Comparison

Science 8 vs CloudLabs Measuring Tools

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

CloudLabs Measuring Tools

Features
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In this practice, you are going to tidy up a laboratory, starting with objects that must be stored in places with specific measurements. To place them in the right place, these objects must be measured using three instruments that will be built during the practice. These instruments will allow measuring length, surface and capacity respectively.

Screenshots

Science 84 screens
CloudLabs Measuring Tools1 screens

Verdict

The call

Science 8 and CloudLabs Measuring Tools are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Science 8 versus CloudLabs Measuring Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScience 8CloudLabs Measuring Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB177 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperIdeateGamesJiovany Orozco

In-app purchases

None

Science 8

No in-app purchases

None

CloudLabs Measuring Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Science 8 free?
Science 8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CloudLabs Measuring Tools free?
CloudLabs Measuring Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Science 8 or CloudLabs Measuring Tools have ads?
Neither Science 8 nor CloudLabs Measuring Tools shows ads.

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