Comparison

Plug Music vs Graba

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

Head to head
About

Plug Music

This mobile app serves as a portable recording studio and creative hub for musicians. It allows users to capture ideas, experiment with beats, add effects, and collaborate with others in real-time. The app also facilitates discovering local creatives and booking recording studios.

Highlights
  • Record on the go
  • Studio-style effects
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Export stems & masters
  • Discover local creatives
  • AI assistant for ideas
  • Split any song into stems
Features
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Be immersed in your own creativity anytime, anywhere. Plug Music is your mobile recording studio and collaboration hub, built for artists who want to capture ideas on the go, make songs with friends, and grow their sound. Whenever inspiration hits, pull out your phone and start creating. Record vocals, write hooks, experiment with beats, and shape your tracks with powerful tools designed for singers, rappers, producers, and creators of all levels. What you can do with Plug Music: Record on the go – Capture vocals, ideas, and full songs from your phone so you never lose a moment of inspiration. Add studio-style effects – Use delay, reverb, distortion and more to shape your sound and experiment with different vibes. Collaborate in real time – Work on tracks with friends and other artists, share ideas, and build songs together from anywhere. Export stems & masters – Export individual stems or full masters, and attach videos or thumbnails to your recordings. Discover local creatives – Find nearby singers, rappers, producers, mixers, videographers, photographers and more to help bring your vision to life. Create with AI – Get help from an AI assistant to explore sounds, generate ideas, and keep your sessions moving. Split any song into stems – Use song splitting to separate vocals, drums, bass and other elements from existing mastered tracks. Book local studios – Connect with recording studios near you when you’re ready to move from mobile to a full setup. Plug Music is for anyone who wants to record, collaborate, and grow as an artist without needing a full studio on day one.

About

Graba

This app helps musicians capture, organize, and develop song ideas. It offers recording, lyric writing with chord suggestions, a tuner, metronome, and video recording features. All your musical creations are stored locally and backed up to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Two-tap recording
  • Interruption-proof takes
  • Lyric sheets with inline chords
  • Rhyme suggestions
  • Chromatic tuner with alternate tunings
  • Metronome with haptics
  • Video recording with scrolling lyrics
Features
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A pocket studio for musicians. Two taps and you're recording. Develop the idea, and keep every version you make. CAPTURE Two taps from your pocket. Audio or video, straight from launch. Calls, alarms, and force quits can't eat a take: interrupted recordings are saved and recovered. • Start recording from a Lock Screen widget, the Action Button, or Siri • Film when you need to see the hands, with your lyrics scrolling over the camera • When the idea shows up as words, Write opens a blank sheet with the keyboard up DEVELOP The tools you reach for next. Lyrics with chords over the words, a tuner for guitar, bass and ukulele, a metronome, a playable piano, ear training, and a chord library you can hear. • Rhymes while you write, in English and Spanish, all offline • Chord suggestions in your key, and one-tap transpose with capo hints • Alternate tunings: Drop D, DADGAD, Eb Standard, Open G • Tap tempo, odd meters, and a metronome that keeps time on the Lock Screen • Loop any section of a take to learn your own part back • Stand mode, for reading your lyrics on a music stand KEEP Nothing gets written over. Every take lands in your Vault with versions, notes, and trims. Local first, synced through your own iCloud if you choose. • Projects hold every version, with tempo, key, tags, and notes • Notes pinned to the exact second of a take • Trim a take and keep the trim as a new version • Bring finished mixes in from Files, Mail, or AirDrop and keep them with their demos • Add a title to a video take and send it to TikTok or Instagram • Old ideas come back around on their own Free, with no account, no ads, and no subscription.

Screenshots

Plug Music4 screens
Graba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Plug Music at 17 against Graba's 1. Plug Music also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plug Music against 5.0 for Graba. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plug Music has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plug Music ships an update every 9 days, Graba every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plug Music versus Graba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlug MusicGraba
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (17 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlug Music, IncADRIEL CONDE MACKENZIE

Customer experience

Plug Music

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Graba

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

In-app purchases

None

Plug Music

No in-app purchases

None

Graba

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plug Music free?
Plug Music is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Graba free?
Graba is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plug Music or Graba?
Plug Music and Graba are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 17 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Plug Music or Graba have ads?
Neither Plug Music nor Graba shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plug Music or Graba?
Plug Music ships an update every 9 days, and Graba every 3 weeks. Most recently, Plug Music was updated on October 3, 2026 and Graba on October 1, 2026.

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