Comparison

Learn Mental Maths vs BoltRead

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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).

About

BoltRead

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You read the way you learned to at seven years old. Word by word, eyes hopping along the line, an inner voice reading every syllable out loud. That habit costs you hours every single day. BoltRead breaks it in 20 seconds. Instead of your eyes moving across the text, the text comes to your eyes: one word at a time, in exactly the same spot, at lightning speed. Your gaze stays still. No jumping, no re-reading, no subvocalizing. Just reading. You feel it immediately. Most people double their speed in the first session. HOW IT WORKS Every word flashes on its own, with one orange focus letter placed exactly where your eye naturally lands. Your brain recognizes the word without your eye having to move. The technique is called RSVP, and it's why 600, 800 or 1,000 words per minute suddenly become possible. WHAT YOU GET • Reading test with comprehension questions – your real baseline, not a guess • Speed from 100 to 1,000 WPM, fully adjustable • Warm-up mode that starts slow and eases you up • Focus letter on/off, 1–3 words per flash • Auto-resume – close the app, pick up exactly where you stopped • Progress, streaks and stats that keep you coming back • Fully localized in English and German WHAT TO READ 63,000 free books from the Project Gutenberg catalog – classics, mysteries, fairy tales, philosophy, science fiction, poetry – searchable in the app and imported with a single tap. Or bring your own: upload PDF, EPUB and TXT, or paste any text. Study material, research papers, contracts, that email you've been avoiding since yesterday. WHO IT'S FOR Students facing exam season. Professionals who have to read more than the day allows. Anyone with a book pile that only grows. And anyone curious how fast they could actually read. BOLTREAD PLUS Free gets you 3 of your own books plus the entire catalog. BoltRead Plus unlocks unlimited personal books – monthly, yearly or as a one-time purchase. Cancel anytime in your iPhone settings. YOUR DATA Servers in Germany, GDPR compliant, no ads, no tracking, nothing sold. Your books stay yours. Download BoltRead and take the reading test. Two minutes. You'll read differently after that. BOLTREAD PLUS - SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS - BoltRead Plus Monthly: 4.99 EUR per month, 1 month duration - BoltRead Plus Yearly: 29.99 EUR per year, 1 year duration - BoltRead Plus Lifetime: 79.99 EUR one-time purchase, not a subscription Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Renewal is charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://speedreading.semesto.de/terms Privacy Policy: https://speedreading.semesto.de/privacy

Screenshots

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BoltRead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BoltRead at none against Learn Mental Maths's 8. BoltRead also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Learn Mental Maths sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. BoltRead asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Mental Maths ships an update every 6 weeks, BoltRead every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Learn Mental Maths versus BoltRead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Mental MathsBoltRead
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.316.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonas ZellDaniel Eler

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Learn Mental Maths

Subscriptions4
  • Mathical+ for Education$2.491 Month
  • Mathical+$3.491 Month
  • Mathical+ for Education$4.491 Year
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  • Mathical+$8.991 Year
One-time4
  • Mathical+ for Education$4.99
  • Mathical+$7.99
  • Mathical+ for Education$9.99
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  • Mathical+$12.99
None

BoltRead

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Learn Mental Maths free?
Learn Mental Maths is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoltRead free?
BoltRead is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Learn Mental Maths or BoltRead have ads?
Neither Learn Mental Maths nor BoltRead shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Mental Maths or BoltRead?
Learn Mental Maths ships an update every 6 weeks, and BoltRead every 2 days. Most recently, Learn Mental Maths was updated on October 24, 2026 and BoltRead on October 8, 2026.

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