Comparison

MathSling vs Numberton

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

Head to head
About

MathSling

This interactive game makes practicing arithmetic enjoyable. Solve various math problems through dynamic levels, track your progress, and aim for high scores. It offers an ad-free experience with an optional in-app purchase to enhance your learning.

Highlights
  • Arithmetic practice
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Dynamic levels
  • Progress tracking
  • High score challenges
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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MathSling is a fun and interactive game that helps you improve your math skills while having a blast! Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems across dynamic levels. Track your progress, challenge yourself to beat your high scores, and enjoy an ad-free experience with an optional in-app purchase. Perfect for all ages—download MathSling and make math fun!

About

Numberton

This app offers a fun and engaging way for children in grades K-5 to learn and practice math. It covers a wide range of topics through interactive lessons, step-by-step walkthroughs, and motivating games. Designed for families, it ensures a safe and ad-free learning environment.

Highlights
  • Interactive math topics for grades K-5
  • Step-by-step walkthroughs and practice
  • Motivating games and trophy collection
  • Daily streak tracking and progress reports
  • Multiple kid profiles
  • Ad-free and no in-app purchases
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Make math part of play with Numberton. Explore counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, shapes and more, from preschool through Grade 5. Telugu and Tamil learners can match 100 everyday words and 100 mathematical terms with English in separate Kindergarten activities. Bilingual word books support review, and Little Explorers includes guided native-letter tracing. Sail through Island Quest for Grades 4–5: load your boat, steer through the sea, grow a garden and restore the lighthouse. Get Numberton Festival ready in Grades 1–3: pack fruit, connect roads, share a picnic and finish the flags. Both adventures have four connected scenes and saved progress for each child and grade. At sea, use the captain’s number clue to choose matching buoys among decoys. Grade 4 practises repeated addition; Grade 5 introduces multiples of 7, 8, 9 and 11 with different gaps and ascending or descending patterns. Watch worked examples, try hands-on activities and practise through games. Meet friendly dinosaurs in Dino-Math Party, catch answers in Math Fishing and balance both sides in Equal Crossing. Younger children can explore counting, shapes, patterns and tracing in Little Explorers. Fraction addition and subtraction include a hint that shows both bottom numbers’ multiples and highlights their first shared number. Change either bottom number to explore a new example. Other adventures include Numberton Safari for whole-number and decimal rounding, Circuit Cruisers for geometry, and Fraction Forge for hands-on fraction puzzles. Challenges adapt to the selected grade. Families can create local player profiles, follow progress, choose a grade and make printable worksheets. The redesigned iPad home puts learning activities, featured games and topics within easy reach in portrait or landscape. Choose from 14 app languages: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Arabic, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Russian, Japanese or Simplified Chinese. The seven newly added languages use an available device voice; no new recorded narration libraries are included for them. Core lessons and games work offline. English recorded lesson narration is included with the app. On iOS 26 and later, families can choose optional compressed Spanish, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil or French recordings for the selected grade. Internet is needed for the initial download; separate download and preparation progress shows the steps toward offline audio. A reading companion joins supported lessons. Recording availability depends on the language, grade and supported iOS version. Kindergarten home cards use a consistent layout that adjusts to larger text. Math Buddy is optional and requires grown-up setup. Supported on-device AI options run locally on compatible devices; some require an initial model download. Online AI options require internet access and a provider configured by a grown-up. Core learning does not require AI. Support: https://numberton.app Privacy: https://numberton.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

MathSling4 screens
Numberton4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Numberton at none against MathSling's 1. Numberton also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MathSling sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Numberton asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MathSling against 5.0 for Numberton. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MathSling versus Numberton: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMathSlingNumberton
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB509 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian Patrick BakkumSathish Palvai

Customer experience

MathSling

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Numberton

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

MathSling

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

Numberton

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MathSling free?
MathSling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Numberton free?
Numberton is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MathSling or Numberton?
MathSling and Numberton are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do MathSling or Numberton have ads?
Neither MathSling nor Numberton shows ads.

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