Comparison

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips vs Area Quiz

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

Head to head
About

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Enhance your arithmetic skills with engaging games, practice sets, and easy-to-remember tips. This app offers progressive difficulty levels and step-by-step solutions for all operations, suitable for all ages and skill levels.

Highlights
  • Arithmetic skill improvement
  • Practice question sets
  • Easy-to-remember tips
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Step-by-step problem solutions
  • Game Center integration (Leaderboards & Achievements)
  • Support for various digit problems
Features
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Want to improve your math skills without having to memorize a hundred tricks? Mental Math Cards is designed to help people of all ages and skill levels improve their arithmetic abilities through easy to remember (and use) tips, practice question sets, and an addictive game. Unlike many other math apps, advanced problems are also supported to keep things challenging as your skills improve. Mental Math Cards is fully integrated with Game Center - providing both Leaderboards and Achievements. The Game Center features allow you to test your skills against the rest of the world and to share your scores and accomplishments with friends. Mental Math Cards provides step by step instructions on how to approach solving all of the problems it shows - for all operations and difficulty levels. Each difficulty level for each operation type is carefully thought out to build on the skills mastered in previous levels. For instance, hard multiplication problems are shown to be solvable by breaking problems down into medium and easy level problems. Students: Prepare for the math sections of the PSAT, SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and MCAT, as well as for regular school tests. Many tests don't allow for calculators, and greater comfort with arithmetic will still improve your scores even if calculators are allowed. Professionals: Impress colleagues, family, and friends with lightning fast and accurate mental math skills. Impress interviewers during job interviews that have quantitative component by solving problems without needing a pencil and paper. Mental Math Cards supports 1 by 1, 2 by 1, 2 by 2, and 3 by 3 digit problems. Given that flexibility, Mental Math Cards is as appropriate for use by beginning students as it is for college graduates looking to sharpen their skills for quantitative interviews and to impress friends & colleagues. Mental Math Cards supports all four of the major arithmetic operations - as well as a mixed operations mode that randomly shows all types of problems. - Addition - Subtraction - Multiplication - Division Feel free to contact me with any feedback and feature suggestions. ================================== Mental Math Cards Pro Edition Subscription Mental Math Cards provides additional features using a subscription model - that includes a 3 day trial period. Purchases will be applied to your iTunes account at the end of the trial period. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service - linked below. Please visit the following link for more information on AppStore app subscriptions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039. Our Privacy Policy: https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/a868b26d-f39d-40f2-ad2d-bf5caba22382 Our Terms of Service: https://app.termly.io/document/terms-of-use-for-ios-app/f7c97c5f-d070-420c-999a-b32fdec5dcb2 ================================== Select User Reviews: ***** - Excellent! - "I was hoping something like this existed when I bought an iPhone. This is an excellent implementation of it and works just the way I was hoping. It includes a lot of well written instructions on how to master the tougher problems." ***** - Keep it up! - "This game is a fun way for grown ups to keep up on their math skills. Most adults forget half of what they have learned in school. Like most things if you don't use it you forget it. This is a cool fun way to keep those Math juices flowing!" - MonicaP Retired school teacher ***** - Epic - "This app really works I got an a+ on my math test when I studied with this app"

About

Area Quiz

This math quiz app offers geometry puzzles and brain teasers with five difficulty levels. It helps improve logic, IQ, and mental math skills through engaging challenges. Draw notes, use hints, and share progress while enjoying offline play.

Highlights
  • Five difficulty levels
  • Unlock levels by solving
  • Draw notes on screen
  • Hints available
  • Offline play
  • Share progress
Features
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No complex calculations needed. The side lengths and areas required for solutions are always whole numbers. The key is your perspective and thinking skills! There are 5 difficulty levels, starting with easy questions. No need to be nervous! In the later stages, we’ve included some brain-teasing challenges. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving tough puzzles in this brain training game. It feels like a mix of puzzle games and brain teasers, offering a fun way to play! Features: - Five difficulty levels - Unlock levels by solving questions - Play any question in a level - Draw notes on the screen with your finger - Hints are available for all questions - Share images of your progress Explore the world of geometry with area and shape puzzles in this fun and challenging math quiz app. Test your logic and IQ with hundreds of questions designed to boost your brain power. Each level presents a new dimension of math games, from easy to hard, allowing you to practice and master your skills. Whether you're solving a square problem or a maze-like puzzle, this app is perfect for education and study. Train with brain teasers, improve your math speed, and become a true solver with this ultimate math drill! It’s like a cross math puzzle designed to boost your mental abilities. Perfect for anyone wanting to learn, this app offers a unique way to practice mental math and enhance problem-solving skills. Join the Quiz of Kings and take your brain to the next level with this powerful math training tool. The download is free, so feel free to give it a try! Note: The diagrams may differ from actual proportions to prevent solving by visual cues. Note: Ads are displayed in the game. You can remove ads through in-app purchases. Note: This game can be played offline. However, to access hint videos, you will need to be online as they require downloading.

Screenshots

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips4 screens
Area Quiz4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Area Quiz at free with in-app purchases against Mental Math Cards Games & Tips's subscription. Area Quiz also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Mental Math Cards Games & Tips's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Area Quiz sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Area Quiz holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Math Cards Games & Tips has 60K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Mental Math Cards Games & Tips's written reviews are positive against 63% of Area Quiz's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips ships an update fortnightly, Area Quiz every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

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Mental Math Cards Games & Tips versus Area Quiz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Math Cards Games & TipsArea Quiz
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (60K ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews — better63.0% of reviews
Number of ratings60K — better11
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#32 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas McNamaraWasabi Applications

Customer experience

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

All ratings58,816 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews886 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.9%
Negative9.1%

Area Quiz

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral14.8%
Negative22.2%

Bugs and requests

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Numbers displayed incorrectly
  • Answers marked wrong when correct
  • App crashes when used continuously

Requested features

10 requests
  • Dark mode feature
  • Allow selecting specific operations
  • Different difficulty levels for each operation
  • Repeat incorrect answers for practice
  • Add decimal practice
Show 5 more
  • Add negative number practice
  • Implement column math/subtraction
  • Practice larger number operations
  • Add binary and hexadecimal practice
  • Implement multiple user profiles

Area Quiz

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

Subscriptions2
  • Pro-Edition Features (1 Month)3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro-Edition Features (1 Year)3 Days trial$14.991 Year
2 purchases

Area Quiz

One-time2
  • Unlock All Hints$0.99
  • Ads Free$1.99

Questions

Is Mental Math Cards Games & Tips free?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Area Quiz free?
Area Quiz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Area Quiz?
Area Quiz is rated higher. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips averages 4.6 out of 5 from 60K ratings, while Area Quiz averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Area Quiz have ads?
Area Quiz shows ads; Mental Math Cards Games & Tips does not.
Which is updated more often, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Area Quiz?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips ships an update fortnightly, and Area Quiz every 5 months. Most recently, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips was updated on November 5, 2026 and Area Quiz on November 1, 2026.

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