Top Hat vs Mental Math
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Top Hat
Enhance your learning experience with interactive resources, in-class participation tools, and dynamic digital textbooks. Engage with professors and peers, and test your knowledge with quizzes and polls to improve comprehension and retention.
- Follow lecture slides on your device
- In-class response system
- In-app discussions with peers and professors
- Dynamic, interactive digital textbooks
- Take polls and quizzes
- Access graded and non-graded homework
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Top Hat is the perfect companion app to our comprehensive assessment platform that helps you learn better before, during and after class. Top Hat makes learning fun and engaging (seriously!) and sets you up for success, helping you connect with your professors, your peers and the content you’re learning in and out of the classroom. Here’s what Top Hat offers you: Compelling resources, delivered on your smartphone or laptop: • Follow your prof’s lecture slides on your own device • Contribute in class with an easy-to-use response system that’s always with you • Participate with your profs and peers using in-app discussions Content tailored to your course: • Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more • Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever Quizzes, tests and polls that improve learning comprehension: • Challenge yourself by taking polls and quizzes on your own devices • Improve your knowledge retention with interactive assessment elements • Check for gaps in your understanding with graded and non-graded homework and short quizzes Thanks for using Top Hat. As you experience the app, we’d love to get your feedback: support@tophat.com or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @TopHat
Mental Math
Enhance your mental math skills for consulting, investment banking, and quant interviews. Practice realistic drills, track your progress with streaks, and build confidence with adaptive exercises and exam-style sessions.
- Adaptive drills
- Case math chains
- Estimation sandbox
- Lightning rounds
- Interview mode
- Exam-style sessions
- Career-specific prep
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Sharpen mental math for consulting, IB, and quant interviews. Practice fast, realistic drills with estimation‑friendly scoring, track progress with streaks and XP, and build confidence under pressure. Highlights: - Adaptive drills, case math chains, and estimation sandbox - Lightning rounds, interview mode, and exam‑style sessions - Career‑specific prep for Consulting, IB, and Quant The career-specific content requires a subscription to access, one subscription allows for the use of ANY feature of the app. Privacy Policy: https://marble-liquid-091.notion.site/Heat-Studio-LLC-Privacy-Policy-28652966b06a807282efed41b058f5dd Terms of Service: https://marble-liquid-091.notion.site/Heat-Studio-LLC-Terms-of-Service-28652966b06a80028c0deeca197b4912?source=copy_link
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Hat at none against Mental Math's 3. Top Hat also leads on ratings volume (23K vs 2) and chart position (#165 vs unranked). Mental Math's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Mental Math sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Top Hat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mental Math holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Top Hat has 23K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Top Hat | Mental Math |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (23K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #165 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Top Hat Monocle | Heat Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Top Hat
Mental Math
Bugs and requests
Top Hat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Answers not registering correctly
- Slides not loading properly on mobile devices
- Inconsistent performance across platforms
Requested features
3 requests- Add page numbers and search functionality to ebooks
- Improve syncing between mobile and web versions
- Allow more flexible location settings for attendance
Mental Math
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Top Hat
No in-app purchases
Mental Math
- Career Pass - Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Career Pass - Monthly$7.991 Month
- Career Pass - Annual$24.991 Year
