IXL drills roughly 5,000 skills and scores the practice. Maths Angel puts an AI tutor in the loop: ChatCat reads your child’s own working, names the exact mistake, and teaches the earlier skill behind it.
Maths Angel reads your child’s working like a tutor would. When they write 14 cm for the hypotenuse of a 6 cm and 8 cm triangle, ChatCat names the common mistake and shows the correct method.
One slip like that often points to an earlier skill, and the map of 500+ linked skills finds it. A 3–4 minute animated lesson teaches that skill, practice checks the fix stuck, and each repair lands on their skills profile.
A subscription practice platform: roughly 5,000 short UK maths skills from Reception to Year 13, each scored, with a diagnostic that picks what to practise next.
But there’s no AI tutor: it can’t look at your child’s working and explain where they went wrong. After a wrong answer it just shows the correct solution.
£7.99 a monthor £59 a year
IXL keeps serving questions until the score looks right. Maths Angel finds out why it wasn’t. When practice stalls, ChatCat names the exact mistake and the earlier skill behind it, then teaches it with a real lesson, not ten more questions of the same.
| Feature | Maths Angel | IIXL |
|---|---|---|
| Getting unstuck | ||
| Instant help with any question (type or photo) | Yes | No |
| Names the exact mistake in the student’s working | Yes | No |
| Skill map: finds the earlier skill that’s missing | Yes | No |
| Points to the one lesson or practice that fixes it | Yes | Yes |
| Only unaided work counts towards scores | Yes | No |
| The lessons | ||
| Fully animated video lessons (not handwriting and voice) | Yes | No |
| Expert-crafted lessons, not AI | Yes | Yes |
| Full KS3, KS4 and GCSE/IGCSE maths (Years 6–11) | Yes | Yes1 |
| Real GCSE past-paper questions with mark schemes | Yes | No |
| Access and safety | ||
| Families can use it directly, no school licence | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan, no card | Yes | Yes |
| Child-safe: ad-free, on-topic, treats every user as a minor | Yes | Yes |
¹ IXL’s GCSE plan is organised by topic, and no exam board is named.
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Put tonight's question into ChatCat with their working. See the mistake named and the lesson that fixes it. A quick practice set then logs the repair on their skills profile.
