Comparison

Mental Math vs lemma

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

lemma

This app provides focused, daily practice for quantitative interviews, featuring timed sprints of math and probability problems. It tracks your skill across disciplines with adaptive difficulty and offers hints and solutions to help you improve. Designed for those preparing for trading firm interviews or seeking to build a quantitative thinking habit.

Highlights
  • Daily timed problem sprints
  • Per-category ELO skill tracking
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Hints and step-through solutions
  • Streaks, XP, and achievements
  • Leaderboard
Features
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Train like a quant. Daily. Lemma is the focused, no-fluff prep app for quantitative interviews — built for students and grads targeting Jane Street, Citadel, Optiver, Two Sigma, and the rest of the trading-firm gauntlet. WHAT'S INSIDE WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION • Daily sprints — bite-sized timed sets of mental math, probability, combinatorics, expected value, and market-making problems • Per-category ELO — your skill is tracked across 10 disciplines, from Novice to Expert • Adaptive difficulty — problems chosen to keep you at the edge of your level, not above or below • Hints + step-through solutions — get unstuck without giving up • Streaks, XP, leagues — habit loops without the noise • Achievements — unlock as you grind • Leaderboard — see how you stack up WHO IT'S FOR • CS / math undergrads applying to trading firms • Recent grads prepping for technical interviews • Self-learners who want a daily quantitative-thinking habit • Anyone curious about how trading interviews actually feel WHY LEMMA We strip out the gamified clutter and keep what matters: hard problems, fast iteration, real numbers on your progress. The interface borrows more from a Bloomberg terminal than a typical mobile game — monospaced metrics, hairline borders, dark by default. Most prep books drown you in 800 pages. Most courses lock you in for months. Lemma is 10 minutes a day, sharpened every day. — Lemma offers an optional auto-renewable subscription for unlimited daily sprints and premium problem sets. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rogeru13.github.io/lemma-legal/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Mental Math4 screens
lemma4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mental Math and lemma are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 lemma sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. 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 lemma. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mental Math versus lemma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Mathlemma
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB31 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHeat Studio LLCRoger You

Customer experience

Mental Math

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

lemma

All ratings1 ratings
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
3 purchases

lemma

Subscriptions3
  • Lemma Premium$6.997 Days
  • Lemma Premium$9.991 Month
  • Lemma Premium3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Mental Math free?
Mental Math is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is lemma free?
lemma is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math or lemma?
Mental Math and lemma are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mental Math or lemma have ads?
Neither Mental Math nor lemma shows ads.

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