Calming Ripples vs Kmic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calming Ripples
Create soothing visual patterns by tapping or stroking the screen. Watch as your interactions generate beautiful, fading ripples. Enjoy a pressure-free, relaxing digital playground with multiple colors.
- Interactive ripple creation
- Multi-finger color blending
- Relaxing visual patterns
- No pressure or scores
- Digital playground experience
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Use this app to create relaxing patterns of ripples. Tap or stroke across the screen. Your fingers will leave a trail of ripples that grow and fade. Use multiple fingers at once for multiple colors. No deep meaning, no pressure, no high score. Just a little relaxing playground.
Kmic
Turn your iPhone into a wireless microphone for karaoke or live streaming. Connect to Bluetooth or AirPlay speakers and apply real-time voice effects. Features noise reduction and intuitive controls for a professional sound.
- Wireless karaoke microphone
- Bluetooth/AirPlay speaker connection
- 13 voice effects
- Noise gate and reduction
- Real-time effect processing
- Intuitive controls
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Turn your iPhone into a live wireless microphone and voice studio for any Bluetooth or AirPlay speaker. GO LIVE IN SECONDS Connect a speaker, tap unmute, and perform without cables. 20 REAL-TIME VOICE EFFECTS Switch instantly between natural sound, Robot, Alien, Monster, Chipmunk, Walkie-Talkie, Demon, Fairy, Giant, Broadcast, and more. SAVE PERFORMANCE PRESETS Save your complete live setup—including voice effect, volume, echo cancellation, noise suppression, automatic gain, and noise gate—then recall it with one tap. CLEARER LIVE AUDIO Control echo, background noise, gain, and noise-gate threshold for a cleaner performance in noisy rooms. BUILT FOR ANY MOMENT Use Kmic for karaoke, parties, presentations, podcasts, live streams, rehearsals, games, and playful voice changes. WHY KMIC • Bluetooth and AirPlay speaker routing • Low-latency live monitoring • 20 expressive voice effects • Reusable performance presets • Professional audio cleanup controls • Fast, intuitive controls Download Kmic and make your next performance heard. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ K Mic Terms and Subscription Terms: https://heaplabs.co/bluetoothmic/terms Privacy Policy: https://heaplabs.co/bluetoothmic/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calming Ripples at none against Kmic's 2. Kmic's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. Kmic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Calming Ripples asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calming Ripples against 4.9 for Kmic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kmic has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Calming Ripples | Kmic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (17 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Palevich | Heap Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Calming Ripples
Kmic
In-app purchases
Calming Ripples
No in-app purchases
Kmic
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Pro$24.991 Year
