Comparison

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro vs TextMetronome

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

Head to head
About

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro

This app provides an accurate and modern instrument for daily musical practice and concerts. It offers a tanpura, tabla, shruti, harmonium, and a vast selection of Hindustani ragas with customizable flavors. Enhance your musical knowledge and practice with tools like a metronome, tuner, and recorder.

Highlights
  • Accurate tanpura with real sounds
  • Extensive tabla with predefined taals
  • Large selection of Hindustani ragas
  • Customizable raga flavors
  • Integrated metronome and tuner
  • Recorder with time stretch and pitch change
  • Save and share tunings via QR code
Features
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Welcome to the next level of Indian music application. iTabla Pandit Studio Pro is a modern and accurate instrument to accompany you in your daily musical practice and concerts. It’s a great resource for anyone who wants to improve their musical skills, knowledge and take their practice to the next level. iTabla Pandit Studio Pro provides you with: ◊ Incredible tanpura with great tunings and captivating pure real sounds, for male and female ◊ Wonderful tabla with a lot of predefined taals ◊ A shruti with nice sounds ◊ A MIDI harmonium, fully automatically tuned ◊ A selection of more than 80 major Hindustani ragas ◊ An innovative shadow player, to practice tonation ◊ An input monitor, important when you practice with headphones ◊ A recorder, and audio player with time stretch and pitch change ◊ Save & Share your tunings with ease, with a simple QR code ◊ Several other tools: metronome, tuner, etc. ◊ A helpful user manual detailing all the functionalities and advanced features ◊ Easy to configure, just take it out of your pocket, start it and enjoy! ◊ Suitable for Hindustani music, Carnatic music, semi-classical, … iTabla Pandit Studio provides you with clear and accurate knowledge of the swaras and tuning. In the past years, we have conducted researches and interviewed great musicians in India. Today, we make you benefit from all the results in our software. Did you know that depending on the tradition, the instrument or the gharana, different shrutis are used for the ragas? As we understood that clear fact, we decided to share it with you in full transparency and with an easy way of usage, through the notion of raga flavour. Each raga described in the software comes with several flavours, well adapted for you and your music: ◊ If you're a khyal singer, a dhrupad singer, a semi-classical singer, … ◊ If you're a bansuri player ◊ If you're a violin player ◊ If you're a sitar player ◊ If you're a sarod player ◊ … With iTabla Pandit Studio Pro, you will discover flavours, and be able to understand with precision which shrutis are used in your instrument or vocal. Our tools are perfect for you to achieve and perfect your musical knowledge and goal, your sādhanā. Also, flavours is a fully open and scalable system, that we intend to improve while interacting with our beloved users! So, don't hesitate to contact us: ◊ If you have a question, a remark, a lack regarding a raga flavour ◊ If you would like us to add a taal, a taal variation, a raga, etc. ◊ If you think your gharana needs a separate flavour or raga set We designed iTabla Pandit Studio Pro with accessibility and ease of use in mind: ◊ Clear buttons, with respectable size ◊ A uniform way of changing the values among all the buttons ◊ Only four clear buttons to control the pitch, the tempo, the raga of all the studio, always accessible iTabla Pandit Studio Pro is a major revolution, since the original iTabla, acclaimed by many professional musicians since 2007! Privacy policy - https://studio.itabla.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

TextMetronome

Features
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TextMetronome is a rhythm practice tool built around a simple idea: type a rhythm, hear and see it immediately. Try it in your browser: https://textmetronome.peckels.com/ Instead of building patterns through menus and clicking, you enter them as text. A syntax such as 4q 4e can be entered in seconds, while fraction-based polyrhythms such as 3:2, 5:3x, 4:7e, 14:3, and 16:3 are also supported. Visual feedback helps you follow the cycle, either as a single circular view or through individual rhythmic pairings. This makes it fast to test note values, tuplets, dotted notes, rests, accents, and polyrhythmic relationships in a direct and flexible way. Whether you are practicing, teaching, composing, or checking an idea, TextMetronome helps you hear rhythmic structures quickly and clearly. # Features: - Text-based rhythm input - One single input field and one play button - Pattern Orbit Visualisation - Digital and sample based click sounds - Fast syntax such as simple patterns 4q 4e (q-uarter e-ight notes) and tuplets. up to 9 (t-riplets, etc.) - Support for fraction-based polyrhythms such as 3:2 14:3, and 16:3 but also precise ratios e.g.: 5:3t (5 clicks over 3 triplets) - Circular visualisation of rhythmic cycles - Alternative visualisation of individual rhythm pairs - Presets save - Built-in example presets - Light and dark themes

Screenshots

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro4 screens
TextMetronome4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iTabla Pandit Studio Pro at Free against TextMetronome's $2.99. iTabla Pandit Studio Pro also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). TextMetronome's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro is free to download; TextMetronome costs $2.99 up front. iTabla Pandit Studio Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. TextMetronome asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro ships an update every 4 weeks, TextMetronome every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iTabla Pandit Studio Pro versus TextMetronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriTabla Pandit Studio ProTextMetronome
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDEEPMALA RAM PARKASHFunkyDrumTutor

In-app purchases

2 purchases

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Premium access for 1 Year7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium access$89.99
None

TextMetronome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iTabla Pandit Studio Pro free?
iTabla Pandit Studio Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TextMetronome free?
TextMetronome costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do iTabla Pandit Studio Pro or TextMetronome have ads?
Neither iTabla Pandit Studio Pro nor TextMetronome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iTabla Pandit Studio Pro or TextMetronome?
iTabla Pandit Studio Pro ships an update every 4 weeks, and TextMetronome every 6 days. Most recently, iTabla Pandit Studio Pro was updated on October 8, 2026 and TextMetronome on October 3, 2026.

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