Comparison

History Matters vs Deep Time Earth

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

Head to head
About

History Matters

Features
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This app allows access to all of the content of the unique collections on A*Star Education Ltd's History Matters website, on almost every iOS device. History Matters’ goal is to provide teachers with engaging materials for classroom lessons and students with a huge resource of further reading on historical events, including detailed historical narrative, interactive timelines, original source material, eye-witness accounts, maps, photographs and illustrations. Students can view ebooks, presentations, timelines and flash cards for all of the historical periods covered, from the Romans and Roman Britain to the twentieth century and the First World War, on their iPhones or iPads, or iPod Touch. The bookshelves include specially commissioned books suitable for primary and secondary schools, and certain GCSE textbooks for the 2017 history curriculum in the UK. Teachers can carry their lessons and resources to show their classes in their pockets. Using an Apple TV (and an HDMI connection), a lesson can be delivered on an interactive whiteboard from an iPhone or iPad, without needing a projector or an internet connection (once content is downloaded a login to the service is only required every 7 days), with seamless switching between all types of media in the collections.

About

Deep Time Earth

Features
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Deep Time Earth shows you how the Earth has changed over time due to tectonic action. View how the Earth looked over the last 540 million years. Select different times manually (in 5 million year increments) or let the app automatically run through time - forwards or backwards. Spin the globe around to see what happens in different locations. Deep Time Earth uses PALEOMAP Paleodigital Elevation Models (PaleoDEMS) from a study by Christopher Scotese and Dr Nicky Wright. Learn more about this data at EarthByte: https://www.earthbyte.org/paleodem-resource-scotese-and-wright-2018/

Screenshots

History Matters4 screens
Deep Time Earth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: History Matters at 8.0 against Deep Time Earth's 26.4. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
History Matters versus Deep Time Earth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHistory MattersDeep Time Earth
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS8.0 β€” better26.4
Further details β€” not scored
Size33 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperA Star Education LtdMark Bush

In-app purchases

None

History Matters

No in-app purchases

None

Deep Time Earth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is History Matters free?
History Matters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deep Time Earth free?
Deep Time Earth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do History Matters or Deep Time Earth have ads?
Neither History Matters nor Deep Time Earth shows ads.

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