Comparison

ReactionFlash vs Smooth For Students

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

Smooth For Students

This app organizes your course deadlines from your school's learning platform into a single, prioritized list. It helps you track upcoming assignments, visualize your progress, and manage your tasks effectively to avoid missing important due dates.

Highlights
  • Prioritized list of all assignments
  • Urgency color-coding
  • Weekly progress tracking
  • Custom task addition
  • Local reminders and daily digests
  • Manual due date adjustment
Features
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There's more to life than school, Smooth is for the rest of it. Every deadline your classes throw at you: assignments, readings, quizzes, labs, the lecture you keep forgetting - it all lands in one app. You open it, you see what's next, you close it.

Screenshots

ReactionFlash4 screens
Smooth For Students4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Smooth For Students at every 2 weeks against ReactionFlash's every 4 months. Smooth For Students also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). ReactionFlash's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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

Smooth For Students holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ReactionFlash has 41 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of ReactionFlash's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smooth For Students's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ReactionFlash ships an update every 4 months, Smooth For Students every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ReactionFlash versus Smooth For Students: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReactionFlashSmooth For Students
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (41 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings41 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElsevier LimitedStem Forward Co.

Customer experience

ReactionFlash

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

Smooth For Students

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ReactionFlash

No in-app purchases

None

Smooth For Students

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReactionFlash free?
ReactionFlash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smooth For Students free?
Smooth For Students is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ReactionFlash or Smooth For Students?
Smooth For Students is rated higher. ReactionFlash averages 4.8 out of 5 from 41 ratings, while Smooth For Students averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do ReactionFlash or Smooth For Students have ads?
Neither ReactionFlash nor Smooth For Students shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ReactionFlash or Smooth For Students?
ReactionFlash ships an update every 4 months, and Smooth For Students every 2 weeks. Most recently, ReactionFlash was updated on October 16, 2026 and Smooth For Students on September 29, 2026.

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