Maths Angel vs Sparx Maths

Sparx Maths is sold to schools only, so no family can buy it at home. Maths Angel is a tutor your family can use directly: it reads the working your child wrote and names the mistake.

The key difference

Maths Angel

family friendly

With Maths Angel, the help comes straight from the AI tutor, at whatever hour your child is stuck. They type or photograph the question with their working, and ChatCat goes through it: which line went wrong, why, and how that step should have gone.

Often the trouble started earlier. The map of 500+ connected skills shows which earlier skill your child never got straight. That skill gets its own 3–4 minute animated lesson, practice checks it stuck, and the skills profile records what’s mastered.

FreePro £14.99 a month

Sparx Maths

school homework

The maths homework your child’s school sets. The teacher picks the topics, Sparx builds a personalised set at the right level and marks it instantly. Each question comes with a support video, but it’s the same video for every student, chosen by the question rather than the mistake. Sparx marks only the final answer in the box: it never reads the working your child wrote, and when the video doesn’t clear things up, it points them to a teacher, parent or friend.

Schools onlyno home purchase

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When Maths Angel suits your child better

Sparx sets what’s due. Maths Angel fixes what’s stuck. Sparx can only mark the final answer your child typed in. ChatCat reads the working behind that answer, names the slip, and teaches the earlier skill, so the same red mark stops coming back.

Maths Angel vs Sparx Maths at a glance

Maths Angel vs Sparx Maths: feature comparison
Feature	Maths Angel	SSparx Maths
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	Yes¹
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	Yes
Real GCSE past-paper questions with mark schemes	Yes	No
Access and safety
Families can use it directly, no school licence	Yes	No
Free plan, no card	Yes	No
Child-safe: ad-free, on-topic, treats every user as a minor	Yes	Yes

¹ A support video per question, the same video for every student, chosen by the question, not the mistake.

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Try Maths Angel yourself

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.

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