SoundBow vs lgOpre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SoundBow
Create music by drawing curves and gestural movements on a clean interface. Record your own sounds, build melodies, and export compositions as audio files. This app offers a unique, interactive approach to music production.
- Drawing-based music creation
- Gesture-based sound manipulation
- Record and use own sounds
- Export compositions as audio
- Rescale instrument elements
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SoundBow is a drawing based music instrument with a clean and simple visual interface. You can create music by drawing curves over the screen with lines and gestural movements. Apart from drawing, you can rescale your instrument by moving graphical elements around. Record your own sounds through the microphone and start creating melodies, soundscapes with your own voice. If you wish, you can also export your composition as an audio file. "Touch-based mobile devices allowed interactive, gesture-based music production to hit the masses. So far, this type of musical creation hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. But SoundBow, a drawing-based musical instrument app, should shake things up a little bit with its clean, minimal visual interface and mesmerizing potential for complex, loop-based music production." - The Creators Project "Binaura bring their beautiful SoundBow app to iOS at last. It is a gorgeous instrument with huge possibilities for expression and creativity. I think that in many ways these are the kinds of apps that iOS was made for." - Palm Sounds SoundBow is made with free and open source tools. The interface is built with OpenFrameworks. The sound engine is made with SodaLib, a free Data Sonification Library built on top of libPd (Pure Data).
lgOpre
Transform your screen into an interactive audiovisual canvas. Trigger sound blocks with rhythmic dots to create immersive compositions. Save your progress automatically and collaborate with friends.
- Interactive audiovisual canvas
- Rhythmic sound block triggering
- Automatic progress saving
- Side-by-side collaboration
- Mesmerizing visual effects
- Harmonious sound creation
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Create with sound and image using lgOpre. Transform your screen into an interactive canvas where sound blocks, triggered by rhythmic dots, create immersive audiovisual compositions. Craft mesmerizing visuals and harmonious sounds with simple taps and swipes. Save your progress Never lose your masterpiece! Your creation is automatically saved, allowing you to pick up exactly where you left off when you return. Collaborate and Create Grab a friend and double the fun! Collaborate side-by-side to spark creativity and craft one-of-a-kind compositions that blend your ideas into something truly unique. Pronounced: luh-GOP-ruh
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: lgOpre at Free against SoundBow's $1.99. lgOpre also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). SoundBow's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
lgOpre is free to download; SoundBow costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
lgOpre holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of SoundBow's written reviews are positive against 100% of lgOpre's.
SoundBow ships an update every 2 months, lgOpre every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoundBow | lgOpre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Agoston Nagy | David Galbraith |
Customer experience
SoundBow
lgOpre
In-app purchases
SoundBow
No in-app purchases
lgOpre
No in-app purchases







