Comparison

Hapticly vs Spatial Control

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

Head to head
About

Hapticly

Experience music through touch with this innovative beat maker. It utilizes the iPhone's haptic engine to translate sounds into vibrations, creating a unique sensory musical landscape. This app is ideal for those with hearing impairments but enjoyable for everyone.

Highlights
  • Haptic engine integration
  • Create tactile music landscapes
  • Vibration-based sound experience
  • Share sensory music experiences
  • Accessible for hearing impaired
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This App requires iPhone 8 or later The new beat maker that takes advantage of the iPhones Haptic engine. Share experiences from a whole new angle with this app! Instead of audibly hearing a sound, you feel it. With an infinite number of haptics , you can create landscapes of feeling. From short taps to long vibrations, you can produce a new musical experience. This app solely relies on sense of feeling, which makes it perfect for those with hearing damage or impairment. But it is not limited to this, because anyone can enjoy Hapticly and all it has to offer.

About

Spatial Control

This app allows for real-time control and interaction with immersive audio spaces. Design, deploy, and customize dynamic soundscapes for various environments like retail, hospitality, and museums. It offers user-friendly scene controls, event triggering, and detailed permissions for a seamless audio experience.

Highlights
  • Real-time control of audio spaces
  • Interactive soundscape management
  • User-friendly scene and space controls
  • Trigger interactive events
  • Detailed user roles and permissions
  • Easy setup, tuning, and customization
Features
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Spatial, the immersive audio experience company, provides compelling, dynamic soundscapes in all of the places we work, play and stay. Spatial brings realistic interactive soundscapes to real-world spaces. - Retail: Ignite your customers’ imaginations - Hospitality: Create a world of wonder - Residential: Make home their favorite destination - Museum: Exhibit the unexpected - Theme Park and Experience: Tell your biggest story Spatial experiences are Realistic, Interactive and Flexible - Built on an object-driven platform that renders realistic, believable soundscapes in real-time. - Comprehensive and immediate support for both inputs and outputs, allowing interactive and dynamic experiences and integration with third-party lights, screens, control systems, and more. - Design once; deploy anywhere. Spatial can scale and adapt to any location and installation; place speakers anywhere you want to strengthen the impact. Using real-world acoustic physics, Spatial scenes automatically adjust to the space for the best possible experience. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Control - Real-time control of and interaction with all your spaces - User friendly scene and space controls - Adjust volume, browse scene information, lock and unlock spaces and more - Trigger interactive events right from the Control app - Detailed user roles and permissions for a business-critical service experience - Easy setup, tuning, and customization of your spaces - Get everything just right without ever leaving the space - Use device features to fine tune the acoustics of each location Also available at www.spatialinc.com: Next Generation Tools: Spatial Reality Spatial Reality runs on inexpensive high performance macOS and Linux computers and works with all industry standard audio hardware to create Spatial experiences anywhere you can imagine. Next Generation Tools: Spatial Studio Spatial Studio is a powerful creation environment with detailed control of a fully visualized experiential scene. Creators from beginner to pro can see the whole scene take place on the 3D canvas and a few quick clicks publishes the scene to the Spatial account hosted in the cloud.

Screenshots

Hapticly3 screens
Spatial Control3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hapticly at 80% against Spatial Control's 0%. Hapticly also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Spatial Control's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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. Hapticly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spatial Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hapticly holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Hapticly's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Control's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hapticly ships an update every 5 months, Spatial Control monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hapticly versus Spatial Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHapticlySpatial Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (15 ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob ZylaSpatial Inc.

Customer experience

Hapticly

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Spatial Control

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hapticly

One-time1
  • Hapticly Max$0.99
None

Spatial Control

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hapticly free?
Hapticly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spatial Control free?
Spatial Control is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hapticly or Spatial Control?
Hapticly is rated higher. Hapticly averages 4.7 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Spatial Control averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Hapticly or Spatial Control have ads?
Hapticly shows ads; Spatial Control does not.
Which is updated more often, Hapticly or Spatial Control?
Hapticly ships an update every 5 months, and Spatial Control monthly. Most recently, Hapticly was updated on June 1, 2026 and Spatial Control on June 5, 2026.

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