Karunattu

The only Carnatic music app with real-time pitch detection across all 22 Indian microtones (shrutis), an authentic 11-instrument synth engine calibrated against historical recordings, and a full studio for composing your own krithis. WHAT EVERY USER GETS (FREE) • Tune. Pick your Sa and start the tampura drone in any of 23 semitones. The drone follows you across every screen. • Learn. 107 catalogued ragas across the 72-melakarta scheme, with audio examples — hear the arohana/avarohana, see the swaras on a 22-shruti grid, learn how parent ragas relate to their derivative ragas. • Practice. Sarali varisai, janta varisai, dhattu varisai, alankara drills — with real-time cents feedback on every swara. Carnatic-aware, not 12-TET. • Compose. The Compose Studio lets you arrange your own krithis. Choose a raga, a tala, an instrument; generate phrases; export to MIDI. • Track. Practice streaks, XP, and the Riyaz Journal — see exactly what you practiced and for how long. PLUS — $4.99/MONTH OR $24.99/YEAR, AUTO-RENEWABLE For the serious student: • Voice Coach — sing any 8 notes; get 29-dosha feedback (Sangeet Parijat voice analysis) tuned to your voice's natural temperament. • Dosha Coach — sing freely; live pitch accuracy, vibrato, nasality, breathiness, phrase-shape fault detection. • Tuner — live cents feedback on whatever you're singing or playing. • Curriculum — Tyagaraja varnams, geethams, and the Eleven Krithis, with step-by-step lesson plans. • Self-Review — record yourself, hear the difference between your pitch and the target. • Svara Lane — visual feedback lane for live practice. PRO — $19.99/MONTH OR $99.99/YEAR, AUTO-RENEWABLE For the producer: • Studio — chain alapana to kriti to niraval to kalpana to tani to tillana to mangalam. • Pallavi RTP Builder — 8-section RTP scaffold with anuloma and nadai cycle. • Film Composer — score for picture with raga-constrained melody. Export MIDI. • Broadcast Master — Spotify/YouTube-ready loudness target (-14 LUFS +/-1). • Raga Builder — design your own raga with custom arohana/avarohana. Validates Lakshana grammar. • Tala Builder — design any of 175 parametric tala forms. • Plus everything in Plus. Plus and Pro are auto-renewable subscriptions billed to your Apple ID. Payment is charged at purchase confirmation and renews automatically for the same period and price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. PRIVACY No account and no personal-data collection. Audio is processed on your iPhone; practice history, recordings, and preferences stay on your device. Subscriptions are managed by Apple StoreKit. Delete local app data using the app's reset controls or by uninstalling Karunattu. CULTURAL CREDIT Built on the Sangeet Parijat backbone — 107 catalogued ragas across the 72-melakarta scheme, 26 gamakas, 175 tala forms, 22-shruti just-intonation. Calibrated against real masters: Chitti Babu (veena), Lalgudi Jayaraman (violin), T. R. Mahalingam / Mali (venu), M. S. Subbulakshmi (voice), Sheik Chinna Moulana (nadaswaram), T. N. Rajarathnam Pillai (nadaswaram), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (mridangam). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://karunattu.com/privacy