Pure Math Drills vs My Nihongo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pure Math Drills
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Pure Math Drills is a fast, focused arithmetic trainer that decides what you should practice next. Open the app and you are already drilling. A short warm-up finds your level, then every problem is chosen from what you know, what is starting to fade and what is next: a stretch, not a slog. • Endless adaptive drill: no menus, no setup, no grade levels • Whole-number addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, from single-digit facts up to 4-digit sums and 3-digit by 2-digit division • A visible timer bar on every problem that adapts to your own speed; running out of time never counts as a wrong answer • Missed problems come back a few problems later, and mastered facts return for review before you forget them • A built-in keypad; correct answers advance instantly, and mistakes show the right answer in place • A quick check-in after every 10 problems • Settings for haptics and which skill families to practice Your progress stays on your device. Pure Math Drills has no ads, no accounts and no tracking. If you used version 1.1, your practice history carries over.
My Nihongo
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Feature Highlights: - JLPT Preparation Made Easy Includes sample vocabulary and sentences for all JLPT levels (N5–N1). - Flexible Note‑Taking Organize your Japanese study notes as free‑form text or structured vocabulary and sentence lists. - Vocabulary Radio (New!) Hands‑free listening mode that continuously plays the vocabularies you want to learn. - Quick Note Creation Instantly create notes from clipboard text or auto‑extract segments from non‑empty lines in a document. - Personalized Quizzes Turn your notes into quiz questions to practice the exact vocabulary and sentences you want to master. - Natural Pronunciation Practice Hear your notes spoken aloud with Apple’s built‑in text‑to‑speech, now respecting your chosen Japanese voice under Accessibility settings. - Streamlined Study Experience Improved tab arrangement, Study screen layout, and unified quiz design for a smoother, more consistent workflow. - Intuitive Editing Tools Refined workflows for building sentences, vocabularies, and multiple note types with a user‑friendly interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My Nihongo at fortnightly against Pure Math Drills's every 5 months. Pure Math Drills's advantage is iOS requirement (18.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pure Math Drills ships an update every 5 months, My Nihongo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pure Math Drills | My Nihongo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scriven | Daniel Fu Keung Kwan |
In-app purchases
Pure Math Drills
No in-app purchases
My Nihongo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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