Comparison

Loughborough Wave Lab vs ColoredMath

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Virtual pond and ripple tank
  • Sinusoidal pulse generation
  • Waveguide simulation
  • Young's Double Slit experiment
  • Custom simulation mode
  • Educator-authored simulation uploads
Features
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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)

About

ColoredMath

Features
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ColoredMath is a simple app allowing you to practice your calculation skills. For each skill (plus, minus, multiply, divide, or combinations thereof) you will have to go through multiple levels with increasing difficulty. Each level has 9 tasks, and you have up to 100 seconds to solve them.

Screenshots

Loughborough Wave Lab4 screens
ColoredMath3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Loughborough Wave Lab at 13.0 against ColoredMath's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, ColoredMath every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Loughborough Wave Lab versus ColoredMath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoughborough Wave LabColoredMath
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel BrowneSven Bergmann

In-app purchases

None

Loughborough Wave Lab

No in-app purchases

None

ColoredMath

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loughborough Wave Lab free?
Loughborough Wave Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ColoredMath free?
ColoredMath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Loughborough Wave Lab or ColoredMath have ads?
Neither Loughborough Wave Lab nor ColoredMath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loughborough Wave Lab or ColoredMath?
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, and ColoredMath every 6 months. Most recently, Loughborough Wave Lab was updated on October 11, 2026 and ColoredMath on October 14, 2026.

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