Comparison

Pic2Mag vs ViscousJoukowski

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

ViscousJoukowski

Features
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Are you interested in fluid dynamics? Viscous Joukowski simulates the flow around a Joukowski airfoil by solving the two-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations directly on your device. For teachers, students, and curious aerodynamicists, it provides an interactive way to explore how viscosity changes lift, drag, pressure, boundary layers, separation, and wake formation. Watch vorticity, speed, pressure, and streamlines evolve around the airfoil. Change the angle of attack, thickness, and camber by dragging directly on the flow field, or use precision controls. Adjust the Reynolds number to explore steady flow, separated wakes, starting vortices, and vortex shedding. Surface-pressure curves and aerodynamic-force estimates update as the simulation develops. The app also includes the classical analytical Joukowski potential-flow solution. Overlay it on the computed viscous pressure distribution to see where the ideal textbook model agrees with—or departs from—the Navier–Stokes result. In the potential solution, circulation is selected using the Kutta condition; in the viscous simulation, circulation and the wake develop dynamically from the no-slip flow. All calculations run locally using Apple MLX and GPU-accelerated Fourier methods. No server, account, or cloud computation is required.

Screenshots

Pic2Mag4 screens
ViscousJoukowski4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pic2Mag at 3 against ViscousJoukowski's 1. Pic2Mag also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Pic2Mag versus ViscousJoukowski: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPic2MagViscousJoukowski
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 31 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael SnyderManneTroll Solutions

In-app purchases

None

Pic2Mag

No in-app purchases

None

ViscousJoukowski

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pic2Mag free?
Pic2Mag is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ViscousJoukowski free?
ViscousJoukowski is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pic2Mag or ViscousJoukowski have ads?
Neither Pic2Mag nor ViscousJoukowski shows ads.

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