Comparison

Mental Math vs FiveMinuteFox

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Adaptive drills
  • Case math chains
  • Estimation sandbox
  • Lightning rounds
  • Interview mode
  • Exam-style sessions
  • Career-specific prep
Features
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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

About

FiveMinuteFox

Enhance your financial acumen with daily mental math exercises. Designed by a finance professional, this app offers progressive levels of practice to improve your calculation speed and accuracy for business contexts. Unlock advanced levels and features with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Daily mental math practice
  • 30 progressive difficulty levels
  • Specialized business context problems
  • Detailed solution explanations
  • Practice Mode for targeted skills
  • Streak tracking
Features
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22 of 30 levels free, no ads, no account required. Just open, play, and feel smarter at work and interviews, size up deals in real-time at lunch meetings, on the golf course, or at conferences. Built by a finance professional with 24 years of experience who has interviewed hundreds of analyst candidates. This is the daily mental math training that separates confident business leaders from everyone else. HOW IT WORKS Complete questions daily whenever you have 5 minutes. The app starts at Level 1 each day as a warm-up, then automatically progresses through 30 levels of increasingly challenging content. 30 PROGRESSIVE LEVELS • Levels 1-5: Arithmetic warm-up and multiplication up to 20x20 • Levels 6-10: Progressive multiplication practice • Level 11: Addition estimation • Levels 12-20: Progressive division practice and percentages • Levels 21-22: Hard multiplication and division • Levels 23-30: Specialized business context practice, including corporate finance, real estate, IRR/MOIC, private equity, and fixed income KEY FEATURES • Daily practice with progress tracking • Multiple estimation techniques for each problem • Detailed explanations showing various solution methods • Practice Mode for targeted skill building • Customizable settings and international number formats PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Premium unlocks specialty finance levels (23-30) in Daily Game and all 30 levels in Practice Mode. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://fiveminutefox.com/privacy

Screenshots

Mental Math4 screens
FiveMinuteFox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mental Math at 15.1 against FiveMinuteFox's 17.6. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mental Math sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and FiveMinuteFox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mental Math against 5.0 for FiveMinuteFox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mental Math versus FiveMinuteFox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental MathFiveMinuteFox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeat Studio LLCKeepAddIt Works, LLC

Customer experience

Mental Math

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FiveMinuteFox

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mental Math

Subscriptions3
  • Career Pass - Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Career Pass - Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Career Pass - Annual$24.991 Year
2 purchases

FiveMinuteFox

Subscriptions2
  • FiveMinuteFox Premium1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • FiveMinuteFox Premium14 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mental Math free?
Mental Math is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FiveMinuteFox free?
FiveMinuteFox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math or FiveMinuteFox?
Mental Math and FiveMinuteFox are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Mental Math or FiveMinuteFox have ads?
Neither Mental Math nor FiveMinuteFox shows ads.

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