Comparison

NUMEN vs PhysApex

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

Head to head
About

NUMEN

Features
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"Not solving math — the moment you start to feel it." NUMEN is not a problem-set app. It's an app for everyone who once gave up on math — and wants to recover the sense of it. ■ A different approach Other math apps: Definition → Formula → Practice → Wrong answer NUMEN: Experience → Pattern → Intuition → Definition You touch with your finger. You drag a slider. You watch values change. Each fraction slice, each function curve, each direction of a negative number — every concept comes alive as moving math, not memorized math. ■ Who is this for? · Middle and high school students who lost the thread · People burned out on classroom-style explanations · Adults who want to understand investing, statistics, or AI · Anyone who wants to feel "I wasn't bad at math — the connections were just broken" ■ What's inside · Interactive lessons you actually touch 33 lessons across 10 phases — sense, relations, change, chance, shape, cycles, limit, slope, accumulation, direction · Intuition first, definition later See the phenomenon, find the pattern, then meet the formal name · 5–10 minute daily sessions Light enough to keep, deep enough to transform · Daily streaks A little, every day — that's how sense rebuilds · Five languages Korean · English · Japanese · Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) — every lesson body translated · iPhone · iPad universal · Fully offline No ads. No tracking. No data collection. No internet calls. ■ Why NUMEN? You weren't bad at math. Only the connections between concepts were broken. NUMEN was designed — by hand, with care — to reconnect them. "Oh — I wasn't dumb. The connections were just broken." That moment is what NUMEN is built for. ■ Privacy by design NUMEN collects zero personal information. All progress is stored only on your device. No analytics, no advertising SDKs, no external APIs. ■ Pricing · The app itself — free to download · Phase 1–3 (12 lessons, ≈ 60 min of content) — free · Phase 4–10 (21 lessons) — single one-time in-app purchase, unlocks forever. No ads, no subscription, no renewal. ■ Coming next · More lessons within Phase 5–10 · Personal review / notes screen Begin today. Mathematical sense is not memorized — it is recovered.

About

PhysApex

Features
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PhysApex 4.8.0 —— 再补 30 道双解战例,题库到 190。 · 王牌战例 90 → 120 道,新增单摆、驻波、共振、等温/等压做功、绝热压缩、 卡诺效率、遏止电压、德布罗意波、质量亏损、棱镜全反射、双缝条纹、 洛伦兹力、回旋加速器、质谱仪、最大输出功率、电表改装、自感、 静摩擦方向、绳与弹簧瞬时性、卫星变轨、镜像法、势能曲线、标度分析、 近似展开、角动量守恒、矢量三角形等。 · 题库 160 → 190 道,每题均配「常规解 vs 快解」与说人话层。 · 沙盘任务 16 → 24 个:新增圆周运动、传送带、电梯、单摆、库仑力、 电容器、切割磁感线、速率分布。 · 新内容自动进入王牌训练、方法雷达、限时小卷、今日计划与定段测评。

Screenshots

NUMEN4 screens
PhysApex3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NUMEN at Free against PhysApex's $6.99. PhysApex's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

NUMEN is free to download; PhysApex costs $6.99 up front. NUMEN sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PhysApex asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NUMEN ships an update every 2 months, PhysApex every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 15, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
NUMEN versus PhysApex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNUMENPhysApex
PriceFree — better$6.99
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperByoungho Kim峰 王

In-app purchases

1 purchases

NUMEN

One-time1
  • NUMEN — Unlock All$2.99
None

PhysApex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NUMEN free?
NUMEN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PhysApex free?
PhysApex costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do NUMEN or PhysApex have ads?
Neither NUMEN nor PhysApex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NUMEN or PhysApex?
NUMEN ships an update every 2 months, and PhysApex every 6 days. Most recently, NUMEN was updated on November 15, 2026 and PhysApex on November 11, 2026.

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