Comparison

Mathmateer® vs The Human Body by Tinybop

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

Head to head
About

Mathmateer®

Engage children in learning math through interactive space missions. Build and customize rockets, then complete over 50 math challenges involving numbers, fractions, shapes, and more. Earn medals and track progress in a fun, educational environment.

Highlights
  • 56 unique math missions
  • Rocket building and customization
  • Interactive space-themed challenges
  • Progress tracking with medals
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Space avatars and player profiles
Features
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▸ Featured in The New York Times! ▸ Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review Math can be fun! Build your very own rockets and fly them to the stars with Mathmateer®! While your rocket is floating weightlessly in space, the real fun begins! Play one of the 56 different math missions. Each mission has touchable objects floating in space, including stars, coins, clocks, 3D shapes and even pizzas! Earn a bronze, silver or gold medal and also try to beat your high score. Missions range in difficulty from even/odd numbers all the way to square roots, so kids and their parents will enjoy hours of fun while learning math. 56 DIFFERENT MATH MISSIONS: ▸ Numbers / Fractions / Decimals ▸ Counting ▸ Telling Time ▸ U.S. Money ▸ Shapes (2D and 3D) ▸ Patterns ▸ Addition ▸ Subtraction ▸ Multiplication ▸ Division ▸ Square Roots ...and many more! FEATURES: ▸ 56 fun math missions that are different every time ▸ Over 90 colorful rocket parts ▸ Lively sound effects and music ▸ Fun arithmetic game with 3 difficulty levels ▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app ▸ Choose from over 15 space-themed avatars ▸ Create up to five player profiles ▸ Rocket simulator is powered by a realistic physics engine ▸ Adjust music and sound settings ▸ Provides hours and hours of learning fun! Mathmateer® is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play! PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Mathmateer®: - Does not contain ads. - Does not contain in-app purchases. - Does not contain integration with social networks. - Does not use analytics / data collection tools. - Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes. For more information on our privacy policy please visit: http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/

About

The Human Body by Tinybop

Explore the human body through interactive models of its systems. Discover how the heart beats, lungs breathe, and more. This app is designed for children and adults to foster foundational science literacy through engaging exploration.

Highlights
  • Explore 8 interactive body systems
  • Detailed interactive models of organs
  • Simulate body functions
  • Learn vocabulary in 50+ languages
  • Kid-friendly design with avatars
  • Expert-reviewed handbook included
Features
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Learn anatomy and biology in an interactive model of the human body — the heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, the skin feels, and eyes see. *** Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice *** *** KAPI Best App for Older Children *** *** Parents Magazine Best App for Families *** *** Winner - Digital Ehon Award 2020 *** *** 2022 American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Digital Media *** The Human Body is No. 1 in Tinybop’s Explorer’s Library. Each Explorer’s Library app lets kids explore the invisible and awesome wonders of STEM. Kids (and kids at heart!) ages 4+ develop foundational science literacy. The Human Body has been downloaded more than 9 million times and has reached the #1 spot on the App Store’s education charts in 144 countries. “The sound effects are both hilarious and compelling—the pulsing swoosh of the heart pumping is soothing, but the gassy squeaks coming from the digestive system are enough to send my kids into a fit of giggles.” — COOL MOM TECH “What it all amounts to is a circuitous, engrossing tour through the human body—one that’s completely self-guided and unique to every user.” — WIRED Features + Explore eight interactive systems to learn human anatomy, including the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, immune, and integumentary (skin) systems. + Discover detailed, interactive models of the heart, brain, eye, stomach, mouth, and much more. + Get the urogenital system as an in-app purchase. + Feed the body, make it run and breathe, assemble and pull apart a skeleton, see how the eye sees, watch sound vibrations travel through the ear canal, and more. + Learn new vocabulary with text labels in 50+ languages. + Create a dashboard to change languages, delete accounts, and support your kids’ learning. + Intuitive, safe, and kid-friendly design. + Multi-user system: each child can choose and name their own avatar. + Original artwork and sound design. + Fun for the whole family—play together, learn together. + No rules or levels—curiosity is rewarded. FREE handbook Our expert-reviewed handbook is full of facts, interaction hints, and discussion questions to support learning in this app, in the classroom or at home. Download in your app or at: http://tinybop.com/handbooks. Privacy Policy We take your and your child’s privacy very seriously. We do not collect or share personal information about your child, nor do we allow any third-party advertising. When the camera, microphone, and other services are used within an app, your information is neither collected nor distributed outside of the app. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. Tinybop, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow. We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop Peek behind the scenes: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! If you have ideas, or something isn’t working as you expect it to, please contact us: hi@tinybop.com. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop. :)

Screenshots

Mathmateer®4 screens
The Human Body by Tinybop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mathmateer® at none against The Human Body by Tinybop's 2. Mathmateer® also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 67%) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). The Human Body by Tinybop's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and chart position (#120 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mathmateer® costs $1.99 and The Human Body by Tinybop $3.99 up front. The Human Body by Tinybop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Mathmateer® asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Human Body by Tinybop holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Human Body by Tinybop has 398 ratings behind it against 60, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Mathmateer®'s written reviews are positive against 67% of The Human Body by Tinybop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mathmateer® ships an update every 2 months, The Human Body by Tinybop every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Mathmateer® versus The Human Body by Tinybop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMathmateer®The Human Body by Tinybop
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.0 (60 ratings)4.2 (398 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews — better67.1% of reviews
Number of ratings60398 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#120 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFreecloud Design, Inc.Tinybop Inc.

Customer experience

Mathmateer®

All ratings60 ratings
Positive71.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive83.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative10.6%

The Human Body by Tinybop

All ratings398 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral5.5%
Negative14.8%
Written reviews1,051 reviews
Positive67.1%
Neutral8.4%
Negative24.5%

User reviews

Mathmateer®

From 60 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Engaging and fun
  • 👍 Great for learning math
  • 💡 Ability to build and customize rockets
  • 👍 Variety of math topics and difficulty levels
  • 👍 Motivates kids to practice math

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Technical issues with rocket launching
  • 🐛 Inconsistent performance
  • 🐛 Lack of instructions/tutorial
  • 🔋 Repetitive gameplay

The Human Body by Tinybop

From 398 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Visually appealing
  • 👍 Interactive and engaging
  • 🧠 Helps kids learn about the body
  • 🎓 Educational and informative

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🤔 Confusing navigation and UI
  • 💰 Expensive for limited content
  • 🔇 Lack of audio/voice instructions

Bugs and requests

Mathmateer®

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Rocket launch fails
  • Math problems not showing up
  • Inability to progress past certain points

Requested features

4 requests
  • More advanced math topics
  • Ability to choose currency
  • Consequences for wrong answers
  • Ability to track individual scores

The Human Body by Tinybop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to restore in-app purchases
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Freezing and crashing on certain actions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more body systems (e.g. endocrine, lymphatic)
  • Include pronunciations of body part names
  • Provide more detailed explanations of processes
  • Allow customization of the human model

In-app purchases

None

Mathmateer®

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

The Human Body by Tinybop

One-time2
  • The Urogenital System$0.99
  • The Immune System$0.99

Questions

Is Mathmateer® free?
Mathmateer® costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Human Body by Tinybop free?
The Human Body by Tinybop costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mathmateer® or The Human Body by Tinybop?
The Human Body by Tinybop is rated higher. Mathmateer® averages 4.0 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while The Human Body by Tinybop averages 4.2 from 398 ratings.
Do Mathmateer® or The Human Body by Tinybop have ads?
Neither Mathmateer® nor The Human Body by Tinybop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mathmateer® or The Human Body by Tinybop?
Mathmateer® ships an update every 2 months, and The Human Body by Tinybop every 5 months. Most recently, Mathmateer® was updated on October 9, 2026 and The Human Body by Tinybop on October 16, 2026.

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