Pic2Mag vs Meditative Pendulum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Meditative Pendulum
Explore the mesmerizing motion of a double pendulum with this physics-based interactive application. Adjust various parameters like mass, drag, and visual elements to create unique simulations. You can also directly interact with the pendulum by grabbing and throwing it.
- Double pendulum simulation
- Elastic pendulum simulation
- Adjustable physics parameters
- Customizable graphics
- Interactive pendulum control
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Contemplate the chaos of the double pendulum and elastic pendulum with this physics based interactive app. In this elegant app, you can edit the physics parameters (mass, drag, time scale) and graphics parameters (trail size, second pendulum visibility/color...) as well as grab and throw the pendulum.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pic2Mag at 5.0 against Meditative Pendulum's 4.2. Pic2Mag also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). Meditative Pendulum's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Pic2Mag holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meditative Pendulum has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pic2Mag ships an update every 31 months, Meditative Pendulum every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pic2Mag | Meditative Pendulum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Snyder | Eliott Morgensztern |
Customer experience
Pic2Mag
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In-app purchases
Pic2Mag
No in-app purchases
Meditative Pendulum
No in-app purchases
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