FeenoX vs PhysicsHub
FeenoX
seamplex.comPhysicsHub
physicshub.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | FeenoX | PhysicsHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Physics Simulation Software | 8.8 (#3) | 7.6 (#52) |
| Audience | Official pages present FeenoX for industry engineers, Unix hackers and academic professors, with advanced users as the target audience. | Simulations are tagged for middle school, high school, university, or tool and demo levels. |
| Authoring tools | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery mode | desktop | web |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | It reads Gmsh meshes, uses PETSc and SLEPc solvers, and writes Gmsh MSH or ParaView VTK/VTU results. | The site credits p5.js and Nature of Code for some simulation concepts; it does not identify product integrations on the pages reviewed. |
| Lesson library | No | Yes |
| License | FeenoX is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version, with freedom to use, modify and redistribute it under the license terms. | The site says the project is released under the MIT License. |
| Purpose | FeenoX is a cloud-first computational engineering tool for solving engineering problems with one or many computers in parallel. | PhysicsHub is a web application that helps students understand physics through interactive simulations and accessible theory. |
Plans
In their own words
FeenoX
FeenoX is free, open-source computational engineering software for solving mathematical and engineering problems, including work across computers in parallel. It handles ODEs and DAEs, along with finite-element problems such as heat conduction, thermo-mechanical analysis, modal analysis, neutron diffusion, and neutron transport. Users describe problems in self-descriptive, English-like plain-text input files, so changes do not require recompiling. FeenoX reads Gmsh meshes and writes results in Gmsh MSH or ParaView VTK/VTU formats. It uses GNU GSL, SUNDIALS, PETSc, and SLEPc for computational tasks, and supports MPI parallelization. Installation options include Debian or Ubuntu packages, source tarballs, the GitHub repository, and generic statically linked GNU/Linux binaries. Ubuntu packages are available from version 25.04 onward. The generic binaries omit MUMPS and MPI and use basic optimization flags. FeenoX has no graphical interface, targets GNU/Linux, and is not expected to run in Windows. Browser access is available through interfaces such as SunCAE and CAEplex.
PhysicsHub
PhysicsHub has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.