# Atom in a Box — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Atom in a Box by Dauger Research, Inc., rated 3.70/5 from 6 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atom-in-a-box/id284788633/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atom-in-a-box/id284788633.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (8 of 28) ### 5/5 — Superb *2009-11-16, version 0* Never again will I need to consult another chart for spherical harmonics formulæ. ### 5/5 — wirklich interessant *2009-05-30, version 0* für physikinteressierte eine überlegung wert! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2008-09-19, version 0* This would have been a great aid for when I was taking QM! ### 5/5 — IMPRESSIVE! *2008-08-26, version 0* Truly unique and thought provoking... ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2008-08-09, version 0* I have no understanding of Hydrogenic Atomic Orbitals, but this amazing 3D visualization-simulation program is fascinating and I never tire from watching it's hypnotic appeal. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2008-07-16, version 0* To those who love science, this is a wonderful work of art ### 5/5 — Wonderful Application *2008-07-14, version 0* If you've ever used the Mac version of Atom in a Box you know what to expect -- you can choose the (hydrogen) orbital you want (2p, 3d, whatever..) and then you get a very nice 3D model that shows phase information. You can spin it around with your finger, you get a set of axes, all the appropriate equations at the bottom including the numerical value for the energy of the orbital (along with the equation that calculated), and a graph of the radial distribution function! Only downside is that there's no explanation for what the extra settings do, that I could find anyway. ### 5/5 — beautiful *2008-07-13, version 0* though I'm not a physicist, my interest in physics makes it possible for me to enjoy the elegant beauty and simplicity of this highly technical and complex concept in a way I've never seen before. truly excellent use of the iphones capabilities. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes!!! *2012-01-15, version 1.0.6* Crashes on my iphone4. No response from developer. Boooooo!! ### 2/5 — Crashes *2012-08-01, version 1.0.7* Pretty cool, but it crashes every time on my iPod Touch. ### 2/5 — not as good as the desktop app *2012-07-20, version 1.0.6* The desktop application is unbelievable. This iPhone version doesn't do superpositions (hybrid orbitals), and doesn't do the "slice" view that I like so much either. It does rotate "with gravity" though, which is neat. ### 3/5 — Buggy *2015-04-24, version 1.0.7* But it's not like there are any other applications that give hydrogen orbitals ### 3/5 — Solid app, but really overpriced *2010-08-24, version 0* It does as it describes. ### 3/5 — Schick, aber teuer und ausbaufähig *2009-06-21, version 0* Zur Simulation der Wellenfunktionen des Wasserstoffatoms ist dies ein sehr nettes kleines Programm. Zwei Kritikpunkte habe ich: Zum einen ist das Programm zu teuer dafür, dass man eigentlich bloß etwas zum ansehen erhält, es aber nicht "produktiv" ist, man also keine eigenen Daten damit generiert. Der Preis ist auch deshalb hoch, weil es das Programm schon vorher für den Mac gab und der Code wahrscheinlich großteils wiederverwendet werden konnte. Zum zweiten vermisse ich die Möglichkeit, Hybridorbitale anzuzeigen, die es in der Desktopanwendung gibt. Das wäre eine wirklich sinnvolle Erweiterung! This is a nice small app for the simulation of hydrogen wave functions. I've got two complaints: Firstly the app is two expensive, since you just get something to look at but nothing "productive", meaning you can't generate your own data. The price also seems a little high since the application was available for OS X before and the code was probably reused. Secondly I miss the possibility of calculating hybrid orbitals which is present in the desktop app. This would be a useful extension! ### 4/5 — Very Good for Students and Teachers *2008-08-06, version 0* I wish I had something like this when I was in college. To those complaining about the price, not everything in life is free. My only gripe would be there is no way to pan out/zoom in. ### 4/5 — Pearls before the swine *2008-08-01, version 0* Pay no attention to those who obviously don’t have the intellect to understand or appreciate this product. Even if you have never solved the time independent Schrodinger equation for a central potential in three dimensions you can still enjoy this software. In essence, what it shows is the places where you would most likely find an electron in “orbit” around a hydrogen nucleus for the different energies the system can possess. Although this problem was mathematically solved early last century, methods of visualizing the complex mathematical functions as elegantly as simply as this are relatively new. Van Gogh’s Starry Night was painted a long time ago that doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful or isn’t important today. Ten dollars is inexpensive if you know what it takes to put something like this together. I would have paid double that. If you have done the math you will love this software. If you haven’t but you do have an open curious mind you can still appreciate it's beauty and maybe use it to inspire you to learn more about the fascinating subject of Quantum Mechanics. ### 4/5 — Nice but expensive *2008-07-23, version 0* Probably the app I show to people the most. That said, I don't admit how much I paid for it. Nice piece of technology here for visualizing complicated math. ### 4/5 — intriguing *2008-07-20, version 0* no clue really what it is, but I'm interested in learning more! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wonderful app - please update! *2017-09-19, version 1.0.7* I am they chemistry instructor and this app is immensely helpful for teaching about orbitals! PLEASE update it - it no longer works with iOS 11! ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2016-11-15, version 1.0.7* Love this visualization tool! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2013-11-19, version 1.0.7* It would be perfect if the app fills the iPhone 5 and 5s screen. It is only for 960x640 optimized. And maybe it can show more eigenstates like the iPad version. The new ios Hardware should have enough power. ### 5/5 — Beautiful physics visualization! *2011-06-01, version 1.0.6* This app takes the desktop version and brings it to iPhone, and it's just as spectacular! If you teach physics or chemistry, you NEED this app! ### 5/5 — Atom *2011-05-07, version 1.0.6* Great app! Most people have no idea what atoms actually look like mathematically. You can even add more shells and electrons for more complex atoms. Worth the 4.99 ### 5/5 — Physics is Gorgeous! *2011-04-04, version 1.0.6* This application awes any viewer with its beautifully rendered imagery, elegantly capturing how the quantum mechanical universe is symmetrical and unquestionably pleasing to our aesthetic natures. The equations show the intellectual depth and inspiration that moulded these ideas, from Bohr, Heisenberg, Bohm, Pauli, Dirac, Feynman, Schrödinger, Fermi, Einstein, Yukawa, Rutherford, Landau, Klein, Gordon, and the many other countless names that have contributed to quantum mechanics / quantum field theory, a triumph of humanity's tireless efforts to comprehend nature's music. Regardless of your experience with Lagrangians, wavefunctions, eigenvalues, and the many mathematical structures that illuminates the ideas of quantum mechanics, this application will enhance a student's imagination and very probably inspire curiosity to continue learning the physics behind these dynamic images. ### 5/5 — best app ever *2010-12-30, version 1.0.5* seriously. ### 5/5 — Needs to upgrade to iPad size! *2010-12-03, version 0* This is a wonderful app that I will be sharing with my class. I would really like it to have been developed for the size of the iPad's screen size though. ### 5/5 — Fun app *2010-02-20, version 0* Very cool program, and actually fairly useful too. The program shows psi as a magnitude and as a complex function with phase represented by color, which is useful for understanding chemical bonding, among other things. Not to mention it just looks really cool, even if you don't know exactly what it represents As for showing psi squared, there would be no point; it would look almost exactly the same as the black-and-white version. The depictions of wavefunctions in chemistry textbooks are stylized to be easier to visualize and draw overlapped (see Silberberg 2009). This program shows what the electron densities actually look like. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2010-02-02, version 0* This really is an amazing program. Mr. Godfrey showed it t us in AP chem and it was really cool to have a 3D model of what would normally be difficult to visualize. Great job. Only thing is it's awful expensive isn't it? --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-14.*