Comparison

CloudLabs Fighting Germs vs Cosmic Specks

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

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About

CloudLabs Fighting Germs

Features
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In this practice, you are a volunteer participant in a day of animal vaccination. Your mission is to identify, through the elements of the laboratory and a microscope, a series of microorganisms present in the vaccination area and choose the correct cleaning elements that can effectively combat these microorganisms.

About

Cosmic Specks

Explore the solar system with accurate scale and orbital mechanics. This app removes common simplifications to reveal the true vastness and complexity of space. Witness planetary rotations, eclipses, and comet paths with unprecedented detail.

Highlights
  • Accurate planetary scale
  • True orbital inclinations
  • Realistic axial rotations
  • Detailed comet paths
  • Time-based simulations
  • Precise eclipse visualization
  • Data-driven accuracy indicators
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Space is almost all empty. That turns out to be the beautiful part. Every picture of the solar system you've ever seen tells you small white lies. The planets are swollen so you can see them. The orbits are squashed flat and drawn as tidy circles. Everything is crowded together so it fits on the page. Cosmic Specks is the same solar system with the lies switched off, one at a time, so you can build an intuition for what was actually removed. IT OPENS WITH THE ARGUMENT. A ninety-second tour names the five lies and switches each one off, live: the sizes, the flatness, the circles, the stillness, the diagram eclipses. IT ISN'T FLAT. Turn on inclinations and the orbits fan out into the tilted planes they really occupy — Pluto's 17°, Mercury's 7°, the quiet disagreement the flat diagram hides. EVERYTHING SPINS. Each body turns on its own axis, at its own rate, at its own lean: Venus backwards, Uranus on its side, the Moon locked forever facing home. HALLEY'S COMET TAKES AN EPIC RUN. Seventy-six years, out past Neptune and back, on an orbit so long and lopsided it barely belongs on the same diagram. SWIM THROUGH TIME. Watch conjunctions close, planets loop backwards through retrograde, Saturn's rings turn edge-on and all but vanish, Venus cross the face of the Sun. JUMP TO A PRECISE ECLIPSE and see how tight the Moon's shadow really is — a couple of hundred kilometres of darkness, brushing over the Earth for a few minutes, landing on the real map where it really lands. On 2 August 2027 it crosses southern Spain and Egypt; jump there and watch. And when you want the honest picture of size: one tap drops everything to true scale, where the planets become the specks they are, and the emptiness is the whole photograph. HONEST BY CONSTRUCTION. Every solar-system app draws a picture; this one also shows you the picture's error. Bodies are enlarged so you can see them at all — and the exact factors are printed on screen the entire time you're looking (Sun ×24, bodies ≤×750). Positions are computed on your device from orbital elements, so the app also tells you when it stops being trustworthy: good near today, approximate centuries out, illustrative in the deep millennia. Even the maps admit their gaps: Miranda is half blank because humanity has only ever seen half of it. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO. No account. No ads. No subscription. No analytics — App Privacy is "Data Not Collected". Nothing leaves your phone. Free, with one optional purchase that opens 10,000 years in each direction.

Screenshots

CloudLabs Fighting Germs1 screens
Cosmic Specks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CloudLabs Fighting Germs at none against Cosmic Specks's 1. CloudLabs Fighting Germs also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Cosmic Specks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CloudLabs Fighting Germs asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CloudLabs Fighting Germs versus Cosmic Specks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudLabs Fighting GermsCosmic Specks
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB12 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJiovany OrozcoKaolin Fire

In-app purchases

None

CloudLabs Fighting Germs

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cosmic Specks

One-time1
  • 20,000 Years$2.99

Questions

Is CloudLabs Fighting Germs free?
CloudLabs Fighting Germs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cosmic Specks free?
Cosmic Specks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CloudLabs Fighting Germs or Cosmic Specks have ads?
Neither CloudLabs Fighting Germs nor Cosmic Specks shows ads.

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