Touch Waves vs StarPromenadeLight
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.
StarPromenadeLight
Experience realistic space travel with a simulator that uses extensive star catalog data. Explore the universe at incredible speeds, witnessing familiar constellations transform into new shapes. Choose your destination and embark on an interstellar journey.
- Realistic space travel simulation
- Extensive stellar position data
- High-speed interstellar flight
- Transforming constellation visuals
- Selectable star destinations
- Adjustable flight speed
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This is a space travel simulator. This app has many stellar position data from star catalogue. By using them ,you can experience real space travel. You can aboard the space ship that can fly some billions times faster than ISS. As you fly, familiar constellations metamorphose into the novel shape you have never seen before. Select your favorite star(destination) in [Control Room]. Go to [Univers], and press start or back button. You can change the speed(Engine Power) by slider
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: StarPromenadeLight at Free against Touch Waves's $3.99. StarPromenadeLight also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (13.5 vs 26.0). Touch Waves's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 13 months). 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
StarPromenadeLight is free to download; Touch Waves costs $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, StarPromenadeLight every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touch Waves | StarPromenadeLight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xavier Daxhelet | Takao Akatsu |
Customer experience
Touch Waves
StarPromenadeLight
In-app purchases
Touch Waves
No in-app purchases
StarPromenadeLight
No in-app purchases
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