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.
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.
- Design virtual rockets
- Choose rocket components
- Personalize rocket name
- Launch and observe flight
- Modify for mission success
- Explore different mission types
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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
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.
- Develop drawing confidence
- Explore the galaxy
- Draw spacemen, rockets, and moon-buggies
- Drive vehicles to alien worlds
- Child-friendly design
- Focus on online safety
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Rocket Lab | Draw A Rocket Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (13 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smithsonian Institution | madebyeducators |
Customer experience
Rocket Lab
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In-app purchases
Rocket Lab
No in-app purchases
Draw A Rocket Lite
No in-app purchases
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