Mental Math vs ThinkFast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mental Math
Enhance your calculation skills with a variety of math exercises and difficulty levels. This brain training game offers engaging practice in arithmetic, percentages, Roman numerals, and more. It's designed to be fun and effective for all ages.
- Multiple exercise categories
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Time limit options
- Order of operations practice
- Multiplication table drills
- Roman numeral exercises
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The classic math trainer with over a million downloads! Choose your exercises from many categories and difficulty levels. From the reviews: "Great little App" "Easy and efficient" "Wonderful and fun" Boost your gray matter now! Here's a quick check: What's 7 × (4 + 9)? Needed more than five seconds? This can be better! With Mental Math you can playfully improve your mental calculation skills through various exercises. Image puzzles are an incentive to carry on practicing. Mental Math has been developed in collaboration with mathematics teachers and is successfully put to used in many schools. Choose the exercises from many categories: - Basic Arithmetics - Division with Remainder - Percentage Calculation - Reading and Writing Roman Numerals - Common Multiples and Divisors Moreover, there are - 4 Difficulty Levels - an adjustable Time Limit - Exercises in order of operations and braces - Exercises to practice specific Multiplication Tables
ThinkFast
Test your knowledge and speed with a challenging quiz game. Answer difficult questions across various subjects in a limited time. It's a fun way to increase and maintain your knowledge on the go.
- Timed challenges
- Multiple subject categories
- Daily knowledge boost
- Apple Watch support
- Constant question updates
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Are you intelligent? Well informed? Have an answer for every question? Really? All well and good, but we bet that you cannot answer 5 questions correctly in 20 seconds. ThinkFast is not only fun, but also challenges you to answers difficult questions quickly. With this App, that also runs on the Apple Watch, you receive new challenging questions on different subjects: · Science · Geography · Music · Mathematics · Politics · Sport · Comedy New questions are added all the time and App is constantly being developed. ThinkFast is your daily companion helping you challenge, increase and maintain your knowledge whilst having fun. Try it now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ThinkFast at every 10 days against Mental Math's every 3 months. ThinkFast also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). Mental Math's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 75%) and chart position (#46 vs unranked). On ads, 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
Mental Math costs $2.99 and ThinkFast $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mental Math ships an update every 3 months, ThinkFast every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mental Math | ThinkFast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (44 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trilliarden Entertainment GmbH | RHS International GmbH |
Customer experience
Mental Math
ThinkFast
Bugs and requests
Mental Math
Reported bugs
2 issues- The app has stopped functioning in iOS 8
- The keypad was changed around, which is confusing
Requested features
17 requests- Expand the difficulty of the problems
- Better randomizer as there are a lot of repeats
- Add tutorials on how the calculations are made
- Allow users to create their own image library
- Add a scoring mechanism based on time, correct answers and difficulty
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- Add a timer that tells you your time after each try
- Add 0-12 instead of 0-9
- Add ability to practice single addition the same way as multiplication
- Add American Division notation
- Allow users to select their own notation
- Change 'greatest common divisor' to 'greatest common factor'
- Remove the 'Do you want to continue' prompt
- Add more difficult Roman Numerals up to 1000
- Add currency section
- Add more options/selections for sound feedback
- Add a stop watch for lesson duration (stats)
- Add the ability to upload personal pics
ThinkFast
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mental Math
No in-app purchases
ThinkFast
No in-app purchases
Questions
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