Comparison

Math Run vs Math Games

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

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About

Math Run

An action-packed arithmetic game designed to improve math skills through engaging gameplay. Players run, dodge obstacles, and solve math problems aligned with US Common Core standards for Kindergarten to Grade 5. Earn rewards and unlock characters as you accelerate your learning.

Highlights
  • Arithmetic skill practice
  • Action-packed running gameplay
  • US Common Core aligned questions (K-5)
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
  • Unlockable characters and upgrades
  • Progress tracking and results
  • Daily rewards and bonus items
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Need a fun way to get more math practice? Boost your math skills with this action-packed arithmetic game! Accelerate learning as you test your speed and wit by running, avoiding obstacles, and solving math problems in this action-packed edutainment app! Questions are aligned to the US Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for Kindergarten to Grade 5. Math Run is a fun action-packed reflex game that trains at various levels in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Great for children or adults! Earn rewards when you answer arithmetic questions correctly. Math Run includes five playable characters, one for each type of math questions posed during the game. Detailed educational information for parents and educators: http://www.babycortex.com/math-run/‎ Help our cute animals escape with fast reflexes and the power of mathematics! Features: - Ideal for children and adults who want to accelerate their arithmetic skills, perfect for elementary and primary school math practice - Fast-paced reflex building running gameplay - Math questions complement Kindergarten through Grade 5 mathematics curricula - Speed through 8 stunning locations from all 7 continents - Play as the cute Baby Panda for basic math skills - Unlock 4 cute characters, each with its own math specialty - Gear up with upgradeable equipment that will help you survive longer - Track progress with comprehensive results of math stats and learn from missed questions - Play daily for a chance to win bonus items - Unlock more missions to receive bonus rewards **Please note that, while this app is free, it contains optional paid content. You can disable in-app purchases by adjusting your device's settings. **

About

Math Games

Embark on an exciting endless runner adventure where you save friends from Halloween Town by solving math problems. Become a math ninja, test your skills, and unlock new characters and spells. This educational game makes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fun for all ages.

Highlights
  • Endless runner gameplay
  • Solve math challenges
  • Unlock new characters
  • Level up spells
  • Educational for all grades
  • Save kidnapped friends
Features
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Do you want to play a fun game full of unique mechanics and which will help you boost your math learning fast and easy? Toon Math is here to help you enjoy a cool math experience that will complement the lessons you learn at school. In this game all your friends are kidnapped and they are taken to the Halloween Town. What you have to do now is to make sure that you save them before midnight. Otherwise, they will turn to scarecrows! Become the ultimate math ninja, try to eliminate all the enemies in front of you and take your gameplay experience to the next level! This cool math game is about testing your skills and improving them. The player gets to become the ultimate math ninja and he will continually run and solve various math challenges. It is suitable for any grade, and it’s a wonderful educational game that you do not want to miss. The gameplay is very immersive and it provides you with an extraordinary set of challenges. Moreover, the game tests you how fast you are, since everything will end up before midnight and you have to avoid all of that. Thankfully, since this is a game for almost each grade, each player can play at his own pace. You will be able to unlock new characters and each one of the enemies and characters are very cute. Your team can level up its spells and take things to the next level in no time. This makes the gameplay a lot more impressive and everyone can feel like a math ninja as he/she beat the monster in front of them. Since you have to run all the time, the gameplay is very easy to get into and it’s just a whole lot of fun to explore everything in here. It’s just an incredible opportunity and a very enticing experience that becomes better and more educational as you play to become a math ninja. That’s great for parents and teachers which want to teach how to count, divide, subtract or add numbers. The entire game is very educational and you will be very impressed with the quality and value delivered here. Just give this cool math app a shot right now, download Toon Math and fall in love with math! App subscription: You can subscribe for access to the full list of Math lessons. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You will be able to do all exercises for the duration of the subscription. Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one week"/"one month"/"one year" package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package (weekly, monthly or yearly package). Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting though your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information. You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. Any unused portion of free-trial period, will be forfeited when the user purchases an app subscription. Links to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy can be found below. Privacy Policy: https://www.mathgames.dev/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.mathgames.dev/terms-of-service.html * Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Pricing Matrix" determines as the equivalent of the subscription price in $ USD

Screenshots

Math Run4 screens
Math Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Math Games at 4.6 against Math Run's 3.7. Math Games also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 59%) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 172). Math Run's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Math Run sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Math Games sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Math Games holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Math Games has 1.3K ratings behind it against 172, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Math Run's written reviews are positive against 83% of Math Games's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Math Run ships an update every 4 weeks, Math Games every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Math Run versus Math Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMath RunMath Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (172 ratings)4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.5% of reviews83.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1721.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size195 MB272 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBaby Cortex Holdings LimitedMath Games

Customer experience

Math Run

All ratings172 ratings
Positive67.4%
Neutral3.5%
Negative29.1%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive59.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative34.2%

Math Games

All ratings1,324 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews230 reviews
Positive83.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.7%

User reviews

Math Run

From 172 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Educational value
  • 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 👍 Nostalgic appeal
  • 👍 Good twist on the 'Run' genre
  • 👍 Addictive gameplay

Room to improve

  • 💸 In-app purchase issues
  • 💸 Expensive add-ons
  • 🐛 Glitchy and buggy gameplay
  • 🐛 Unresponsive controls
  • 🐛 Unfair game mechanics

Math Games

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and educational
  • 🚀 Helps with math skills
  • 💡 Engaging gameplay
  • 👍 Customizable settings

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent ads
  • 🐛 Glitches and crashes
  • 🐛 Creepy character designs
  • 🐛 Limited math content

Bugs and requests

Math Run

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Jump not working
  • Crashing into screen when trying to move left
  • Red things are distracting and obstruct view
  • In-app purchases not unlocking
  • App kicks user off
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  • Game not working
  • Cannot turn left and right
  • Giant panda keeps eating player
  • Paid for multiplication package but won't load
  • Purchased character not received
  • Game is rigged
  • Does not give time after pause
  • Makes player die when they did not die
  • App is useless and kicks user off
  • Game is not working

Requested features

11 requests
  • Fix in-app purchase issues
  • Make harder math levels free or unlockable with coins
  • Add more levels or characters
  • Allow control over math problem timing
  • Add more lives
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  • Make it easier to earn coins
  • Add a difficulty setting
  • Allow players to join each other
  • Remove math problems from the game
  • Option to choose difficulty
  • More characters

Math Games

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Ads that won't go away
  • Freezing on death screen
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More math problem types
  • Additional levels and maps
  • Improved graphics
  • Reduced ads

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Math Run

One-time7
  • 30000 coins$1.99
  • Addition Package$2.99
  • Subtraction Package$2.99
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  • Multiplication Package$2.99
  • Division Package$2.99
  • 90000 coins$4.99
  • Full Package$5.99
10 purchases

Math Games

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Math$4.997 Days
  • Premium Math$9.991 Month
  • Cool Math Learning Games3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • 128 Diamonds$4.99
  • Math Games with no Ads$5.99
  • 256 Diamonds$8.99
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  • 4000 Coins$9.99
  • 512 Diamonds$13.99
  • Math Games with all characters$13.99
  • 12000 Coins$29.99

Questions

Is Math Run free?
Math Run is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Math Games free?
Math Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Math Run or Math Games?
Math Games is rated higher. Math Run averages 3.7 out of 5 from 172 ratings, while Math Games averages 4.6 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Math Run or Math Games have ads?
Math Games shows ads; Math Run does not.
Which is updated more often, Math Run or Math Games?
Math Run ships an update every 4 weeks, and Math Games every 3 weeks. Most recently, Math Run was updated on September 30, 2026 and Math Games on September 29, 2026.

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