Comparison

Mental Math vs Mathy

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

Mathy

This app provides focused mental math drills to improve calculation speed and accuracy. It offers various practice modes and detailed feedback to help users master essential math skills for interviews, academics, or personal development.

Highlights
  • Mental math drills
  • Case interview preparation
  • Timed and fixed practice modes
  • Detailed results and strategy breakdowns
  • Offline functionality
  • No accounts or tracking
Features
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Train your mental math for case interviews, school, or just for the fun of getting faster. Mathy is a fast, focused mental math trainer built for the numbers that show up when speed matters: consulting case interviews, exams, homework, business estimates, and everyday brain training. Whether you’re preparing for consulting or finance case interviews, class, or your own personal best, Mathy helps you turn tricky calculations into reflexes. Practice big round numbers, percentages, market-share math, clean division, fraction simplification, and zero-tracking until they feel natural. Work through drills across: - Addition and subtraction, from warm-ups to large-scale numbers - Multiplication with clean, practical values - Division with answers that land cleanly - Percentages, including percent-of-a-number, percent-of-a-percent, and reverse percentage problems - Market-share style calculations - Fraction simplification Choose the practice mode that fits your moment: - Timed Round to build speed under pressure - Fixed Set of 10, 20, or 50 questions for deliberate practice - Endless Mode for warm-ups, flow, or long training sessions Set your difficulty level, or let Mathy surprise you with a random level. Keep it light, make it serious, or push yourself until your brain starts seeing patterns automatically. After every session, Mathy shows a clean results table with your answer, the correct answer, and how long each question took. You’ll see where you’re improving, where you’re slowing down, and when you beat your personal best. Tap any question to see how Mathy would solve it: a clear, step-by-step mental-math strategy that breaks the problem into the rounding, multiplying, and adjusting a fast solver would actually do in their head. It's not just the right answer; it's the shortcuts to get there. Mathy is fully offline, private, and built for speed. No accounts. No tracking. No data leaving your phone. Just instant feedback, zero lag between questions, and a native iOS experience that gets out of your way. For interviews, school, or the simple satisfaction of sharper mental math: open Mathy and start drilling!

Screenshots

Mental Math4 screens
Mathy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mathy at none against Mental Math's 3. Mental Math's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Mathy asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Mathy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Mental Math versus Mathy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental MathMathy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeat Studio LLCLuuk Pessers

Customer experience

Mental Math

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

Mathy

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
None

Mathy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mental Math free?
Mental Math is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mathy free?
Mathy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mental Math or Mathy?
Mental Math and Mathy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mental Math or Mathy have ads?
Neither Mental Math nor Mathy shows ads.

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