PhysQuiz vs Summatic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhysQuiz
Practice AQA GCSE Physics with over 800 multiple-choice questions covering the entire syllabus. Includes revision notes, hints, and progress tracking to identify weak areas and boost your grade. Collectible physicist cards add a fun element to your learning journey.
- 800+ multiple-choice questions
- Revision notes, hints, and tips
- Progress tracking
- Identify weak areas
- Collectible physicist cards
- Designed for AQA GCSE Physics
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Testing yourself is a fantastic way to learn - and fun! This app contains over 800 multiple choice questions from all aspects of the syllabus. It also has revision notes, hints and tips. Designed for combined and single subject AQA GCSE Physics courses. Using the app will test your knowledge and reasoning at all levels, and help you identify your weak areas. Continued use will boost your grade by consolidating and widening your existing knowledge - the foundation to all exam questions. See yourself advance with progress tracking, and check how far you need to go to the next level. Also, collect famous physicists collector's cards as you go. These are hidden behind certain questions. Once uncovered you can view these in the Gallery - there are 12 to collect, and get harder to find the further you progress!
Summatic
Master complex STEM concepts with interactive lessons and unlimited practice questions. Tailored for A-level, IB, GCSE, and university courses, this app offers step-by-step guidance and dynamic visualizations to enhance learning. Explore topics through clear explanations and engaging examples.
- Unlimited practice questions
- Step-by-step learning with feedback
- Interactive graphs and visualizations
- Easy navigation and search
- Tailored for various academic levels
- Exam board coverage
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Summatic is an app for STEM students, designed and developed by Cambridge academics. Clear explanations and interactive examples take you on step-by-step journeys through exam topics, so you can master difficult concepts easily. Our resources are tailored to school maths (A-level, IB, (I)GCSE with full exam board coverage), and university courses including economics, physical sciences, biosciences, and business courses, to help you learn exactly what you need to succeed in your course. Key features: Unlimited Practice Questions: Keep busy with authentic questions in a wide range of complex formats for advanced STEM subjects – including formulas, matrices, arguments, graphs, and more – are reliably evaluated by our technology. Step-by-Step Learning: If you get a question wrong, you can see feedback on your steps, you can try to correct your answer, you can see a full worked solution, and you can try again on a new randomized variant. Interactive Graphs: Bring complex concepts to life by dragging points to watch how graphs change. Dynamic animated graphs allow you to visualize tricky topics in statistics, geometry, and more. Easy Navigation: Topics and sub-topics are clearly categorised on the contents page. Use the search function to jump directly into a topic, and dive straight back into your work with recently viewed pages showing on the home screen. ...But don’t just take our word for it, download the app for a free 7-day trial and start practising questions now! Students: write to us and refer your school or university! And we’ll reach out to discuss integrating Summatic into your curriculum. Feedback and bug reports: If you encounter any technical issues, please use the feedback button in the app or email us at contact@summatic.co.uk for support. Always looking to improve, we are happy to listen to any feedback you may have!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Summatic at none against PhysQuiz's 1. Summatic also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). PhysQuiz's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1). 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. PhysQuiz sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Summatic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PhysQuiz against 5.0 for Summatic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PhysQuiz has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PhysQuiz ships an update every 6 weeks, Summatic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhysQuiz | Summatic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Melville | Summatic Ltd |
Customer experience
PhysQuiz
Summatic
Bugs and requests
PhysQuiz
Requested features
6 requests- Make all content free
- Add written questions
- Develop full-screen iPad version
- Break down units into sub-units
- Branch out to maths quiz
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- Add difficulty rating for questions
Summatic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PhysQuiz
- PhysQuiz Pro$3.99
Summatic
No in-app purchases









