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Elemora

The periodic table, made something you can explore, understand, build with — and actually learn.

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Elemora’s table screen: a search field reading “Element, symbol, or number”, filter buttons for All, Metals, Nonmetals and Metalloids, and the full periodic table with each element tinted by its family.

The job it does

A printed table can only tell you so much

A wall chart gives you a symbol, a number and a mass. It cannot tell you what an element is like, what it gets used for, why it sits where it does — or whether you would still recognise it next week. Elemora starts from the same grid and keeps going.

It is built for people who are learning: students working through a chemistry course, teachers looking for something to point at, and anyone who has decided the table is worth knowing properly. It is a study aid, not a laboratory reference.

  • Table

    All 118 elements, searchable and filterable, with a full detail view behind every one of them.

  • Study

    Flashcards and practice runs that come back to what you have not got yet.

  • Build

    Put elements together and see the formula, the mass and the structure they make.

  • Progress

    How much of the table you have actually learned, element by element.

Inside the app

Screens from Elemora

The oxygen detail screen: a large element card reading 8, O, Oxygen, 15.999 u, a Reactive Nonmetal badge, the line “the element that makes fire and breathing possible”, and an Atomic Structure card with a shell diagram and the electron configuration.
Every element, in fullThe card, the shell diagram, and why it matters.
The Study screen: a two-day streak, 10 percent of elements mastered, a completed daily challenge, a Flashcards card reading “Memorize, quiz and reinforce your knowledge”, and a row of practice modes.
StudyA streak, a daily challenge, and somewhere to start.
The Build screen: the formula C8H10N4O2 with its Hill formula, a molar mass of 194.19 grams per mole and 24 atoms, matched to caffeine, its skeletal structure drawn out, and buttons to save, favourite, open details or explore in 3D.
BuildA formula, a mass, and the structure behind it.
The Progress screen: a ring reading 13 of 118, Periodic Mastery with 2 compounds studied and 92 percent recent accuracy, the rank Periodic Pathfinder, and activity counts for streak, cards answered, elements started and favourites saved.
ProgressMastery, rank, and what you have been doing.

Screens are captures of the app as it stands in development, with the iOS status bar cropped away. Nothing inside them has been redrawn.

The element view

Enough about an element to actually hold on to it

Tapping a cell opens the whole element, not a tooltip. Quick Facts carry the category, the state at 25 °C, the group and the period, with the rest of the properties a tap away. Below that there is a written description of what the element is like and why it behaves that way, and a row of the things it is genuinely used for — carbon’s reads Steelmaking and Diamonds.

The Atomic Structure card draws the electron shells with the atomic number, atomic mass and electron configuration beside them, and then says in plain words that it is a simplified shell model and that electrons do not travel on fixed circular paths. An app for learners that quietly taught the wrong thing would not be worth having.

The carbon detail screen: Quick Facts giving Reactive Nonmetal, solid at 25 degrees Celsius, group 14, period 2, a More properties link, a written description of carbon, and Common Uses showing steelmaking and diamonds.
Quick facts, then everything elseCategory, state, group and period up front.
An Identify practice run, 8 of 10 and 70 percent complete: the card asks which element has atomic number 45 and has been flipped to reveal Rhodium, with Review again and I knew this below it.
IdentifyTen at a time, marked honestly by you.

Features

What the app does

  • All 118 elements

    Hydrogen through oganesson, with the lanthanides and actinides laid out beneath the main block. Pinch to zoom the table and drag to look around it.

  • Search takes what you have

    An element name, a symbol, or an atomic number — whichever one you happen to know.

  • Families you can combine

    Metals, nonmetals and metalloids across the top; alkali, alkaline earth, transition, post-transition, halogen and noble gas below. Tap more than one to combine them.

  • An element card, not a cell

    Atomic number, symbol, name and mass, the family it belongs to, and one plain line saying why it matters. Oxygen’s is “the element that makes fire and breathing possible”.

  • Atomic structure, drawn honestly

    Electron shells, atomic number, atomic mass and electron configuration — labelled as the simplified model it is, rather than passed off as the real thing.

  • Properties and common uses

    Category, state at 25 °C, group and period up front, the rest behind More properties, then a written description and what the element is actually used for.

  • Favourites

    Keep the elements you are working on where you can get back to them.

  • Flashcards and practice modes

    Memorise, quiz and reinforce. Tap a card to flip it, swipe through the set, and mark each one I knew this or Review again. A daily challenge sets a new group each day.

  • Identify the element

    Ten questions at a time, given an atomic number, a symbol or a name, with the run’s progress shown as you go.

  • Build a compound

    Add elements and Elemora works out the Hill formula, the molar mass and the atom count, then matches what you have made against its own catalogue and names it.

  • Structure, drawn — and in 3D

    A skeletal formula for the compound, how it bonds, and a 3D view to turn it around. Compounds can be saved and favourited.

  • Mastery you can see

    How many of the 118 you have mastered, a rank that moves as you go, recent accuracy, and counts for streak, cards answered, elements started and favourites saved.

Details

The essentials

This page describes the app as it stands in development. What ships may differ, and this page is updated when it does — nothing here is a promise about a future version.

Elemora is a study aid. It is not a laboratory reference, and nothing in it should be relied on for safety, dosage, or practical chemistry.

Following Elemora

Elemora is not on the App Store yet. When it is, the link will be here and on elemora.idlery.com, which is where the app’s support, privacy, and terms pages live.

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