Best apps like Lemur

9+ similar apps compared and reviewed

4.5 avg rating
3 free apps
Updated September 2026
Lemur
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Top Alternatives to Lemur

VS – Visual Synthesizer#1

VS – Visual Synthesizer by Imaginando Lda

Audio / MIDI reactive visuals
Editor's Choice
🎵 Music
4.6😐(125 ratings)
$24.99In-App Purchases
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Generate dynamic, audio-reactive visuals for your music projects. This app offers extensive customization with layers, shaders, images, and video, allowing you to perform visuals live or record them for your tracks. Integrate seamlessly with DAWs and external displays.

What We Love

  • ✨ Awesome audiovisual workflow
  • 💡 Powerful yet easy to use
  • 🎨 Great for getting vibes out
  • 🌟 Expands musical aspirations visually
  • 🎛️ Easy to work with (Imaginando apps)
  • 🎛️ Modulation matrix is a breeze (with FRMS)
  • 🚀 Super performance shaders (potential)
  • 💰 Worth every penny
  • 👍 Excellent developer support
  • ✨ Spectacular updates
  • 👂 Developers listen to users
  • 🎶 Perfect for combining beats with graphics
  • 💡 Innovative app
  • 🧑‍🎨 Great for visual artists and performers
  • ✨ Interesting and cool visuals
  • 🎶 Reacts to audio and MIDI input
  • 🎛️ LFOs and envelopes for movement
  • 🎨 Customizable GLSL shaders
  • 🖼️ Video as texture maps
  • 🎵 Supports AIFF files
  • 🌟 Great for live performance visuals
  • 💡 Unique audio-visual station
  • 🎛️ Well-designed instrument
  • 📂 Native file system integration
  • ✨ Impressive features and abilities
  • 🤩 Makes music sound better
  • 🚀 Smooth performance on older devices
  • 💡 Visual ROMpler concept
  • 👍 Good start and long-sought feature
  • 💯 Amazing app
  • 🌟 Unique tool in iOS music ecosystem
  • 👍 First-rate quality tutorials
  • 🚀 Daring and fresh to iOS music
  • 🎨 Great for designing layers
  • 💡 Great for real-time audio/MIDI visuals

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 No elegant way for live synchronized video out
  • 🔌 Popout to external displays only in standalone app
  • 🚫 Standalone app can't run in background
  • 🎛️ Doesn't work well plugged into looper or DAW
  • ❌ Not fun at all
  • 🔊 No live sounds
  • 🖼️ No quality visuals (user opinion)
  • 🖱️ No easy interface (user opinion)
  • ❓ Bought but can't download
  • 🐛 Video record export issue (long duration)
  • 🐛 NDI stream not working
  • 📉 Crashes frequently
  • 🗄️ Can't cope with large MP3 files
  • ⏯️ No way to seek in audio files
  • ❌ Doesn't support .aiff files (only .aif)
  • 🚫 Missing Bluetooth MIDI
  • 🐌 Not smooth, freezes
  • ❌ No MP3 support
  • 🐌 Jaggy and slow performance with video background
  • 🐌 Unresponsive interface with HD video
  • ❓ Not the easiest app to understand
  • ❓ No step-by-step tutorial
  • 🔌 Can't link audio and use IA
  • 🔌 Not seen as plugin or IA option
  • 🚫 Doesn't work in other DAWs
  • ❓ Can't import own audio (user opinion)
  • 🤔 More of a play thing than a visualizer
  • 📱 Can't access half GUI in AUv3 on iPhone
  • ❌ Online documentation for desktop version
  • 🚫 In-app help doesn't work
  • 🖼️ AUv3 mode covers whole display, destroying aesthetics
  • 🤔 Preset materials can become boring
  • 🐛 Apt help doesn't work
Mynth - Polyphonic Synthesizer#2

Mynth - Polyphonic Synthesizer by Fingerlab

AUv3, Synth, Arpeggio & MIDI
Strong Contender
🎵 Music
4.8(44 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Create unique sounds by drawing waveforms, adjusting filters, and controlling parameters with LFOs. Explore a vast sound palette with factory presets or build your own. Supports MIDI, AudioUnit, and live recording for track creation.

Pixel Music#3

Pixel Music by Andrei Antonescu

Make music from images
Worth Considering
🎵 Music
4.6(7 ratings)
$5.99
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Transform your favorite images into unique musical compositions. This app uses pixel data to control pitch, duration, and velocity, allowing you to create melodies and rhythms by interacting with visuals. Explore various traversal methods and image data types for diverse sonic results.

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LH Grain
LH Grain
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