Comparison

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips vs Mad Math

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

Mad Math

Test your arithmetic skills in this fast-paced brain training game. Solve math problems against the clock and compete with players worldwide in a five-round online challenge.

Highlights
  • Solve arithmetic tasks quickly
  • Choose correct answer before time runs out
  • Compete with people worldwide
  • Online game with five rounds
  • Winner based on correct answers and speed
Features
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In this game you need to solve arithmetic tasks quickly. There is a task and 4 possible answers on the screen. You need to choose the correct answer before the time is up. It seems to be easy, but can you score at least 25 points? If you're sure you can, compete with people from all over the world! The online game consists of five rounds. The winner is the one who gives more correct answers. If the score is tied the winner is the one who responds quickly.

Screenshots

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips4 screens
Mad Math3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mental Math Cards Games & Tips at 4.6 against Mad Math's 3.5. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips also leads on ratings volume (60K vs 14) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Mad Math's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 Mad Math sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Math Cards Games & Tips has 60K ratings behind it against 14, 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 91% of Mad Math'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, Mad Math every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips versus Mad Math: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Math Cards Games & TipsMad Math
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (60K ratings) — better3.5 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews84.8% of reviews91.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings60K — better14
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#47 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013 — better
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas McNamaraMikhail Akopov

Customer experience

Mental Math Cards Games & Tips

All ratings58,816 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews876 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative9.2%

Mad Math

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%

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

Mad Math

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
5 purchases

Mad Math

One-time5
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • 500 coins$0.99
  • 1,500 coins$1.99
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  • 5,000 coins$2.99
  • 20,000 coins$9.99

Questions

Is Mental Math Cards Games & Tips free?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mad Math free?
Mad Math is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Mad Math?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips is rated higher. Mental Math Cards Games & Tips averages 4.6 out of 5 from 60K ratings, while Mad Math averages 3.5 from 14 ratings.
Do Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Mad Math have ads?
Neither Mental Math Cards Games & Tips nor Mad Math shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips or Mad Math?
Mental Math Cards Games & Tips ships an update fortnightly, and Mad Math every 2 months. Most recently, Mental Math Cards Games & Tips was updated on October 31, 2026 and Mad Math on October 27, 2026.

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