LA Phil vs Barnyard Boogie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LA Phil
Enhance your concert experience with event discovery, ticket management, and program information. Stay informed about venue guidelines and safety updates for seamless enjoyment.
- Discover upcoming events
- Share and scan tickets
- Learn about music programs
- Stay updated on safety information
- Venue guidelines
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One city, many stages, and an app that lets you experience it all. The LA Phil app makes it easier to see what’s happening across Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and The Ford.
Barnyard Boogie
This interactive musical toy lets young children mix and match different parts of an animated rooster to create unique musical mashups. Explore 27 combinations of Afrobeat, country, and opera styles for vocals, strings, and rhythm sections. It encourages musical diversity and self-expression through playful remixes.
- Swipeable three-part animated rooster
- Live remixing of vocals, strings, drums, and bass
- 3 musical styles: country-western, opera, and Afrobeat
- Surprise Mix button for instant random mashups
- 27 mix-and-match combinations
- Open-ended live remix play
- Celebrates musical diversity
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It’s not every day you get to mash up Nigerian Afrobeat, American country music, and Italian opera with the swipe of a finger! Barnyard Boogie is an interactive musical mix-and-match toy for young children. Swipe the rooster’s head, body, and feet to remix both the animated performance and the music while the song keeps playing. Each rooster section controls a different musical layer: • Head: lead vocal • Body: guitar / primary stringed instrument • Feet: drums and bass Each layer comes in three musical styles: Nigerian Afrobeat, Italian opera, and American country-western. Children can combine them freely to make 27 playful musical mashups, such as opera vocals with country strings and Afrobeat rhythm. Tap Surprise Mix to instantly create a new rooster remix. Inspired by classic three-panel mix-and-match board books, Barnyard Boogie lets children rebuild the rooster and the band at the same time. Every swipe changes what they see and what they hear. Under all the silliness is a big-hearted idea: the world gets more joyful when different voices, rhythms, and traditions get to play together. Barnyard Boogie celebrates musical diversity, bold self-expression, and the chutzpah to stand up and sing your own song. Features: • Swipeable three-part animated rooster • Live remixing of vocals, strings, drums, and bass • 3 musical styles: country-western, opera, and Afrobeat • Surprise Mix button for instant random mashups • 27 mix-and-match combinations • Open-ended live remix play as kids swap parts at any moment in the song • Celebrates musical diversity and bold self-expression • Simple visual instructions for young users • Designed for parent-child musical play • No ads, no in-app purchases, no data collection Based on a song by award-winning children’s recording artist Red Grammer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LA Phil at Free against Barnyard Boogie's $1.99. LA Phil also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). Barnyard Boogie's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On ads, 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
LA Phil is free to download; Barnyard Boogie costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Barnyard Boogie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LA Phil has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LA Phil ships an update every 6 weeks, Barnyard Boogie every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.
| Parameter | LA Phil | Barnyard Boogie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 306 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | OmniConnected |
Customer experience
LA Phil
Barnyard Boogie
In-app purchases
LA Phil
No in-app purchases
Barnyard Boogie
No in-app purchases
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