Strings Conferences vs Higgsy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strings Conferences
Explore two decades of String Theory progress through conference slides. Easily navigate presentations from 1998 to 2025 on your iPad.
- Access conference slides
- Navigate presentations
- String Theory content
- Historical data (1998-2025)
- iPad optimized
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Twenty years of (non-)progress of String Theory on your iPad! With this app, you can easily navigate all the slides from the past Strings conferences, from 1998 to 2025.
Higgsy
Explore the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN. This game teaches fundamental concepts and properties related to identifying the Higgs boson in high-energy collider experiments. Test your knowledge through engaging gameplay.
- Higgs boson discovery simulation
- CERN Large Hadron Collider context
- Event topology concepts
- Higgs boson identification
- Knowledge testing gameplay
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Rediscover the Higgs boson at CERN! Higgsy was created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the famous Higgs boson particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The main goal of the game is to search for the Higgs boson decays in a generic high-energy collider experiment. The game introduces the basic concept and the properties of event topologies relevant to the Higgs boson identification at the LHC and invites the player to test their acquired knowledge in a captivating gameplay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Higgsy at every 10 days against Strings Conferences's every 11 months. Strings Conferences's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Strings Conferences against 5.0 for Higgsy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Strings Conferences ships an update every 11 months, Higgsy every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strings Conferences | Higgsy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuji Tachikawa | Kirill Skovpen |
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Strings Conferences
Higgsy
In-app purchases
Strings Conferences
No in-app purchases
Higgsy
No in-app purchases
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