English Listening Master Pro vs (Open Source) Mental Math
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Listening Master Pro
Improve your English listening comprehension and vocabulary through interactive dictation games. Practice with real-life conversations and various difficulty levels to enhance your speaking skills.
- Interactive dictation gameplay
- Real English conversation audio
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Four learning levels
- Single and multiplayer modes
- Vocabulary and speaking practice
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English Listening Master will help you understand English better, improve your English language skills and help you learn real English spoken in everyday situations. English Listening Master is the first application of its kind to make a game out of improving your English listening skills through dictation using real English conversations in a fun, enjoyable and educational way. Learn real English and practice your English listening skills by typing the letters of the words you hear or tapping the words of the audio to form the sentences. English Listening Master is a fun and educational game for kids, seniors and English language students of all ages who want to learn English and improve their listening skills in a more entertaining way. Perfect classroom audio listening recordings don't prepare you for listening in the real world. English Listening Master uses audio from thousands of different native speakers in real settings complete with background noise to make the task more realistic, more practical, and more effective. How do you play? It’s easy. Listen to the audio, and tap or type the words you hear to form the correct sentence. With this entertaining dictation game, you will learn English and practice listening in a fun way. With three modes of difficulty to write the sentences and four levels of sentence difficulty, Listening Master is great for everyone from the elementary level right up to the most seasoned and skilled English ears. What options are there to write what you hear? Don’t worry, you can choose between three options depending on how much help you need. In Easy mode, you have the words written for you on the screen and you just have to tap the words you hear in the correct order. In Competent mode, you will only have the letters of the words, and you have to spell out each word you hear by typing the letters in the correct order. In Expert mode, you won’t have any help, and you will have to put your listening skills to the maximum test. Which one will you choose? The Levels: English Listening Master has four levels: Beginner, Competent, Professional, and Expert Beginner: Ideal for children. This level contains the easiest sentences with the fewest words to tap or spell. Competent: This is where things start to get harder. This level is great for students who are beginning their English language learning adventure. Professional: Great for students with a solid base in English who want to keep their skills up to date. Expert: Only for those with the most proficient English skills. Are you one of them? Do you have what it takes to become the next Listening Master? With Listening Master you'll improve your real English listening and conversation skills while you play and have fun testing your English. With single player and multiplayer mode, you can practice alone, challenge your friends or classmates as well as challenge other players from around the globe. Who's got the best ear for English in the class, family or among your friends? Learn English with a smile on your face with English Listening Master
(Open Source) Mental Math
This application offers a free, open-source platform for practicing mental arithmetic. It features timed tests, custom drills, and a comprehensive library of mental math tricks. All content is available offline without ads or paywalls.
- Timed arithmetic tests
- Customizable drills
- Mental math tricks library
- Offline progress tracking
- Multiple operation types
- Fast session interface
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A free, open-source mental math trainer. No ads, no paywalls, no locked content — every exercise and difficulty is included. Sharpen your arithmetic with quick timed tests, custom drills, and a library of mental-math tricks. Everything runs offline and your progress stays on your device. FEATURES Timed Tests A daily 60-second challenge plus sprints, a two-minute marathon, per-operation tests, and a hard mixed test — at four difficulty levels, each with best scores. Custom Trainer Pick a number domain (Times tables, Natural, Decimal, Money, Huge), choose one or more exercises, and set per-exercise difficulty from Easy to Super hard. All the Operations Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squares, square roots, fractions, percentages, and modulo. Mental Math Tricks Dozens of step-by-step tricks for faster addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and squares — with worked examples and favorites. Practice Any Trick Every trick comes with a 60-second drill built for it: × 11 drills, squares ending in 5, numbers near 100, and more. Magic Square A number puzzle: make every row, column, and diagonal add up to the same total. Four levels, from 1-9 up to bigger number sets. Progress Tracking Solved totals, accuracy, best run, daily streak, longest streak, and a weekly activity view. Fast Sessions An on-screen keypad with instant answer checking and haptics. No ads. No paywalls. No account required. 100% Open Source The complete source code is public - see it, audit it, or contribute at https://github.com/Open-Apps-Studio/mental-math
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: English Listening Master Pro at 50% against (Open Source) Mental Math's 0%. English Listening Master Pro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (14 vs 2). (Open Source) Mental Math's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
English Listening Master Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: English Listening Master Pro has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of English Listening Master Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of (Open Source) Mental Math's.
English Listening Master Pro ships an update every 4 months, (Open Source) Mental Math every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | English Listening Master Pro | (Open Source) Mental Math |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imanol Fernandez Gorostizaga | AHMET EMRE DEDELER |
Customer experience
English Listening Master Pro
(Open Source) Mental Math
In-app purchases
English Listening Master Pro
No in-app purchases
(Open Source) Mental Math
No in-app purchases
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