Loughborough Wave Lab vs MatterBricks
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)
MatterBricks
Explore the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions. Combine elementary particles to discover how they form other particles found in nature. An educational journey into the core of physics.
- Simulate elementary particle interactions
- Combine particles to form new ones
- Discover fundamental particles
- Educational physics exploration
- Interactive learning experience
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These tiny little bricks are elementary particles representing the basic structure of our matter and beyond. Find out how they interact with each other to combine them into other fundamental particles that exist in nature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loughborough Wave Lab at 80% against MatterBricks's 0%. Loughborough Wave Lab also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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, MatterBricks every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | MatterBricks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Kirill Skovpen |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
MatterBricks
In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
MatterBricks
No in-app purchases
Questions
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