Loughborough Wave Lab vs Kaemika
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)
Kaemika
Explore chemical reactions through simulation and programming. Design complex reaction networks, model their kinetics, and automate lab protocols on a digital microfluidics platform.
- Chemical programming support
- Generate reaction networks
- Simulate reaction kinetics
- Program lab protocols
- Digital microfluidics simulation
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Experiment with "chemical programming" with full support for programming abstractions. Generate chemical reaction networks, simulate their kinetics, and program their lab protocols on a simulated digital microfluidics device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kaemika at 5.0 against Loughborough Wave Lab's 4.5. Kaemika also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). Loughborough Wave Lab's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1). 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.
Kaemika 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kaemika's.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, Kaemika every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Kaemika |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — 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 | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Luca Cardelli |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
Kaemika
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Kaemika
No in-app purchases
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