Handpaner vs Panflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Handpaner
Create your own virtual handpan by customizing each note. Discover scales, chords, and learn to play songs on your unique instrument.
- Customizable virtual handpan
- Discover scales and chords
- Learn to play songs
- Create unique handpan models
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Handpaner is a virtual handpan where you can customize each note to create your perfect handpan model and help you find all the scales, chords it contains and some songs you can play with it.
Panflow
This app generates complex, evolving panning patterns and adds rhythmic stereo movement to audio tracks in real-time. Its intuitive interface and powerful pattern editor allow for precise stereo editing, bringing dynamic life to static sounds. It can be used as a standalone application or as an AUv3 plugin within iOS DAWs.
- Evolving panning patterns
- Rhythmic stereo movement
- Real-time audio modulation
- Precise stereo editing
- Powerful pattern editor
- Standalone and AUv3 plugin support
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Panflow is a Creative Panning Modulator & Stereo rhythm generator plugin designed to Shape complex, evolving panning patterns and add random, rhythmical movement to any audio track in real-time. You can Create Instant fluid motion with precise stereo editing, with an easy-to-use interface and powerful pattern editor and give your audio a more lively, dynamic feel, or add dynamism to any static sound. Use as Standalone or as an Audio Unit (AUv3) plugin in your favorite iOS Host or DAW Panflow is endlessly variable & endlessly interesting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Panflow at 89% against Handpaner's 14%. Panflow also leads on price (Free vs $9.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Panflow is free to download; Handpaner costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Panflow holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Panflow has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Handpaner's written reviews are positive against 89% of Panflow's.
| Parameter | Handpaner | Panflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 27 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robin BERGERE | AUDIOMODERN |
Customer experience
Handpaner
Panflow
In-app purchases
Handpaner
No in-app purchases
Panflow
No in-app purchases
