Comparison

Numvolt vs Mental Math

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

Head to head
About

Numvolt

Enhance your mental math skills with a comprehensive trainer offering 15 topics and 150 levels each. Learn fastest calculation methods, track progress, and compete globally. Features include daily challenges, duels, and a home screen widget.

Highlights
  • 15 topics, 150 levels each
  • Fastest calculation method explanations
  • Daily challenges and sprints
  • Global ladder rankings
  • Two-player duels
  • Progress tracking and home screen widget
Features
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Numvolt helps you get better at mental math: open, calculate, understand, repeat. No account and no ads. For new installations, Numvolt Pro is required to start sessions after onboarding. Choose a yearly subscription or a lifetime one-time purchase; the price and terms are shown before purchase. FIFTEEN TOPICS, A HUNDRED AND FIFTY RUNGS EACH Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, percentages, order of operations, powers, algebra, square roots, signed numbers, proportions, time and durations, unit conversion and number patterns. Each topic has its own 150-rung journey, up to five elite chapters; the difficulty adjusts during the session, block by block. You pick your starting point at setup, and you can always replay a lower level. THE FASTEST METHOD, FOR EVERY CALCULATION After a mistake, and at the end of a session for your slowest answers, Numvolt shows you the fastest way to do it in your head, step by step: 71 × 87 is 70 × 87 + 87; 79² is 80² − 160 + 1. With the reflex to keep and other ways to do it. In the courses, type any calculation and the app explains the best method. In Zen mode there is no timer: time to understand. SPRINTS AND A DAILY CHALLENGE 15, 30 or 60 seconds on the + − × ÷ mix. +1 per correct answer, −1 per mistake. The daily challenge is the same 60-second series for everyone, all day long. A LADDER FROM YOUR CITY TO THE WORLD Join the ladder with a nickname and your city. Your best sprint is ranked on six rungs: city, county, region, country, continent, world. After every sprint you see exactly what you climbed — "5th → 2nd · Rhône" — and how many points you need to overtake the next player. Only your nickname, city and scores are published. Never your exact location. DUEL ON ONE PHONE Two players, the same questions in the same order, 30 seconds each. Scores are revealed at the end. YOUR PROGRESS, VISIBLE XP, overall level, accuracy, day streak, seven-day chart, level per topic and session history. A Home Screen widget shows your daily goal and starts a sprint in one tap. WHAT STAYS WITH YOU Your progress lives on your iPhone, in the app's storage. No account. Anonymous usage counters, which you can switch off in Settings, only tell us where the app gets stuck. Fractions and decimals accepted on the keypad. Light, dark or automatic appearance. Available in 49 languages. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mental Math

Features
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Mental arithmetic that feels like a game. An exercise sits on a chip in the middle — 7 + 5, 9 × 8 + 4, √144. Drag it onto the right answer on the board before the clock runs out. Land it and your combo grows, taking the multiplier up to ×3. Miss and you only lose the combo: nothing here breaks. HOW IT PLAYS • 14 seconds per exercise, shown by the ring around the chip: green, then amber, then red • Answer early and score more — the bonus follows those exact colours • Three correct answers in a row lift the multiplier one step • Eight exercises per chapter, up to three stars — fewer misses, more stars • No exercise repeats inside a run TWELVE CHAPTERS 1. Adding to 20 2. Adding to 50 3. Missing addends 4. Subtraction 5. Missing subtrahends 6. Times tables 7. Division 8. Square numbers 9. Square roots 10. Big numbers 11. Order of operations 12. Everything mixed FOR PARENTS • No ads, no purchases, no accounts, no sign-up • No cross-app tracking, no advertising ID — only anonymous statistics and crash reports, so we can find bugs • Works fully offline — the app needs no internet and asks for no permissions • Progress stays on the device and never leaves it Made for primary and lower secondary school, for anyone getting their mental arithmetic back up to speed — and everyone in between.

Screenshots

Numvolt4 screens
Mental Math4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mental Math at none against Numvolt's 1. Mental Math also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Numvolt sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mental Math asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Numvolt versus Mental Math: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumvoltMental Math
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperROMEO ILARIO FLAVIO GAMBINOJohannes Lauber

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Numvolt

One-time1
  • Numvolt Pro$8.99
None

Mental Math

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Numvolt free?
Numvolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mental Math free?
Mental Math is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Numvolt or Mental Math have ads?
Neither Numvolt nor Mental Math shows ads.

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