Magical Rays vs Choir Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magical Rays
Experience a calming and meditative light effect application. Touch the screen to interact with dynamic light rays and create ever-changing visual patterns for relaxation and zen healing.
- Interactive light ray attraction
- Dynamic and changing light patterns
- Zen and healing atmosphere
- Touch screen interaction
- Relaxing visual experience
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Relax zen healing. A light effect app provided by Digital Gene. When you touch the screen, you can attract the light ray. Please enjoy the ever-changing patterns of light ray.
Choir Player
Learn and practice vocal parts with a backing track. Isolate individual parts, adjust volumes, and even record your own performance. Access a library of songs for singers, choir leaders, and harmony enthusiasts.
- Adjustable SATB vocal parts
- Isolate and control individual parts
- Record and review performances
- Adjustable tempo and pitch
- Loop sections for practice
- On-screen lyrics
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Let's Sing Together! Learn Practice Perform Choir Player is a brand new way to learn and practice. All songs in our library feature 4 x SATB vocal parts + backing track. All 5 parts can be separately controlled. Solo any part, combine in any way. Free to try. Lots of features. Fun, simple, complete - for singers, choir leaders and anyone who enjoys harmonies. Suitable for all ages and abilities. Take it everywhere. Controlling the volume of the choir parts separately is at the heart of Choir Player. Listen to your own part in isolation and learn till perfect. Bring back the other parts one at a time while reducing the level of your own part. Practice with our without the backing track. Or do it any way you want. No more CD’s, no more copying. All your tracks are always with you. New feature! You can now record your own part. Learn your part, press Record button and the part you want to replace, sing (headphones recommended) and Review your performance. Every new recording is saved separately in ‘My Performances’, so the original recording is always there. You can even have reverb (just switch on/off in settings). Features: • SOLO: shortcut to isolating any one part • LYRICS: scroll on screen with SATB labelling • RESET LEVELS: restores all parts to full volume • SECTION INDICATOR: shows which section is playing • GO TO SECTION: move play head or drop down menu • LOOP: loop any section • SPEED: slow down for ease of learning • PITCH: change key • RECORD & REVIEW: record your own performance into the mix and play it back to review Library: Choir Player is free and comes with one free song pre-loaded for you to try. Add more songs from the Library. They have all been arranged for SATB choir. We will be adding new songs regularly. Live: Use backing track for live performance. Connect to sound system from headphone socket. All our tracks and arrangements are fully licensed and legal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magical Rays at 4.6 against Choir Player's 3.8. Magical Rays also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 81) and ratings volume (206 vs 12). Choir Player's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Choir Player sells 81 one-off in-app purchases. Magical Rays asks for nothing beyond the download.
Magical Rays holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magical Rays has 206 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Magical Rays's written reviews are positive against 75% of Choir Player's.
Magical Rays ships an update every 8 months, Choir Player every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magical Rays | Choir Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (206 ratings) — better | 3.8 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.2% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 206 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plus Inc. (Japan) | 3FireMusic Limited |
Customer experience
Magical Rays
Choir Player
Bugs and requests
Magical Rays
Reported bugs
4 issues- Ads are intrusive and cannot be removed
- Sound effects are unavoidable
- App quits unexpectedly when saving a photo
- Google ads banner is persistent and ruins the experience
Requested features
7 requests- Add option to slow down or speed up the game
- Add a color wheel for particle customization
- Add more music options
- Add option to change background color
- Add option to permanently remove ads
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- Add multi-finger interaction
- Add slo-mo button
Choir Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Magical Rays
No in-app purchases
Choir Player
- Do You Hear What I Hear$1.99
- The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year$1.99
- O Holy Night$1.99
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- Joy To The World$1.99
- Jingle Bells$1.99
- Christmas Silent Night Trad$1.99
- Christmas We Wish You A Merry$1.99
- Christmas Time Is Here$1.99
- Christmas I Heard The Bells$1.99
- Santa Baby$1.99
- It's Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas$1.99
- We Three Kings Of Orient Are$1.99
- Christmas We Three Kings$1.99
- Hark! The Herald Angels sing$1.99
- Here Comes Santa Claus$1.99
- Christmas The First Noel$1.99
- Christmas Joy To The World$1.99
- Christmas It Came Upon$1.99
- Oh Come All Ye Faithful$1.99
- Ave Verum Corpus$2.99
- Heard It Through The Grapevine$2.99
- Total Praise$2.99
- Oh happy day$2.99
- Where Is The Love$2.99
- Africa Toto Version$2.99
- My Everything$2.99
- Hallelujah TTBB$2.99
- Star Spangled Banner$2.99
- Amazing Grace$2.99
- A Million Dreams$2.99
- Man In The Mirror$2.99
- Seasons of Love SATB$2.99
- The Chain$2.99
- Don't Fear The Reaper$2.99
- I'm still standing (SSAA)$2.99
- In the Arms of the Angel$2.99
- Billie Jean$2.99
- Stuck In The Middle With You$2.99
- Lullaby (Goodnight my angel)$2.99
- Dancing In The Street$2.99
- Mustang Sally$2.99
- River Deep Mountain High$2.99
- For Once In My Life$2.99
- Tracks Of My Tears$2.99
- His Eye is On The Sparrow$2.99
- Knocking On Heaven's Door$2.99
- And so it goes TTBB$2.99
- Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You$2.99
- Grease Is The Word$2.99
- Islands In The Stream$2.99
- Battle Hymn of the Republic$2.99
- Down To The River$2.99
- What A Friend We Have In Jesus$2.99
- Skyfall$2.99
- Creep - Radiohead Version$2.99
- Great is Thy Faithfulness SAT$2.99
- Don't Rain On My Parade$2.99
- I Will Follow Him$2.99
- The Rose$2.99
- What A Wonderful World SAT$2.99
- Be My Baby$2.99
- Lacrimosa$2.99
- Ain't Nobody$2.99
- Fix You$2.99
- Happy$2.99
- A Thousand Years SSA$2.99
- This Is Me$2.99
- Take me home, country roads$2.99
- When You Wish Upon A Star$2.99
- Let It Be - The Beatles Version$2.99
- Say Something$2.99
- Can't Help Falling In Love SAB$2.99
- Don't Stop Believing$2.99
- You Raise Me Up$2.99
- Drift Away$2.99
- Country Roads TTBB$2.99
- Nearer My God To Thee$2.99
- Human - Rag'n'Bone Man Version$2.99
- Crazy - Patsy Cline Version$2.99
- Bacharach Medley$2.99
- The dock of the bay$2.99
