Comparison

Primavera Sound vs Duende

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

Head to head
About

Primavera Sound

Access comprehensive details for music festivals and events. Plan your schedule, discover artists and set times, and receive real-time updates to enhance your festival experience.

Highlights
  • Festival information
  • Artist and concert details
  • Personalized schedule builder
  • Minute-by-minute route planning
  • Notification system
  • Real-time news and updates
  • Interactive maps
Features
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Primavera Sound official application for mobile devices with information about the festivals and other events organised by Primavera Sound all year round. Choose the festival of your interest and find all the information about artists, concerts and schedules, create your own personalised minute-by-minute route and use the notification system to optimise your time and avoid missing any of your favourite bands. Find out before anyone else and at all moments all the news and any last-minute changes thanks to the “push” service. Stay tuned for surprises! Find the different areas on the maps. Available for download free in English, Spanish and Catalan.

About

Duende

Features
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Practice more. Guess less. Duende turns the time you spend with your instrument into something you can see. Start a session, play, and it does the rest. KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY PRACTISED The timer runs on the clock, not on whether the app happens to be awake. Lock your phone, set it on the stand, walk away, and every second still counts. Turn the microphone on and Duende separates playing from silence, so you find out how much of that "hour" actually made a sound. It judges against your own room rather than a fixed level, so it works the same in a quiet flat and a shared house, and it keeps measuring while the phone is locked. The audio is read on your device, never uploaded, and deleted the moment the session ends. BUILD THE HABIT A practice streak for showing up, and an activity heatmap covering the last three months. A reminder at a time you choose, if you want one. KEEP THE DETAILS Tag a session by focus: technique, repertoire, sight reading, improvisation and five more. Write quick notes mid-session without stopping the clock. Add a photo of the passage you are working on. ANY INSTRUMENT Fifty-plus instruments across strings, keys, wind, percussion and voice, from guitar and piano to sitar, tabla, bansuri and harmonium. Track as many as you play. SHARE IT, OR DON'T Generate a session card for Instagram or WhatsApp. Connect Strava and your practice lands in the same feed as your runs and rides. Both entirely optional, and the app works fully without either. Your practice history is private to your account. Nothing is deleted and nothing is sold. You can remove any session, or your whole account, from inside the app at any time.

Screenshots

Primavera Sound4 screens
Duende4 screens

Verdict

The call

Primavera Sound and Duende are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Primavera Sound ships an update every 3 weeks, Duende monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Primavera Sound versus Duende: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrimavera SoundDuende
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews5.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB26 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPrimavera Sound, S.L.Joe Luca Dooley

In-app purchases

None

Primavera Sound

No in-app purchases

None

Duende

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Primavera Sound free?
Primavera Sound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Duende free?
Duende is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Primavera Sound or Duende have ads?
Neither Primavera Sound nor Duende shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Primavera Sound or Duende?
Primavera Sound ships an update every 3 weeks, and Duende monthly. Most recently, Primavera Sound was updated on November 3, 2026 and Duende on October 31, 2026.

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