Loughborough Wave Lab vs BASIC LR Instructor
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)
BASIC LR Instructor
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This Apps provides reference material and bedside aids for BASIC DHS course participants.
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Verdict
Loughborough Wave Lab and BASIC LR Instructor are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, BASIC LR Instructor every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | BASIC LR Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
BASIC LR Instructor
No in-app purchases
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