Comparison

Unreal Chemist vs Kerotakis

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

Head to head
About

Unreal Chemist

Explore a virtual chemistry lab on your phone. Mix chemicals, observe reactions, and conduct over 750 unique simulations with more than 150 available substances. Adjust variables like temperature and concentration to understand chemical principles.

Highlights
  • Mix chemicals for reactions
  • Burn salts for colorful flames
  • Heat elements for color emission
  • Adjust reactant concentration and quantity
  • Regulate reaction temperature
  • Control time flow (slow/fast forward)
  • Monitor pH changes with indicators
Features
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Chemistry experiments on your smartphones. You can Mix chemicals to see how they react, Burn salts to colorful flames and Heat elements to see what colors it emits There are 150 plus chemicals available to experiment with and more than 750 unique experiment simulations. Key Highlights - Adjusting the concentration and quantity of the reactants. - Regulate the temperature of the reaction. - Modify temperatures in precipitation reactions and see the effect of temperatures on solubility. - Slow down / Fast forward time. - Check the PH and PH change in a reaction, using Indicators. - Ignite flammable gases formed during reaction. Disclaimer Some reactions you will be doing in Unreal Chemist are extremely dangerous and may cause serious injury if conducted in real word. Even though most of the reactions are accurate to the real world, some reactions may be theoretical since physical verification of some reactions are not completed as of now.

About

Kerotakis

Features
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Kerotakis is a virtual chemistry laboratory that computes real chemistry. Drag reagents onto drawn glassware and a real aqueous-equilibrium solver answers. Nothing in it is a lookup table: every number comes out of a thermodynamic database at run time, which means the bench can do something a textbook cannot — show you a model working, and then show you the same model failing. WHAT IT COMPUTES • Dissolution and precipitation against actual solubility limits. Eight moles of salt in a litre of water leaves about 1.9 undissolved, because that is what the equilibrium says. • Acids and bases from charge balance — strong, weak, polyprotic through every pKa, and buffers that resist acid where plain water crashes. • Titration curves walked with a burette, to the equivalence point and past it. • Gas boundaries you choose: vent to the room, seal the vessel, regulate the pressure, or sweep with nitrogen. Pressure, volume, energy and the mass balance all answer to the constraint. • Heats of reaction that move the thermometer, so calcium chloride is a hot pack and potassium chloride a cold one. • The activity series decided by Nernst over computed potentials — including the refusals, like copper shrugging off acid. • Separations: filter a precipitate off, evaporate a brine to crystals, distil a mixture. THREE LEVELS, ONE SIMULATION A register dial re-tells any result at the depth you want. Level one is what you would see: it went cloudy, a white solid settled. Level two adds the measurements. Level three shows every species, activity and coefficient behind the answer — the same numbers, never a different simulation. Every result carries where it came from, and the app says "unassessed" rather than implying safe when nobody has checked. OFFLINE, ALWAYS The solver, the thermodynamic databases and the whole lesson library are inside the app. It makes no network requests, has no account, and collects nothing whatsoever. It works with the network switched off. Built on IPhreeqc from the U.S. Geological Survey. Kerotakis is free software; the source is at github.com/CrispStrobe/kerotakis.

Screenshots

Unreal Chemist4 screens
Kerotakis3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kerotakis at none against Unreal Chemist's 1. Kerotakis also leads on ads (none vs shown). Unreal Chemist's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Unreal Chemist sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kerotakis asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Unreal Chemist versus Kerotakis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnreal ChemistKerotakis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (68 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings68 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size342 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZipoAppsChristian Strobele

Bugs and requests

Unreal Chemist

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Sulfuric acid not dissolving with salts
  • Heating solution during titration
  • Watch ad for premium session not working
  • Mixing game not always working intuitively
  • Buttons on iPhone blocked by camera
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  • Some metal flame colors don't match description
  • Program sometimes locks up
  • Music setting resets after closing program
  • Some reactions don't show the full formula
  • App crashes on opening
  • App gets stuck on the home page
  • App kicks the user out
  • App opens to a blank grey or white screen
  • App won't open
  • App crashes when it takes too long to open
  • Free version has only 2 reactions
  • Interface is buggy (e.g., clicking play sends to home page)

Requested features

32 requests
  • Add more elements (e.g., Mn, H, O, Cl, F, Pb)
  • Add more acids (e.g., Chloroauric acid, Vanadic acid, Perrhenic acid)
  • Add more bases and solvents (e.g., styrofoam, polystyrene, ethanol, acetone)
  • Add gases (e.g., Chlorine, Fluorine, Hydrogen, Oxygen)
  • Option to specify amounts of chemicals to add
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  • Kid version with simplified instructions
  • Add crafting or new science game modes
  • Add more glassware and scientific equipment
  • Reintroduce feature to see compound information
  • Add challenges or daily missions
  • Add ability to use previously made chemicals for new reactions
  • Add definitions for elements and reactions
  • Add a story or background context
  • Add more reactions and compounds
  • Add liquid elements (e.g., liquid oxygen, hydrogen)
  • Add more bases
  • Add more solvents
  • Add styrofoam/polystyrene
  • Add more elements
  • Add more acids
  • Add more bases
  • Add more solvents
  • Add more glassware
  • Add more scientific equipment
  • Add more reactions
  • Add more compounds
  • Add more elements
  • Add more reactions
  • Add more compounds
  • Add more elements
  • Add more reactions
  • Add more compounds

Kerotakis

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Unreal Chemist

One-time1
  • Premium Version$5.99
None

Kerotakis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Unreal Chemist free?
Unreal Chemist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kerotakis free?
Kerotakis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Unreal Chemist or Kerotakis have ads?
Unreal Chemist shows ads; Kerotakis does not.

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