Comparison

ARK vs Ohmie

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

Head to head
About

ARK

This platform connects STEM enthusiasts, innovators, and educators globally. Share ideas, showcase projects, and collaborate with experts. Buy and sell creations in an integrated marketplace to foster innovation and learning.

Highlights
  • Connect with STEM enthusiasts
  • Collaborate on projects
  • Showcase innovations
  • Buy and sell creations
  • Access learning resources
  • Join discussions on tech topics
Features
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ARK is the project-sharing platform for makers, engineers, students, and creators who want to build real things and help others do the same. The new ARK experience goes deeper into the create-project flow, making it easier to document your work with detailed instructions, structured steps, materials, files, and notes so other people can understand your process and give the project a crack themselves. The app now features a sleeker, cleaner UI built around discovering and sharing projects more easily. Projects can be tagged directly in Explore, with difficulty tags like Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, as well as category tags such as Robotics, AI, 3D Printing, Electronics, and more. Users can also headline their posts with intent-based tags like Help Needed, Shameless Promotion, Build Log, Showcase, or Question, making it easier for the community to know what kind of feedback, support, or attention a post is looking for. ARK is becoming more than a place to post what you made. It is a place to document how you made it, help others recreate it, and build a living library of real-world STEM projects.

About

Ohmie

Learn electronics through engaging, game-like lessons and interactive circuit simulations. Master concepts from basic circuits to embedded systems and robotics with bite-sized daily practice. Progress is tracked on your device with no ads or accounts required.

Highlights
  • Live circuit simulations
  • Build schematics with real components
  • Interactive problem-solving lessons
  • Covers circuits, op-amps, embedded systems, and robotics
  • Gamified learning with XP and streaks
  • Progress saved locally, no account needed
  • Ad-free and tracking-free experience
Features
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Pass circuits. 3 minutes a day. Ohmie teaches electronics the way you'd learn a language: short, game-like lessons you actually solve, not paragraphs you skim. Lessons are read aloud, so your eyes stay on the circuit. Everything below is part of Ohmie Pro, an auto-renewing subscription. Details are in OHMIE PRO SUBSCRIPTION at the end. REAL PRACTICE • Live circuit sims: stack battery cells, dim an LED, watch current respond to resistance • Build schematics by dragging real components into place • Decode resistor color bands, spot the broken circuit, order the steps • Miss a question? It comes back in Practice until it sticks. That's the method, not a penalty. LEARN THE FULL PATH • Electronics: charge, current, voltage, Ohm's law, series and parallel, capacitors, power, analog, then transistors, logic gates and an 8-bit computer you can run, pause and step through • Embedded systems: GPIO, timers, PWM, ADC, interrupts, serial protocols, build a device • Robotics: sensors, motors, PID control, build a line-following racer • PCB design: schematics, layout, routing, production • Programming: Python, and C++ for Arduino EXPLORE OHMIE WORLD Walk into Copper Town, take on the trainers in the forest, wire the town's circuit on a breadboard, and face other learners in the Arena. MOMENTUM THAT FORGIVES XP, streaks, daily quests, 30 badges to earn, skins to unlock, leaderboards, and a mascot named Ohmie who reacts to every answer and is on your side. Streaks are forgiving. Life happens. Stuck? Ask Ohmie and get a hint in plain words. No ads. Learn in English, Spanish or German. Sign in to keep your progress across devices. OHMIE PRO SUBSCRIPTION Ohmie is free to download. The lessons, practice, circuit sims, Ohmie World, Ask Ohmie and everything else described above require an Ohmie Pro subscription, billed monthly or yearly. The yearly plan starts with a free trial for eligible new subscribers. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ohmie.io/privacy

Screenshots

ARK4 screens
Ohmie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ARK at none against Ohmie's 4. ARK also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (83% vs 56%). Ohmie's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (291 vs 11). On price, rating 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. Ohmie sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. ARK asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ARK against 4.5 for Ohmie. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ohmie has 291 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of ARK's written reviews are positive against 56% of Ohmie's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ARK ships an update fortnightly, Ohmie every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
ARK versus Ohmie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARKOhmie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings) — better4.5 (291 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better56.4% of reviews
Number of ratings11291 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#158 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB752 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIMMACULATA TECHNOLOGIES LLCOHMIE LLC

Customer experience

ARK

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Ohmie

All ratings291 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive56.4%
Neutral12.7%
Negative30.9%

In-app purchases

None

ARK

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Ohmie

Subscriptions4
  • Ohmie Pro$7.991 Month
  • Ohmie Pro Yearly Saver$19.991 Year
  • Ohmie Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Ohmie Pro Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is ARK free?
ARK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ohmie free?
Ohmie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ARK or Ohmie?
ARK is rated higher. ARK averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Ohmie averages 4.5 from 291 ratings.
Do ARK or Ohmie have ads?
Ohmie shows ads; ARK does not.
Which is updated more often, ARK or Ohmie?
ARK ships an update fortnightly, and Ohmie every 3 days. Most recently, ARK was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ohmie on October 25, 2026.

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