The Elements in Action Downloads & RevenueThe Elements in Action · App Store
The Elements in Action is #155 in Education Paid in South Korea and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
The Elements in Action update history & changes
Last change · 11 events since 21 Nov 2013Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 10 events in the last 12 months
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 📈The Elements in Action new best rank in the overall chart: #125Top Paid · All Apps · TH
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryThailand
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryVietnam
- 📈The Elements in Action entered the top 100Top Paid · Education · DE
- 📈The Elements in Action charting in a new countryGermany
- 🆕The Elements in Action first spotted by AppInsider#49 in Top Paid · Education · South Korea
- 🆕The Elements in Action released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
The Elements in Action on the App Store
App details
The Elements in Action downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| EducationPaid | #155 |
Apps near The Elements in Action on the chart
Education Paid, around #155.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About The Elements in Action
– The New York Times
The periodic table comes to life with 79 video explorations of the weird, wonderful, and sometimes alarming properties of the elements. Filmed by BAFTA award winner Max Whitby in partnership with Theodore Gray, author of the iconic book and app The Elements, and previously available only in a few museum installations, this is the most beautifully filmed collection videos ever assembled to explore and explain what makes each element unique and fascinating.
What happens when highly reactive rubidium is dropped into water? Or when a cannonball is placed in a pool of mercury? The Elements in Action shows you one definitive demonstration for (almost) every element, ranging from the bizarre to the sublime, all assembled in one place for you to view in the comfort and safety of your iPad, with very little danger of death by fire, dismemberment, or poisoning.
The Elements in Action works as a stand-alone app, but really shines when combined with the original app, The Elements: A Visual Exploration. Installed together, the two apps find each other and link together, allowing you to flip seamlessly between viewing the elements as objects of contemplation in the original, and objects of dynamic action in the second.
Touch Press is the publisher of twenty of the most widely admired apps in the world, including the original Elements app, a milestone in digital publishing, as well as Barefoot World Atlas, selected by Apple as one of the ten best apps ever created in the history of the App Store, and Disney Animated, the definitive living story of Disney animated movies.
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Praise for The Elements:
‘Alone worth the price of an iPad!’
- Stephen Fry
‘The iPad’s splendor and power may be best shown by The Elements...The periodic table of elements comes to life.’
USA Today
‘It’s dazzling - it makes science feel like magic in your hands.’
- Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing
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