BiochemCity vs Biomolecules
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BiochemCity
This app offers a unique approach to learning biochemistry by visualizing metabolic pathways as a 3D city. Users navigate this environment, solving mini-games that represent biochemical reactions to expand their knowledge and discover the city.
- Language-independent learning
- Metabolic pathways as road networks
- 3D city environment
- 150+ mini-games
- Interactive biochemical reactions
- Progressive knowledge discovery
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BiochemCity is a language-independent mobile application that breaks the past practice and tries to provide a new concept to teach biochemical core material (biochemical reactions and network). BiochemCity guides the user through a labyrinthine network of metabolic pathways in a revolutionary edutainment environment, providing a successful alternative learning strategy. The concept is based on the fact that metabolic pathways can be conceived as a real road network, plastically illustrating the metabolic connection points, the junctions, the real connections between the parts that are far apart in the curriculum or the textbooks. We are building a 3D city on this map, which creates the background of the application. In this cosy night city, the user has to find his/her way with street lamps built-in mini-games (150+), each of which hides a biochemical reaction. Successfully solving and practising the reactions on that graphical interface (turning on the street lamps) leads to the discovery of the whole city, that is, to master the matter (more light, more knowledge). Since the curriculum is only displayed on the graphical level/interface, (language interface is not required to use it), it can be used in any language environment. Take Home Messages - BiochemCity is a language-independent mobile application. - The concept is based on the fact that metabolic pathways can be conceived as a real road network. - In the 3D BiochemCity the user has to find his/her way with street lamps 'built-in' mini-games (150+), each of which hides a biochemical reaction. - More light, more knowledge.
Biomolecules
Explore the properties and functions of biomolecules with this educational app. It covers basic chemistry topics essential for understanding biological molecules and their processes. This is part of a series designed for anyone interested in general, organic, and biological chemistry.
- Learn basic chemistry topics
- Explore biomolecule properties
- Understand biomolecule functions
- Study general chemistry
- Study organic chemistry
- Study biological chemistry
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With Biomolecules: Functional groups app you are able to learn basic chemistry topics that can help you in exploring the properties and functions of biomolecules. This app is the part of the Biomolecules app series which is being developed to help anyone interested in learning General, Organic and Biological Chemistry topics related to biomolecules and the processes in which they are involved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Biomolecules at 100% against BiochemCity's 30%. Biomolecules also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 56 months). BiochemCity's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Biomolecules holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BiochemCity has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of BiochemCity's written reviews are positive against 100% of Biomolecules's.
BiochemCity ships an update every 56 months, Biomolecules every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BiochemCity | Biomolecules |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 56 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 387 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tech-O-Bio | Carolina Biological Supply |
Customer experience
BiochemCity
Biomolecules
In-app purchases
BiochemCity
No in-app purchases
Biomolecules
No in-app purchases
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