Comparison

ElevateScience 6 vs HMH Go

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

Head to head
About

ElevateScience 6

This educational app helps middle school students master key science vocabulary from a specific program. It offers interactive flashcards and a voice recording feature for pronunciation practice, allowing students to learn at their own pace with text and audio support.

Highlights
  • Key term flashcards
  • Voice recording for pronunciation practice
  • Text and audio support
  • Self-paced learning
  • Study science vocabulary
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This powerful app from Savvas enables students to quickly learn the key terms and definitions of the ElevateScience 6-8 program. Students can study ready-made flashcards with key terms and definitions. The text and audio support empowers students to learn their way and at their own pace. And, the voice recording feature allows students to practice, record, and playback their pronunciation of the key Science terms and definitions. FEATURES • Flashcards that challenge students to master key Science terms and definitions. • Built in Voice Recorder that lets students record their pronunciation, and then play back for review.

About

HMH Go

This app provides K-12 students with on-the-go access to educational content from HMH's core curricula. It allows for offline learning, downloading materials, and utilizing media-rich features like read-along audio and annotations.

Highlights
  • Offline content access
  • Downloadable learning materials
  • Read-along audio
  • Annotations and highlighting
  • Bookmark functionality
  • Content management and filtering
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HMH Go™ extends K-12 students’ learning beyond the classroom – offering on-the-go learning, regardless of device or connectivity. This app serves as a companion app to HMH’s core curricula on Ed: Your Friend in Learning® – allowing students to download HMH content and work offline. Simply use your HMH® user name and password to access intuitive, connected learning. Check out some of the ways HMH Go™ lets you enjoy a seamless, offline experience: • Provides select content from Ed: Your Friend in Learning® • Offers media-rich features including read-along audio, annotations, highlighting book-marking - online AND offline – with much more to come! • Allows users to download materials from an individual resource to a larger unit of learning • Enables users to easily manage and filter their downloads **Note: HMH Content cannot be purchased via this app, it is an application for educational institutions to access HMH Content they have purchased and licensed from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Screenshots

ElevateScience 64 screens
HMH Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HMH Go at every 4 months against ElevateScience 6's every 37 months. HMH Go also leads on ratings volume (80 vs 9) and device support (4 vs 2). ElevateScience 6's advantage is rating (2.4 vs 2.1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

ElevateScience 6 holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HMH Go has 80 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of ElevateScience 6's written reviews are positive against 22% of HMH Go's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ElevateScience 6 ships an update every 37 months, HMH Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ElevateScience 6 versus HMH Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElevateScience 6HMH Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (9 ratings) — better2.1 (80 ratings)
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews — better22.2% of reviews
Number of ratings980 — better
Update frequencyEvery 37 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavvas Learning Company LLCHoughton Mifflin Harcourt

Customer experience

ElevateScience 6

All ratings8 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

HMH Go

All ratings71 ratings
Positive26.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative69.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative72.2%

In-app purchases

None

ElevateScience 6

No in-app purchases

None

HMH Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ElevateScience 6 free?
ElevateScience 6 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HMH Go free?
HMH Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ElevateScience 6 or HMH Go?
ElevateScience 6 is rated higher. ElevateScience 6 averages 2.4 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while HMH Go averages 2.1 from 80 ratings.
Do ElevateScience 6 or HMH Go have ads?
Neither ElevateScience 6 nor HMH Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ElevateScience 6 or HMH Go?
ElevateScience 6 ships an update every 37 months, and HMH Go every 4 months. Most recently, ElevateScience 6 was updated on November 2, 2026 and HMH Go on November 3, 2026.

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