Loughborough Wave Lab vs Atomify
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)
Atomify
Explore atomic physics and molecular behavior with a powerful simulation tool. Visualize atoms and molecules in liquids, solids, and gases, transforming your device into a personal physics laboratory for learning or research.
- Atomic and molecular simulations
- Visual understanding of matter
- Physics research tool
- LAMMPS integration
- Open-source code
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LAMMPS on your phone/tablet! Learn about atomic physics or show your research to other people. Gain intuitive visual understanding of how atoms behave in liquids, solids and gases. With Atomify, your phone/tablet is transformed into a physics simulator allowing you to study atoms and molecules building up everything on this planet. In Atomify you are in charge of the universe. You are God. Perfect for anyone wanting to understand physics at the atomic level. The simulations are performed with the high performance molecular dynamics code, LAMMPS[1]. Developed by Anders Hafreager and Svenn-Arne Dragly (PhD candidates at the University of Oslo). Atomify LAMMPS is open source (GPLv3) and the source code can be found on GitHub[2]. [1] http://lammps.sandia.gov/ [2] https://github.com/ovilab/atomify
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Loughborough Wave Lab at every 3 months against Atomify's every 7 months. Atomify's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Loughborough Wave Lab against 4.5 for Atomify. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Loughborough Wave Lab's written reviews are positive against 75% of Atomify's.
Loughborough Wave Lab ships an update every 3 months, Atomify every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loughborough Wave Lab | Atomify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Browne | Anders Hafreager |
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Loughborough Wave Lab
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In-app purchases
Loughborough Wave Lab
No in-app purchases
Atomify
No in-app purchases
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