Comparison

Bongo Beats vs Tanpura

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bongo Beats

Create your own music with realistic bongo drum sounds. Record, loop, and play back your beats with fun accompaniment options. Optimized for a high-quality audio experience.

Highlights
  • High-quality bongo drum sounds
  • Retina display optimized drums
  • Record and playback beats
  • Looping feature
  • Four fun accompaniment sounds
Features
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Treat yourself to the beautiful sounds of a RETINA display ready HD quality Bongo! A large and small drum pair with hi-quality sounds to come up with your own tune or do a nice jam with a friend! App also gives you unique features of recording your beats ,looping them and playing them back at regular or fast forward speeds! *****FEATURES***************** *HI-QUALITY BONGO SOUNDS: Enjoy pure, studio quality Bongo drum sounds for your enjoyment! These drums can be best enjoyed with a pair of headphones. *BEAUTIFUL BONGO DRUMS: You will enjoy the user-friendliness of playing these large RETINA display optimized bongo drums with either one or both hands. *RECORDING AND PLAYBACK: Enjoy recording your favorite beats in the Bongo Beats App! You can then play back your creations at regular or fast forward speeds. Also included is a feature to loop your beats for a continuous rhythm! *FOUR FUN ACCOMPANIMENT SOUNDS Try clicking the corners of your Bongo Beats app for other fun instrument sounds that you can record and play along with your bongo! Please don't forget to review if you like it!

About

Tanpura

This app provides a virtual drone instrument for Indian classical music practice. It offers rhythmic and melodic accompaniment, allowing users to select and synchronize multiple instruments. Adjust pitch and speed to suit your practice needs.

Highlights
  • Virtual tanpura and swarmandal
  • Rhythmic and melodic accompaniment
  • Synchronize multiple instruments
  • Adjustable pitch range
  • Adjustable play speed
  • Support for various scales
Features
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The tanpura is a drone instrument of Indian music prevalent in both the Hindustani and the Carnatic systems. It plays an important role in a concert of classical music by providing the base note (adharaswara) and by creating an aesthetic ambience on the stage. A well-tuned tanpura can emit possibly all the seven notes of the gamut. Tanpura is an Indian music app that combines a Tanpura/Swarmandal for music learner & lovers. It provides rhythmic and melodic accompaniment for music practice or just to jam along virtual musicians. Featured instruments are Swarmandal/Tanpura. You can select to play one or all of them, and they will automatically synchronize together. The Tanpura Scale Player Support : ---------------------------------- * Pitch Range (-100 to 100) * Play Speed (0.5 to 1.5) The Tanpura Player Support Deferent Scales: -------------------------------------------- The app supports deferent Tanpura scales ranging from "A", "B", "C", "C#", "D", "D#", "E", "F" & "F#"

Screenshots

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Tanpura3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bongo Beats at 56% against Tanpura's 0%. Bongo Beats also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (3.9 vs 1.0). Tanpura's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bongo Beats is free to download; Tanpura costs $1.99 up front. Bongo Beats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tanpura asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bongo Beats holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bongo Beats has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Bongo Beats's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tanpura's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Bongo Beats versus Tanpura: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBongo BeatsTanpura
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating3.9 (15 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS3.2 — better13.2
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoftware-KitchenSuresh Verma

Customer experience

Bongo Beats

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

Tanpura

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bongo Beats

One-time1
  • Bongo Beats - No Ads$0.99
None

Tanpura

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bongo Beats free?
Bongo Beats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tanpura free?
Tanpura costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bongo Beats or Tanpura?
Bongo Beats is rated higher. Bongo Beats averages 3.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Tanpura averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bongo Beats or Tanpura have ads?
Neither Bongo Beats nor Tanpura shows ads.

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