Verve vs Pic2Mag
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Pic2Mag
Visualize magnetic and electric fields by drawing magnets or charges. This educational tool helps students understand physics concepts by displaying field lines and voltage potentials. It offers a free, ad-free learning experience for iOS devices.
- Draw magnets to visualize magnetic fields
- Draw charges to visualize electric fields
- Magnetostatic and Electrostatic modes
- Field line and voltage potential plotting
- Caches results for faster processing
- Ad-free learning experience
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The user draws the magnets and the Pic2Mag program draws the magnetic fields. The Field Calculator program now has a Magnetostatic mode, and an Electrostatic mode to plot either magnetic fields or electric fields. The program designed to help students learn Magnetic fields and Electric fields. You can draw magnets and look at the magnetic field, or you can draw electric charges and look at the electric voltage field. The best free magnetic science program you can download! No advertisements, it's just all app. The app can process most images in just a few minutes. The app caches it's results so the more that you use it, the faster the program processes images. Red pixels represent magnets with a North pole surface facing the observer, and Blue pixels represent magnets with a South pole surface facing the observer. Pink pixels represent positive electric charges, and Dark Purple pixels represent negative electric charges
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Verve at every 5 days against Pic2Mag's every 31 months. Pic2Mag's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Verve ships an update every 5 days, Pic2Mag every 31 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Verve | Pic2Mag |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 31 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI | Michael Snyder |
In-app purchases
Verve
No in-app purchases
Pic2Mag
No in-app purchases
