Loughborough Wave Lab vs 3DPhyS
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)
3DPhyS
Explore fundamental physics concepts through interactive simulations. Adjust parameters like initial velocity and bounce coefficient to understand phenomena like free fall, projectile motion, and circular motion. This app supports learning in multiple languages.
- Interactive physics simulations
- Adjustable experiment parameters
- Multiple physics experiment modules
- Multilingual interface
- Free to download and use
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3DPhyS offers a fun way to learn physics using Physics Simulator! Localized the home scene into Japanese, English, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Arabic, and Korean! Some parts are still in Japanese, but you can still simulate the game even if you do not understand Japanese! The following courses of experiments are available Free Fall Vertical projection Horizontal projection Oblique projection Monkey Hunting Bounce coefficient Object sliding on a slope Buoyancy force Frictional force Momentum conservation law for two-object collision (bounce coefficient) Momentum conservation law for splitting Circular motion Circular motion under gravity Single swing of pendulum Universal gravitation In each experiment, you can freely change parameters such as initial velocity and bounce coefficient! Please use this app to improve your performance! If you have any comments or typos, please feel free to contact us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loughborough Wave Lab at 4.5 against 3DPhyS's 2.9. Loughborough Wave Lab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 3DPhyS's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 88% of 3DPhyS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, 3DPhyS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | 3DPhyS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | 2.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Sota Takasugi |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
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In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
3DPhyS
No in-app purchases









