Comparison

Moose Math vs ThinkPlayful

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Moose Math

This app offers an engaging mathematical adventure for children aged 3-7, teaching core concepts like counting, addition, and subtraction through interactive games. Kids can earn rewards to build and decorate a virtual city while developing essential math skills aligned with early elementary standards.

Highlights
  • Counting, addition, and subtraction practice
  • Geometry and sorting activities
  • Interactive multi-level games
  • Reward system for city building
  • Parental progress reporting
  • Aligned with Common Core Standards
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Moose Math engages kids in a mathematical adventure and teaches counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, geometry and more. While playing 5 multi-level activities in the Moose Juice Store, Puck’s Pet Shop and Lost & Found, kids can earn rewards to help build their own city and decorate buildings. Moose Math introduces a new whimsical group of Duck Duck Moose characters, The Dust Funnies, who help with mastering math skills. Moose Math is aligned with Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten and 1st Grade and includes a Report Card section where parents and teachers can monitor progress and find additional skill-building activities. AGES: 3-7. CATEGORY: Curriculum ACTIVITIES Moose Math features 5 engaging math activities: 1) MOOSE JUICE: Make smoothies while practicing counting, addition and subtraction 2) PAINT PET: Match the pets by counting the number of dots 3) PET BINGO: Solve addition, subtraction and counting problems to get BINGO 4) LOST & FOUND: Learn and sort through shapes and colors 5) DOT TO DOT: Help the Dust Funny find his way home by joining the dots SKILLS Kids will learn the following math skills based on Common Core State Standards: NUMBERS: -  Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities -  Solve word problems and algebraic thinking -  Practice number pattern recognition COUNTING: -  Count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s -  Master counting to 100 ADDITION & SUBTRACTION: -  Add and subtract by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s -  Add and subtract up to 20 -  Learn to add and subtract with numbers, dice and rekenrek racks GEOMETRY: -  Master geometry at Kindergarten and First Grade levels -  Learn to identify and recognize shapes MEASUREMENT: -  Understand and compare lengths PARENT REPORTING: Includes a Report Card section where parents and teachers can monitor progress for each child and learn about new skill-building activities. DEVELOPED WITH EDUCATORS: -  Developed in conjunction with Stanford University Educator, Jennifer DiBrienza, PhD in -   Early Elementary Education and former NYC public school teacher (K-Grade 2) COMMON CORE STANDARDS: K.CC.1, K.CC.2, K.CC.4, K.CC.6, K.OA.1, K.OA.2, K.OA.5, K.MD.2, K.MD.3, K.G.2, K.G.3, K.G.4, 1.OA.1, 1.OA.2, 1.OA.6 ABOUT DUCK DUCK MOOSE (A wholly-owned subsidiary of Khan Academy) Duck Duck Moose, an award-winning creator of educational mobile apps for families, is a passionate team of engineers, artists, designers, and educators. Founded in 2008, the company has created 21 top-selling titles and has received 21 Parents’ Choice Awards, 18 Children’s Technology Review Awards, 12 Tech with Kids’ Best Pick App Awards, and a KAPi award for “Best Children’s App” at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Duck Duck Moose is now part of the Khan Academy family. Like all Khan Academy offerings, all Duck Duck Moose apps are now free, without ads or subscriptions. We rely on our community of volunteers and donors. Get involved today at www.duckduckmoose.com/about. Check out the Khan Academy app to learn and practice all kinds of topics for elementary school through college and beyond. We’d love to hear from you! Visit us at www.duckduckmoose.com or drop us a line at support@duckduckmoose.com.

About

ThinkPlayful

This app offers guided play activities for families to build early math and STEM skills in young children. It focuses on critical thinking and problem-solving through engaging on- and off-screen experiences, promoting kindergarten readiness.

Highlights
  • Guided play activities
  • Early math and STEM foundations
  • Critical thinking development
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Family engagement
  • Kindergarten readiness
Features
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ThinkPlayful is an intelligent learning app that engages, encourages, and empowers families as they help their young children gain essential early learning skills. Its innovative guided play approach offers activities that the adult and child do together both on- and off-screen. An early math and STEM foundations solution for parents and other caregivers, ThinkPlayful develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills right from the start! Fun math and science early learning activities support family engagement and kindergarten readiness.

Screenshots

Moose Math4 screens
ThinkPlayful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ThinkPlayful at 5.0 against Moose Math's 4.2. ThinkPlayful also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%). Moose Math's advantage is ratings volume (581 vs 7) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ThinkPlayful holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moose Math has 581 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Moose Math's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThinkPlayful's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moose Math ships an update every 2 months, ThinkPlayful every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Moose Math versus ThinkPlayful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoose MathThinkPlayful
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (581 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings581 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB147 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuck Duck Moose LLCMathBRIX LLC

Customer experience

Moose Math

All ratings581 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive75.6%
Neutral8.9%
Negative15.4%

ThinkPlayful

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Moose Math

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • Incorrect answers in fruit blending mini-game
  • App crashing when exiting levels

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and locations to explore
  • Ability to delete player profiles
  • Multiplayer or competitive modes
  • Expanded math concepts beyond addition/subtraction

ThinkPlayful

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Moose Math

No in-app purchases

None

ThinkPlayful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Moose Math free?
Moose Math is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThinkPlayful free?
ThinkPlayful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Moose Math or ThinkPlayful?
ThinkPlayful is rated higher. Moose Math averages 4.2 out of 5 from 581 ratings, while ThinkPlayful averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Moose Math or ThinkPlayful have ads?
Neither Moose Math nor ThinkPlayful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moose Math or ThinkPlayful?
Moose Math ships an update every 2 months, and ThinkPlayful every 5 weeks. Most recently, Moose Math was updated on September 17, 2026 and ThinkPlayful on September 12, 2026.

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