Comparison

My Math Notebook vs MathLyft

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

Head to head
About

My Math Notebook

Practice Common Core math skills for grades K-5 with interactive lessons that explain mistakes. Features a scratchpad, customizable profiles, and a streak calendar to build daily habits. No accounts or data collection required.

Highlights
  • Common Core aligned practice
  • Interactive error explanations
  • Built-in scratchpad
  • Customizable kid profiles
  • Daily practice streak calendar
  • No account or data collection
Features
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My Math Notebook is a Common Core math practice app for grades K through 5, designed to look and feel like the classic marble composition notebook your kid already knows. Pick a grade, pick a topic, and start practicing. Every problem is aligned to Common Core standards across addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The difficulty grows right alongside your child, starting with counting dots in kindergarten and building all the way to long division in fifth grade. But here is what makes My Math Notebook different. When your child gets a problem wrong, it does not just flash a red X. It shows them why. Miss a multiplication problem and they see it laid out as an area model with tens and ones. Struggle with division and they learn to break it down step by step, the way a good teacher would at the board. Every mistake becomes a lesson instead of a dead end. There is a built in scratch pad for working through tougher problems by hand, a friendly profile for each kid with avatars and colors they pick themselves, and a streak calendar that quietly turns daily practice into a habit. No accounts. No data collection. Just focused, encouraging math practice that meets your child where they are and helps them get a little better every day. Made for kids and built by a parent who wanted something better than subscription apps that fail to deliver or disposable junk that doesn't give feedback and ends up in the trash.

About

MathLyft

Features
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Math Lyft turns 5 minutes a day into real math fluency. Set the core skills your child needs (addition/subtraction/multiplication/division), and a fresh quiz appears every day automatically. No more reminding. No more assigning. Just open the app and practice. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add your kid in seconds they get a 6-character code. 2. Pick the skills they need. 3. A new quiz appears daily. Wrong answers come back. Unseen facts get covered. 4. You see exactly what's improving, every week. FACTS COVERED • Addition — facts within 1-20 • Subtraction — facts within 1-20 • Multiplication — times tables 2 through 12 • Division — related to multiplication facts • Mixed practice - any combination you choose From kindergarten through 4th grade, MathLyft scales with your child. SMART REVISION, NOT REPETITION MathLyft isn't a worksheet generator. Questions your child gets wrong come back automatically. Facts they haven't seen rotate in. The result: practice that targets what matters, not random review. FITS YOUR SCHEDULE • Choose 5, 10, 15, or 20 questions per quiz — match the time you have • Kids can pause mid-quiz and resume exactly where they left off WHY PARENTS AND TUTORS CHOOSE MATHLYFT • Set up in 30 seconds • 5 minutes a day, real progress • Auto mode means no daily nagging • Covers every elementary math fact • See exactly where your child needs help PARENT DASHBOARD • Weekly accuracy and average response time • Skill-by-skill breakdown — see what's strong and what needs work • Question-by-question history with timing for every answer • Monthly calendar view showing practice consistency BUILT FOR FAMILIES • One account, every kid - track each child separately • No per-child subscription • Works on any phone, tablet, or computer • Kids log in with just a code - no email, no password to remember Stop assigning. Stop reminding. Start seeing real fluency. Download MathLyft today and turn 5 minutes a day into a year of math growth.

Screenshots

My Math Notebook4 screens
MathLyft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MathLyft at none against My Math Notebook's 1. MathLyft also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.2). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Math Notebook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MathLyft asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
My Math Notebook versus MathLyft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Math NotebookMathLyft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTEVEN JAMES DANIELSSONDeivabhuvaneswari Ramasamy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

My Math Notebook

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

MathLyft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Math Notebook free?
My Math Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MathLyft free?
MathLyft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Math Notebook or MathLyft have ads?
My Math Notebook shows ads; MathLyft does not.

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