Touch Waves vs Magnetism
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touch Waves
Explore wave physics with interactive animations and detailed explanations. This app covers vibrations, waves on strings, acoustics, and optics, making complex concepts visual and understandable for students and educators.
- Wave physics concepts
- Interactive animations (2D & 3D)
- Basic equations
- Classroom projection support
- Covers vibration, acoustics, optics
- Detailed subject list
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Touch Waves is an educational application helpful for a high-school or university course of wave physics. It contains not only a memorandum of the basic equations, but it also contains approximately thirty animations (some in 3D) illustrating the various concepts of wave physics. More than 70 screens of wave physics! For teachers !! Connect your iPad to a video projector and show the animations to your students in classroom. List of covered subjects: Vibration: Harmonic oscillator, damped oscillator, driven oscillator. Wave on strings: Introduction, reflection and transmission, standing waves. Acoustics: Introduction, reflection and transmission, Doppler effect. Optics: Geometric optics, wave optics, polarization, Jones formulation of polarization, reflection and transmission, interference, diffraction, Doppler-Fizeau effect. Each section contains at least one animation. List of animations: Motion of harmonic oscillator, Motion of damped oscillator, Motion of driven oscillator, Progressive transversal wave, Reflection and transmission on string, Standing waves on string, Progressive longitudinal wave, Beating wave, Acoustic frequency, Acoustic Spectrometer, Acoustic Doppler effect, Snell-Descartes’ law, Law of spherical interface, Law of thin lens, Law of thick lens, Law of spherical mirror, Geometric aberration, Chromatic aberration, Visible spectrum, Electromagnetic wave in 3D, Electromagnetic spectrum, Absorption and emission of photon, Types of polarization, Types of polarization in 3D, Fresnel’s coefficients, Reflection and transmission in 3D, Degree of polarization in reflection, Interference in 3D, Young's interferometer, Michelson's interferometer, Fabry-Pérot interferometer, Diffraction by rectangular aperture, Diffraction by circular aperture.
Magnetism
Explore the principles of permanent magnets and magnetic materials with interactive animations and diagrams. Learn about magnetization and demagnetization methods, and test your knowledge with quizzes. Designed for K12 physics students to easily grasp complex concepts.
- Permanent magnet fundamentals
- Magnetization and demagnetization
- Interactive 3D animations
- Virtual experiments
- Electromagnetism quizzes
- Diagrams and graphical representations
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Electromagnetism - Physics app is designed for K12 physics students which explains the fundamentals of permanent magnets and magnetic materials. The app helps to learn the methods of magnetization and demagnetization with high-quality professional animations. Each topic is explained with diagrams, graphical representations and animations along with simple description to understand the physics concept easily. Modules of Electromagnetism - Physics Learn - Understanding electromagnetism through a compass needle experiment to identify north and south poles with an interactive video. Students can learn about magnets, magnetization and electromagnets in this section. Magnets - This section helps to learn about permanent magnets, magnetic and non-magnetic material types using nails, safety pin and needle through interactive 3D animations. Magnetization - Interactive videos using hammer to understand -Magnetization -Demagnetization -Induced magnetism -Magnetic field Electromagnets - Learn to calculate strength of electromagnet in an easy way with soft iron core. 2) Practice - Activities and virtual experiments for plotting magnetic field lines and magnetic field around solenoid with 3D animations. 3) Quiz - The interactive quiz with score board to evaluate your level of learning about electromagnetism. Download the Electromagnetism - Physics and other educational apps published by Ajax Media Tech Pvt Ltd. With the gamified education model, students will be able to absorb and learn the basics of science with minimal efforts and maximum retention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magnetism at 5.0 against Touch Waves's 3.0. Magnetism also leads on price ($0.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Touch Waves's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 33 months) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). On ratings volume, 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
Touch Waves costs $3.99 and Magnetism $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Magnetism holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Touch Waves's written reviews are positive against 50% of Magnetism's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Touch Waves ships an update every 5 months, Magnetism every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touch Waves | Magnetism |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xavier Daxhelet | www.ajaxmediatech.com |
Customer experience
Touch Waves
Magnetism
In-app purchases
Touch Waves
No in-app purchases
Magnetism
No in-app purchases
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