Simple Spider vs For Science!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Spider
Experience a classic card game with intuitive touch controls for moving and drawing cards. Offers multiple game modes and sound options for a customizable solo play experience. Compete with others through Gamecenter integration.
- Touch and drag card movement
- Draw cards by touching stacks
- Undo functionality
- Sound ON/OFF toggle
- Three game modes (1, 2, 4 suits)
- Gamecenter integration
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Spider Solitaire app. You can select card by touch, and can move card by moving the finger as it is. Also, by touching stack of cards, you draw a card. In addition, there are following features in this app. Undo Sound ON/OFF Three game modes (1suit, 2suits, 4suits) Gamecenter
For Science!
Enhance your board game experience with this companion app. It provides immersive audio, sound effects, and voice acting to bring the game's theme to life. Customize game length and difficulty for a personalized challenge.
- Real-time timer
- Thematic music
- Sound effects
- Voice acting
- Customizable difficulty
- Adjustable game length
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For Science!" is a real time board game about saving the world from disease. This companion app provides a timer, music, sound effects, and voice acting to immerse you in the theme of the "For Science!" and allows you to customize your preferred difficulty by adjusting the frequency of Events and the length of the game to your liking. This companion app is not a game and must be used with a physical copy of the "For Science" board game - published by Grey Fox Games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: For Science! at 50% against Simple Spider's 0%. For Science! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 16 months). Simple Spider's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
For Science! holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Simple Spider's written reviews are positive against 50% of For Science!'s.
Simple Spider ships an update every 16 months, For Science! every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Spider | For Science! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (7 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kazunari Hiyoshi | Grey Fox Games |
Customer experience
Simple Spider
For Science!
In-app purchases
Simple Spider
No in-app purchases
For Science!
No in-app purchases
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