Periodacity vs Science 8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Periodacity
This app provides comprehensive reference information for all known elements on the periodic table. It's designed for chemists and chemistry students seeking quick access to element data.
- Complete periodic table data
- Information on all known elements
- Designed for chemists
- Aimed at chemistry students
- Reference tool
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Periodacity contains reference information for all known elements on the periodic table. It is intended to be used by chemists and chemistry students.
Science 8
This app offers interactive tools and practice tests to help middle school students visualize and understand key science concepts. It includes simulations for density, molecular activity, and population dynamics, along with practice tests covering various science subjects.
- Interactive molecular activity demonstration
- Density and buoyancy simulation
- Comprehensive science practice tests
- Category building exercises
- Statistics exploration tool
- Food web population dynamics simulation
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These are a few tools for helping visualize middle school science. I spent a year volunteer tutoring middle school (grade 8) science students. While doing that, I created an app with a few simple demonstrations and practice tests to help them. The modules included were those that illustrated or helped practice the concepts my students had trouble either understanding or remembering. The test module contains every test the students took. Hot Molecules is an interactive demonstration of the effects of heating and cooling on molecular activity. Will it float? is an interactive lab simulation for determining density. Questions is a test-practice module for all subjects thus far covered (phase changes, heat transfer, density, atoms, molecules, reactions, atmosphere). Buckets is a category builder to help understand grouping of like things on arbitrary traits Which is Bigger? is an interactive statistics exploration, showing how much overlap there is between categories and how important sample size is. How do population dynamics of the species populations in a food web interact? Play with the simulation and ecological and human-introduced factors. Watch out for natural disasters! Other demonstrations and test topics are added periodically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Science 8 at 5.0 against Periodacity's 3.7. Science 8 also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.1). Periodacity's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Science 8 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Periodacity ships an update every 3 weeks, Science 8 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Periodacity | Science 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jesse Spencer | IdeateGames |
Customer experience
Periodacity
Science 8
In-app purchases
Periodacity
No in-app purchases
Science 8
No in-app purchases
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