iTabla Pandit Professional vs Indian Classical Tabla
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iTabla Pandit Professional
This app provides realistic digital tabla, tanpura, and shruti sounds for Indian classical music practice and performance. It acts as an all-in-one accompaniment tool, offering customizable instrument sounds, tempo control, and the ability to save presets for different musical needs.
- Realistic tabla and tanpura sounds
- Customizable pitch and tempo
- Professional metronome
- Tone generator for shruti/tuning
- Save and load instrument presets
- Studio-quality sound samples
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iTabla Pandit Professional is the most realistic Digital Tabla, Tanpura and Shruti Maestro. With it, you don't need anymore your electronic tabla or tanpura. It will become your favorite accompaniment tool of your musical practice and your concerts of Hindustani and Carnatic Indian Music, creating a wonderful atmosphere. We encourage you to download and test our new software "iTabla Pandit Studio Pro". See our list of apps. --- iTabla Pandit will provide you --- ◊ Incredible tanpura sound with different colors and tunings ◊ Incredible tabla machine with a lot of predefined taals, full control on pitch and tempo ◊ Pure real tanpura, shruti and tabla sounds ◊ A professional metronome with different sounds ◊ A tone generator for using as a shruti or tuning your instruments ◊ A full user manual detailing all the functionalities and advances features ◊ Easy to configure, just take it out from your pocket, start it and enjoy! --- Welcome to the world of real tanpura, shruti and tabla sounds --- Our digital tanpura, shruti and tabla (taal mala) are based on real instrument sound samples, recorded in studio with a master sound engineer and professional musicians. The sound samples extracted from the recordings are carefully selected and masterised for the best musical rendering. We don't use any compressed mp3 sound. Our aim is to provide to the musicians an ambiance of real instruments. Several high quality and perfectly tuned tampura sound samples are provided within iTabla Pandit. You can use them in ANY PITCH by changing the key. How to change the sound? Just select your new sound in the list and the instrument will play with this sound. iTabla Pandit includes a set of stereo tanpura sound samples, recorded with AB stereo microphone technique. For the future updates of iTabla Pandit (and iTabla Desktop, Tampura Generator on computer), we're planning to record new sound samples to provide more variety and best quality to the musicians who trust in our software. In 2011, some new sounds recorded in XY technique will be available. --- One App to play all --- ◊ Capitalize your investment: all instruments in one software, you can run them all together ◊ Avoid having several software which can't play together ◊ You don't need to buy again another software ◊ You may also play music from iPod while iTabla Pandit is running --- Save your presets --- Our software provides a very convenient way to save and reload all your different instrument settings. With the presets, you can save multiple configurations for multiple usages. You save time and don't loose your tunings. For example, for a concert, you may have a preset for each song you're playing. By default, when you quit, the current configuration is saved and restored at the next startup. ---User manual --- ◊ The manual is included within iTabla Pandit ◊ It also explains how to make your own sound samples for the tanpura and shruti --- The original iTabla - The experience of sound --- The original iTabla is acclaimed by many professional musicians since 2007 on computers, and since 2008 on iPod Touch/iPhone. Get the original iTabla today, get the original and true sound of hindustan tanpura & shruti. It takes it roots in Tampura Generator, a digital tampura and shruti for computer, which started its life in 2005. --- Great battery life --- This version includes a new sound engine improving the sound and saving battery: Now, you can play tabla+tanpura for up to 24 hours continuously (Details of the test on our website) ! You're invited to visit https://www.itabla.com for more information. iTabla Pandit, iTabla Desktop, Tampura Generator, Tanpura Generator Desktop are trademarks of Christophe BARATAY - Vidya Multimedia
Indian Classical Tabla
This application emulates the sound of a traditional Indian Tabla, offering realistic instrument quality for musicians of all levels. It provides customizable sound settings and supports various classical and folk musical rhythms (taals).
- Realistic Tabla sound reproduction
- Adjustable pitch and global volume
- Support for multiple taals (rhythms)
- Professional signal processing
- Simple yet advanced customization
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Indian Classical Tabla is the software version of a Tabla, this instrument used in Indian classical music. All musicians, professional or amateur, experts or beginners, need Tabla or Drum for the practice and performance of Indian music. We have created with passion, this Indian Classical Tabla professional application. The application has been designed and carefully tuned to accurately reproduce the sound of an original Tabla instrument, including its beautiful tone, resonance and overtones. The professional instrument quality sounds of this application, simple but advanced customization options and professional level signal processing settings. You can fine tune the pitch with a resolution, also independently fine tune the pitch and adjust the global volume. Indian Classical Tabla Player support the deferent taal like : "Teentaal", "Ektaal", "Jhaptaal", "Deepchandi", "Rupak", "Dadra", "Keherwa" The first three (Teentaal, Ektaal and Jhaptaal) are very common in classical music, the next three (Deepchandi, Rupak and Dadra) are more common in semi-classical music, and the last one (Keherwa) is the life and soul of folk music. The Indian Classical Tabla Player Support Deferent Tall: ------------------------------------------------------- 1- Teentaal - 16 beats (4/4/4/4) (dhaa dhin dhin dhaa / dhaa dhin dhin dhaa / dhaa tin tin taa/ taa dhin dhin dhaa) 2- Ektaal - 12 beats (2/2/2/2/2/2) (dhin dhin / dhaage tirikiTa / tu naa / kat tin / dhaage tirikiTa / dhi naa) 3- Jhaptaal - 10 beats (2/3/2/3) (dhi naa / dhi dhi naa / ti naa / dhi dhi naa) 4- Deepchandi - 14 beats (3/4/3/4) (dhaa dhin (S) / dhaa dhaa tin (S) / taa tin (S) / dhaa dhaa dhin (S) *(S) indicates a silent beat, where nothing is played.) 5- Rupak - 7 beats (3/2/2) (ti ti naa / dhi naa / dhi naa) 6- Dadra - 6 beats (3/3) (dhaa ge naa / dhaa ti naa) 7- Keherwa - 8 beats (4/4) (dhaage nati naka dhina / dhage nati naka dhina)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iTabla Pandit Professional at 67% against Indian Classical Tabla's 0%. iTabla Pandit Professional also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 70 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Indian Classical Tabla's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $14.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
iTabla Pandit Professional costs $14.99 and Indian Classical Tabla $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iTabla Pandit Professional ships an update every 4 months, Indian Classical Tabla every 70 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iTabla Pandit Professional | Indian Classical Tabla |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 70 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | DEEPMALA RAM PARKASH | Suresh Verma |
Customer experience
iTabla Pandit Professional
Indian Classical Tabla
In-app purchases
iTabla Pandit Professional
No in-app purchases
Indian Classical Tabla
No in-app purchases
Questions
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