Comparison

Touch Waves vs Magnetism

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Wave physics concepts
  • Interactive animations (2D & 3D)
  • Basic equations
  • Classroom projection support
  • Covers vibration, acoustics, optics
  • Detailed subject list
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Permanent magnet fundamentals
  • Magnetization and demagnetization
  • Interactive 3D animations
  • Virtual experiments
  • Electromagnetism quizzes
  • Diagrams and graphical representations
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Touch Waves4 screens
Magnetism4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Touch Waves costs $3.99 and Magnetism $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Touch Waves versus Magnetism: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTouch WavesMagnetism
Price$3.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 33 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXavier Daxheletwww.ajaxmediatech.com

Customer experience

Touch Waves

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative26.3%

Magnetism

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Touch Waves

No in-app purchases

None

Magnetism

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Touch Waves free?
Touch Waves costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magnetism free?
Magnetism costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Touch Waves or Magnetism?
Magnetism is rated higher. Touch Waves averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Magnetism averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Touch Waves or Magnetism have ads?
Neither Touch Waves nor Magnetism shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Touch Waves or Magnetism?
Touch Waves ships an update every 5 months, and Magnetism every 33 months. Most recently, Touch Waves was updated on September 5, 2026 and Magnetism on June 25, 2026.

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