Tabla! vs Tabla Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tabla!
This app offers a realistic drumming experience for Tabla and Pakhawaj on mobile devices. It features responsive drums, adjustable effects, and a variety of beats and metronome sounds for practice and performance. Users can record, share, and export their musical creations.
- Realistic drum response to touch intensity
- Adjustable pitch, sensitivity, reverb, and delay
- Multi-track recording and playback
- Professionally recorded high-fidelity drum kits
- Variety of percussion and music beats
- Metronome with adjustable sounds and time signatures
- Share and export recordings
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Tabla! is the fun and easy way to play the Tabla and Pakhawaj. Perfect for both beginners and pros alike, Tabla! Free utilizes the latest technology and decades of real drum experience to create the ideal tabla app for the iPhone or iPad. All of the features of the app combine to make you feel as if you are sitting down and playing real Tabla or Pakhawaj. The drums respond to your touch, as the sound varies according to how hard you hit them. Playing realistic rolls is as easy as swirling your finger around, simply adjusting the roll speed by how fast or slow you swirl your finger. Other features include pitch, sensitivity, reverb, delay adjustments, multi-track recording, ability to share and export your recordings (optional in-app purchase), and so much more. There is also 7 different professionally recorded high fidelity drum layouts, including Tabla, Tabla Jam, Pakhawaj, and Tambourine, with more to come. Tabla! also features 25 unique Percussion Beats and 10 Music Beats to play to, as well as 24 different metronome sounds. Tabla! is by far the most fun, easy to use, and realistic tabla app available today! FEATURES: • 7 professionally recorded 44.1 khz high fidelity kits • The harder you hit the drums, the louder they sound! • Reverb and Delay Controls - slider adjustments allows limitless drum sounds • Pitch Control - lower or raise the pitch of the drums • Realistic visual effects - drums visually correspond to your every touch • Retina Display for both iPad and iPhone for incredibly crisp graphics • 25 Percussion Beats and 10 Music Beats to play along to, with more to come! • PlayAlong Beats: 16 new loops with basic bass drum, hi-hat or snare beats, to play along for added rhythmic expression! • Realistic Rolls - simply swirl your finger around to create slower or faster rolls • Double beat feature with slider adjustment • 24 Metronome Sounds and 4 Time Signatures to choose from, with BPM adjustment • Multi-track recording - easily add or delete tracks, save and loop recordings • Share your recordings through email, Facebook, and Twitter • Export your recordings to your computer (optional in-app purchase) • Lefty Mode - reverse the entire drum layout • Play along to the music on your iPod PRIVACY POLICY: http://codyrotwein.com/privacy.html
Tabla Tuner
This application is designed to help tabla players tune their instruments quickly and accurately. It provides real-time pitch detection with a visual indicator and tabla-specific presets, making it easy to achieve the correct tuning for any performance.
- Real-time pitch detection
- Visual sliding indicator
- Full-screen tuning confirmation
- Tabla-specific presets
- Custom reference pitch
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TablaTuner is the first tuner built specifically for tabla players — and the first that can tell you which note to tune to. Most tuners are designed for guitars and ukuleles. They don't understand that a tabla dayan needs to be tuned to Sa — and that Sa changes depending on the song, the singer, or the ensemble you're playing with. TablaTuner does. HOW IT WORKS Open the app, tap your tabla, and see your pitch instantly. A smooth visual indicator shows you exactly how sharp or flat you are, with a color system that shifts from red to green as you approach the target note. When you nail it, the entire screen floods green. You'll know. FIND ANY SONG'S SA Playing along to a song? Search it in the Songs tab and TablaTuner tells you its Sa — the note to tune your drums to. One tap sets the tuner. Every song has a 30-second preview, so you can check it's the right version before you tune. If a song's key hasn't been found yet, ask for an analysis: a few instant analyses a day are free for everyone, and the rest queue up. After you've tuned, say whether the key matched — that's how the key data gets better for every player. TABLA-SPECIFIC PRESETS Quick-select from the most common tabla tunings: C#, D, Eb, E, and more — or pick any of the twelve notes from a grid when you already know your Sa. Set a custom reference pitch if you're playing with instruments tuned to something other than A4 = 440 Hz. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Real-time pitch detection — accurate, fast, and optimized for the harmonic-rich tones of the tabla syahi - Visual sliding indicator that moves and changes color as you tune — intuitive enough that you can tune while looking at your phone from a distance - Full-screen green confirmation when your pitch is locked — no second-guessing - Song search that ends in "Tune to D", not a chart you have to decode - A guided first run: tell it what you want to play, and you're tuning within a minute - No ads. No subscriptions. Just a tuner that works. KEPT FREE BY PLAYERS TablaTuner has no ads and nothing to subscribe to. It stays that way thanks to players who leave a one-time tip in Settings. Nothing in the app is locked behind it — the tuner, every scale, and song keys are free for everyone. Nothing you play is recorded or sent anywhere. Song searches and install counts go to Emon's server, never linked to you. BUILT BY A TABLA PLAYER TablaTuner was made by Emon Dhar — a tabla player trained in Hindustani music who got tired of using guitar tuners that didn't understand Indian classical instruments. Every feature in this app comes from real practice sessions and real frustrations. There's a tab inside where he posts what's new and what's coming. Whether you're a beginner learning to tune for the first time or a performer preparing backstage, TablaTuner gives you the fastest path from out-of-tune to ready-to-play. Download TablaTuner. Find your Sa. Play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tabla Tuner at 100% against Tabla!'s 31%. Tabla Tuner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Tabla!'s advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence 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. Tabla! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Tabla Tuner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tabla Tuner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tabla! has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Tabla!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Tabla Tuner's.
Tabla! ships an update monthly, Tabla Tuner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabla! | Tabla Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drum Starz | Emon Dhar |
Customer experience
Tabla!
Tabla Tuner
In-app purchases
Tabla!
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Exporting$0.99
Tabla Tuner
No in-app purchases









