Comparison

Pink Noises vs Magicuts Salons

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

Head to head
About

Pink Noises

This app is an aesthetic experiment that visualizes sound through color and form. It explores the relationship between sound frequencies and human emotions, offering a unique sensory experience.

Highlights
  • Sound to color visualization
  • Explores emotional connections
  • Aesthetic experiment
  • Based on pink noise principles
  • Interactive sensory experience
Features
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Working with the basic principle that people in general are hardwired to receive and distinguish certain unique hues of colour, the artist collective Instant Coffee’s ongoing research project Pink Noise drives at colliding and provoking the basic sensory mechanics of colour and sound to form temperamental emotional connections. Pink Noises is an aesthetic experiment based around the concept of visualizing sound. Pink noise is said to be frequency of sound that has a relationship to human biorhythms, and possesses the ability to mask background noise; it is increasingly used by companies to increase productivity among employees, relieve stress as a therapeutic device, in education it is used to focus one’s attention, and functions to block other shaper sounds. It has no rhythm, but has curves and is imaged as a colour. Pink noise is a variant of white noise, which has been reduced in volume and density at each octave. Pure white noise is a combination of all octaves, with each octave doubling in frequency. With pink noise there is the possibility to select a frequency. The number of octaves can be reduced. It may only contain six octaves or be played at six decibels. Its differing and speculative form ultimately results in a noise sound wave that has equal energy at every octave. For Instant Coffee these variables are an opening where sound waves can translate into colour and solid mass. There is a pseudo-science (a space between art, science, design and the absurd) that the artist collective is interested in bringing to the forefront. This is something they see as positive. Science itself has definite limits while pseudo-science is inexhaustible. Instant Coffee Pink Noises App was designed by Instant Coffee in collaboration with Programmer Kevin Doole. Sounds produced with The Pinc Lincolns and Fortunato Durutti Marinetti. Key Support was provided by grunt gallery, Canada Council for the Arts and the province of British Columbia Creative Economies initiative.

About

Magicuts Salons

Features
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Getting your haircut is easier than ever when you check-in on the Magicuts mobile app. With it, you’ll be able to check-in ahead of time at your preferred Magicuts salon, choose your arrival time, select the desired service, and pick your stylist. You can also check-in your hair service one day in advance at select Magicuts locations. The Magicuts app offers one-tap access to your favorite salon and an easy-to-use salon finder for the Magicuts hair salons near you. You can also check-in for a guest, click for directions, and get reminders before your haircut time.

Screenshots

Pink Noises1 screens
Magicuts Salons4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pink Noises at every 3 days against Magicuts Salons's every 2 months. Pink Noises also leads on iOS requirement (11.2 vs 13.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pink Noises ships an update every 3 days, Magicuts Salons every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pink Noises versus Magicuts Salons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPink NoisesMagicuts Salons
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.2 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin DooleRegis Corporation

In-app purchases

None

Pink Noises

No in-app purchases

None

Magicuts Salons

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pink Noises free?
Pink Noises is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magicuts Salons free?
Magicuts Salons is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pink Noises or Magicuts Salons have ads?
Neither Pink Noises nor Magicuts Salons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pink Noises or Magicuts Salons?
Pink Noises ships an update every 3 days, and Magicuts Salons every 2 months. Most recently, Pink Noises was updated on June 4, 2026 and Magicuts Salons on September 9, 2026.

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