Comparison

BOT 7th vs Science 8

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

Head to head
About

BOT 7th

Prepare for the Texas UIL 7th-8th Grade Social Studies contest with flashcards and quizzes. Learn facts about Texas, the US, and the world. Full content access requires a subscription for the current school year.

Highlights
  • UIL Social Studies contest preparation
  • Flashcards for learning facts
  • Quizzes to test knowledge
  • Covers Texas, US, and World history
  • Subscription for full content access
Features
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Get ahead of the game and on your way to being a champion! Best of Texas Contest's 7th-8th Grade Social Studies app helps you prepare for the Texas UIL 7th-8th Grade Social Studies contest. Use flashcards in the Study mode to learn facts about Texas, the United States, and the World, then take a quiz to test your knowledge. A fun and convenient way to practice for the 7th-8th Grade UIL Social Studies contest. Access to full content requires a subscription. A school-year subscription gives you access to the current school year data for the UIL Social Studies contest.

About

Science 8

This app offers interactive tools and practice tests to help middle school students visualize and understand key science concepts. It includes simulations for density, molecular activity, and population dynamics, along with practice tests covering various science subjects.

Highlights
  • Interactive molecular activity demonstration
  • Density and buoyancy simulation
  • Comprehensive science practice tests
  • Category building exercises
  • Statistics exploration tool
  • Food web population dynamics simulation
Features
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These are a few tools for helping visualize middle school science. I spent a year volunteer tutoring middle school (grade 8) science students. While doing that, I created an app with a few simple demonstrations and practice tests to help them. The modules included were those that illustrated or helped practice the concepts my students had trouble either understanding or remembering. The test module contains every test the students took. Hot Molecules is an interactive demonstration of the effects of heating and cooling on molecular activity. Will it float? is an interactive lab simulation for determining density. Questions is a test-practice module for all subjects thus far covered (phase changes, heat transfer, density, atoms, molecules, reactions, atmosphere). Buckets is a category builder to help understand grouping of like things on arbitrary traits Which is Bigger? is an interactive statistics exploration, showing how much overlap there is between categories and how important sample size is. How do population dynamics of the species populations in a food web interact? Play with the simulation and ecological and human-introduced factors. Watch out for natural disasters! Other demonstrations and test topics are added periodically.

Screenshots

BOT 7th4 screens
Science 84 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Science 8 at free against BOT 7th's subscription. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BOT 7th against 5.0 for Science 8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BOT 7th ships an update every 6 months, Science 8 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BOT 7th versus Science 8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBOT 7thScience 8
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeggy MarkhamIdeateGames

Customer experience

BOT 7th

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Science 8

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BOT 7th

No in-app purchases

None

Science 8

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BOT 7th free?
BOT 7th is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Science 8 free?
Science 8 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BOT 7th or Science 8?
BOT 7th and Science 8 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do BOT 7th or Science 8 have ads?
Neither BOT 7th nor Science 8 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BOT 7th or Science 8?
BOT 7th ships an update every 6 months, and Science 8 every 3 months. Most recently, BOT 7th was updated on October 17, 2026 and Science 8 on October 2, 2026.

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