Plotter vs Loughborough Wave Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plotter
Easily plot graphs of mathematical functions by entering formulas and specifying a range. Supports multiple functions and offers interactive chart themes. Share your plots via email.
- Plot graphs of functions
- Enter formulas and specify range
- Plot multiple functions
- Interactive chart themes
- Email charts and formulas
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Plot graphs of functions. Enter your formula and the range you want to plot. Features: - By separating the formulas with semicolons you can draw more than one function. - Turn the phone to quickly jump between graph and formula. - Tap the chart to flip through the themes. - E-Mail the formulas, charts and let others open them in the plotter web application.
Loughborough Wave Lab
This educational app helps students grasp electromagnetic wave concepts through interactive simulations. It features a virtual ripple tank, waveguide simulator, and Young's Double Slit experiment. Educators can create custom simulations for an enhanced learning experience.
- Virtual pond and ripple tank
- Sinusoidal pulse generation
- Waveguide simulation
- Young's Double Slit experiment
- Custom simulation mode
- Educator-authored simulation uploads
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Loughborough Wave Lab is an educational learning app designed to aid students in their understanding of electromagnetic wave concepts in an engaging and entertaining way! Features include: • Virtual pond • Persistent Sinusoidal Pulses • Virtual Ripple Tank • Waveguide Simulator • Young's Double Slit Experiment • Custom Simulation Mode Loughborough Wave Lab is intended to accompany teaching on Electromagnetic phenomena and to provide students with an interactive way of seeing these principles in action! Educators can now author their own custom simulation files, upload them to a web server and then have Loughborough Wave Lab execute the simulations using a WiFi or cellular data connection to download the configurations and display them to the user. This uses the new, open-source configuration standard CEML which has been introduced by the developer (available at www.github.com/danielrbrowne/CEML)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loughborough Wave Lab at 80% against Plotter's 0%. Loughborough Wave Lab also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.5 vs 1.0). Plotter's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Loughborough Wave Lab is free to download; Plotter costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Loughborough Wave Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loughborough Wave Lab has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Plotter's written reviews are positive against 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's.
Plotter ships an update every 7 months, Loughborough Wave Lab every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plotter | Loughborough Wave Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Daniel Browne |
Customer experience
Plotter
Loughborough Wave Lab
In-app purchases
Plotter
No in-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
