Basic Electric Circuit vs Verve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Electric Circuit
Explore fundamental electrical concepts like Volts, Amps, and Ohms. This app allows you to build and visualize simple series and parallel circuits with batteries and resistors, demonstrating current flow.
- Learn Volts, Amps, and Ohms
- Simulate series and parallel circuits
- Visualize current flow
- Use batteries and resistors
- Educational tool for electrical concepts
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Learn about basic electric circuits calculations with cells or batteries and resistors in series and parallel. Learn about Volts, Amps and Ohms. Create simple circuits and see how the current flows.
Verve
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Verve is a real-time electromagnetism visualizer for beginners, and is used in Electric and Electronic Engineering Course of Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology. We will provide it free for distribution to students and distribution to educators involved in electromagnetism education. Because it sticks to the real-time feedback, calculation is omitted in several parts. Please understand.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Verve at Free against Basic Electric Circuit's $3.99. Verve also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months). Basic Electric Circuit's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Verve is free to download; Basic Electric Circuit costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Basic Electric Circuit ships an update every 6 months, Verve every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Electric Circuit | Verve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Willie van Schalkwyk | Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI |
In-app purchases
Basic Electric Circuit
No in-app purchases
Verve
No in-app purchases
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