Comparison

Flash Mental Math vs AL

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

Head to head
About

Flash Mental Math

Practice mental arithmetic with various difficulty levels and custom modes. This app serves as a brain training tool to enhance calculation skills.

Highlights
  • Mental arithmetic practice
  • Easy, normal, and difficult modes
  • Customizable modes
  • Brain training
  • Calculation skill improvement
Features
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Flash mental arithmetic practice app In addition to the easy, normal, and difficult modes, there are also custom modes. It can also be a brain training to improve mental arithmetic

About

AL

Access educational systems, curricula, and events. Engage in interactive learning for languages and mental arithmetic through gamified experiences. Participate in math competitions with rankings and awards.

Highlights
  • Access educational systems and curricula
  • Interactive language and mental arithmetic learning
  • Gamified educational experiences
  • World Mathematics League competitions
  • Progress tracking and rankings
  • Access to educational events and updates
Features
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Al-Tarek Application is a gate to Al-Tarek Organization educational systems, curricula and educational events. The Application helps facilitating the process of accessing Al-Tarek Organization platforms for the students, their parents and teachers. Through the application they can access CROSS system, World Mathematics League and HORUS platforms. In the home Page, students can Access CROSS Educational System where the modern technologies and latest teaching methods come together to create an educational system that emulates the future. The system takes the students to various worlds that they engage with to learn languages, mental arithmetic and other skills while fighting against pirates or looking for a long lost treasure. The system is built to strengthen the students’ memory and concentrating skills while they are setting the world free from evils that threatens it. As it addresses the imagination and the hearts of the children so that they live a unique educational experience. Through CROSS system the students access mental arithmetic and different languages such as Arabic, English, French, Germany, and Italian courses. They attend their lessons, access the course materials, do their homework, answer monthly exams and having fun while watching different interesting story after every session. The curricula used on CROSS are all based on Al-Tarek Organization experts researches and constantly developed to cope up with the needs of the students and educational institutions all over the world. The system is being developed to increase children motivation to learn and to make the learning process more fun and enjoyable and to follow the interests of the new generations. CROSS System uses Al-Tarek Organization’s curricula in 2 different languages (Arabic and English) with the ability to provide them with any other language based on the request of the institutions using it. The System is designed also with the capacity to hold hundreds of programs and curricula, including schools’ curricula and using different backgrounds that change according to the new story of each program. The Intellectual Property Rights of CROSS System is owned by Al-Tarek Organization. In World Mathematics League students can access the 8 rounds competition that is inspired from sports leagues, where students can compete in teams and under the flag of their countries for 8 months. Through the application students can access their practices, monthly exam, receive their results as well as their monthly and annual ranking. The students receive financial prizes and are celebrated at the end of every round. And at the end of league the best teams and best students are celebrated in a great ceremony in a different city each time where they receive trophies based on their world ranking. Through HORUS, students, parents and teachers can check the latest updates regarding HORUS International Mental Mathematics Championships that are organized by Al-Tarek in a different continent every six months. To provide mental mathematics companies and students from different countries and cultures of the world with a unique event where they can meet and exchange experiences, and to give mental mathematics students an opportunity to shine and to show their talents. Students also can access HORUS platform where online competitions are held and also where they can practice before competitions.

Screenshots

Flash Mental Math3 screens
AL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AL at none against Flash Mental Math's shown. AL also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, 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

Flash Mental Math ships an update every 3 months, AL every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Flash Mental Math versus AL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlash Mental MathAL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyouhei AzumaMohamed Gad El-sayed Ibrahim

Customer experience

Flash Mental Math

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AL

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flash Mental Math

No in-app purchases

None

AL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flash Mental Math free?
Flash Mental Math is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AL free?
AL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flash Mental Math or AL have ads?
Flash Mental Math shows ads; AL does not.
Which is updated more often, Flash Mental Math or AL?
Flash Mental Math ships an update every 3 months, and AL every 6 weeks. Most recently, Flash Mental Math was updated on October 27, 2026 and AL on October 24, 2026.

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