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How Math Games compares

Plenty of apps teach kids to count. Math Games is built for adults sharpening skills they already have. Here's how it stacks up against the other math and quiz apps people usually compare it to.

These seven aren't picked because they're bad — most of them are good at the specific job they're built for. They're here because they're what people searching for "math games" or "mental math practice" actually run into, and almost none of them are built for an adult who already knows their times tables and wants to get faster.

Roughly, they split into three groups: apps built for kids learning the basics for the first time, general-purpose tools that happen to get used for math, and one — Zetamac — that's aimed at the same adult audience as we are, just with a much smaller scope. The comparison reads differently depending on which group you're actually choosing between.

Built for kids learning the basics

Curriculum-graded, untimed or lightly timed, and monetized the way kids' apps usually are — a subscription, a membership tier, or ads.

Kids' curriculum app

vs Monster Math

A $59.99/year curriculum app for kids learning to count and add — free tier capped at 10 levels a day.

See the comparison →Kids' RPG learning game

vs Prodigy Math

A free RPG for grades 1–8 — the base math game is free, but memberships run $9.95–$19.95/month for extras.

See the comparison →Kids' number-matching app

vs Sushi Monster

Scholastic's free 12-level number-matching app for kids aged 9–11 — no accounts, no timer, no cost.

See the comparison →Free kids' games website

vs Math Playground

A free, ad-supported library of hundreds of small browser math games for grades K–6 — no sign-in required.

See the comparison →

Not really a math tool at all

General-purpose or institutional tools that get used for math practice, but weren't built around it specifically.

Live quiz platform

vs Kahoot!

A live, hosted quiz platform for any subject — free to join, roughly $3–35/month to host beyond the basics.

See the comparison →School fluency drills

vs Rocket Math

A timed fact-fluency drill program built for teachers and homeschoolers, sold as a school or family subscription.

See the comparison →

Built for the same adult audience as us

The one genuine peer on this list — a stripped-down timed drill with a smaller scope than four full games.

Arithmetic speed drill

vs Zetamac

A bare-bones, free timed arithmetic drill popular in quant-finance interview prep — no account, nothing saved.

See the comparison →

Questions

Which of these is most like Math Games?
Zetamac, by far. It's the only one built for an adult audience with no kids' framing — the difference is scope: one timed drill you configure yourself, versus four games with preset difficulty tiers and saved stats.
Are any of these actually bad apps?
No — Monster Math, Prodigy, Sushi Monster and Math Playground are all reasonable choices for what they're actually built for: kids learning arithmetic for the first time. They're compared here because they show up in the same searches, not because they're poorly made.
Why is Kahoot! on a list of math apps?
Because "math kahoot" is a common search, even though Kahoot! itself is a general quiz-hosting tool with no math content built in — someone has to write the questions first. See the full comparison for what that means in practice.
Which one is cheapest?
Sushi Monster, Math Playground, Zetamac and Math Games are all completely free. Monster Math, Prodigy, Rocket Math and Kahoot! all have a free tier with a paid upgrade beyond it — see each page for current pricing.