Electromag vs Pic2Mag
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electromag
Explore fundamental concepts of electromagnetism through interactive animations and detailed explanations. This app supports high school and university courses, covering electrostatics, electric current, magnetism, and Maxwell's equations with visual aids.
- Basic equations memorandum
- 20+ electromagnetism animations
- 3D animations
- Covers electrostatics, electric current, magnetism, and electromagnetism
- Includes physical constants
- Classroom projection support
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Electromag is an educative application in support to a high-school or university course of electromagnetism. It contains not only a memorandum of the basic equations, but it also contains approximately twenty animations illustrating the various concepts of electromagnetism. This application runs also on iPad and iPod Touch 3rd generation and later. 50 screens of electromagnetism! For teachers !! Connect your iPad with a video projector and show the animations to your students in classroom. List of covered subjects: Electrostatics: Coulomb'sLaw, Electric Field, Gauss Theorem, Electric Potential, Capacitance. Electric Current: Current and Resistance, Circuits. Magnetism: Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields Due to Currents, Electromagnetic Induction, Inductance. Electromagnetism: Maxwell Equations, Wave Equation. Physical Constants. Each section contains at least one animation of which some in 3D. List of animations: - Coulomb's law, - Electric field lines, - Movement of a charge in electric field, - Electric dipole, - Lead-acid battery, - Torque on a current loop (in 3D), - Charge in magnetic field, - Cyclotron, - Induction field due to a current in a long straight wire (in 3D), - Generator (in 3D).
Pic2Mag
Visualize magnetic and electric fields by drawing magnets or charges. This educational tool helps students understand physics concepts by displaying field lines and voltage potentials. It offers a free, ad-free learning experience for iOS devices.
- Draw magnets to visualize magnetic fields
- Draw charges to visualize electric fields
- Magnetostatic and Electrostatic modes
- Field line and voltage potential plotting
- Caches results for faster processing
- Ad-free learning experience
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The user draws the magnets and the Pic2Mag program draws the magnetic fields. The Field Calculator program now has a Magnetostatic mode, and an Electrostatic mode to plot either magnetic fields or electric fields. The program designed to help students learn Magnetic fields and Electric fields. You can draw magnets and look at the magnetic field, or you can draw electric charges and look at the electric voltage field. The best free magnetic science program you can download! No advertisements, it's just all app. The app can process most images in just a few minutes. The app caches it's results so the more that you use it, the faster the program processes images. Red pixels represent magnets with a North pole surface facing the observer, and Blue pixels represent magnets with a South pole surface facing the observer. Pink pixels represent positive electric charges, and Dark Purple pixels represent negative electric charges
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pic2Mag at Free against Electromag's $1.99. Pic2Mag also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.6). Electromag's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 31 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Pic2Mag is free to download; Electromag costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Electromag against 5.0 for Pic2Mag. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Electromag ships an update every 9 months, Pic2Mag every 31 months. The most recent releases landed on September 5, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Electromag | Pic2Mag |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 31 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xavier Daxhelet | Michael Snyder |
Customer experience
Electromag
Pic2Mag
In-app purchases
Electromag
No in-app purchases
Pic2Mag
No in-app purchases
