Singing Fingers vs Transruler free
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Singing Fingers
Create vibrant visual art by fingerpainting with sound. Touch the screen while making a noise, and watch colorful paint appear. Tap the paint to replay the original sound, turning your creations into interactive musical instruments.
- Fingerpaint with sound
- Colorful paint visualization
- Tap paint to replay sound
- Create musical instruments
- Experiment with sounds
- Voice interaction
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Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again! You can paint your own musical instrument and play it, play with your voice, experiment with sounds, or create whatever else you can imagine.
Transruler free
This app helps musicians understand, visualize, and play various musical scales. It features interactive rulers to display scales and keys, allowing for easy transposition and learning of scale relationships. Play individual notes or entire scales with simple taps.
- Visualize musical scales
- Easy transposition
- Interactive scale rulers
- Tap to play notes
- Double-tap to play scales
- Learn scale relationships
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Transruler is an app to understand, display and play various musical scales. Transruler makes transposition easy. Transruler provides three rulers. The middle ruler contains all tones and semitones. The top and bottom ruler can each display a selectable scale. You can move each ruler and set the key note independently. You can play a single note by tapping once. A double tap on a scale ruler plays all notes in this scale. Double tap on the note ruler plays one octave. This all helps to visualize and learn the relationship between different scales and/or keys. This free version of Transruler displays an ad banner and just contains the Major, Minor and Blues scale. After purchasing an instrument or the editor Transruler free hides the ad banner and enables the following scales: - Major - Major (Pentatonic) - Minor - Minor (Pentatonic) - Minor (Harmonic) - Minor (Melodic) - Blues Minor - Blues Major - Gypsy Major - Gypsy Minor - Ionian - Dorian - Phrygian - Lydian - Mixolydian - Aeolian
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Transruler free at Free against Singing Fingers's $0.99. Transruler free also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 96 months) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 10.0). Singing Fingers's advantage is review sentiment (49% vs 11%) and rating (3.5 vs 3.0). 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
Transruler free is free to download; Singing Fingers costs $0.99 up front. Transruler free sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Singing Fingers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Singing Fingers holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Singing Fingers has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Singing Fingers's written reviews are positive against 11% of Transruler free's.
Singing Fingers ships an update every 96 months, Transruler free every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Singing Fingers | Transruler free |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.2% of reviews — better | 10.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 96 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Beginner's Mind | Uwe Tilemann |
Customer experience
Singing Fingers
Transruler free
Bugs and requests
Singing Fingers
Reported bugs
32 issues- Black screen on open
- Crashes frequently
- Doesn't draw with finger
- Sound is intermittent
- Screwed up other phone things
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- No sound while drawing
- Playback is a mess
- Multitouch tracking worse
- Blank page, nothing happens
- Doesn't work on iPhone 6S
- Cannot get it to record
- Won't work for me
- Does not let me draw
- Records poorly
- Not customized for iPad
- Sound quality is awful
- Sound is fuzzy
- Makes voice annoying
- Sound not clear/muffled
- How to draw?
- Won't install
- Nothing happened when drawing/speaking
- Can't hear playback
- Fuzzy sound, doesn't recognize mic/fingers
- No sound out headphone jack
- Echo on playback
- Battery drainer
- Does not work with iPhone 2G
- Froze
- Doesn't recognize iTouch mic
- Crashing and freezing
- Doesn't recognize fingers
Requested features
3 requests- Higher quality setting
- Update to enhance mic sound
- Retina display support
Transruler free
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Singing Fingers
No in-app purchases
Transruler free
- Transruler Piano$1.99
- Transruler Guitar$1.99
- Transruler Editor$1.99
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