Twin Cherry vs Touhou Beat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Twin Cherry
Create and play rhythm games using your own music. Share your custom patterns with a community and discover virtual idols to accompany your gameplay. Unlock new visual elements for your rhythm notes.
- Create rhythm patterns with own music
- Play custom rhythm levels
- Share patterns with users
- Discover Rhythm Idols
- Customize note colors and patterns
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- Use your own music to create rhythm patterns and play them in the app. - Share your patterns to other users. - Discover the Rhythm Idols and make them accompany you in gameplay. - Get new colors and patterns for rhythm notes.
Touhou Beat
A rhythm game featuring arranged Touhou Project songs and characters. Compete for high scores, track your progress with graphs, and practice challenging patterns with adjustable settings. Explore a growing library of songs from various Touhou series.
- Play with Touhou characters
- Ensemble gameplay
- Score tracking and graphs
- Practice mode
- Adjustable song speed
- Random note patterns
- 57+ songs
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This is a sound game that can be played with arranged songs of Touhou Project. Play with the Touhou characters related to the song and enjoy the ensemble while competing for points. The total of the highest score you beat is graphed, so you can enjoy your daily growth. Practice mode for challenging patterns now available! You can practice rhythm game skills using features like adjustable song speed, rewind/fast-forward, and recommended finger placements. Test your skills even further with a mode where notes fly in from random directions! I've also added a beatmap creation feature! Create your own original beatmaps and share them for other players to enjoy! Currently, you can select songs from Koumakyo, Youyoumu, Eiyasho, Chireiden, Seirensen, Great Fairy Wars, Double Spoiler, Shinreibyou, Kishinjou, Kanjuden, and Kikeiju, with a total of 72 songs included. I will continue to add more with updates! ※ 東方競争曲 is a fan game of 東方Project produced by 上海アリス幻樂団.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Touhou Beat at none against Twin Cherry's 7. Touhou Beat also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Twin Cherry's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (59 vs 14). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Twin Cherry sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Touhou Beat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Touhou Beat holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Twin Cherry's written reviews are positive against 80% of Touhou Beat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Twin Cherry ships an update every 9 days, Touhou Beat monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Twin Cherry | Touhou Beat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (59 ratings) | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 80.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — 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 | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +9 |
| Developer | Juan Amaro | Yoshiki Oishi |
Customer experience
Twin Cherry
Touhou Beat
Bugs and requests
Twin Cherry
Reported bugs
16 issues- Buttons not registering
- Custom music import fails
- Song import creates infinite loop
- App crashes or won't launch
- Crystal accumulation bug
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- Shop items not equippable
- Random music plays after songs
- Notes out of sync with music
- Long notes difficult to time
- Idol leveling is buggy
- Music doesn't match rhythm
- Holding notes hard to time
- First song too fast
- Clunky button feedback
- Music cannot be muted separately
- Forced ads for in-game currency
Requested features
22 requests- Fix button input registration
- Fix syncopation and rhythm issues
- Fix custom music import
- Fix song loop bug
- Fix shop item equipping
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- Fix idol leveling system
- Fix crystal accumulation bug
- Add English subtitles for songs
- Add more complex songs/levels
- Add option to set key speed/size
- Make button hits more noticeable
- Add more sound variations for notes
- Add buffs/effects during gameplay
- Add a gallery for user-made maps
- Add Russian language support
- Add a feedback button in options
- Improve map editing tools (test play)
- Add more notes to maps for interest
- Make public maps more accessible
- Add more games like this
- Add new idols and music
- Allow sending cherries to friends
Touhou Beat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Twin Cherry
- 100 Cherries$0.99
- 300 Cherries$1.99
- Twin Cherry No Ads$2.99
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- 600 Cherries$3.99
- 1000 Cherries$6.99
- 3000 Cherries$9.99
- 5000 Cherries$14.99
Touhou Beat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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