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The Elements by Theodore Gray vs EMD PTE

An honest comparison based on real user reviews. Both are popular Periodic Table apps — but which one do users complain about less?

The Elements by Theodore Gray

Main Weakness

Chronic instability, crashes constantly, and 1.7GB bloated file size from excessive video content

"The HUGE issue here is the app crashes everytime. Yes everytime."
"HUGE: 1.7GB for high resolution images that rotate that could be just as easily shown in 1-4 images each (instead of the 40+ of each object)."

EMD PTE

Main Weakness

Poor information hierarchy requiring three taps to access basic mass numbers, plus broken outreach links

"It takes three taps to find the mass number of an element. For those studying chemistry, this is a waste of time because you constantly need to know the mass number for many chemistry problems."
"The 'Discover More' link has a typo — it leads to a "emdroup" website. Seems that it was hastily slapped into the app and never looked at again."

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