Efficient
Awesome product thank you
Great app for teaching
I use this app in the classroom to show conformational energies, orbitals, charge distribution, IR and NMR etc
Students love it.
App works by drawing a structure and if it's on the company server it downloads all available data.
Current iPads, A10 chips and later, can easily perform most quantum chemistry calculations at the semiempirical, HF and DFT levels, it would be great if the developer included the possibility of performing actual calculations on the iPad using a ARM compiled version of QChem and the GUI of this app.
Please bring a version of the real SPARTAN to the iPad !!!!!
Students love it.
App works by drawing a structure and if it's on the company server it downloads all available data.
Current iPads, A10 chips and later, can easily perform most quantum chemistry calculations at the semiempirical, HF and DFT levels, it would be great if the developer included the possibility of performing actual calculations on the iPad using a ARM compiled version of QChem and the GUI of this app.
Please bring a version of the real SPARTAN to the iPad !!!!!
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Really Cool, But Incomplete
This app is amazing, however in order to access the extended database you must purchase the parallel suite for your computer and submit your sketch remotely. The parallel suite is costly, and it is difficult to find a way to buy an individual student use version on the website.
Organic Chemistry Student
Well, this is my new favorite app, EVER. I use spartan at the university, but I didn’t expect the app to be as good as it is. It gives spectra for molecules and even demonstrates what the stretch/bend looks like on the molecule if you hover over an absorption/peak value. What?? Crazy! Easy to use, definitely worth money!! (I’ve been sitting here sketching/evaluating molecules with this app for the last 5hrs), this is awesome! Would absolutely recommend it.
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Frustrating to use
I had to obtain this for a class and do not think my professor knew how much of a pain the app is. Some of the issues I have had are: to add a ring you have to tap multiple times (certain my phone is not the issue), you are only allowed to go back once, multiple taps needed to delete anything (there is tremendous room for improvement when it comes to precision), also it is unclear if the lone e- symbol represents an e- pair or is a single e-, and there are no instructional videos for the app on YouTube or spartans website. I think once these issues are fixed it will be an awesome app but for now it is very frustrating to use and time consuming. To professors it would be better to require students to obtain the pc version because the app is not well developed and lacks instructional resources.
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Disappointed
Paid for the app but difficult to work with. Wish I had not paid for it. I prefer the orange NMR for free for what I needed to do. Would not recommend.
Awesome Deal
iSpartan gives you a ton of features for a pretty cheap price. I use this app to show functional groups in 3D in my undergraduate organic lectures. The computed IR spectra, while they don't resemble what you would observe from an instrument, assign the various stretching modes to each bond type. This really is cool for demonstrating to a class why IR is useful. The NMR predictions are nice as well for showing why hydrogens and carbons have different chemical shifts. I recommend this app to anyone learning or teaching organic chemistry.
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Powerful App @ your fingertips!
I could write a whole page if I wanted praising this software as it's by far one of the best apps I've ever used. But limited by time & space, all I'll say is if you're serious about chemistry, everything I own by Wavefunction is of the highest quality and a MUST HAVE! Every penny they ask for is worth it as these folks have gone above & beyond your wildest expectations. Ease of use & incredible accuracy can't be duplicated anywhere for what these folks ask for. As a 2nd year Organic Chemistry major, this software has taught me almost more than my instructors, & has definitely reinforced my learning. Most folks are visual & trust me, this is eye-candy! Highly recommend, you won't be disappointed. Reading some of the negative comments are completely wrong & lead me to believe they don't have this software or have ever used it. You will be impressed!!
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One cool app
Nice app that actually works. Nice to show IR bands and show conformer analysis.
Best Molecular Modeling App
It’s superb for structure building and display. There are some other cool features too. I highly recommend this app.
Meh
Good depth of info but user interface is lacking. Crashes often, graphics very pixelated. Not the quality one would expect for the hefty price tag. Definitely not satisfied.
It's Great and Easy to Use
I have used a number of different molecular modeling programs in the teaching of chemistry at both the high school and college level. Chemistry tends to be one of those sciences that students find a bit abstract because you are dealing with concepts that students have difficulty visualizing. iSpartan allows students to construct molecules, manipulate them, and gather information like bond angles and bond lengths. Students can view molecules in a variety of formats and get a feeling for electron distribution in the molecule. If you want, you can email the molecule you have constructed to yourself in Spartan 10 format and actually create a QuickTime movie that you can include in a PowerPoint or ActivInspire flipchart, students love that. It is a great classroom tool, and it truly gets the students involved in some solid chemistry.
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Excellent Implementation!
I've used several computational chemistry packages, including Spartan on a Macintosh, for years. Spartan has always had one of the easiest to use interfaces for entering chemical structures and setting up calculations. I was afraid an iPhone screen would be too small to work well for drawing complex molecules, but Wavefunction not only implemented their interface well on the iPhone, but it is in some ways easier to use! The standard iPhone move of pinching to shrink or expand a molecule, for instance, is much more intuitive than holding down the Command and Option keys as you mouse up or down. My standard extreme test for sketching a small molecule, dodecahedrane, is tricky, but doable.
The tool pallet is a little cramped on the iPhone screen (at least on my 3GS), but works well. It helps to already be familiar with what Spartan can do, so you know what capabilities to look for.
Keep in mind that the iSpartan App only has the ability to do Molecular Mechanics calculations (with the MMFF force field) itself, unless you also buy the iSpartan server to run on your Mac or PC. They do include the results of higher level calculations, however, for a large subset of their database of precalculated results, so you can visualize orbitals, surfaces, and spectra for many molecules you may be interested in without the server. They seem to have made a good compromise between the size of the database to include, and storage space on the iPhone: the App takes up 168 MB, which is sizable, but significantly smaller than the Audubon Guide to North American Trees, for instance.
The tool pallet is a little cramped on the iPhone screen (at least on my 3GS), but works well. It helps to already be familiar with what Spartan can do, so you know what capabilities to look for.
Keep in mind that the iSpartan App only has the ability to do Molecular Mechanics calculations (with the MMFF force field) itself, unless you also buy the iSpartan server to run on your Mac or PC. They do include the results of higher level calculations, however, for a large subset of their database of precalculated results, so you can visualize orbitals, surfaces, and spectra for many molecules you may be interested in without the server. They seem to have made a good compromise between the size of the database to include, and storage space on the iPhone: the App takes up 168 MB, which is sizable, but significantly smaller than the Audubon Guide to North American Trees, for instance.
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rather limited
brilliant idea, implementation a bit limited. The sketcher is rather clunky, but the major limitation is access to only very limited molecules via the cloud. 5000 might sound like a lot, but many basic heterocycles are missing. capturing images of the molecule is useful, however the what you see is not what you get. Hard to see me using this for anything real. quite disappointing for the price.
If the above were addressed this would be 4 or 5 star.
If the above were addressed this would be 4 or 5 star.
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