Isotope Browser vs Space Time Quest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Isotope Browser
Access comprehensive nuclear data for over 4,000 nuclides and isomers. Explore interactive charts, filter by various criteria, and view detailed information for each nuclide. Data is sourced from reliable resources and available offline.
- Properties of over 4,000 nuclides and isomers
- Interactive Chart of Nuclides
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Filter by half-life, decay mode, radiation type, and energy
- Detailed nuclide information with web links
- Offline access to embedded database
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Provided by the Nuclear Data Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the app gives properties of more than 4 000 nuclides and isomers. A Chart of Nuclides, with zooming and tapping enabled, and a Periodic Table of Elements are included to allow easy selection and navigation. Filter criteria on half-life, decay mode, radiation type and energy can be selected. Summary data are presented in a scrolling list, with a details page for each nuclide containing web links to the data sources and further information such as level and decay schema. The filtered nuclides can be visualised on the Chart of Nuclides. Data are taken from the most recent and reliable sources, and optimal search-and-retrieve performance is achieved with an embedded database, meaning that no network connection is required.
Space Time Quest
Manage a massive budget and lead a continent-spanning scientific project to build a gravitational wave detector. Optimize subsystems and be the first to discover elusive gravitational waves to win a Nobel Prize.
- Budget management
- Scientific project simulation
- Gravitational wave detector construction
- Subsystem optimization
- Discovery simulation
- Multilingual support
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in charge of a budget of 100 million!? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a continent spanning science project, with the aim of making one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years? In Space Time Quest you use your scientific skills to build the most sensitive gravitational wave detector ever, and use it to listen to the symphony of the Universe as never before! Spread your budget wisely and optimise the different subsystems of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, of the same type as the real detectors, such as LIGO and Virgo. Be the first to detect the elusive gravitational waves, and the Nobel Prize will surely be yours! Space Time Quest can be played in English, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, German, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Isotope Browser at 27 against Space Time Quest's 1. Isotope Browser also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). Space Time Quest's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Space Time Quest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Isotope Browser has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Isotope Browser ships an update every 6 weeks, Space Time Quest every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Isotope Browser | Space Time Quest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IAEA | Laser Labs |
Customer experience
Isotope Browser
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In-app purchases
Isotope Browser
No in-app purchases
Space Time Quest
No in-app purchases
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