ARK vs Ohmie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Connect with STEM enthusiasts
- Collaborate on projects
- Showcase innovations
- Buy and sell creations
- Access learning resources
- Join discussions on tech topics
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
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.
- 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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Ohmie sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. ARK asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
ARK ships an update fortnightly, Ohmie every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ARK | Ohmie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better | 4.5 (291 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 56.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 291 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #158 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 752 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IMMACULATA TECHNOLOGIES LLC | OHMIE LLC |
Customer experience
ARK
Ohmie
In-app purchases
ARK
No in-app purchases
Ohmie
- Ohmie Pro$7.991 Month
- Ohmie Pro Yearly Saver$19.991 Year
- Ohmie Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- Ohmie Pro Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year









