Comparison

Science 8 vs Magic Monday

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive molecular activity demonstration
  • Density and buoyancy simulation
  • Comprehensive science practice tests
  • Category building exercises
  • Statistics exploration tool
  • Food web population dynamics simulation
Features
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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.

About

Magic Monday

Explore science weekly with over 300 activities, facts, and profiles of scientists. Designed by teachers, this app makes learning about the world engaging and accessible in just 5 minutes.

Highlights
  • 300+ science activities
  • Profiles of famous scientists
  • Fun science facts
  • Career opportunities in STEM
  • New 3D Solar System
  • Promotes women in STEM
  • Next Generation Science Standards alignment
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Blow your mind once a week with over 300+ science activities, famous scientists, fun facts, career opportunities, and more! In 5 minutes you can open Magic Monday, choose your science (Physical, Earth, or Life) and learn something amazing! This app will helping you understand how the world - and universe - around you works! Magic Monday has been developed independently by real science teachers for science education in and out of the classroom. This is a fun, hands on, and easy way to learn about the universe we live in, the Earth we live on, and even life itself. So check it out! We are working on future updates, and always adding more content for our users. THIS APP INCLUDES • NEW 3D Solar System! • 300+ activities, scientists, fun facts, careers, dates, tools, locations, and sad stories. • Promoting women in STEM. • Next Generation Science Standards. • NASA's current events. • Guided socratic questions for academic and personal use. OUR STORY This story begins with a teacher who loved science. They found elementary schools often unrepresented science compared to the math and english giants. So they came up with Magic Monday to spend just 5-10 mins every week conducting experiments and fun labs for their students. This helped them become critical thinkers and better prepared them for their future education. Students were soon saying they waited all weekend excited for the next Magic Monday! That original idea combined with famous scientists, mind blowing fun facts, inspirational career opportunities and much more has led to the everything science app you see in front of you! YOUR PRIVACY You'll be happy to hear we do not sell any of your information to third parties! There are no adds, pop-ups, or features you have to pay for after the initial purchase. INACCURACIES AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS As science educators we have a very busy schedule! If you notice any information that is WRONG (not just overly simplified), or clear grammatical errors, please email us directly at the contact information below. Our email can also be found by tapping MAGIC MONDAY on the apps home screen! We always try our best to have accurate and up to date information, but as you will learn though the app, we are only human! YOUR SUGGESTIONS If YOU have some easy activities, names of historical scientists, names of women in science, interesting fun facts, inspirational career opportunities, legendary tools, historic locations, important dates, or sad stories of science you would like to share and help teach others about, then please send us an email about it! If we don't already have it in our system then you might see it in a future update! Email: MagicMondayScience@gmail.com

Screenshots

Science 84 screens
Magic Monday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Science 8 at 5.0 against Magic Monday's 4.2. Science 8 also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.3). Magic Monday's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). 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

Science 8 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Science 8 ships an update every 3 months, Magic Monday every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Science 8 versus Magic Monday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScience 8Magic Monday
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.3
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB148 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIdeateGamesATOM LLC

Customer experience

Science 8

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Magic Monday

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Science 8

No in-app purchases

None

Magic Monday

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Science 8 free?
Science 8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Monday free?
Magic Monday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Science 8 or Magic Monday?
Science 8 is rated higher. Science 8 averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Magic Monday averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Science 8 or Magic Monday have ads?
Neither Science 8 nor Magic Monday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Science 8 or Magic Monday?
Science 8 ships an update every 3 months, and Magic Monday every 2 months. Most recently, Science 8 was updated on November 13, 2026 and Magic Monday on November 11, 2026.

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