Comparison

Tone Pool vs Singing Bowl Studio

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

Head to head
About

Tone Pool

Create personalized soundscapes with a meditative water sculpture. Interact with floating singing bowls, adjust water currents for unique sounds, and add ambient audio to craft your own relaxing 'Tone Poem'. Share your creations and explore those from others.

Highlights
  • Meditative water sculpture
  • Floating singing bowls
  • Customizable water current
  • Ambient background sounds
  • Create and share 'Tone Poems'
  • Preset soundscapes
  • Timer for activities
Features
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Tone Pool is a meditative water sculpture made of healing stones. It features floating singing bowls which make beautiful sounds as they interact with each other. Change the water current to customize the frequency and character of bowl sounds. Add soothing background sounds to complete your 'Tone Poem'. Features (free version): • 2 Preset Tone Poems (Custom combinations of singing bowls and ambient soundscapes designed for specific activities) • Create your own Tone Poems by blending singing bowls, ambient soundscapes, and healing stones (Limited options in free version) • Share Tone Poems with friends via text or email • Open Tone Poems created by friends or posted on social media (Limited to 2 in free version) • Adjust the water current to customize the experience for relaxation, focus, or activation • Adjust the audio volume of the bowls and background ambience Features (unlocked version): • 34 Singing Bowls to choose from, including Crystal and Tibetan • 8 Ambient sounds, including ASMR, Tinnitus Mask, and Binaural Beats • 8 Beautiful Healing Stone Pools • 8 Preset Tone Poems designed for a variety of activities • Timer for sleep, meditation, yoga, or other activities • Create and Save an unlimited number of Tone Poems • Share unlimited Tone Poems with friends via text or email • Open an unlimited number of Tone Poems created by friends or posted on social media • Adjust the water current to customize the the experience for relaxation, focus, or activation • Adjust the audio volume of the bowls and background ambience

About

Singing Bowl Studio

Create a calming atmosphere with ambient singing bowl sounds. This app helps users relax, focus, or enhance their environment through beautiful, easy-to-use audio.

Highlights
  • Implement singing bowl sounds
  • Promotes relaxation
  • Aids focus
  • Enhances environment vibe
  • Easy to use
Features
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A singing bowl, always in your pocket. Pick a bowl, add a layer of nature underneath it, set the level of each, and let it play. No account, no ads, no internet. Built to get out of the way — for meditation, yoga, focus, sound baths, breathwork, or sleep. TWO BOWLS • Tibetan Bowls — warm, metallic, grounding • Crystal Bowls — bright, clear, long-sustaining FOUR AMBIENT LAYERS Blend one underneath the bowls, or listen to the bowls alone: • Storm — distant thunder and rain • River — moving water • Ocean — slow waves • Forest — wind and leaves MIX IT YOURSELF Separate volume sliders for the bowls and the ambience. Set the storm to a whisper under the bowls, or bring it forward and let the bowls ring underneath. Switching layers crossfades instead of cutting. Your levels are remembered. SLEEP TIMER 5 minutes, 15, 30, 1 hour, or 2 hours. The sound fades away gently at the end rather than stopping dead, so the silence doesn't wake you. Pause the audio and the timer pauses too. BUILT FOR LONG SESSIONS • Seamless loops — long recordings with the loop point hidden inside, not a short clip cycling every few seconds. • Completely offline. Nothing streams, so it works anywhere. • Plays in the background and from the lock screen, with the bowl and layer named in Now Playing. • Take a call or pull out your headphones and the session picks back up properly. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no data collected. Everything it plays is already on your device.

Screenshots

Tone Pool4 screens
Singing Bowl Studio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Singing Bowl Studio at none against Tone Pool's 1. Tone Pool's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ads 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. Tone Pool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Singing Bowl Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Tone Pool against 4.7 for Singing Bowl Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tone Pool has 170 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Tone Pool's written reviews are positive against 67% of Singing Bowl Studio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tone Pool ships an update every 6 days, Singing Bowl Studio monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tone Pool versus Singing Bowl Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTone PoolSinging Bowl Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (170 ratings) — better4.7 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings170 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size205 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUncle Vector's Audio Lab LLCConner Tate

Customer experience

Tone Pool

All ratings165 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Singing Bowl Studio

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tone Pool

One-time1
  • Premium Access$1.99
None

Singing Bowl Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tone Pool free?
Tone Pool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singing Bowl Studio free?
Singing Bowl Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tone Pool or Singing Bowl Studio?
Tone Pool is rated higher. Tone Pool averages 4.8 out of 5 from 170 ratings, while Singing Bowl Studio averages 4.7 from 15 ratings.
Do Tone Pool or Singing Bowl Studio have ads?
Neither Tone Pool nor Singing Bowl Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tone Pool or Singing Bowl Studio?
Tone Pool ships an update every 6 days, and Singing Bowl Studio monthly. Most recently, Tone Pool was updated on October 21, 2026 and Singing Bowl Studio on October 24, 2026.

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