Mattemums vs The Lettervan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mattemums
A fun math game for children and candy lovers, featuring counting, arithmetic operations, and number quizzes. It offers multiple difficulty levels and engaging visuals of characters enjoying candy.
- Counting candy
- Arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Number quizzes
- Pack-in-bags counting
- 3 difficulty levels
- Swedish voice-over
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Mattemums är ett roligt matematikspel för barn og barnsliga tal- og godisälskare. Du kan räkna godis och se tokiga figurer äta godis tills de får en sockerchock. Spelet är lämpligt från 2 år och uppåt. ♥ Svenskt tal - kan absolut spelas även om man inte kan läsa ♥ 3 svårighetsgrader ♥ 4 typer räknesätt (plus, minus, gånger og division) ♥ Sifferquiz så barnen lär hur siffrorna ser ut ♥ Packa-i-påsar – räkna godis och se 10-siffersystemet i aktion. ♥ Massor av roliga saker till hjärnan ♥ Helt ofarligt för tänderna ♥ Hur många poäng kan du samla ihop? ♥ Och hur ser egentligen 492 godisbitar ut? - Massor av godis, siffror, tokerier, sockerchock och snorkråkor till flere timmar av kul inlärning.
The Lettervan
This educational game helps children develop phonemic awareness and spelling skills through interactive word challenges. Players navigate engaging scenarios while learning to identify and manipulate sounds within words, fostering reading and pronunciation proficiency.
- Phoneme recognition practice
- Interactive spelling challenges
- Word-based animations
- Developed with speech pathologists
- Engaging game scenarios
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Listen to phonemes and practice reading and spelling! Navigate past thorny vines, hangry monsters, and dark clouds - with unique animations for each word spelled. The app, developed in collaboration with speech and language pathologists, is designed to assist children in recognizing that words are composed of phonemes. This ability to identify phonemes within words is closely associated with proficiency in pronunciation, reading and spelling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Lettervan at 5.0 against Mattemums's 2.5. The Lettervan also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Mattemums's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (4.3 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Lettervan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
Mattemums ships an update every 3 weeks, The Lettervan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mattemums | The Lettervan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 4.3 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Biodome Games ApS | Rickard Paulsson |
Customer experience
Mattemums
The Lettervan
In-app purchases
Mattemums
No in-app purchases
The Lettervan
No in-app purchases
