Comparison

ReactionFlash vs AIChE Student Handbook

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

Head to head
About

ReactionFlash

This app serves as a comprehensive flashcard-style learning tool for named chemical reactions. It provides detailed information on reaction mechanisms and examples from scientific literature, with a quiz mode to test user knowledge.

Highlights
  • Learn named chemical reactions
  • Understand reaction mechanisms
  • View literature examples
  • Quiz mode for knowledge testing
  • Flashcard interface
Features
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Want to refresh your memory on named chemical reactions before an exam or a group meeting? Get all the details with ReactionFlash(R) as a great way to learn named reactions, understand their mechanisms and view examples published in peer-reviewed literature. Designed and developed in consultation with Professor Dr. Erick M. Carreira of ETH Zürich, the app covers 1'266 named chemical reactions, by far the largest collection of Named Reactions. Professor Carreira has helped ensure that we have all the fundamental reactions that should be part of every chemist’s toolkit: from the best-known ones to the ones only Nobel Prize winners remember! The app is designed like a set of flash cards so it can be used as a learning tool as well as a reference. Each ‘card’ shows the reaction, its mechanism and examples from peer-reviewed, published literature. It also has a quiz mode that lets you test your knowledge. Linking into Reaxys enables you to find the most recent examples of each reaction, many with experimental details. Reaxys delivers experimental facts from the literature, enabling researchers to find the best synthetic routes and conditions. Find out more at https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/reaxys Download the app now and see if you know all the named reactions! Summary: - Learn named reactions - Review and understand mechanisms - Explore examples published in peer-reviewed literature - Take the ReactionFlash quiz and see how much you know If you need support, please contact us at reactionflash@elsevier.com. Reaxys and ReactionFlash are trade marks of Elsevier Limited, used under license.

About

AIChE Student Handbook

Access essential chemical engineering data, formulas, and fundamental concepts on your mobile device. This pocket reference provides critical information for solving a wide range of chemical engineering problems.

Highlights
  • Technical facts
  • Fundamental data
  • Formulas
  • Chemical engineering principles
  • Safety data
  • Mathematical data
Features
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Put a Chemical Engineering expert in your pocket with AIChE's handy reference to technical facts, fundamental data and formulas. The AIChE Pocket Handbook makes available some of the more important chemical, biological, physical, safety, and mathematical data and concepts that are fundamental to the practice of the chemical engineering profession. With these principles you should be able to solve many chemical engineering problems.

Screenshots

ReactionFlash4 screens
AIChE Student Handbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: ReactionFlash at 42 against AIChE Student Handbook's 2. AIChE Student Handbook's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AIChE Student Handbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReactionFlash has 42 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ReactionFlash versus AIChE Student Handbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReactionFlashAIChE Student Handbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (42 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElsevier LimitedAIChE

Customer experience

ReactionFlash

All ratings41 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral6.5%
Negative12.9%

AIChE Student Handbook

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ReactionFlash

No in-app purchases

None

AIChE Student Handbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReactionFlash free?
ReactionFlash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AIChE Student Handbook free?
AIChE Student Handbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ReactionFlash or AIChE Student Handbook?
AIChE Student Handbook is rated higher. ReactionFlash averages 4.8 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while AIChE Student Handbook averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ReactionFlash or AIChE Student Handbook have ads?
Neither ReactionFlash nor AIChE Student Handbook shows ads.

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