we like. - Famous people: the lives behind the names. Welcome to being Nerdish with us! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Maya's Math4 screens
Nerdish4 screens

Verdict

The call

Maya's Math and Nerdish both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Maya's Math's written reviews are positive against 60% of Nerdish's. Maya's Math also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Nerdish's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 11). On price, rating, ads 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. Nerdish sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Maya's Math asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Maya's Math against 4.8 for Nerdish. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerdish has 2.7K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Maya's Math's written reviews are positive against 60% of Nerdish's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Maya's Math ships an update every 3 months, Nerdish every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Maya's Math versus Nerdish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaya's MathNerdish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11 ratings) — better4.8 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings112.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#82 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB63 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDaniel WitriolNerdish OU

Customer experience

Maya's Math

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Nerdish

All ratings2,667 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral12.4%
Negative27.6%

Bugs and requests

Maya's Math

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Nerdish

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incomplete articles with missing content
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Subscription issues and billing problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add audio narration option
  • Implement bookmarking and note-taking features
  • Improve search and filtering capabilities
  • Provide more free content without ads

In-app purchases

None

Maya's Math

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Nerdish

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Nerdish Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Easy Quarterly Plan$11.993 Months
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  • Nerdish Annual Special$29.991 Year
  • Nerdish Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Maya's Math free?
Maya's Math is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nerdish free?
Nerdish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Maya's Math or Nerdish?
Maya's Math is rated higher. Maya's Math averages 4.9 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Nerdish averages 4.8 from 2.7K ratings.
Do Maya's Math or Nerdish have ads?
Neither Maya's Math nor Nerdish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maya's Math or Nerdish?
Maya's Math ships an update every 3 months, and Nerdish every 5 days. Most recently, Maya's Math was updated on October 23, 2026 and Nerdish on October 25, 2026.

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