Shruti Box vs Asymmetronome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shruti Box
This app simulates a traditional Indian musical instrument used to provide a continuous drone for vocalists and instrumentalists. It offers multiple sound flavors and allows tuning to both Indian harmonic and Western tempered scales, with automatic transposition capabilities.
- Continuous drone sound
- Multiple sound flavors
- Indian harmonic scale tuning
- Western tempered scale tuning
- Automatic transposition
- Play up to 4 notes with octaves
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The shruti box is a small instrument with reeds, used to play a drone in music. Imagine an harmonium or accordeon without any buttons. You just select a set of notes, and the shruti will play them together continuously. The main purpose is to create a musical atmosphere to sustain the solist with its voice or musical instrument. The Shruti box is usually used in karnatak or hindustani music in India. You can create different musical atmosphere with the three different sound flavours of our Shruti box: - Traditional Harmonium sound, with deep sound of original reeds - Light shruti sound, which provides a clearer sound - Modern flute organ, simpler, heavenly If you're interested to play indian music (karnatac or hindusthani), this is the perfect "travel" shruti box you need. Tune your shruti in the indian harmonic scale. You select harmonic scale, and the base note. That's it. If you prefer to play western music and you need a tempered chord, then tune the shruti to the common tempered scale. Our shruti box can do automatic transposition. You can configure it in any key with the same keyboard position. You just need to select the note to play on the C key of the keyboard. You can play up to 4 notes together (with or without octaves). It will produce a sound of high quality, much better than all the electronic devices you can buy for playing shruti. For getting the best sound from this instrument, it is advised to use a good headphone or a pair of speakers with loudspeaker.
Asymmetronome
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I wrote this metronome to practice the Six Pieces in Bulgarian Meter in Bartok's Mikrokosmos. The metronome lets you create groups of metric subdivisions with initial stress, such as the 4+2+3 or 2+3 etc. that Bartok uses. For more typical use cases, just set it to 1+0 and it will behave like a normal metronome.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Asymmetronome at Free against Shruti Box's $0.99. Shruti Box's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On 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
Asymmetronome is free to download; Shruti Box costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Shruti Box | Asymmetronome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 32.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C.BARATAY | Jed Parsons |
In-app purchases
Shruti Box
No in-app purchases
Asymmetronome
No in-app purchases









