Comparison

raveZap vs MuVis

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

raveZap

Create dynamic party visuals that react to sound and touch. Explore a variety of animations, from serene to energetic, and even integrate your own photos. Enhance your experience with VR capabilities for immersive 3D visuals.

Highlights
  • Sound and touch-reactive visualizations
  • 50+ free animations
  • AirPlay/Screen Mirroring support
  • VR pack for 3D animations
  • Photo folder integration
  • Selfie camera effects
  • Animation playlists (Full Version)
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Amazing party visuals: ▪ Visualizations respond to sound and touch ▪ 50 animations for free ▪ Looks great connected to a TV with AirPlay / Screen Mirroring ▪ Animations range from soft and dreamy to wild with crazy flashes ▪ Combines 3D, live video, particles, fractals, water, glass, bump and random effects… ▪ Create a raveZap photo folder to have those pictures blended in ▪ Some animations have weird video effects for making selfies ▪ Get a VR pack to see virtual reality 3D animations with a Google Cardboard viewer Upgrade to Full Version: ▪ 25 More animations ▪ Set timing ▪ Swipe to switch animations ▪ Built-in music player ▪ Take snapshots to camera roll ▪ Switch to selfie camera ▪ Animation playlists ▪ No Ads To set up for VR: ▪ (Assuming purchase of Full Version & VR Pack) ▪ 2 Finger press or tilt for menu ▪ Touch "Playing All" / "VR" / "Done" ▪ Touch "Settings" to set time on the slider ▪ Touch outside the menu

About

MuVis

This app creates dynamic, real-time visual representations of music being played from files or a device's microphone. Users can cycle through numerous visualizations and options, control playback, and switch between audio sources.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio visualization
  • Music file playback
  • Microphone input
  • 34+ visualizations
  • 8 visualization options
  • Customizable toolbars
  • iCloudDrive music selection
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MuVis is an open-source macOS & iOS app for music visualization. It renders informative (and musically useful) graphical displays in real time from music files being played - or from the device's microphone. Real-time music visualization is an exciting endeavor - providing the user with dynamic visual and aural stimulation and edification. When the MuVis app first opens, the on-screen display should look somewhat like the first screenshot shown above and the computer's speakers should be playing music from a pre-loaded royalty-free music file. (Currently, the song file is "The Elevator Bossa Nova" from Bensound.com.) The on-screen display shows a real-time dynamic visual representation of the audio that you are hearing. The top and bottom toolbars contains buttons and sliders to allow you to control what you see. Triple-tap your screen to show/hide these toolbars. At the bottom left are two buttons labelled by left- and right-chevrons. Clicking the left one changes the display to the previous visualization, and clicking the right one changes the display to the next visualization - which allows you to cycle through the thirty-four visualizations currently provided by the app. Also, you can simply swipe left or right to change the visualization. Adjacent to these Visualization chevrons are two Option chevrons. When programming these visualization algorithms, there are numerous variations and options available to the developer. These buttons allow the user to select to see any of eight variations. The particular variation rendered is different for each visualization. Also, you can simply swipe up or down to change the option rendered. Adjacent to these Option chevrons is a “Pause” button. When clicked, it stops the music playback and freezes the visualization display. The button label changes to “Play” which, when clicked, causes the music playback and the visualization display to continue. The adjacent button has a "Microphone" icon. When pressed it stops playing the audio from the selected song file (and also stops it's visualization), and starts playing the live audio from the microphone (and starts it's visualization). The label then becomes a slashed microphone - which, when pressed, performs the reverse actions and changes the icon back to "Microphone". The next button has a "Music List" icon. It allows you to select whatever songs you want from your own iCloudDrive folder. Selecting a song causes that song to play - and the visualization to render its dynamic attributes. The adjacent button has a “Waveform” icon with a minus sign. When clicked, it passes the audio signal through a “spectral enhancer” filter which reduces the display of noise (usually percussive effects which smear spectral energy over a large frequency range), and enhances the display of spectral lines (usually the harmonics of musical notes). Finally, at the right end of the bottom toolbar are two buttons labelled UserG (for User Guide) and VisG (for Visualization Guide). Clicking either button activates a “Quick Look” popup window to display the app's documentation. The top toolbar contains two sliders - one controlling "Visualization Gain" and the other controlling "Visualization Treble Boost". As their names imply, sliding them adjusts the gain and slope of the visual data representation. The source code for this app is posted at www.github.com/Keith-43

Screenshots

raveZap4 screens
MuVis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: MuVis at 100% against raveZap's 47%. MuVis also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). raveZap's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. raveZap sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. MuVis asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MuVis holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of raveZap's written reviews are positive against 100% of MuVis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

raveZap ships an update every 6 weeks, MuVis every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
raveZap versus MuVis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterraveZapMuVis
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (15 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoft Wares IncKeith Bromley

Customer experience

raveZap

All ratings13 ratings
Positive23.1%
Neutral7.7%
Negative69.2%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative53.3%

MuVis

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

raveZap

One-time10
  • Pack2 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Pack3 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Pack4 of 25 Animations$0.99
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  • Pack1 of 25 VR Animations$0.99
  • Pack2 of 25 VR Animations$0.99
  • Pack 5 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Pack 6 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Pack 10 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Pack 11 of 25 Animations$0.99
  • Full Version$1.99
None

MuVis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is raveZap free?
raveZap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MuVis free?
MuVis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, raveZap or MuVis?
MuVis is rated higher. raveZap averages 2.4 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while MuVis averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do raveZap or MuVis have ads?
Neither raveZap nor MuVis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, raveZap or MuVis?
raveZap ships an update every 6 weeks, and MuVis every 3 months. Most recently, raveZap was updated on October 24, 2026 and MuVis on October 24, 2026.

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