BROKE vs PerioCalc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BROKE
Experience the challenges of poverty through a realistic simulation. Make critical life decisions as various characters facing financial hardship, dealing with simulated communications that reflect the stress of limited resources.
- Multiple character scenarios
- Realistic decision-making
- Simulated communication updates
- Stress simulation
- Educational gameplay
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Play Broke as a new college grad, a person experiencing homelessness, a rural farmer, an older adult, a migrant, or someone experiencing suburban poverty. Receive texts, emails, and news updates that force you to make real-life decisions in rapid-fire succession, simulating the brain-drain that comes from the stress of high-stakes decisions and not enough money to make ends meet.
PerioCalc
This educational tool assists dental students and professionals in understanding and applying the latest periodontal classification guidelines for staging and grading periodontitis and peri-implantitis. It offers instant results for case-based learning, focusing on the 2018 Classification.
- Periodontal classification learning
- Staging and grading of periodontitis
- Peri-implantitis classification
- Case-based learning tool
- Instant results
- Based on 2018 Classification
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Learn how to implement the new Periodontal Classification including staging and grading. The PerioCalc is an educational periodontal classification calculator that helps dental students and dentists understand what data to consider and how to use these for staging and grading of periodontitis and peri-implantitis consistent with the latest periodontal classification guidelines. The calculator is brief and efficient and provides an opportunity for case-based learning. Staging and grading is based on the 2018 Classification and results are returned instantly after data input. IMPORTANT NOTE: This calculator is an educational tool and should not be used for patient care, medical decisions or to substitute physician diagnosis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PerioCalc at every 3 months against BROKE's every 31 months. BROKE's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BROKE against 5.0 for PerioCalc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
BROKE ships an update every 31 months, PerioCalc every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BROKE | PerioCalc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Broke the Game, Inc. | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
Customer experience
BROKE
PerioCalc
In-app purchases
BROKE
No in-app purchases
PerioCalc
No in-app purchases
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