BOT 6th vs Science 8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BOT 6th
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Get ahead of the game and on your way to being a champion! Best of Texas Contest's 6th-8th Grade Science app helps you prepare for the Texas UIL 6th-8th Grade Science contest. Use flashcards in the Study mode to learn scientific facts, principles and processes, then take a quiz to test your knowledge. A fun and convenient way to practice for the 6th-8th Grade UIL Science contest. Access to full content requires a subscription. A school-year subscription gives you access to the current school year data for the UIL 6th-8th Grade Science contest.
Science 8
This app offers interactive tools and practice tests to help middle school students visualize and understand key science concepts. It includes simulations for density, molecular activity, and population dynamics, along with practice tests covering various science subjects.
- Interactive molecular activity demonstration
- Density and buoyancy simulation
- Comprehensive science practice tests
- Category building exercises
- Statistics exploration tool
- Food web population dynamics simulation
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These are a few tools for helping visualize middle school science. I spent a year volunteer tutoring middle school (grade 8) science students. While doing that, I created an app with a few simple demonstrations and practice tests to help them. The modules included were those that illustrated or helped practice the concepts my students had trouble either understanding or remembering. The test module contains every test the students took. Hot Molecules is an interactive demonstration of the effects of heating and cooling on molecular activity. Will it float? is an interactive lab simulation for determining density. Questions is a test-practice module for all subjects thus far covered (phase changes, heat transfer, density, atoms, molecules, reactions, atmosphere). Buckets is a category builder to help understand grouping of like things on arbitrary traits Which is Bigger? is an interactive statistics exploration, showing how much overlap there is between categories and how important sample size is. How do population dynamics of the species populations in a food web interact? Play with the simulation and ecological and human-introduced factors. Watch out for natural disasters! Other demonstrations and test topics are added periodically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Science 8 at every 3 months against BOT 6th's every 11 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BOT 6th ships an update every 11 months, Science 8 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on December 25, 2025 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BOT 6th | Science 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peggy Markham | IdeateGames |
In-app purchases
BOT 6th
No in-app purchases
Science 8
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do BOT 6th or Science 8 have ads?
Which is updated more often, BOT 6th or Science 8?
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