Loughborough Wave Lab vs Turing Machine
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)
Turing Machine
This application allows users to write and execute algorithms on a Turing machine. It is designed to help engineering students in higher education practice and verify their work with algorithms.
- Write algorithms
- Execute algorithms
- Verify algorithm work
- Turing machine simulation
- Educational tool for engineering students
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Write and execute algorithms on the Turing machine with this application. In higher education, engineering students often have to practice learning how a Turing machine works. This app will allow you to conveniently record and verify the work of algorithms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Turing Machine at 5.0 against Loughborough Wave Lab's 4.5. Turing Machine also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). Loughborough Wave Lab's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.2). 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.
Turing Machine 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.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, Turing Machine every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Turing Machine |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Rustam Khakhuk |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
Turing Machine
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Turing Machine
No in-app purchases
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