Comparison

Rocket Lab vs Draw A Rocket Lite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Rocket Lab

Design, build, and launch virtual rockets as a rocket engineer. Make critical decisions about components like propellant and control systems to ensure mission success. Explore suborbital, orbital, and escape velocity missions with this educational simulation.

Highlights
  • Design virtual rockets
  • Choose rocket components
  • Personalize rocket name
  • Launch and observe flight
  • Modify for mission success
  • Explore different mission types
Features
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What does it take to be a rocket scientist? You are a rocket engineer for a space exploration company. Your job is to design a series of rockets and attempt suborbital, orbital, and escape velocity missions. Successfully designing and launching a rocket into space is extremely difficult, expensive, and full of tough choices. Rocket components such as shape, propellant, control system, and staging affect the way a rocket flies. With each new mission, you must take into consideration each component’s reliability, cost, and performance. Have you chosen a powerful enough propellant? Is your control system prone to high failure rates? Failure is not an option here! The decisions you make will directly affect the success or failure of your rocket – and your space exploration company – because this is rocket science. With the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Rocket Lab, you can: - Build a virtual rocket by choosing its shape, number of stages, propellant, and control mechanism - Personalize your rocket with your name - Launch your rocket and watch how well it flies - Modify your rocket to test out different combinations and achieve mission success

About

Draw A Rocket Lite

Explore the galaxy and develop your drawing skills by creating rockets and vehicles. This version features spacemen, rockets, and moon-buggies to draw and drive across alien worlds. It's designed by educators to foster creativity and online safety for children.

Highlights
  • Develop drawing confidence
  • Explore the galaxy
  • Draw spacemen, rockets, and moon-buggies
  • Drive vehicles to alien worlds
  • Child-friendly design
  • Focus on online safety
Features
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Develop drawing confidence as you explore the galaxy. Lite version showcases spaceman, rocket & moon-buggies to draw and drive to two alien worlds. In the full version draw your way past aliens, lasers and fire pits whilst using your problem solving skills! In space you need to be creative to survive!! The MadeByEducators Project design apps with children we know in mind. As educators we are committed to maintaining a high level of online safety for children, parents and teachers. We are upfront about what our apps contain, so there are no hidden surprises. Child friendly apps - No in-app purchases - No third-party advertising - No social media integration - No collection or sharing of personal information

Screenshots

Draw A Rocket Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Draw A Rocket Lite at 67% against Rocket Lab's 23%. Draw A Rocket Lite also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.9) and device support (3 vs 1). Rocket Lab's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Draw A Rocket Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Rocket Lab's written reviews are positive against 67% of Draw A Rocket Lite's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rocket Lab versus Draw A Rocket Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRocket LabDraw A Rocket Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (13 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.1% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better6
Update frequency—Every 21 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmithsonian Institutionmadebyeducators

Customer experience

Rocket Lab

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral15.4%
Negative61.5%

Draw A Rocket Lite

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Rocket Lab

No in-app purchases

None

Draw A Rocket Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rocket Lab free?
Rocket Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Draw A Rocket Lite free?
Draw A Rocket Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rocket Lab or Draw A Rocket Lite?
Draw A Rocket Lite is rated higher. Rocket Lab averages 2.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Draw A Rocket Lite averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Rocket Lab or Draw A Rocket Lite have ads?
Neither Rocket Lab nor Draw A Rocket Lite shows ads.

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