Mencal - Mental Math Tricks App Reviews

I suggest starring the ones youre most likely to need. The app taught me there are a lot more shortcuts to math than I expected.

Unfortunately the download is in Korean (?). Cant see how to switch it to another language. That way the app is useless for the majority of users.

Nice!

This app rocks!! Great for Math Team practice!

Its an educational app, and it seems to be helpful for students.

Impressed.

Keep updating with more math tricks!

Its a useful app for anyone who wants to know the numbers deeper.

Its a good app for both kids and sometimes even adults

Ive definitely been enlightened after merely a few minutes usage of this app. Right now Ive been captured by the unfathomably mesmerizing beauty of this app. Try it you wont regret.

Well done learning app. Nice interface and content.

if you love math - you will love the app

there are some tricks that can be helpful but there are also example that make it to complicated and hard. for example 45+54=99 the app says to add 4+5=9 then 9*11=99 why the hell would I do that when I can clearly see lining up the numbers in my mind they will both be 9s. it get even crazier with 3 digit numbers, taking a simple 3digit addition number and mixing multiplication and more addition, it just seams stupid to make it harder.

I found these tricks extremely useful in daily lives,as a college student,it gives me fresh light about fundamental calculations again !

Very fun and useful

me being very bad at math, this app can help me in many wonderful ways, thank you!!! :)

This is the best-looking app of this sort that I have seen (other than the choice of handwritten/chalkboard font for the numbers), but something tells me the appearance took precedence over the importance of utility. The instructions for methods are sometimes unclear, and not only because it looks as though the person who wrote it was not a native English-speaker. Sometimes crucial words are omitted. Sometimes its just unclear whats being said. Additionally, it is my opinion that the app could use some expansion regarding how one is able to test oneself. Let the user test him- or herself incrementally with each step as they begin to understand it, or allow the user to include or omit the methods used in the testing portion. Otherwise, it requires the user to master and understand each kind of method before feeling they can challenge themselves effectively. Otherwise, this is a great app, and a beautiful one to boot. Id love to use this more often if I could seem to have it work more in my favor as I learn and test myself with each method. It certainly had great potential, and I look forward to seeing how/if it changes in the future.

I think I understand the point but these problems are so confusing. You have to understand more than basic math to get this.

The app has a sound design and beautiful aesthetics. The method learning portion could use some work - like a counter somewhere with the answers correct/answers wrong, and the icons for switching towards practice could be a bit more obvious, but that doesnt really take away from it. The practice mode that includes all methods could indeed have an option to remove certain methods that are more complex - such as squaring numbers in the 400s - so the user could practice several methods that hes learned at once. As for the instructions, I think they are pretty clear and if read with enough attention, are simple to understand. Overall its a pretty amazing app and it has lots of potential for math-loving people. I enjoy it quite a lot.

Full of various ways to break down and solve a wide range of equations. Some of the explanations are a little hard to follow, but overall its a pretty and useful app.