Spatial Scenes vs Spatial Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spatial Scenes
Immerse yourself in virtual environments with positionally aware spatial audio. Experience realistic soundscapes that adapt to your head movements, creating a sense of presence. Explore free scenes or unlock more through in-app purchases.
- Spatial audio immersion
- AirPods Pro head tracking
- Positionally aware sound
- Virtual environment experience
- Multiple free scenes
- In-app purchases for additional scenes
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Note: Requires AirPods Pro for head tracking Close your eyes and relax. Drift away to another reality with the immersion of spatial audio. With the AirPods Pro motion tracking, you can experience positionally aware audio that makes it feel like you're in a virtual environment. Includes several free scenes to experience. If you like them, additional scenes are available as an in app purchase. If the head tracking does not work, please check these things: 1. Settings > Privacy > Motion & Fitness > Spatial Scenes is enabled 2. AirPods Pro are updated to the latest firmware
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
Spatial Scenes and Spatial Control both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 70% of Spatial Scenes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Control's. Spatial Scenes also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Spatial Control's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Spatial Scenes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spatial Control asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Spatial Scenes against 4.3 for Spatial Control. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Spatial Scenes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spatial Control's.
Spatial Scenes ships an update weekly, Spatial Control monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spatial Scenes | Spatial Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better | 4.3 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Chen | Spatial Inc. |
Customer experience
Spatial Scenes
Spatial Control
In-app purchases
Spatial Scenes
- Unlock all Plus scenes$1.99
Spatial Control
No in-app purchases
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