Brave Learner Home vs TT Math 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brave Learner Home
This app offers a comprehensive resource for home educators, providing professional development, coaching, self-care tools, and a community forum. Access live webinars and a library of expert-led content on learning strategies and subject areas to become a more empowered educator.
- Professional development for home educators
- Personal coaching and self-care tools
- Community discussion board
- 24/7 access to lesson plans
- Monthly live webinars
- Expert-led resource library
- Coaching from veteran home educators
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The Brave Learner Home is the one-stop sandbox for ongoing support and training to be an effective home educator. Imagine professional development, personal coaching, self-care, a community discussion board, and lesson plans available 24/7. Become the compassionate parent, empowered educator, and awesome adult you are meant to be. Learn from monthly live webinars and a library of resources by experts in brain research, learning and parenting strategies, and each subject area. Enjoy companionship from the amazing members. Become skilled by working with veteran home educators who coach you from kindergarten through high school. Julie Bogart, creator of the Brave Writer program, and her team of trained staff members also provide support and coaching for Brave Writer materials and online classes in the Brave Learner Home. Truly: this is the place to be if you want to become the home educator you always wanted to be.
TT Math 5
This app enhances a math course, allowing students to learn independently and on the go, even offline for up to six lessons. It offers audiovisual lectures, practice problems with instant feedback, and detailed explanations for every problem. Parents can track progress with built-in controls.
- Offline learning for up to 6 lessons
- 114 audiovisual lectures
- Thousands of practice problems
- Automated grading and instant feedback
- Step-by-step audiovisual explanations
- Parental progress tracking
- Digitized textbook with search
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The Teaching Textbooks Math 5 app makes your TT course even better! Not only will your student enjoy math while learning independently, but, with the app, that learning can also take place on the go. Even when offline! Specifically, the app can be used offline for up to 6 lessons at a time. That makes it perfect for homeschool parents who need their kids to stay productive while the family is out and about during the day. The app’s other features include… • 114 audiovisual lectures that teach every core concept in the standard 5th grade curriculum • thousands of problems that give students all the practice they need to master each concept • automated grading and instant feedback for every single problem • step-by-step audiovisual explanations to every single problem so students can see exactly what they did wrong when mistakes are made (This makes the program feel as if a tutor is at the student’s side!) • parental controls that let you track your student’s progress • the digitized version of the printed Teaching Textbooks Math 5 textbook (with a search feature and a hyper-linked index) • no advertising or in-app purchase offers • Internet connectivity is required, but you can remain offline for up to 6 lessons.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brave Learner Home at 5.0 against TT Math 5's 3.2. Brave Learner Home also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). TT Math 5's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (129 vs 12). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Brave Learner Home sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TT Math 5 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brave Learner Home holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TT Math 5 has 129 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Brave Learner Home's written reviews are positive against 60% of TT Math 5's.
Brave Learner Home ships an update every 4 weeks, TT Math 5 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brave Learner Home | TT Math 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better | 3.2 (129 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 59.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 129 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brave Writer LLC | Teaching Textbooks, Inc. |
Customer experience
Brave Learner Home
TT Math 5
Bugs and requests
Brave Learner Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TT Math 5
Reported bugs
44 issues- App freezes and glitches when giving hints
- Touch screen not registering numbers
- App freezes up
- App is very laggy
- Sometimes kicks me out of the app
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- Error code A-4 preventing app from opening
- Cannot paste
- Carrying makes you put the second digit in first
- Typing digits the opposite way
- App counts correct answers wrong
- App glitches
- Issues with loading lessons
- App won't load a lesson
- App not working at all
- Syncing info issues
- Password was wrong when it was right
- Lectures are very confusing
- Lost progress
- Custom keyboard is difficult to use
- Buttons don't work
- App boots me out frequently
- App is constantly freezing
- Bluetooth keyboard not working on the app
- Won't let me go into one of the lessons
- Reviewing things done in 2nd grade
- Stickers are freaky
- Hard to access stickers
- Audio is outdated and hard to hear
- Doesn't let me past quiz 2
- When I type a answer it doesn’t let me type it correctly
- App glitches out and kicks me off
- Don't explain it good
- Issues with loading lessons on iPad
- Won't let us use the Bluetooth keyboard
- Won't let me go into one of the lessons
- Syncing info issues
- Missed one day of math
- Stickers are really freaky
- Very hard to access my stickers
- Said my password was wrong when i knew it was right
- Lectures are very confusing
- Keep on loosing my progress
- Lost all progress once
- Custom keyboard is quite difficult to use
Requested features
12 requests- Add a redo button
- Add sound effects to stickers
- More problems on each particular math subject
- Focus practice problems on new lessons first
- Improve review of concepts like Roman Numerals and time
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- Option to use standard keyboard
- Fix issues with Bluetooth keyboard
- Allow access to website version if app freezes
- Add cool congratulations at the end of a grade
- Make stickers less freaky
- Improve audio quality and clarity
- Treat older students appropriately
In-app purchases
Brave Learner Home
- Lifetime Membership$199.99
TT Math 5
No in-app purchases
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