Matrix Aptitude vs IQ Prep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matrix Aptitude
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Twelve reasoning and math types generated from rules, so you never run out. Everyone solves the same Daily Challenge, and Survival takes you one floor at a time. ``` ### iOS — Description (4000) · Play — Full description ``` Matrix Aptitude drills the reasoning and numerical question types that keep showing up in aptitude tests, a little every day. Questions are built from rules, so they never run out no matter how many you solve. It runs offline with no server. ■ Twelve rule-generated types Matrix, Sequences, Odd One Out, Applied Math, Data, Verbal Logic, Spatial, Analytic, Ciphers, Flow, Analogies, and Schematic. The names of the tests differ, but these types keep coming back. Generated fresh from rules, so they are unlimited. Get them right and they get harder; miss and they ease off. ■ Daily Challenge The same ten questions worldwide, once a day. The date picks the questions, so today's set is identical on every device. Share your result as a grid. ■ Survival Three lives, one floor at a time. Every floor is harder, and it ends when your lives run out. How far you climbed stays on your record. ■ Fifteen questions a day A daily set of fifteen — warm-up, weak-spot focus, then a challenge. Streaks build, your think level rises, and milestones stay for good. ■ Timed mock A 50-question mock with a clock and a penalty for wrong answers, so you can practice leaving the ones you are unsure of. Afterwards you get score by part, points lost to guessing, how you spent your time, and one thing to change next time. ■ Diagnose → Prescribe → Grow A short placement sets your baseline. Then the app shows which types are weak, how you miss them, and exactly which sub-pattern trips you up. Drill just that sub-pattern or learn the method with a strategy lesson, and measure your gains against your baseline. ■ A buddy that grows with you Name your own training buddy. It feeds on your daily training and evolves through 10 stages, and milestones like a 7-day streak become relics that never disappear. ■ What it covers What practice improves is familiarity with question types and how you handle a clock. Reading comprehension and paragraph ordering need passages, so they cannot be generated from rules and are not covered. ■ How it works Everything is open. Nothing is locked and there are no run limits. A banner ad sits at the bottom of result screens, and Survival offers a rewarded video if you choose to continue. Question screens carry no ads. ■ Features - Korean / English toggle - Dark mode (system / light / dark) - Daily reminder - Share your score card as an image - Works offline (rule-based, no network needed)
IQ Prep
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Practise for IQ tests with the item types of real intelligence tests: matrices, number series, figure series, mirror images, operators and digit span. Plus a lab with reaction, attention and memory tasks in which you measurably improve with practice. For aptitude tests, Mensa admission and anyone who wants to know how IQ tests work. IQ TEST ITEMS • Matrices: 3×3 figure matrices as in Raven's test, up to four rules at once, and at higher levels dot patterns that combine, intersect or cancel out • Number series: 28 rule families, from simple differences to interleaved series • Figure series: rotation, count, fill, shape and movement across the grid • Mirror images: rotated or mirrored, with ever-new figures • Operators: insert the operators, precedence applies • Digit span: forwards and backwards, as in the Wechsler test Every item is generated fresh, on five difficulty levels, and after every answer you see the solution step by step. No games, no points: items look like the real test, black figures on a plain background, no animations. LAB: REACTION, ATTENTION, MEMORY Five classic tasks from cognitive psychology to practise: reaction time, Stroop, flanker, Corsi block and dual n-back. With practice you measurably improve at them; a trend curve shows your progress, plus a daily streak. Reaction, attention and memory are tested directly in some selection procedures, such as police or pilot selection. TEST UNDER REAL CONDITIONS 30 items from all categories, 20 minutes, no help until the end. Then a score per category and every wrong item with its solution to work through. SCIENTIFIC BASIS • Practice on the test format measurably improves scores. The meta-analysis by Hausknecht et al. (2007) shows gains of about a quarter of a standard deviation from retesting, more with targeted coaching. • Practising reaction and memory tasks reliably improves performance on exactly those tasks. Whether it transfers to IQ beyond them is disputed (Melby-Lervåg et al. 2016), so IQ Prep does not promise it. • The item types follow established test families: matrices after Raven, digit span after Wechsler (WAIS, WISC), number and figure series as in CogAT and similar batteries. Free to try: three items per category, one full test with mistake review, and three runs of each lab task. Full version $4.99 one time: everything unlimited. No subscription, no ads, no account, no data collection. Training offline, internet only for purchase and restore. IQ Prep is not a standardized intelligence test and does not measure IQ.
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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Matrix Aptitude at none against IQ Prep's 1. Matrix Aptitude also leads on device support (3 vs 1). IQ Prep's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price 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
Both are free to download. IQ Prep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Matrix Aptitude asks for nothing beyond the download.
Matrix Aptitude ships an update fortnightly, IQ Prep every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Matrix Aptitude | IQ Prep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | woosik choi | Codefellas GmbH |
In-app purchases
Matrix Aptitude
No in-app purchases
IQ Prep
- Full version$3.99









