FocusMath vs Atmo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
FocusMath
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Your brain is a muscle. FocusMath is its gym. 7 minutes a day. A session structured like a real workout: warm-up, main set, cool-down. No more, no less. Consistency is what makes you strong โ not marathons. YOUR DAILY SESSION Every day, a 3-step session awaits: warm up with quick questions, push yourself on the daily challenge or your quest, and finish with a review card. Complete your session, keep your streak alive, and hit your goal of 5 sessions a week. A PROGRAM AT YOUR LEVEL โ FROM 1ST GRADE TO UNIVERSITY A placement test personalizes your program from day one. Kids work on additions and multiplication tables; middle schoolers tackle percentages; high schoolers and adults take on powers, square roots and estimation. Difficulty adapts to your performance in real time. DAILY CHALLENGE 10 questions, identical for every player at your level. Compare yourself on the leaderboard, share your result, and challenge your friends on the same questions in one tap. QUEST MODE 200 levels of progression. Each level unlocks new cognitive games: memory, attention, speed. Your motivation always has a next goal. SMART REVIEW The app remembers your mistakes and turns them into personalized review cards. Your mistakes are your best teachers. FOR PARENTS Create a profile for each child, track their progress in detail (strengths, weak points, consistency), and let the session system build a routine โ like a sports activity, but for the brain. FEATURES โข Guided daily session of ~7 minutes โข Placement test + real-time adaptive difficulty โข From 1st grade to university: everyone gets their own program โข Multiplayer challenges with friends and family โข Daily streak with streak freezes โข A mental math tip every day โข Detailed statistics and progress tracking โข iOS widget to keep your streak in sight โข Available in English, French, German and Spanish โข Works offline Download FocusMath and do your first session today. Your brain will thank you. FOCUSMATH PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION FocusMath offers auto-renewable subscriptions (monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial) and a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple account at purchase confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/hervekhg/HK-TECH-APP/blob/main/FocusMath/privacy-en.md
Atmo
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Nothing is blocked. You trade for it. Atmo puts one card in front of the apps you open without thinking. Thirty seconds to read it, one question to answer, and the app opens for five minutes. No wall, no lecture, no guilt. HOW IT WORKS 1 โ Choose the apps that eat your evenings. They pause. 2 โ Tap one. Atmo shows a card: one fact, one question. 3 โ Answer it. The app opens. You keep the minutes, and you keep the fact. EIGHT SUBJECTS, THIRTY SECONDS AT A TIME Arts ยท Economy ยท Geography ยท History ยท Mythology ยท Philosophy ยท Sciences ยท Space Each card is one idea and one question. Not a course, not a game. Something true you did not know this morning, learned in the thirty seconds you were about to give to a feed. A TRADE, NOT A WALL Blockers say no, and you delete them by Thursday. Atmo asks a question instead. You always get through โ you just leave with something. There is no willpower to run out of here, and nothing to feel bad about. Set your own rhythm: how many cards a day, how many minutes a card is worth. Change it whenever you like. Stop whenever you like. WHAT YOU GET BACK ยท Minutes traded, day by day ยท Progress subject by subject ยท A card you miss comes back in a couple of days. Nothing is lost. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Atmo uses Apple Screen Time to pause the apps you pick. It only ever learns their names. It cannot see what you do inside them, and nothing about your usage leaves this phone. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the trade, your apps, your rhythm. Premium: every subject, no cap on cards a day, your own rate. Five minutes at a time, you scroll the same and know more. Or you scroll less. Most people do both. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.quiet.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FocusMath at 16.0 against Atmo's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. FocusMath sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Atmo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FocusMath ships an update every 4 days, Atmo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusMath | Atmo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days โ better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HK-TECH | NARA CAPITAL |
In-app purchases
FocusMath
- Weekly Premium$2.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$7.991 Month
- Annual Premium7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99
Atmo
- Weekly$7.991 Month
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year









