Loughborough Wave Lab vs ONELAB
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)
ONELAB
This application provides a finite element package for simulating multi-physics problems. It integrates with open-source tools for mesh generation and solving, offering ready-to-use examples for electromagnetics, thermics, and mechanics.
- Finite element package
- Multi-physic problem simulation
- Electromagnetics, thermics, mechanics
- Integrates with Gmsh and GetDP
- Ready-to-use examples
- Add new models via zip archives
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ONELAB (http://onelab.info) is a finite element package based on the open source mesh generator Gmsh (http://gmsh.info) and the solver GetDP (http://getdp.info). It can be used to simulate a wide variety of multi-physic problems: electromagnetics, thermics, mechanics... ONELAB comes packaged with a selection of ready-to-use examples. New models can be added simply by opening the corresponding zip archive (in Safari, iCloud, Dropbox, etc.).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Loughborough Wave Lab at 4.5 against ONELAB's 3.0. Loughborough Wave Lab also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). ONELAB's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). 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 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. 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. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 100% of ONELAB'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, ONELAB every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | ONELAB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| 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 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Christophe Geuzaine |
Customer experience
Loughborough Wave Lab
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In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
ONELAB
No in-app purchases
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