Comparison

Elevate vs Simple Math

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

Head to head
About

Elevate

Enhance cognitive abilities like focus, memory, and math skills with a personalized daily training program. Improve productivity, earning power, and self-confidence through engaging brain games designed by experts.

Highlights
  • 40+ brain training games
  • Performance tracking
  • Personalized workouts
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Workout calendar
  • Vocabulary expansion
  • Math problem solving
Features
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Elevate is a brain training program designed to improve your mind’s focus, memory, speaking abilities, processing speed, math skills, and more. Each person is provided with a personalized training program that adjusts over time to maximize results. The more you train with Elevate, the more you’ll improve critical cognitive skills that are proven to boost productivity, earning power, and self-confidence. 90%+ report improved vocabulary, math skills, and overall mental sharpness when they frequently use Elevate. IN THE NEWS “Elevate comes out ahead” in the battle of the brain training apps. – CNET Elevate is a “cognitive pick-me-up” with games that are “good for mental breaks throughout the workday.” – Washington Post. FEATURES • 40+ Brain Training Games: Improve your critical cognitive skills like focus, memory, processing, math, precision, and comprehension with 40+ brain training games. • Performance Tracking: Track your progress and compare your mind’s performance over time with weekly reports and insights. • Personalized Workouts: Customize your daily training focus and choose between 3 and 5 games. Get personalized daily workouts that include the skills you need most. • Adaptive Progression: Train your brain with adaptive difficulty progression that ensures your experience is challenging. • Workout Calendar: Stay motivated by tracking your training streaks and keeping your mind active daily. • And more! WHY YOU NEED ELEVATE • Express yourself more effectively in writing. Write with clarity, persuasiveness, and concision. • Improve your spelling and punctuation. Avoid common writing pitfalls. • Become a better reader. Read everyday materials faster and with greater understanding. • Expand your vocabulary. • Quickly and easily solve everyday math problems. Get better at comparing prices, splitting bills, and calculating discounts and markups. • Speak more effectively. Become more articulate and better at communicating tone and meaning. • Keep your mind engaged and challenged every day with short, effective exercises. RESEARCH BEHIND ELEVATE Elevate's games are designed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive learning and are based on extensive scientific research. Elevate’s brain training algorithms further focus the learning experience by drawing from research in memory studies to develop a personalized training program for each member. ELEVATE SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Elevate offers a 7-day free trial as well as a basic free version. To access the free version, tap the X in the upper left-hand corner after you sign up for an account. If you choose to subscribe, you will be charged a yearly subscription fee according to your country. The subscription fee will be shown in the app before you complete the payment. Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of each subscription term, unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the term. Subscription renewals cost the same as the original subscription, and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. You may manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time after purchase by going to your iTunes Account Settings. Refunds will not be given for any unused portion of the term. For additional information, please read our Terms of Service (https://www.elevateapp.com/terms) and Privacy Policy (https://www.elevateapp.com/privacy).

About

Simple Math

Enhance your mental math skills with this educational game. It offers practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, suitable for both beginners and adults looking to sharpen their cognitive abilities.

Highlights
  • Arithmetic practice
  • Addition training
  • Subtraction training
  • Multiplication training
  • Division training
  • Brain exercise
Features
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This game trains your brain with simple arithmetic operations. If you just started school it will be perfect for you! You will be the fastest one. If you adult it will help to train your brain with multiply, dividing, subtraction and addition in your mind.

Screenshots

Elevate4 screens
Simple Math4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Math at none against Elevate's 16. Simple Math also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (88% vs 59%). Elevate's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (542K vs 1). On price 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. Elevate sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Simple Math asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Math holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elevate has 542K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Elevate's written reviews are positive against 88% of Simple Math's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elevate ships an update weekly, Simple Math every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Elevate versus Simple Math: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElevateSimple Math
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (542K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings542K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 11 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#31 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size572 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Mind CompanyAndrii Oliinyk

Customer experience

Elevate

All ratings542,428 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews2,835 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative30.2%

Simple Math

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Bugs and requests

Elevate

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login issues after app updates
  • Inability to restore purchases
  • Inconsistent performance across devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More diverse game selection
  • Better explanations for incorrect answers
  • Ability to review past performance
  • Customizable difficulty levels
  • Metric system support for non-US users

Simple Math

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Elevate

Subscriptions10
  • Elevate Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Elevate Subscription2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Elevate Subscription$7.991 Month
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  • Elevate Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Elevate Subscription$19.991 Year
  • Elevate Subscription$21.991 Year
  • 1 Year With 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • 1 Year with 14-Day Trial14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Elevate Premium7 Days trial3 variants$39.991 Year
  • Elevate Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Simple Math

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elevate free?
Elevate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Math free?
Simple Math is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Elevate or Simple Math?
Simple Math is rated higher. Elevate averages 4.8 out of 5 from 542K ratings, while Simple Math averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Elevate or Simple Math have ads?
Elevate shows ads; Simple Math does not.
Which is updated more often, Elevate or Simple Math?
Elevate ships an update weekly, and Simple Math every 11 months. Most recently, Elevate was updated on September 25, 2026 and Simple Math on June 11, 2026.

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