Comparison

BioDive vs CloudLabs Sending Messages

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

Head to head
About

BioDive

Immerse yourself in virtual reality marine biology expeditions. Students act as scientists, exploring diverse ocean ecosystems, collecting data, and documenting their findings in a digital journal to understand environmental impacts.

Highlights
  • Virtual reality ocean exploration
  • Scientific inquiry and data collection
  • Digital science journal
  • Collaboration with peers
  • Hypothesis formation
  • Diverse marine ecosystems
Features
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In BioDive, students are marine biologists who travel to international dive locations in VR. They will study the impact of abiotic factors on biotic factors across diverse marine ecosystems and then document their learning in their digital science journals in the companion website. As students move through the experience, they go between their own personal digital science journal (https://biodive.killersnails.com/) and expeditions in the field, including the Eastern Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Indo-Pacific Oceans. They make observations, collect data, collaborate with fellow scientists, and synthesize their knowledge to write formal hypotheses about the impact of variables on changes to different ocean ecosystems. Players must have access to the digital science journal to view more than the first scene. BioDive was developed by a team of science teachers and scientists to model the process of scientific inquiry and discovery. Students use their devices to make observations and use their laptops to manipulate data and synthesize observations to demonstrate learning. This game was created by an award-winning team co-founded by a practicing marine biochemist. BioDive was developed with support from the National Science Foundation!

About

CloudLabs Sending Messages

Features
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In this simulation, you are in charge of a time camera, which is used to send alert messages to different times in order to prevent events that could impact history from happening. This must be accomplished using three different modes of communication, such as telegraph, letter, and telephone. Use your imagination to send the right message though the right means.

Screenshots

BioDive3 screens
CloudLabs Sending Messages1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CloudLabs Sending Messages at 10.0 against BioDive's 12.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BioDive versus CloudLabs Sending Messages: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBioDiveCloudLabs Sending Messages
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size372 MB432 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKiller SnailsJiovany Orozco

In-app purchases

None

BioDive

No in-app purchases

None

CloudLabs Sending Messages

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BioDive free?
BioDive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CloudLabs Sending Messages free?
CloudLabs Sending Messages is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BioDive or CloudLabs Sending Messages have ads?
Neither BioDive nor CloudLabs Sending Messages shows ads.

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