Comparison

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro vs Strum & Sing

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

Strum & Sing

Features
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Strum & Sing is a focused practice companion for musicians who want guitar rhythm, pitch training, and voice confidence in one simple app. Start with Songs to find something you can actually play. Browse beginner-friendly English and Bollywood songs, see the chord shapes, suggested strumming pattern, tempo, capo notes, and play-along guidance. Use Strum Studio in Toolkit to lock in steady rhythm. Follow clear strumming patterns, choose count, click, or strum sounds, and build timing at a comfortable tempo. Then move into Pitch to find the home note that fits your voice. Use Quick Detect for a fast starting point, or follow the guided flow to check octave comfort and save your scale. Warm Up turns that saved scale into a daily vocal routine. Start with Breath Control, continue with piano-led Scale Practice, and move into Low Register Exercise when you are ready to work on lower notes. Challenge helps you check whether practice is really landing. Sing scale notes, work on a steady hiss, hold low-register notes, and use Mystery Sequence to train your ear with short daily sing-back puzzles. Toolkit gives you a steady tanpura drone and Live Scale view so you can find your notes against a home-pitch reference when your ear is ready. Built for short, repeatable practice sessions: - Songs tab with chords, tempo, capo, and suggested strumming patterns - Strum Studio for beginner-friendly rhythm practice in Toolkit - Metronome, count, click, and strum sounds - Quick home-note detection - Do Re Mi and Sa Re Ga notation - Piano-led vocal warm ups - Breath Control and Low Register Exercise - Pitch, hiss breathing, low-register, and Mystery Sequence challenges - Toolkit tanpura drone and Live Scale - Clear audio route labels for mic and output Use a few focused minutes each day to build steadier rhythm, clearer pitch, and more confident song practice.

Screenshots

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro4 screens
Strum & Sing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strum & Sing at none against iTabla Pandit Studio Pro's 2. Strum & Sing also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). iTabla Pandit Studio Pro's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. iTabla Pandit Studio Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. Strum & Sing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iTabla Pandit Studio Pro ships an update every 4 weeks, Strum & Sing weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iTabla Pandit Studio Pro versus Strum & Sing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriTabla Pandit Studio ProStrum & Sing
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDEEPMALA RAM PARKASHNeha Rai

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

Strum & Sing

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 Strum & Sing free?
Strum & Sing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iTabla Pandit Studio Pro or Strum & Sing have ads?
Neither iTabla Pandit Studio Pro nor Strum & Sing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iTabla Pandit Studio Pro or Strum & Sing?
iTabla Pandit Studio Pro ships an update every 4 weeks, and Strum & Sing weekly. Most recently, iTabla Pandit Studio Pro was updated on October 28, 2026 and Strum & Sing on October 28, 2026.

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