SoundBow vs Audio Analyzer
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).
Audio Analyzer
Visualize audio in real-time with waveform and spectrum analysis. Explore historical peaks and FFT data with intuitive touch controls for zooming and volume adjustment.
- Waveform visualizer (oscilloscope)
- Spectrum analyzer
- Historical peak display
- Historical FFT
- Full-screen mode
- Zoom and swipe gestures
- Input volume adjustment
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The analyzed result of the waveform is rendered at 60FPS. The following 4 functions can be accessed: Waveform visualizer (oscilloscope) Spectrum analyzer Historical peak Historical FFT Tapping each function enters into full-screen mode and tapping once more exits full-screen mode. Horizontal zoom is only available for the spectrum analyzer. Magnification gesture (aka pinching) allows for zooming in and out, and frequency offset can be performed by swiping on the screen horizontally. Vertical swiping adjusts input volume. Coefficients are displayed in the corner. *dBFullScale 20 * log10 ( input) A demonstration is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDa_zCgYzE
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Audio Analyzer at 100% against SoundBow's 63%. Audio Analyzer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). SoundBow's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
SoundBow costs $1.99 and Audio Analyzer $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Audio Analyzer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SoundBow has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of SoundBow's written reviews are positive against 100% of Audio Analyzer's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoundBow | Audio Analyzer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Agoston Nagy | Narumi Inada |
Customer experience
SoundBow
Audio Analyzer
In-app purchases
SoundBow
No in-app purchases
Audio Analyzer
No in-app purchases
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