Basic Math vs Quick Mental Math
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Math
Practice essential math skills through repetitive exercises. This app offers addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems suitable for children and adults. An optional upgrade unlocks advanced features like a numeric keypad, customizable difficulty, and performance tracking.
- Addition exercises
- Subtraction exercises
- Multiplication exercises
- Division exercises
- Adjustable difficulty
- Performance reporting
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This is an application based on the drill-and-practice instructional strategy. Similar to memorization, such a strategy presents the tasks to be completed repetitively to build up the foundation skills for more meaningful learning in the future. This application provides exercises covering basic mathematical skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The exercises are targeted for children under 12 years, and sometimes even adults, with varying degrees of difficulty depending on their age. Upgrade to Basic Math Deluxe to unlock the following features: - A numeric keypad to enter answers, besides using multiple-choice answers - Enter values using the usual calculator left-to-right mode, or working style right-to-left mode - Sound effects - A times table to practise multiplication tables - Option to configure max and minimum operand value - A report card to review your performance in past exercises
Quick Mental Math
Enhance your arithmetic abilities with this app, offering practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Engage in competitive one-on-one races or customize your own practice sessions. Track your progress with detailed statistics.
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division practice
- Randomized questions
- One-on-one races
- Custom race lobbies
- Customizable practice sessions
- Stat tracking
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Quick Mental Math is the perfect app for anyone that wants to improve their mental math skills, whether you're in elementary school or a college graduate. Features: - All four math operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - Completely randomized questions - One v one races - Custom race lobbies - Customizable practice - Stat tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Mental Math at 5.0 against Basic Math's 3.0. Quick Mental Math also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and ads (none vs shown). Basic Math's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price 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. Quick Mental Math sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Basic Math asks for nothing beyond the download.
Quick Mental Math holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Mental Math has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Basic Math's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quick Mental Math's.
Basic Math ships an update every 2 months, Quick Mental Math every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Basic Math | Quick Mental Math |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Explorer Technologies | Phu Vu |
Customer experience
Basic Math
Quick Mental Math
Bugs and requests
Basic Math
Reported bugs
4 issues- Application abruptly stops when checking Report Card
- Tic Tac Toe mode instantly presumes two players
- Timer only counts up and not down
- Requires iOS 4, not compatible with older devices
Requested features
11 requests- Offer percents
- Allow adjustment of problems per session
- Option to change Tic Tac Toe mode to single player
- Explain why questions were missed
- Make timer count down
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- Add more operations
- Add percentages and angles
- Option to type in own answers instead of multiple choice
- Make problems go faster
- Change settings for difficulty and speed
- Add grammar, science, and music modules
Quick Mental Math
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Basic Math
No in-app purchases
Quick Mental Math
- Unlimited Access Pass$0.99
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