Smart Ways to Die vs TimeTableExpress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Ways to Die
Navigate a monochrome 2D world in this unconventional platformer. Embrace death as a strategic tool to overcome challenges and escape the colorless environment. It's a quick and engaging experience.
- Unconventional 2D platformer
- Death as a weapon
- Colorless world exploration
- Short and fun gameplay
- Unique puzzle elements
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A short, fun, and unconventional 2D platformer where you must find your way out of a colorless world. Death is not a weakness but may in fact be your greatest weapon.
TimeTableExpress
Embark on a multiplication adventure with a train theme. This app offers interactive challenges that build on mastered concepts, rewarding progress with badges. It makes learning multiplication engaging and fun for young learners.
- Engaging train theme
- Interactive drag-and-drop learning
- Cumulative learning approach
- Rewarding progress with badges
- Multiplication fact challenges
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TimeTable Express turns multiplication tables into an adventure for grades 2 through 4. Built on a research-backed "hard first" method, the app helps students practice key multiplication facts through train-themed drag-and-drop gameplay. TimeTable Express is free to try for 7 days. After the free trial, a paid auto-renewing subscription is required to continue accessing gameplay and learning features, including: - Seven progressive levels - Drag-and-drop multiplication practice - Badge rewards - Score tracking after each round - Parent and teacher progress dashboards - A built-in tutorial for new players Subscriptions are offered as monthly or yearly auto-renewing options and begin after the 7-day free trial. Your subscription will automatically renew and your payment method will be charged unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your device’s App Store account settings. Pricing: Monthly subscription is $5.99 per month, or the yearly subscription is $19.99 per year, following the 7-day free trial. Prices may vary by region. Why "Hard First" Works After nearly 30 years in schools, the same pattern showed up again and again: kids do not struggle with every multiplication fact. They struggle with the sevens, eights, and nines. Those are the facts kids often cannot skip count quickly in their heads, so they get stuck and start guessing. TimeTable Express was born from a real tutoring session. A seventh-grader in pre-algebra was falling behind because her multiplication facts were slowing her down. A quick card game changed that. She flipped cards and raced to answer, starting with the nines, then the eights, then the sevens. Once past the sixes, everything got easier. That experience revealed the core insight: why overwhelm kids with all 100 multiplication facts when only 36 need focused memorization? It is a triangle from 2x2 through 9x9, the Multiplication Pyramid, and mastering it from the top down works. How the Levels Are Structured Instead of starting with the 1s and 2s like most multiplication apps, TimeTable Express tackles the biggest obstacles first. The progression begins at 9x9, works through the 8s and 7s, then moves into the 6s, 5s, and lower. By the time students reach the easier facts, they have already practiced the hardest ones. The app still covers multiplication facts over time. Focused memorization targets the 36 key facts, and the difficulty curve runs backward by design. Students who work through all seven levels practice the hardest multiplication problems first and build confidence as they progress. More Than a Flashcard App Traditional math drills are passive: see a fact, recall an answer, repeat. TimeTable Express makes multiplication practice active through drag-and-drop interaction, level-based progression, score tracking, and badge rewards. Students who resist flashcard drilling may engage more willingly with the same math facts when they are wrapped inside an interactive challenge. The methodology came from real classrooms and real tutoring sessions, not a textbook theory. Download TimeTable Express to start your 7-day free trial. A paid subscription is required after the trial to access gameplay, levels, badges, score tracking, tutorials, and parent/teacher progress dashboards. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, your subscription will begin and your payment method will be charged automatically. Privacy Policy https://www.multiplicationhustle.com/time-table-express-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use https://www.multiplicationhustle.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TimeTableExpress at 100% against Smart Ways to Die's 0%. TimeTableExpress also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Smart Ways to Die's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 27 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. TimeTableExpress sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Smart Ways to Die asks for nothing beyond the download.
TimeTableExpress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Smart Ways to Die's written reviews are positive against 100% of TimeTableExpress's.
Smart Ways to Die ships an update every 2 days, TimeTableExpress every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Ways to Die | TimeTableExpress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gravity Well LLC | Cleverall LLC |
Customer experience
Smart Ways to Die
TimeTableExpress
In-app purchases
Smart Ways to Die
No in-app purchases
TimeTableExpress
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Game Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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