Waltzing Atoms vs iORA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Waltzing Atoms
Explore the molecular world of chemistry through interactive exercises and animated 3D reactions. Solve puzzles to understand chemical structures and reactions, discovering chemistry facts along the way. This app is designed for students to learn chemistry playfully.
- Animated 3D chemical reactions
- Interactive exercises
- Molecule and crystal completion
- Chemistry facts discovery
- Student and educator connection
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Discover the molecular world of chemistry playfully with the freely available Waltzing Atoms app. Chemistry is a fascinating adventure - but how does the tiny world of atoms work? Understand chemical reactions and structures by playfully solving little exercises. Revolutionary animated 3D-reactions let you take care of the correct charge transfer. Additionally: complete molecules and crystals to discover interesting chemistry facts - but take care, one wrong atom can make a poison! The Waltzing Atoms mobile app has been released by a Vienna-based software team that is all crazy about chemistry and the digital classroom revolution. Find out more about the future of digital education on www.waltzingatoms.com Note: This is the student app and can be connected with the educator web-app for full digital classroom experience.
iORA
Visualize chemical reactions in 3D using quantum-mechanical simulations. This free, interactive application makes complex chemistry concepts accessible and engaging for learners.
- 3D chemical reaction visualization
- Quantum-mechanical simulations
- Interactive learning
- Easy to use interface
- Educational tool
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iORA is a free, easy to use, highly interactive smartphone application that provides 3D visualization of chemical reactions based on quantum-mechanical simulations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iORA at 100% against Waltzing Atoms's 50%. iORA also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Waltzing Atoms's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
iORA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iORA has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Waltzing Atoms's written reviews are positive against 100% of iORA's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Waltzing Atoms | iORA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 3DataX GmbH & Co KG | Daniel Ess |
Customer experience
Waltzing Atoms
iORA
In-app purchases
Waltzing Atoms
No in-app purchases
iORA
No in-app purchases
