MathArt Playground vs MathPop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MathArt Playground
Explore mathematical transformations and geometric patterns to create dynamic visual art. This app offers intuitive controls for manipulating shapes, colors, and arrangements, making learning math engaging and accessible for students and educators.
- Transform shapes with sliders
- Create geometric patterns
- Customize colors and repetition
- Save and load artworks
- Share creations with artwork codes
- Built-in tooltips for understanding transformations
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MathArt Playground is a creative tool that transforms math into dynamic visual art through intuitive controls and geometric patterns. Designed for students, educators, and creative thinkers, MathArt invites users to explore mathematical transformations like rotation, scaling, skewing, and symmetry in a playful and visual way. Interactive Math Meets Art Start with one of 14 built-in shapes and manipulate your design using powerful sliders that control transformations such as layer count, spread, skew, and rotation. Watch your artwork evolve in real time with every adjustment. Customise and Experiment Fine-tune colors, repetition, and shape arrangements to generate mesmerizing patterns and motion. Built-in tooltips help users understand each transformation and its artistic effect. Save, Load, and Share Save up to 12 artworks in your personal gallery and easily reload or edit them. Export your creations with unique artwork codes to share with friends, classmates, or on social media — all without needing an account. Built for Learning and Exploration MathArt is inspired by educational goals and supports visual learning. Whether you're an instructor illustrating geometric concepts or a student exploring math through design, MathArt offers a fun, engaging, and accessible platform.
MathPop
This app offers interactive math practice for children from Pre-K to 4th grade. It reads problems aloud, provides step-by-step guidance, and uses a sticker reward system to encourage learning. It adapts to each child's grade level and learning pace.
- Audio read-aloud for all problems
- Adaptive learning based on grade
- Step-by-step problem solving
- Sticker reward system
- Progress tracking for parents
- Offline play capability
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MathPop is a bright, simple math practice game for Pre-K through 4th grade that reads every problem aloud, so even kids who can't read yet can practice on their own. Each child plays at their own grade, with games that follow Singapore math and Beast Academy, from counting to 10 all the way up to fractions, times tables and big numbers. Made by a mom for her own kids. Free, with no ads. TODAY'S PRACTICE, MADE FOR YOUR CHILD • Fix my mistakes: the very problems they got wrong, asked again until they get them right • Work on: the topic they find hardest, with a problem they missed • Something new: the next topic for their grade • Finish all three for a bonus sticker STUCK? MATHPOP SHOWS HOW • Tap Show me how and MathPop talks your child through the problem out loud, step by step, like a grown-up sitting next to them • Making ten, tens and ones, skip counting, number bonds, bar models, reading a clock and more • Great for kids who can't read yet: every problem and every step is read aloud • A wrong answer never gives the answer away: it's "Try again" STICKERS FOR EVERY ROUND • Finish ten problems, pick a sticker, and watch it fly into your sticker book • Tap a sticker and it jumps and does its own little move • A daily streak to keep going: "3 days in a row!" FOR GROWN-UPS • See each child's week: rounds, days played, how many right and the mistakes they fixed • MathPop calls your child by name: "Marcus, how many apples?" • Pre-K games in Japanese too (日本語), asked and explained out loud GAMES FOR EVERY GRADE • Numbers, Add & Subtract, Multiply & Divide, Fractions, Measurement, Shapes, Graphs and Puzzles • Word problems, telling time, money, place value and more, with pictures to help • Answer by tapping, typing or writing with your finger (set for each child) • Explore Numbers: tap a number and hear it in 23 languages, from Spanish and French to Japanese, Korean and Hindi MADE TO BE SIMPLE • A friendly voice built into the app, works offline • A player for each child, each with their own grade FAMILY ACCOUNT (OPTIONAL) Kids can play right away with no sign-in. Grown-ups can create a free family account to keep players and grades in sync across devices. The same account works in PitchPop. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking. Without an account, everything MathPop remembers stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: MathArt Playground at 10 against MathPop's 1. MathPop's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for MathArt Playground against 5.0 for MathPop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MathArt Playground has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MathArt Playground ships an update every 3 days, MathPop every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MathArt Playground | MathPop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Letcher | Marika Lam |
Customer experience
MathArt Playground
MathPop
In-app purchases
MathArt Playground
No in-app purchases
MathPop
No in-app purchases
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