EssayGuide vs Matrix IQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EssayGuide
This app helps Malaysian secondary students improve their writing skills in Bahasa Melayu, English, and Chinese. It offers model essays, grammar practice, and vocabulary building tools, with gamified elements to encourage daily study.
- Model essays for BM, English, and Chinese
- BM grammar practice with quizzes
- Peribahasa learning with pictures
- Daily study goals and rewards
- Community study tips and advice
- Vocabulary building with Word of the Day
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From your first karangan to your SPM paper, EssayGuide helps you read, practise and write better in Bahasa Melayu, English and 华文. Learn from model essays, master BM grammar step by step and remember peribahasa through pictures, all in one friendly app made for Malaysian secondary students. NEW: A LEARNING PATH FOR BAHASA MELAYU Follow a guided roadmap through 21 tatabahasa topics, from Kata Nama to Ayat Songsang. Learn the idea first, practise with quick quizzes, and see exactly why each answer is right or wrong. Ali, your stickman study buddy, cheers you on every step of the way. FOR ESSAYS: LEARN FROM MODEL ESSAYS • Read 172 model essays: 68 karangan BM, 64 English essays and 40 华文作文 • Tap underlined words and phrases to see their meaning • Save favourite essays to your account • Grow your kosa kata with a new Word of the Day • Submit your own essay for a chance to be featured FOR BM GRAMMAR: MASTER TATABAHASA • Morfologi and Sintaksis topics with levels that build up to SPM-style challenges • Spot common mistakes such as "semua murid-murid" with quick Betul or Salah sentence checks • See the corrected sentence and the rule after every check • Read explanations in English, Bahasa Melayu or 中文, while questions stay in BM • Revise completed topics in minutes with Short Notes, comparison tables and worked examples FOR PERIBAHASA: REMEMBER EVERY SAYING • 100 peribahasa, each with a hand-drawn picture that makes it stick • Fill in missing words, match meanings and choose the right saying for a situation • Essay examples show how to use each peribahasa in your karangan STUDY A LITTLE, EVERY DAY • Set a daily goal and celebrate when you reach it • Keep your streak, earn XP and complete daily quests • Open reward chests, collect coins and customise your avatar • Climb the Monthly League and see how you rank in your state or school • Get gentle study reminders LEARN TOGETHER • Read study tips and writing advice shared by fellow students • Like, comment and reply, or share your own tips with pictures • Report and block tools help keep the community kind, and every report is reviewed UPGRADE TO ESSAYGUIDE PRO EssayGuide is free to use, with 2 lesson starts a day. Upgrade to Pro for: • Unlimited lesson starts • Training Arena to replay and fix your mistakes • Ad-free study • Full essay dictionary with English and Chinese definitions, translations and pronunciation • Essay highlights, summaries and saved words • Word of the Day history • Extra BM and English study references: vocabulary, peribahasa, common mistakes, proverbs and cohesive devices Choose a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Guided lessons currently cover Bahasa Melayu. Essays are available in Bahasa Melayu, English and Chinese. Questions or feedback: essayguideapp@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://essayguide.vercel.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://essayguide.vercel.app/terms-and-conditions
Matrix IQ
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How smart are you — without words getting in the way? Matrix IQ is a completely language-free IQ test. No vocabulary questions, no trick wording, no cultural bias — just visual pattern puzzles that work the same whether you speak English, Spanish or Mandarin. Even the tutorial is wordless. HOW IT WORKS • Solve 15–30 matrix puzzles — find the pattern, pick the missing piece • The test adapts to you: answer well and it gets harder, struggle and it eases off. You are always working right at your level • Get your IQ score instantly, with an honest confidence range • Share your score card with friends — or challenge them with the same session code and compare like for like THE SCIENCE Matrix IQ uses the same principles as respected non-verbal reasoning tests: progressive matrices built from established cognitive rule types, scored with Item Response Theory — the statistical framework behind modern standardised testing. Every puzzle is generated from analysed rule combinations, so no two sessions need be the same, yet every session is comparable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. Your results stay on your device unless you choose to contribute an anonymous score to the world statistics — and nothing we store could identify you either way. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY A 20-minute self-test is a good estimate, not a clinical assessment. We show you the confidence interval around your score instead of pretending to single-point precision. No inflated scores designed to flatter you into sharing — if you beat the test, you earned it. Find the pattern. Know your number.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Matrix IQ at none against EssayGuide's 2. EssayGuide's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. EssayGuide sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Matrix IQ asks for nothing beyond the download.
EssayGuide ships an update every 5 days, Matrix IQ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EssayGuide | Matrix IQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yiek Siew Hao | EINARS BOSS |
In-app purchases
EssayGuide
- EssayGuide Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- EssayGuide Pro Lifetime$39.99
Matrix IQ
No in-app purchases









