Loughborough Wave Lab vs Spiro
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)
Spiro
Create mesmerizing animated spirographs with this interactive generator. Experiment with various parameters to produce unique visual effects. Built with Swift Playgrounds 4.
- Interactive spirograph generation
- Animated visual effects
- Parameter customization
- Hypotrochoid manipulation
- Built with Swift Playgrounds 4
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An interactive animating spirograph generator. Changing the different parameters of the hypotrochoid leads to mesmerising effects. Built using Swift Playgrounds 4.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loughborough Wave Lab at 80% against Spiro's 33%. Loughborough Wave Lab also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (13 vs 3). 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.
Loughborough Wave Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 33% of Spiro's.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Spiro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | An Trinh |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
Spiro
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Spiro
No in-app purchases
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