# Granula: Ambient Playground — Granular ambient synth

> Granular ambient synth (iPhone/iPad app by Sergey Duzhev.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/granula-ambient-playground/id6802344113 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sergey Duzhev](https://appshunter.io/developer/1475892533)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-10

## What is Granula?

Granula is a granular synthesizer for the phone. It takes a sound — a chord it generates itself, a guitar, a kalimba, a tongue drum, or thirty seconds you record on the spot — and scatters it into hundreds of tiny overlapping grains. What comes back is a slow, shifting texture: ambient pads, drones, atmospheres that keep evolving as long as you keep listening.

Everything is played with your hands. The whole screen is a morph pad: move a finger across it and the sound moves with you, while a field of glyphs lights up under your touch and churns in time with what you hear.

FOUR CORNERS, FOUR CHARACTERS

• Reverse — short grains, played mostly backwards, with octave and fifth sparkles on top
• Gater — a denser cloud chopped on a 126 BPM grid, from halves down to sixteenths
• Chorus — long, slow, detuned grains with the read position drifting like a tide
• Scatter — harmonic intervals thrown at random and sprayed wide

FOUR KNOBS

• Grain size, from 15 ms clicks to one-second smears
• Position — where in the sample the grains are lifted from
• Density, from sparse drips to a solid wash
• Dry/Wet — a six-second convolution reverb, plus the amount of reversed grains

RECORD THE WORLD

Hold the record button and capture up to thirty seconds of anything: your voice, a room, rain on a window, a string you plucked once. The take is granulated immediately and kept in your library under a name of its own. You can also import your own MP3 or WAV files.

MADE FOR A PHONE

• Keeps playing with the screen locked and in the background
• Survives calls, headphone unplugs and output switches without losing your session
• Plays through the silent switch, like an instrument should
• Any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard plays it — plug in and go, nothing to pair inside the app
• Honours Reduce Motion

GRANULA PRO

Every built-in sound is free and stays free. A free account also brings in one sound of your own — recorded or imported. Granula Pro lifts that limit: record and import as much as you like, and everything syncs to your account so a new phone picks up where the last one left off.

Granula Pro is $2.99 per month, billed to your Apple Account and renewing until you cancel. Cancel any time in Settings.

No ads. No analytics. No tracking.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Granula Pro | $2.99 | per month |


## Is Granula safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Granula.

## Is Granula legit?

Granula: Ambient Playground appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Granula is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-25

A new profile screen. Tap the person at the top left of the pad to see your plan, leave feedback, rate Granula, read the privacy policy and terms, and sign out or delete your account.

New setting: Background playback. Turn it off and Granula stops when you leave the app, instead of playing on.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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All apps by Sergey Duzhev: https://appshunter.io/developer/1475892533

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