Math Trainer vs Mental Math Monsters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Math Trainer
Sharpen your mental math skills with rapid-fire arithmetic challenges. Practice addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication across four difficulty levels. Compete on global leaderboards and unlock achievements.
- Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication
- Four difficulty levels
- Game Center leaderboards
- Over 20 achievements
- iCloud sync
- Full iOS support (Dark Mode, Split Screen, VoiceOver)
- Privacy-focused (no external data storage or tracking)
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Make a little time for maths, wherever you are. Math Trainer gives you quick mental arithmetic questions you can solve at your own pace or against the clock. Start with addition for free. Math Trainer Pro is a one-time purchase that opens up subtraction, multiplication and division, five difficulty levels from Easy to Extreme, focused practice and colourful themes. Work through ten-question rounds, see your progress, and get a helpful hint when you need one. Practise the questions you missed in an unranked round. You can also have questions spoken aloud, switch off negative answers, and choose the theme that feels right for you. Game Center leaderboards let you compare your fastest standard rounds, and achievements give you more to aim for. Your settings can follow you across your Apple devices with iCloud. Made for iPhone and iPad, with no ads or subscriptions.
Mental Math Monsters
A fast-paced math game designed for children to improve their mental math skills. Players solve problems to free monsters, earn coins, and compete with friends and classmates. The game offers various math operations and difficulty levels, encouraging learning through fun.
- Mental math practice
- Monster collection
- Competitive play with friends
- School-based competitions
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Progressive difficulty levels
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A fast paced Mental Maths game for kids where they can compete with their friends and even class mates. Build confidence and speed with mental maths. Free the monsters from their cages - how many monsters can you collect? Swipe the monster with the correct answer to break down the wall to get to the next level. Earn coins to release new lively monsters from their cages. The faster you are with the answer the more damage to the wall and coins you will collect. But be careful! Get the wrong answer and your health will quickly run out. Who will be the champion in each maths area? And who will be the overall Top Player? Children can compete against all their school friends, with our great new Made For Schools mode. Schools can register with Mental Math Monsters and provide students with their own logins to enable them to compete against all their school friends. You might be the Top Player at home but can you rise to the challenge against your entire class! - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division modes. - Made for children 4 and up. - Compete with your class mates as well as friends at home. - Grow your collection of rowdy monsters, who will you release next? - Maths questions advance as you progress through the levels. - Many colourful landscapes to discover. - Play on Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. - iCloud sync and Made For Schools login lets you continue where you left off no matter which device you last used. - Fully COPPA compliant (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). Our aim is to design apps where the kids have so much fun, they don't even realise they are learning! We hope you enjoy Mental Math Monsters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Math Trainer at every 2 months against Mental Math Monsters's every 11 months. Mental Math Monsters's advantage is ratings volume (657 vs 15) and review sentiment (89% vs 78%). On price, rating, 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. Math Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mental Math Monsters sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Math Trainer against 4.4 for Mental Math Monsters. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Math Monsters has 657 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Math Trainer's written reviews are positive against 89% of Mental Math Monsters's.
Math Trainer ships an update every 2 months, Mental Math Monsters every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Math Trainer | Mental Math Monsters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) | 4.4 (657 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 657 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Sammons | Fehners Software LLP |
Customer experience
Math Trainer
Mental Math Monsters
Bugs and requests
Math Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mental Math Monsters
Reported bugs
4 issues- Monster unlock bar not progressing despite completion
- Monsters not unlocking on secondary player profiles
- Login authentication issues
- Account data exposure concerns
Requested features
4 requests- Pause button during gameplay
- Single multiplication table focus mode for early learners
- Multiples/skip counting practice games
- Better progression system clarity
In-app purchases
Math Trainer
- Math Trainer Pro$0.99
Mental Math Monsters
- Remove Ads$1.99
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