DoodleConnect vs General Chemistry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DoodleConnect
Monitor your child's educational development across multiple learning applications. Stay informed about their achievements, progress through the curriculum, and receive real-time updates on their learning journey.
- Instant progress notifications
- View latest achievements
- Track stars earned
- Follow curriculum progress
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Track your child's progress across all four Doodle apps with DoodleConnect! With the help of DoodleConnect, you can get involved with your child's learning journey like never before. ▶ Key features • Receive instant notifications about their progress • View their latest achievements and see how many stars they've earned • Follow their progress through the curriculum DoodleConnect is free for all Doodle users, whether you have a home or school subscription.
General Chemistry
Access essential chemical data and powerful calculators for common chemistry tasks. Features an interactive periodic table with detailed element information and tools for balancing reactions, calculating pH, ideal gas properties, and molecular weights.
- Interactive periodic table
- Detailed element information
- Chemical reaction balancer
- pH calculator
- Ideal gas calculator
- Molecular weight calculator
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General Chemistry provides the most essential chemical data and calculators, such as interactive periodic table, chemical elements info, chemical reaction balancer, pH, ideal gas, Molecular Weight and mass percent calculators. The applications presents periodic table of chemical elements, that coloured with respect to the category they belong to. (Metals, Halogens, etc..) Each element can be selected and then pressing the “Element” bar button leads to detailed info page. Additionally the app provides calculators, that target the most common chemical tasks: Balancing chemical reaction equations. Estimation pH of strong and weak, monoprotic or polyprotic acid and base solutions. Ideal gas, pV=nRT, calculator with units conversions. Molecular weight and mass composition analysis. Important notes: Reaction Balancer and Molecular Analysis: Molecular formula format: charge, if exists, must be provided as well, separated by coma: Na,+ ; SO4,2- . Application supports state indexes: (g), (s), (l), (aq) – all are lowercase only, placed at the end of the compound formula. Valid examples: Mg(HCO3)2, CaCl2.2H2O, CaCl2*2H2O, (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2.6H2O, Mg(H2PO4)2, C6H12O6, Na, 2+(aq). Analyser is case sensitive. For stoichiometric analysis of chemical reaction please refer to “Stoichiometry”. pH Calculator: Tapping the first field (Acid Strong 1P) will select the type of the analysed acid or base. Acid Strong 1P – Acid monoprotic, that completely dissociates to electrolytes. Acid Weak 1P – Acid monoprotic, which dissociation is dictated by equilibrium constant Ka1. Acid Weak 2P -Acid biprotic, which dissociates by two stages defined by equilibrium constants Ka1 and Ka2. Base Weak 3P -Base triprotic, which dissociates by three stages defined by equilibrium constants Kb1, Kb2 and Kb2. Estimation of solution pH values is based on advanced quantitative chemical analysis which allows simultaneous calculation of all dissociation stages of acids and bases and water dissociation (Kw). The dissociation constants fields accept both formats: 1) pK values (-log(K)) and 2) regular K values, but only in a particular scientific format, which requires inclusion of exponential part “e” (for example: 1e-5 instead of 0.00001, or 2.5e0 instead of 2.5). Empty dissociation constant field would imply that this dissociation step is “strong” or complete. For acid – base titration and indicators please refer to “Acid Base pH”. Ideal Gas calculator: Fill data for all variables, except the one that must be derived. User can choose the most convenient units for input and output variable before calculation, so the output value will be adjusted for the required units. Touching the units field scrools through the available units.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DoodleConnect at Free against General Chemistry's $3.99. DoodleConnect also leads on ratings volume (56 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). General Chemistry's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
DoodleConnect is free to download; General Chemistry costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
General Chemistry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DoodleConnect has 56 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DoodleConnect ships an update every 2 months, General Chemistry monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DoodleConnect | General Chemistry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (56 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discovery Education Inc. | Roman Volinsky |
Customer experience
DoodleConnect
General Chemistry
Bugs and requests
DoodleConnect
Reported bugs
33 issues- Losing streak
- No synching between apps on different devices
- Not synching with Doodle Connect app
- Latest update ruined the app
- Can't understand children's results anymore
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- Lots of annoying little glitches
- Doesn't work on most devices
- App keeps switching off
- Update is not working
- Can't see message and screen freeze on tapping message icon
- Can't go back to view another sibling's account
- Lack accuracy
- Difficult to collate the information needed
- App won't work
- Doesn't really work
- Can only see one or none of children's progress
- Says child is on 0 day streak when they are not
- Too many glitches in system
- Doesn't record all points when signing in across different devices
- Parent app no longer works
- Last version defective
- Parent dashboard cannot log on
- Misleading info, doesn't relate to child's DM app
- Doodle Stars on DM different to parent area and parent app
- Cannot delete and reinstall because info is stored in the cloud
- Delay between parent app and DoodleMaths app
- Today's or yesterday's stars not showing in metrics
- Missing lots of data
- No longer works since update
- Latest version crap, glitchy
- Have to enter credentials regularly
- Live View never shows anything
- App is full of fundamental design flaws
Requested features
35 requests- Bring back old version
- More comprehensive initial test
- More challenging levels
- Option to add extra material for all students
- Better graphing options
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- See everything that is on the website within the app
- Add more data feed options
- Improve user experience
- Improve design
- Option to create graphs of all students
- Option to select metrics for graphing
- Improve Live View functionality
- Real-time syncing between apps and devices
- Fix streak issues
- Fix synching issues with Doodle Connect
- Allow multiple accounts under one login
- Make app more engaging after all questions are done
- Improve accuracy of reports
- Simplify setup process
- Offer combined order discounts
- Improve customer service responsiveness and helpfulness
- Fix login issues
- Improve accuracy of streaks and progress tracking
- Improve message viewing and replying
- Allow switching between sibling accounts easily
- Make app more user-friendly
- Bring back old app features
- Make app more interactive
- Improve data visualization
- Add dark mode
- Improve reporting accuracy
- Fix app freezing issues
- Improve parent app functionality
- Make app more intuitive
- Improve accuracy of Doodle Age
General Chemistry
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DoodleConnect
No in-app purchases
General Chemistry
No in-app purchases
Questions
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