For Science! vs Light Speed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
For Science!
Enhance your board game experience with this companion app. It provides immersive audio, sound effects, and voice acting to bring the game's theme to life. Customize game length and difficulty for a personalized challenge.
- Real-time timer
- Thematic music
- Sound effects
- Voice acting
- Customizable difficulty
- Adjustable game length
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For Science!" is a real time board game about saving the world from disease. This companion app provides a timer, music, sound effects, and voice acting to immerse you in the theme of the "For Science!" and allows you to customize your preferred difficulty by adjusting the frequency of Events and the length of the game to your liking. This companion app is not a game and must be used with a physical copy of the "For Science" board game - published by Grey Fox Games.
Light Speed
This companion app enhances a physical board game by visualizing and resolving battles through photos. It requires the physical game and an internet connection to function.
- Battle visualization
- Battle resolution
- Photo analysis
- Companion app functionality
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Snap a picture of your Light Speed: Arena game and let the app visualize and resolve the battle for you! Note that this is a companion app for a physical board game: You need a copy of Light Speed: Arena to use it for its main purpose. An internet connection is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Light Speed at 100% against For Science!'s 50%. Light Speed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). For Science!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Light Speed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of For Science!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Light Speed's.
For Science! ships an update every 2 weeks, Light Speed every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | For Science! | Light Speed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 222 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Grey Fox Games | TABLESCOPE GmbH |
Customer experience
For Science!
Light Speed
In-app purchases
For Science!
No in-app purchases
Light Speed
No in-app purchases
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