Comparison

Mathify vs Cartographer's Lie

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

Head to head
About

Mathify

Engage your mind with four distinct types of math puzzles, offering 400 unique levels designed to sharpen your logic and problem-solving skills. Enjoy a progressive challenge with hints available when you're stuck, and play offline without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Four types of math puzzles
  • 400 hand-made levels
  • Progressive difficulty
  • Hint system
  • Offline play
  • Light and dark themes
  • Share puzzles with friends
Features
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Four kinds of math puzzles, 400 hand-made levels, one goal: train your brain. PIC MATH — 100 LEVELS Animals, food and objects stand for hidden numbers. Use the clues to work out each value, then solve the last equation. The picture puzzles that go viral online, collected from Starter to Grand Master. PATTERN IQ — 100 LEVELS Find the hidden rule in a row of numbers and predict what comes next. Easy, Medium and Hard tiers grow with you. BRAIN SHAPES — 100 LEVELS Puzzles you solve with your eyes: count the squares and triangles in a figure, find the cubes you can't see, fold a net into a cube, add up the hidden faces of dice, find lines of symmetry, work out area and perimeter, balance the scales. MATH ORBIT — 100 LEVELS Numbers circle a glowing centre. Drag the missing numbers into place so every equation works. Later boards hide some of the signs and link several centres together. WHY YOU'LL KEEP PLAYING • Stuck? A hint gives you a nudge, not the answer • Every level gets a little harder than the last • Jump back to any level you've unlocked • Share a puzzle and challenge your friends • Light and dark themes • Play offline, anywhere • No account, no sign-up: your progress stays on your device Great for students, adults who want daily brain training, and anyone who loves logic puzzles and IQ challenges. Questions or ideas? Email sultonuzdev@gmail.com

About

Cartographer's Lie

Engage in daily deduction puzzles on a hex-based island. Use clues to identify a single lying hex, with four difficulty tiers and a puzzle composer. Track your progress and streaks, with offline play available.

Highlights
  • Daily deduction puzzles
  • Four difficulty tiers
  • Puzzle composer
  • Note-taking tools
  • Streak tracking
  • Offline play
Features
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One island. Forty-eight hexes. A handful of clues, and exactly one of them is lying. Every day brings a new map and a new deduction. Read the clues, rule out what cannot be true, and find the single hex that fits. No guessing, no luck, no coin flips. THE SETTER CAN DECEIVE. THE SETTER CANNOT CHEAT. Puzzles are built to mislead you, and a red herring is a legitimate weapon. But before a single one reaches you, a fairness gate proves that exactly one hex satisfies every clue and that you can reach it by elimination alone. Misdirection is fair. Ambiguity is not. A clue that eliminates nothing is banned outright. THREE TIERS FREE, EVERY DAY Casual, Standard and Hard, each with a measured difficulty rating. Three fresh puzzles daily. Start where you are comfortable and climb. The daily Fiendish chart comes with the Guild. TAKE NOTES YOUR WAY Tap to mark hexes, long-press for colour tags, highlight the map by individual clue. Or switch to Pure mode and hold the whole thing in your head. THREE GUESSES Each one costs you more than the last. Solve it clean, or do not solve it at all. SET YOUR OWN PUZZLES Build them in the composer with live candidate counts, a difficulty projection and Preview-as-Solver. You have to prove you can solve it before anyone else sees it. STREAKS AND STATS Daily streaks with freezes for the days life gets in the way, a spoiler-free grid for sharing your solve, and a skill rating that tracks how you are actually doing rather than how you feel you are doing. Play offline any time. Sign in with Apple to sync your history and play ranked. CARTOGRAPHER'S GUILD SUBSCRIPTION Cartographer's Guild is an optional auto-renewable subscription: the daily Fiendish chart, unlimited extra charts, the full archive, a solve review after every chart, targeted practice, rating and clue-type analysis, setter analytics, the ranked ladder, unlimited streak freezes and cosmetics. Casual, Standard and Hard stay free, every day. • 1 month: $3.99 per month • 1 year: $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/privacy.html

Screenshots

Mathify4 screens
Cartographer's Lie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cartographer's Lie at 5.0 against Mathify's 4.5. Cartographer's Lie also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). Mathify's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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. Cartographer's Lie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Mathify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cartographer's Lie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mathify ships an update monthly, Cartographer's Lie every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mathify versus Cartographer's Lie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMathifyCartographer's Lie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB39 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSulton GafurovKevin Marsh

Customer experience

Mathify

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cartographer's Lie

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mathify

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cartographer's Lie

Subscriptions2
  • Guild Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Guild Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Mathify free?
Mathify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cartographer's Lie free?
Cartographer's Lie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mathify or Cartographer's Lie?
Cartographer's Lie is rated higher. Mathify averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Cartographer's Lie averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mathify or Cartographer's Lie have ads?
Neither Mathify nor Cartographer's Lie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mathify or Cartographer's Lie?
Mathify ships an update monthly, and Cartographer's Lie every 2 days. Most recently, Mathify was updated on October 15, 2026 and Cartographer's Lie on October 16, 2026.

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