Touch Waves vs AIR & SPACE
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.
AIR & SPACE
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Discover the history of space exploration with the help of the NASA Image and Video Library, Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD - is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University), NASA's Open Data Portal, Launch Library and OpenSky Network API (flight radar). - Greatest moments of the 65 space age; - NASA - Human Spaceflight: 1. Project Mercury; 2. The Gemini Program; 3. The Apollo Program; 4. Skylab; 5. Apollo Soyuz Test Project; 6. The Space Shuttle Missions List; 7. The Shuttle-Mir Program; 8. NASA astronauts; 9. Extra-vehicular Activity (EVA); 10. Unmanned NASA missions; - The Space Race; - Cold War Timeline; - List of upcoming rocket launches to space; - Dr. Wernher von Braun; - Cargo space vehicles; - The most powerful rockets; - International Space Station; - International Space Station Current Location (+ ISS Flight Tracker); - Air Shows Calendar (USA, Canada); - Where to see retired spacecrafts; - NASA Centers and Facilities; - List of aerospace museums (USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Countries of the European Union); - List of rocket launch sites; - A collection of NASA research aircraft; - The solar system; - The Best Places for Plane Spotting (USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Countries of the European Union); - List of airports (USA: large and medium); - List of seaplane bases (USA); - Balloon ports (USA); - Where to See Concorde; - Air Force Bases - Locations (USA); - The biggest Naval Bases in the US; - List of Airlines with liveries; - List of aircraft manufacturers, - List of all Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 Routes and Fleets; - How to Identify a Boeing from an Airbus; - Best Spaceflight and Space History Books; - 11 must-see space movies for anyone serious about space; - List of Astronauts, - List of human spaceflights; - Aircraft detection; - Flight radar based on OpenSky Network API. All of them are available here in this mobile application. Save in your album the pictures you like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: AIR & SPACE at every 9 days against Touch Waves's every 5 months. AIR & SPACE also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Touch Waves costs $3.99 and AIR & SPACE $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Touch Waves ships an update every 5 months, AIR & SPACE every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touch Waves | AIR & SPACE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xavier Daxhelet | Sergey Savitskiy |
In-app purchases
Touch Waves
No in-app purchases
AIR & SPACE
No in-app purchases









