Imagine Math Facts vs Math Balance Educational Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imagine Math Facts
This educational app helps students achieve fluency with core math facts through engaging gameplay. It offers insightful reports for tracking progress, but is only available to schools with a required login.
- Core math fact fluency development
- High-end gameplay
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Insightful progress reports
- School-exclusive access
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** Formerly Big Brainz For Schools ** *Available only to schools. A school login is required. Contact your school about how to access.* *iPad 4 or higher required for play.* Imagine Math Facts combines high-end gameplay with cutting-edge curriculum and insightful reports to ensure students develop complete fluency with their core math facts.
Math Balance Educational Games
This app makes learning mental math engaging for children aged 6-10. Through interactive games, kids develop number flexibility, understand equality and comparison, and build essential algebra readiness skills.
- Develops understanding of equality and comparison signs
- Teaches commutative property of addition
- Strategies for missing addends
- Inverse relationship between addition and subtraction
- Multiplication as repeated addition
- Place value strategies for addition
- Mental addition/subtraction of 10 or 100
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Mental Math is fun with Math Balance - kids help Toby reach home by balancing bridges and while they have fun, they also learn about equality/comparison, gain flexibility with numbers and practice skills that are essential for understanding algebra. This mental math game with 30 levels will help your child get necessary fluidity with numbers. Your child will learn things like addition can happen in any order for the same result, or that sum of different numbers can add up to be the same number. They will also end up having to use different number strategies, such as bridging and compensation which can significantly speed up their mental math computations. These are the skills covered by Math Balance - - Developing meaning of equal sign, using, greater than and less than sign - Set up numbers in their expanded form - Commutative property of addition and, later, using it and expanded form as a strategy to add ex: 67+25 = 60+7+20+5 = 80+12 =92 - Missing Addend strategies:x+b=c, where x is to be found, situations where difference is unknown, where there is a bigger unknown and where there is a smaller unknown -one step problems - Showing that addition and subtraction are inverse; 4+5=9, 9-5=4 - Use only doubles, Use only even/odd numbers to get to a total - 1 step word problems -Change unknown, Result unknown, Start unknown - add a string of two-digit numbers (up to four numbers) by applying place value strategies and properties of operations. Example: 43 + 34 + 57 + 24 = __ - Using concrete models to show addition and subtraction - Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900 - Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction - Multiplication as repeated addition For those who follow the Core curriculum, this maps to the following core standards - 2.OA.B.2, 2.NBT.4, 2.OA.2, 1.OA.6, 2.OA.C.3, 2.OA.1, 2.NBT.6, 2.NBT.7, 2.NBT.8, 3.NBT.2. Subscription info: - Math Balance can be purchased standalone, or as part of a makkajai Genius subscription. - Makkajai Genius subscriptions are auto-renewable and annual. ($59.99/yr) - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase - Cancellation will not go into effect until the end of the monthly billing cycle For support, questions or comments, write to us at: support@makkajai.com Our privacy policy can be found at: http://www.makkajai.com/privacy-policy and our terms can be found at: https://www.makkajai.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Math Balance Educational Games at 4.4 against Imagine Math Facts's 3.7. Math Balance Educational Games also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 399). Imagine Math Facts's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, review sentiment and ads 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. Math Balance Educational Games sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per year. Imagine Math Facts asks for nothing beyond the download.
Math Balance Educational Games holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Math Balance Educational Games has 4.2K ratings behind it against 399, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 45% and 45% positive.
Imagine Math Facts ships an update every 3 months, Math Balance Educational Games fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imagine Math Facts | Math Balance Educational Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (399 ratings) | 4.4 (4.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.3% of reviews — better | 45.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 399 | 4.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imagine Learning, Inc. | Makkajai Edu Tech Private Limited |
Customer experience
Imagine Math Facts
Math Balance Educational Games
User reviews
Imagine Math Facts
From 399 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Engaging gamified learning experience
- 📚 Effective math facts practice and skill building
- 🏆 Challenging difficulty levels that promote learning
- 😊 Fun and entertaining for many users
- 🎯 Good for reinforcing math fundamentals
Room to improve
- ⏱️ Extremely tight time limits for answering questions
- 🔄 Harsh penalty system - restart entire level for one mistake
- 🔐 Mandatory login/site code requirement blocks casual access
- 😤 Frustrating difficulty curve causes emotional distress
- 📱 Technical issues with iPad compatibility and sign-in
Math Balance Educational Games
From 4.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Engaging learning experience
- 💡 Helpful for improving math skills
- 👍 Fun and interactive for kids
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🔒 Requires email and login
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy performance
- 📉 Lack of challenge for older students
Bugs and requests
Imagine Math Facts
Reported bugs
7 issues- Login authentication failures for school credentials
- App crashes and kicks users out on iPad
- Correct answers being marked as incorrect
- Input lag - answers registered after time limit despite being entered in time
- Quit button causing unexpected app exit
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- Repetitive question generation after incorrect answers
- Site code verification link not functioning
Requested features
9 requests- Increase time limits for answering questions
- Allow progression without restarting entire level on single mistake
- Remove or simplify site code requirement for individual users
- Add sign-up option for non-school users
- Implement user choice for character gender
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- Adjust boss battle mechanics to show questions clearly
- Add difficulty adjustment settings
- Provide option to continue playing at home without school credentials
- Implement more forgiving error handling system
Math Balance Educational Games
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Disappearing progress and data loss
- Incompatibility with some devices
Requested features
3 requests- More advanced math content
- Ability to customize difficulty levels
- Option to play without subscription
In-app purchases
Imagine Math Facts
No in-app purchases
Math Balance Educational Games
- Makkajai Genius Annual Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Genius Annual Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Unlock Full Version$9.99
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