Comparison

FrequencyCat vs Cantus

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

Head to head
About

FrequencyCat

Transform your photos into unique sound art using advanced image-to-sound technology. Explore, enjoy, and share your creative audio-visual pieces. Embrace your inner artist and discover the unexpected.

Highlights
  • Morph images into sound art
  • Create spectrogram oddities
  • Share sound art creations
  • Unique audio-visual experience
Features
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Hide an image inside sound. FrequencyCat is a playful tool for exploring the connection between images, sound, and spectrograms. Choose an image, and FrequencyCat transforms it into a unique audio signal. Play the sound and view its spectrogram, and you’ll see the original image emerge again from the frequencies. With FrequencyCat, you can: - Turn images into sound - View audio spectrograms in real time - Play sounds and reveal the images hidden inside them - Explore how different images create different sounds - Discover the relationship between sound, frequency, and Fourier transforms in an intuitive way There’s no magic behind it. Just frequencies, phases, an inverse Fourier transform, and a little curiosity about sound. Whether you’re interested in acoustics, music, signal processing, or simply wondering what an image might sound like, FrequencyCat gives you a new way to explore. Pick an image. Hear what it sounds like.

About

Cantus

This interactive tool helps musicians explore harmony and chord voicings on a virtual piano. It allows users to visualize how notes move within chords, understand modal relationships, and develop a feel for harmony through focused practice.

Highlights
  • Interactive chord and voicing exploration
  • Piano keyboard visualization
  • Modal and scale-based harmony practice
  • Voice-leading movement analysis
  • Tone.js audio playback
  • Account-free operation
Features
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Cantus - Voicing Lab is an interactive harmony and chord-voicing tool by Nathaniel School of Music for pianists, composers, producers, and music theory students. Explore how notes move inside chords, hear voicings in context, and study color, tension, and modal relationships from the keyboard. Cantus is designed as a focused practice lab: pick a sound, inspect the voice leading, and build intuition for how harmony feels under your hands. FEATURES * Interactive chord and voicing explorer * Piano keyboard visualization * Modal and scale-based harmony practice * Voice-leading movement and pinboard-style comparison * Tone.js audio playback * Self-hosted fonts and bundled web assets * Works without an account BY NATHANIEL SCHOOL OF MUSIC Built for practical harmony learning, composition practice, and deeper chord fluency.

Screenshots

FrequencyCat3 screens
Cantus3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cantus at every 5 days against FrequencyCat's every 40 months. Cantus also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FrequencyCat against 5.0 for Cantus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FrequencyCat ships an update every 40 months, Cantus every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FrequencyCat versus Cantus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrequencyCatCantus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXuesong ZhangJason Zachariah

In-app purchases

None

FrequencyCat

No in-app purchases

None

Cantus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FrequencyCat free?
FrequencyCat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cantus free?
Cantus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FrequencyCat or Cantus?
FrequencyCat and Cantus are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do FrequencyCat or Cantus have ads?
Neither FrequencyCat nor Cantus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FrequencyCat or Cantus?
FrequencyCat ships an update every 40 months, and Cantus every 5 days. Most recently, FrequencyCat was updated on October 6, 2026 and Cantus on October 21, 2026.

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