Loughborough Wave Lab vs Oscillators
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)
Oscillators
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Oscillators offers educational tools for experimenting with digital resonators. In particular, it demonstrates the use of the Resonate algorithm for efficient, high temporal and frequency resolution spectral analysis of audio signals. This app especially encourages live experimentation with microphone input.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Loughborough Wave Lab at 13.0 against Oscillators's 16.6. On price, update cadence, 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.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, Oscillators every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Oscillators |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Alexandre Francois |
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Oscillators
No in-app purchases
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