# Periodic Table — user reviews > 132 indexed App Store user reviews of Periodic Table by Royal Society of Chemistry, rated 4.30/5 from 184 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/periodic-table/id1019468967/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/periodic-table/id1019468967.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 127 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Periodic Table? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Informative and detailed - 👍 Intuitive and easy to use - 📚 Excellent educational resource - 🎨 Colorful and visually appealing - 🆓 Free and ad-free **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🔌 Requires internet connectivity - 🔍 Limited search functionality - 🖥️ Needs optimization for newer devices - 🚫 Videos frequently crash or freeze **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when using filters - Videos stop playing after a few seconds - Swipe-to-close gesture not working on iPhone X - Periodic table not displaying properly on some devices **Most requested features** - Add valence electron information - Improve offline functionality - Expand search capabilities - Optimize for iPad and iPad Pro - Add more filters and customization options ## Newest reviews (11 of 132) ### 2/5 — The videos don’t work *2025-04-07, version 1.5* The videos don’t work and it’s just audio ### 2/5 — Informative, but awkward to use *2022-05-07, version 1.5* I was excited to get it out from the royal Society of chemistry, but the app is very awkward to use, keeps reminding me that it needs a connection to the Internet, and will not swipe off the screen when finished ### 4/5 — Love this App *2021-12-08* I love this app, but could you include an option for an organic chemistry periodic table. That would be amazing, and would help zone out the extra info. ### 3/5 — App doesn’t quit *2021-03-16, version 1.4* Swipe up doesn’t close the app on iphone12 running 14.4. Have to turn phone off to get rid of it. ### 4/5 — I love this app but needs just 1 fix *2021-01-27* I love this app but just needs a fix. The app keeps crashing for about 10 minutes and it annoys me. Can you please fix that for me, please? Thanks for reading my review, bye. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2021-01-17, version 1.4* brilliant app! I really liked it and spent quite a time exploring different features! ### 5/5 — Colourful like Jarvis *2020-10-30, version 1.4* Very nice ### 5/5 — The app is colourful *2020-10-29, version 1.4* This app is very colourful like Jarvis watts ### 5/5 — Excellent app! *2020-08-20, version 1.4* I absolutely love this app! Would be nice to see more information on various elements, but this app is free! Thank you, developers. ### 5/5 — Excellent reference tool *2020-06-25, version 1.4* An excellent reference tool. The app works really well and is well laid out. ### 4/5 — Some details are odd. *2020-05-09, version 1.4* I mostly like this app, but looking at the description of Mercury, it states it was named after the planet Mercury! NO! Methinks it was Mercury the winged messenger of the gods, which the planet is also named after! Mercury was also known as quicksilver. An odd detail, but otherwise the app is great. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No longer really works *2025-11-23* I have been using this app for a long time but had a gap of a few years and apparently missed when all of the features broke. I now get a message telling me that the app needs network connectivity, but nothing ever loads. Videos are broken, too, and require opening outside of the app to function correctly. I hope that it gets updated to recover the functionality it used to have. ### 1/5 — Almost functional. *2025-09-16, version 1.5* After clicking an element picture and the app is allowed to connect to internet, the app spins and nothing loads. YouTube links also hangup on iOS. ### 1/5 — Elements spelt wrong *2024-08-28, version 1.5* Silly British, Cs is spelt Cesium, not Caesium. Get better spelling ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-06-12, version 1.5* Freezes. Doesn’t function properly. Used to work great. Not anymore. Booo. ### 1/5 — Forced to download it by my teacher *2022-01-06, version 1.5* It is all right tho ### 1/5 — Was good... *2021-01-22, version 1.4* This was a great app. Now it just crashes at startup. Given last update was 3 years ago it may not be compatible with the latest iOS ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2020-12-22, version 1.4* The App immediately quits on the latest iOS on the ipad. ### 1/5 — Chicken wings *2020-12-11, version 1.4* Terrible🤧 ### 1/5 — READ THIS *2020-09-25, version 1.4* My son is 18 and I’m 12 ### 1/5 — App crashes *2019-12-11, version 1.4* Great idea, poor execution. If you try to watch a video app crashes every time after a few seconds. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Many Thanks *2022-09-01* I teach The Element of the Day as a classroom bell-ringer. This app will save me months otherwise searching sites for etymology, history, sources, and practical uses. Literally an Au mine. ### 5/5 — Message for the Developers. *2022-06-14* Your app is sooo EXCELLENT 👌👌! The videos in the app are the same vids I watch on TV. If the Developers are the video publishers, Thank you, this is the best find out of all the app results. Amen ### 5/5 — Simple, intuitive, awesome *2022-06-08* Super simple, yet full of detail. No infuriating ads, but still free to use. Overall an amazing app. It’s design is very intuitive and info-rich, but its information density somehow doesn’t make it feel cluttered, distracting, intimidating, or confusing. It doesn’t make you look at the atomic mass or anything like that if you don’t need to. It’s still there, but it’s not in-your-face there, if you know what I mean. It’s stable, lightweight, and incredibly helpful. I never know when I—a nerd—will need quick access to a periodic table for whatever reason. I don’t want to have to search for a lo-res image of a periodic table online. I want a free and ad-free, simple but not restrictive, and available to use offline. This app *easily* does all of that. ### 5/5 — Brilliant app! *2022-05-30, version 1.5* Amazing! ### 5/5 — Thanks god *2021-10-28, version 1.5* I am a chemistry student, and this is super useful for me comparing to other periodic table App, it shows a lot of details like ionisation energy, spdf blocks, and electronic configurations,thank you! ### 5/5 — Works well *2021-10-27, version 1.5* Works well still in 2021 on iOS 13.7. Some chemistry apps require iOS 14, so it’s great to see the RSC being sensible and not demanding the latest and greatest just because it’s there. Very well done! ### 5/5 — Good app *2021-09-13, version 1.5* Colourful like Nathan Smith ### 5/5 — Excellent *2021-06-26, version 1.4* Easy to use. Provides lots of information. Great app. ### 5/5 — Miners *2021-03-20, version 1.4* I love ITTTTTTTTTTTT NO ADS ### 5/5 — Wow *2021-02-05, version 1.4* It’s free and teaches you a ton like I know the all the elements off by heart now --- *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 2026-07-04.*