Loughborough Wave Lab vs TUM interactive
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)
TUM interactive
Explore science through interactive animations, simulations, games, and puzzles. This app offers an entertaining and educational journey through 14 university faculties, covering topics from virtual wind tunnels to the universe.
- Interactive walk through 14 faculties
- Animations, simulations, games, and puzzles
- Virtual wind tunnels
- Simulated swarms and car traffic
- Codebreaker challenges
- Chemical labs
- Universe exploration
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On the occasion of its 150 anniversary the Technical University of Munich presents an interaktive walk trough its 14 faculties. Experience science at your fingertips with animations, simulations, games, and puzzles. Be prepared for an entertaining and educational journey. Virtual wind tunnels, simulated swarms and car traffic, codebreaker challenges, chemical labs and a presentation of the universe from its smallest to its largest dimensions are only some of the topics you will meet among the 28 animations in this App. All explanations in the App available in English and in German.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TUM interactive at every 5 days against Loughborough Wave Lab's every 3 months. TUM interactive also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (94% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
TUM interactive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 94% of TUM interactive's.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, TUM interactive every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | TUM interactive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 4.8 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | science-to-touch |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
TUM interactive
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
TUM interactive
No in-app purchases
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