Loughborough Wave Lab vs Relativistic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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)
Relativistic
Explore the effects of relativity by adjusting the speed of light and observing real-time changes. Simulate scenarios like time dilation and gravitational blueshift by placing observers and celestial objects on a map. This app offers an intuitive method for understanding Einstein's theory.
- Adjustable speed of light
- Real-time relativity effects
- Observer placement and time dilation
- Black hole simulation
- Gravitational blueshift visualization
- Intuitive learning tool
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Experience the world at the speed of light. Relativistic lets you set the speed of light to walking pace and then walk around your neighborhood and see the effects of relativity in real time. Place observers on a map and watch their time slow down and speed up relative to you as you move. Place a black hole at the end of your road and watch outside observers glow blue as you walk towards its singularity. Relativistic provides an intuitive way to learn about and teach the details of Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Relativistic at 5.0 against Loughborough Wave Lab's 4.5. Relativistic also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). Loughborough Wave Lab's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Relativistic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. 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.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Relativistic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Christopher Leet |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
Relativistic
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Relativistic
No in-app purchases
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