Comparison

Carnatic Raga vs uSchola

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

Head to head
About

Carnatic Raga

Discover and learn about over 950 ragas in Carnatic music, including fundamental and derived types. Search ragas by their notes or names, and view their ascending and descending scales. This app is essential for anyone passionate about Carnatic music.

Highlights
  • Search ragas by swaras or name
  • View Arohanam and Avarohanam
  • Melakarta raga information
  • Create favorite raga lists
  • Play scales
  • Share raga details
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Explore over 950 ragas used in Carnatic music, including both Melakarta (fundamental) and Janya (derived) ragas. Easily search for a raga by its swaras (notes) or name, and view the Arohanam (ascending scale) and Avarohanam (descending scale) for every raga. A must-have app for any Carnatic music enthusiast! Features: • Search by Swaras using exact or partial matches • Search by Name, including advanced search capabilities • Melakarta raga information for Janya ragas • Create your own favorite raga list • Letter notation for Arohanam and Avarohanam • Piano/Keyboard interface for swara selection • Play the Arohanam and Avarohanam • Share raga details with your friends • Search for a raga directly from Spotlight • Tala reference Explore, learn and enjoy! We welcome your feedback! Visit the support link to suggest new features. If you find our app beneficial, share it with your friends and family. Thank you.

About

uSchola

Features
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This platform provides a number of free services: Student Networking ------------------------- This is a general social networking feature which helps to add fellow students to their friend network. This network of friends will be the group that will be used for various features such as calendar event creation, request forwards, book recommendation, real time communication, etc. Tutoring --------- Rolling out a new feature through which students can arrange tutoring with other students. Tutor students can create tutor schedule on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Tutors can specify the times slots when they will be available for tutoring. Potential tutorees will be able to search for tutors on course of interest from institutes and request for tutoring. The tutoring assignment will be confirmed when the tutor accepts the request. TextBooks -------- uSchola has information about more than 200,000 textbooks that are currently used by students from different parts of the world. Students are able to search, comment, rate, forward and share these book through uSchola. Rideshare ------------- Rideshare service enables students to search for rides that match their planned rides for a given date submitted by fellow students. uSchola will search through all the rides available for the selected date and produce a list of rides that match along with the match percentage. The user can then contact the person submitted the matching ride to initiate a conversation. If the user does not find a matching ride he can submit a ride to uSchola so that other users can search and contact him Messenger -------------- Messenger provides a realtime communication mechanism among students. The messenger allows the user to send text as well as picture messaging to friends. uSchola provides seamless connectivity between users logged in from mobile devices and online website. Mentoring ------------- This is the service that provides an arena for students to help each other. A student who needs mentoring from fellow student from other areas, both geographically and skillset wise, can search for mentors who have signed up for providing mentoring in their areas of expertise. If the student cannot find a mentor who meets his/her needs then he/she can submit a request explaining the requirements. A potential mentor may contact the student in the future. On the opposite side, we also recognize that there are several students who believe in the art of giving by sharing the knowledge with the less fortunate. In order to help them in this process, uSchola provides allow such students to signup for providing mentoring for other students mentioning the areas of expertise. Student Posting -------------------- Submit, view, mark, forward, comment, and much more on postings submitted by students. Students are provided with numerous options to select appropriate scope for submitting the posting so that the postings are targeted to the right audience thereby increasing the relevance of the posting both for the author and the reader at the same time. Student Workgroup ------------------------- This is a way to create customized group of students with a common goal. Through these groups, students from different institutes can come together and share ideas. Student may create as many groups as possible to collaborate among members of project teams, entertainment groups or sports teams. Calendar ----------- The service provides an easy to use interface through which students can make appointments by knowing the availability of their friends for any given period. Calendar service will also provide timely notifications about any upcoming events on the student’s calendar.

Screenshots

Carnatic Raga4 screens
uSchola3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: uSchola at every 3 weeks against Carnatic Raga's every 44 months. uSchola also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Carnatic Raga ships an update every 44 months, uSchola every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Carnatic Raga versus uSchola: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarnatic RagauSchola
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (491 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings491 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 44 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAspul Studios LLCuSchola Inc

Bugs and requests

Carnatic Raga

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Dharmavathi is named as Dhamavathi
  • Some Raga spellings are incorrect
  • Play button does not work
  • Play button not working on ios14
  • No sound on iOS 6.1.3
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  • Crashes on iOS 6.1.3
  • Volume not working when touching swara

Requested features

10 requests
  • Play any 16 notes in any order
  • How to find raaga if up and down notes differ
  • Add two more octaves on the piano
  • Add functionality to play swaras
  • Add sound bites for swaras
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  • Add ability to listen to ragas in different shrutis
  • Add different instruments to play ragas
  • Option to 'like' favorite ragas
  • Link to find more songs in a raga
  • Add Hindustani music section

uSchola

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Carnatic Raga

No in-app purchases

None

uSchola

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Carnatic Raga free?
Carnatic Raga is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is uSchola free?
uSchola is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Carnatic Raga or uSchola have ads?
Neither Carnatic Raga nor uSchola shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Carnatic Raga or uSchola?
Carnatic Raga ships an update every 44 months, and uSchola every 3 weeks. Most recently, Carnatic Raga was updated on November 6, 2026 and uSchola on November 11, 2026.

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