Comparison

Bose vs PRISM

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

Head to head
About

Bose

Control all your Bose audio products from a single app. Personalize noise cancellation, customize EQ settings, and set up your devices for seamless listening. Access your favorite music services and playlists with one-touch ease.

Highlights
  • Unified control for Bose products
  • Controllable noise cancellation
  • Customizable EQ settings
  • One-touch music presets
  • Integrated music streaming
Currently charting
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The Bose app lets you easily control all your Bose products in one place. Bose app (formerly Bose Music app) compatible speakers, soundbars, amplifiers, headphones, earbuds, OpenAudio products, and portable PA systems are designed to work together seamlessly to enhance your listening experience. GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR HEADPHONES AND EARBUDS Personalize your environment with controllable noise cancellation on our QuietComfort products. With Modes on QuietComfort products, you decide how much of the world to let in. Choose Quiet Mode for full noise cancelling, or Aware Mode to hear your surroundings and your music at the same time. Select products offer Aware Mode with ActiveSense technology, which brings the sounds around you down to a more comfortable level. The result is hearing everything you need to, but at a much more pleasant and balanced volume. All the QuietComfort and OpenAudio features, like Immersive Audio from the Ultra line, are made readily available for you. Fully customize your experience by balancing the EQ settings, picking your on-product shortcuts, and more all within the app. EASY SETUP AND TOTAL CONTROL Easily set up your products and get right to listening. Play the same content throughout your home or listen to different content in different areas—it’s up to you. The Bose app lets you control all your Bose products from any room. ONE-TOUCH ACCESS One touch and your home is filled with the music you love most. The Bose app makes it easy to set your favorite playlists or stations as presets. Then you can access them effortlessly on your app, the buttons on your speaker, or soundbar remote. ActiveSense, Bose, the B logo, and QuietComfort are trademarks of Bose Corporation. Spotify is a registered trademark of Spotify AB. TuneIn is a registered trademark of TuneIn, Inc. Google is a trademark of Google LLC. Amazon, Amazon Music, Alexa and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon, Inc. or its affiliates. Wi-Fi® is a registered trademark of Wi-Fi Alliance®. Pandora, the Pandora logo and the Pandora trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pandora Media, Inc. used with permission. iHeartRadio is a registered trademark of iHeartMedia, Inc. SiriusXM and all related marks and logos are trademarks of Sirius XM Radio Inc. and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy https://worldwide.bose.com/privacypolicy California Privacy Notice of Collection https://www.bose.com/californiaprivacynoticeofcollection Location Location access is not required to use the Bose app. The app does not collect location data through your device's location services. Microphone Microphone access is optional and is used only for CustomTune, which uses audio measurements to personalize your listening experience. If you do not use CustomTune, you can decline microphone access and continue to use the rest of the app. Nearby devices Nearby devices access is required to find, connect to, and communicate with supported Bose Bluetooth products. Notifications Notification access is optional. You can decline notification access and continue to use the app.

About

PRISM

Experience a shared auditory space where your presence is represented by a beam of light on a global map. Send warmth and connection to others worldwide through simple gestures, accompanied by curated music for different states of mind.

Highlights
  • Global listening presence visualization
  • Send light gestures to connect
  • Seven curated music rooms
  • Binaural beats for different states of mind
  • Interactive music timeline control
  • Global shared room
Features
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PRISM is a quiet place to be together. Open the app and the Earth greets you where you live. Everyone listening right now stands on the globe as a beam of colored light, exactly where they really are, from Tokyo to Berlin to the town next door. No usernames. No profiles. No chat. Just light. Tap the globe and something rare happens: light leaves your beam, travels the curve of the planet to every listener on Earth, and lands as a small flare of warmth on theirs. Love and light, sent. That is the whole gesture, and it is enough. SEVEN WORLDS, ONE FOR EVERY STATE OF MIND Swipe between living rooms of light, each with its own music composed for the room, each tuned with a binaural beat for a different state of mind (headphones recommended): - GLOBE - the world listening together, gamma 40 Hz for deep work - RAINY TOKYO - a warm window on a rainy night, theta for unwinding - HORIZON - an endless dusk over water, alpha for calm - THE GRID - a neon wireframe road under a rising sun, beta for drive - GANZFELD - a single field of breathing color, delta for sleep - SKYSPACE - a knife-edged opening to a slowly deepening sky, alpha for presence - WEDGEWORK - veils of red and magenta light in a dark room, beta for focus TOUCH THE MUSIC The world is the timeline. Drag toward the horizon to move back through the song, drag toward yourself to move forward. Hold to charge the room, release for a shockwave. Pinch for depth. Tilt for parallax. On the globe, scrubbing spins the planet itself. NEVER ALONE PRISM has one global room, so there is always someone in the world with you. When someone new arrives, their light fades in. When you send light, they feel it. PRISM is free. Put on headphones, pick a world, and stay a while.

Screenshots

Bose4 screens
PRISM3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PRISM at daily against Bose's monthly. PRISM also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Bose's advantage is ratings volume (183K vs 1) and chart position (#10 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PRISM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bose has 183K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bose ships an update monthly, PRISM daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Bose versus PRISM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBosePRISM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (183K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings183K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB32 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperBose CorporationSuper, Inc.

Customer experience

Bose

All ratings181,936 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews3,417 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative44.7%

PRISM

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Bose

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App frequently fails to recognize connected devices
  • Noise cancelling settings revert to default unexpectedly
  • Bluetooth pairing and reconnection issues
  • Forced firmware updates causing sound quality degradation

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add landscape mode support for iPad
  • Improve multi-device connectivity and switching
  • Provide more customization options for noise cancelling
  • Integrate with more music services like Apple Music

PRISM

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bose

No in-app purchases

None

PRISM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bose free?
Bose is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PRISM free?
PRISM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bose or PRISM?
PRISM is rated higher. Bose averages 4.8 out of 5 from 183K ratings, while PRISM averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bose or PRISM have ads?
Neither Bose nor PRISM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bose or PRISM?
Bose ships an update monthly, and PRISM daily. Most recently, Bose was updated on November 12, 2026 and PRISM on October 31, 2026.

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