Learn Mental Maths vs Mental Math
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Mental Maths
This app acts as a personal math coach, making mental math practice fun and competitive. It adapts to your skill level, offering tailored lessons, tips, and engaging game modes. Track your progress with detailed statistics and challenge others in multiplayer modes.
- Adaptive difficulty levels
- Tips & tricks for math tasks
- Gamified learning with levels and unlocks
- Multiplayer and ghost battles
- Detailed progress statistics
- Variety of math question types
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Quick, what's 17 + 24? Mathical is like Duolingo, but for learning maths! With Mathical, you will stay mentally active and improve your mental maths skills in a fun and competitive way. Start today and you'll be surprised how quickly you improve! Within a week of regular practice, you will answer questions like the one above without even having to think about it. WHO IS MATHICAL FOR? Mathical is the only mental maths training app on the App Store that intelligently adapts to you: the difficulty of questions is continuously adjusted based on your performance, to ensure you're neither overwhelmed nor bored. This makes Mathical the perfect companion for kids, adults, students, or people who just want to keep their brain sharp. Mathical also features explanations, tips & tricks for common exercises like addition, multiplication, or roots. You will not only learn how these tasks work, but also how to solve them in your head quickly & efficiently. WHY MATHICAL? With Mathical, learning mental maths doesn't feel like work - for every level you finish you collect experience, which helps you level up to unlock new features. Additionally, Mathical motivates you with Achievements, Leaderboards, Daily Objectives, Play Streaks, and much more. All this guarantees that learning with Mathical never gets boring. Detailed statistics also provide you with an overview of how various metrics, such as your average task completion time, evolve over time. This helps you to easily keep track of your progress. SHOW OFF YOUR SKILLS If you're convinced you can solve maths questions faster than others, you can prove it with Multiplayer in Mathical! Players can compete in the Daily Challenge, where everyone solves the same questions every day. If you decide to compete, you can see how you fared compared to other players on a global leaderboard. Ghost Battles allow you to compete directly with other players. Answer questions faster than your opponent's ghost to win. By competing in Ghost Battles, you can also unlock new customisation options for your own ghost. Here's a quick overview of the most important features of Mathical: • Tailored lessons that adapt to you • 100+ single-player levels for all skill levels • Tips & tricks for common tasks like addition, subtraction, and multiplication • A variety of game modes to keep you on your toes • Dozens of maths-related question types, ranging from addition to percentages and geometry • Compete against other players anonymously in Ghost battles • Detailed statistics about your progress WHAT IS MATHICAL+? Mathical is free-to-play and does not contain any ads. If you enjoy the game, you can support the developer of the app and unlock even more great features with a subscription to Mathical+: • Access to all game modes and question types • Randomly generated levels for endless fun • Unlimited multiplayer matches • Even more detailed statistics • 50% discount for education • Free for users from Ukraine, Слава Україні! And the best part: a single Mathical+ membership can be shared with your entire family at no extra cost. ------------ Do you have a suggestion or want to tell me what you think? Send me a message at support@mathical.app, I'd love to hear from you! Enjoying Mathical? A positive review on the App Store would be a big help! ------------ For more information, refer to our Terms of Service (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/) and Privacy Policy (https://mathical.app/privacy).
Mental Math
Train your calculation skills with this app by solving math problems against the clock. Customize the time limit and number of questions for a personalized challenge. Review your results to track progress and improve your math abilities.
- Solve math problems against a time limit
- Customize time limit and number of problems
- Review calculation results
- Simple and comfortable user interface
- Gaming experience for spare time
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This is a calculation training app where you can solve math problems within a predetermined time limit. You can customize the time limit and the number of problems according to your preferences. Once the problems are completed, the calculation results are displayed, and you can make use of them in the future. The problem interface has been designed to be as simple as possible, ensuring comfortable usability. With a short time limit, you can play and solve problems in your spare time, enjoying a gaming experience. If you have any requests or suggestions, you can submit them through the app. Please feel free to actively utilize it if there are any features you desire.
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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mental Math at none against Learn Mental Maths's 8. Mental Math also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.3). Learn Mental Maths's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (90% vs 75%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Learn Mental Maths sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Mental Math asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Learn Mental Maths against 4.5 for Mental Math. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Learn Mental Maths's written reviews are positive against 75% of Mental Math's.
Learn Mental Maths ships an update every 6 weeks, Mental Math every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn Mental Maths | Mental Math |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.1% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.3 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonas Zell | Yudai Kitano |
Customer experience
Learn Mental Maths
Mental Math
In-app purchases
Learn Mental Maths
- Mathical+ for Education$2.491 Month
- Mathical+$3.491 Month
- Mathical+ for Education$4.491 Year
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- Mathical+$8.991 Year
- Mathical+ for Education$4.99
- Mathical+$7.99
- Mathical+ for Education$9.99
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- Mathical+$12.99
Mental Math
No in-app purchases
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