1 Minute Mental Arithmetic vs Quick Maffs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1 Minute Mental Arithmetic
Practice mental arithmetic for one minute daily to sharpen your cognitive skills. This app is also designed to assist children in learning basic calculations and improving their math abilities.
- Daily 1-minute mental arithmetic practice
- Brain training exercises
- Assists children in learning calculations
- Improves cognitive skills
- Simple and focused interface
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Do mental arithmetic for 1 minute every day to train your brain. It also helps the child learn the calculations.
Quick Maffs
This mental math application offers 13 customizable game modes to sharpen arithmetic skills. It's ideal for students, professionals preparing for interviews, or anyone looking to boost their mathematical abilities. The app is completely free with no advertisements or in-app purchases.
- 13 customizable game modes
- Various arithmetic types
- Tailored difficulty levels
- No ads or paywalls
- Improve math skills
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QuickMaffs is a simple mental math app with NO ADS or PAYWALLS! Perfect for students, Quant finance interviews, or anyone who wants to improve their math skills. Features include 13 game modes of various arithmetic types, each customizable with tailored difficulty levels. Modes: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squaring, doubling, halving, linear equations, quadratic equations, equation systems, mean, percentages and trigonometry. (This app is designed and maintained by Andrew Martin.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Quick Maffs at none against 1 Minute Mental Arithmetic's shown. Quick Maffs also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 1 Minute Mental Arithmetic's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and ratings volume (32 vs 5). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
1 Minute Mental Arithmetic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 1 Minute Mental Arithmetic has 32 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
1 Minute Mental Arithmetic ships an update every 6 weeks, Quick Maffs weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1 Minute Mental Arithmetic | Quick Maffs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hirokazu Uno | Keith Martin |
Customer experience
1 Minute Mental Arithmetic
Quick Maffs
In-app purchases
1 Minute Mental Arithmetic
No in-app purchases
Quick Maffs
No in-app purchases
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