Elemental vs Ankipan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elemental
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Meet the 118. Elemental turns the periodic table into something you can actually play with. Learn element names, symbols, atomic numbers, families and positions through interactive cards, memorable mnemonics and quick chemistry games designed to make the table stick. LEARN THE ELEMENTS Explore all 118 elements through colourful interactive cards. Discover: • Element names and symbols • Atomic numbers • Periodic table positions • Element families • Real-world uses • Interesting facts • Memorable memory tricks MEMORY TRICKS THAT STICK Elemental uses deliberately memorable associations to help difficult names and symbols stay in your head. Hydrogen becomes a huge H-shaped balloon. Iron becomes a FErocious iron robot. Silver becomes an AGed silver-haired wizard. The stranger the connection, the easier it can be to remember. LONGEST CHAIN How many elements can you connect? Carbon ends in N, so your next element must begin with N. Carbon → Nickel → Lithium → Molybdenum… Choose carefully. Each element can only be used once, and your choice determines which elements are available next. Try to build the longest chain possible from the periodic table. PLAY TO LEARN Elemental includes a collection of quick chemistry games: • Longest Chain • Symbol Sprint • Where Am I? • Build the Table • What Am I? • Family Sort • Flash Quiz Knowing more elements gives you more moves. BUILD YOUR PERIODIC TABLE Your periodic table becomes a visual map of your progress. Elements move through: Unknown → Seen → Learning → Known → Mastered See which elements you know well, spot the ones that need another look and work towards mastering all 118. LEARN YOUR WAY Choose from learning collections including: • All 118 • Weak Elements • Starter Pack • Your Body • Your Phone Elemental also creates a short personalised Daily 5 based on the elements most worth revisiting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account is required. Your learning progress and game records stay on your device. Elemental does not contain advertising or third-party tracking. Whether you're revising chemistry, learning the periodic table for the first time or simply want to see how many elements you can remember, Elemental gives you a more playful way to learn the 118. 118 elements. One table. How many can you master?
Ankipan
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Ankipan is a flashcard app built the way an iPhone app should be: a stack of cards you flip and swipe, with a serious spaced‑repetition scheduler doing the remembering. **Study by swiping** Cards sit in a pile. Tap to flip, swipe right for Again, left for Good, up for Easy. Undo is one tap away. A session ends with a small recap you can share. **Answer the way that fits** A card can simply flip, or ask you to type the answer, say it aloud, or pick it from four options drawn from your own deck. Spoken answers are matched by reading, so kanji and kana of the same word both count. **Hear it** Speech fields are read aloud in their language, and a word can be pronounced through its reading column so it always comes out right. **Decks are tables** Every deck is a simple table: fields you name, card kinds you choose — which fields are shown, which are revealed, how you answer. Start from a template, import a CSV/TSV from Files, Numbers or Sheets, or type rows yourself. Edit any deck later and give it an icon. **Or describe one** On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, write a sentence — "50 everyday Spanish verbs with an example sentence" — and Ankipan proposes the fields and fills the rows on‑device. Everything it makes is editable. **Scheduling that remembers for you** Reviews are scheduled with FSRS‑6, the modern open‑source spaced‑repetition algorithm: fewer reviews, better retention, no settings to tune.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ankipan at Free against Elemental's $1.99. Elemental's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Ankipan is free to download; Elemental costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Elemental | Ankipan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Richardson | Zeyi Fan |
In-app purchases
Elemental
No in-app purchases
Ankipan
No in-app purchases









