Quick Math vs Calcugators
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Math
Practice math skills with a timed game featuring handwriting recognition. This app helps students and adults improve arithmetic fluency, mental strategies, and pre-algebra skills through engaging exercises. It offers personalized feedback and adaptive challenges for continuous improvement.
- Handwriting recognition
- Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Mixed operations practice
- Pre-algebra skills
- Adaptive difficulty levels
- Individual user profiles
- Progress tracking
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"Quick Math is perfect for students to improve their all round mathematics ability" - Apps In Education Kids and adults can’t put it down! Practice your mathematics while racing the clock in this innovative iPad app. Featuring advanced handwriting recognition and a beautiful interface, Quick Math will take your general arithmetic skills to the next level. Quick Math is perfect for students in grades 3 to 6, or for anyone wanting to improve their general math skills. With multiple difficulty levels and a focus on self-improvement, Quick Math provides increasing challenges as your skills develop. EDUCATIONAL CONTENT • Practice mental addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and mixed operations • Develop arithmetic fluency and improve mental strategies • Practice pre-algebra skills by calculating unknown values and using inverse operations • Practice handwriting FOR PARENTS Quick Math improves arithmetic fluency and promotes development of mental strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and mixed operations. With a focus on self-improvement, Quick Math provides individual feedback on your child’s progress as they develop arithmetic skills at their own pace. Quick Math is perfect for children aged 6 - 12, providing increasing challenges as children grow and progress. FOR TEACHERS Quick Math allows students to practice and develop general arithmetic at their own level, while providing increasing levels of difficulty as children master arithmetic skills. Individualised user profiles allow devices to be shared among multiple students whilst allowing students to track their own personal progress. With answers written directly on screen, Quick Math also improves handwriting skills and strengthens muscle memory, promoting transference of new skills to traditional classroom tasks. CURRICULUM SPECIFICS - USA - Grades 1 to 5 - Canada - Grades 1 to 6 - UK - Years 2 to 5 (Late Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2) - Australia - Years 2 to 6 (Late Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 & 3 of new syllabus) HWR is supplied by MyScript from Vision Objects.
Calcugators
This educational game makes practicing addition fun for children. Kids embark on a math hike, feeding gators by solving problems that encourage various math strategies. It offers four difficulty levels for a personalized challenge.
- Addition practice
- Math strategy development
- Four difficulty levels
- Offline play
- No ads or tracking
- Account-free
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Calcugators is a number crunching math game your kids are going to enjoy. Pick a trail and feed the gators on a math hike that is sure to challenge their minds and make them smile. While you will only see addition problems in Calcugators, you may be surprised by just how many ways you will work with numbers. You will need to use all your math strategies: regrouping, counting on, making multiples of ten, subtraction and more to complete these trails. With four levels of difficulty, there is a challenge for just about any age. SQUEAKY CLEAN Calcugators contains no ads or tracking. You do not need an internet connection or an account with our company to get play. ABOUT LITTLE 10 ROBOT We create high quality games that enrich players. We strive to create family friendly experiences that have distinct educational value inside every product.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Quick Math at every 5 weeks against Calcugators's every 49 months. Quick Math also leads on ratings volume (717 vs 7) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.0). Calcugators's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (86% vs 75%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Quick Math costs $1.99 and Calcugators $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Calcugators holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Math has 717 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Quick Math's written reviews are positive against 86% of Calcugators's.
Quick Math ships an update every 5 weeks, Calcugators every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Math | Calcugators |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (717 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.2% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 717 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 49 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shiny Things | Little 10 Robot |
Customer experience
Quick Math
Calcugators
Bugs and requests
Quick Math
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not compatible with iOS 11 and newer
- Inconsistent handwriting recognition
- Freezing or crashing issues on some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to practice specific math operations
- Option to compete against friends or leaderboards
- More detailed progress tracking and analytics
- Support for negative numbers and algebraic equations
Calcugators
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quick Math
No in-app purchases
Calcugators
No in-app purchases
Questions
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