Comparison

24seven.fm vs Anacru

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

Head to head
About

24seven.fm

This music streaming player displays the current track title, composer, and cover art for your favorite soundtrack station. It seamlessly integrates with your lock screen's "Playing Now" widget for easy access.

Highlights
  • Current track title display
  • Composer information
  • Cover art display
  • Lock screen "Playing Now" widget
  • Optimized for favorite stations
Features
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One player, one job: your favourite soundtrack station, looking gorgeous while it plays. It shows you what's on right now — track, composer, and the cover art in all its glory. It looks just as good in the "Now Playing" widget on your lock screen, so you never have to wonder who scored that. Every logo and cover you see here belongs to its rightful owner. Made with love for the music.

About

Anacru

Build complex rhythms with interlocking meters, tempo changes, and nested tuplets. Visualize and hear intricate polyrhythms and metric modulations. Export your creations as MIDI files for use in digital audio workstations.

Highlights
  • Construct advanced rhythms
  • Interlocking meters and phase shifts
  • Metric modulation with tempo changes
  • Nested tuplets
  • Interactive visual wheel
  • Export MIDI files to DAWs
  • Private by design, no account needed
Features
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Anacru is a scratchpad for constructing advanced rhythm. Most rhythm apps measure time — Anacru builds it. Instead of tapping along to a click, you assemble the rhythm you're hearing in your head from its parts: interlocking meters, tempo modulations, phase shifts, and tuplets nested inside tuplets. Then you play it back, watch it move, and export it to your DAW. Built for composers, drummers, producers, and teachers who work past 4/4 — and for students trying to finally *feel* how these ideas fit together. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD • Polymeter — stack independent layers, each with its own meter, subdivision, accent pattern, and phase offset. Watch 5/4 drift against 4/4 and snap back into alignment, locked to one shared pulse. • Metric modulation — pick the note value before and after a tempo change and get the exact new BPM instantly, with the direction never ambiguous. Chain modulations into a timeline the playback steps through as it loops. • Nested tuplets — put a quintuplet inside a triplet inside a bar. The engine handles the math; you just stack them. • Phase & accents — tap a pulse to accent it, or drag a layer's ring to rotate its phase. The wheel is the instrument. THE INTERACTIVE WHEEL Every layer is a ring of pulses on a single wheel, color-coded and voiced so you can follow each stream by eye and by ear. A playhead sweeps the cycle so you can see the relationships, not just hear them. HEAR IT PROPERLY Each layer gets its own pitch, stereo position, and selectable voice — woodblock, marimba, pluck, sine, or a kick/hi-hat drum kit — so interlocking parts read as separate instruments instead of one wash. SEE IT NOTATED Each layer is rendered on its own staff with correct meter, beaming, accents, and tuplet brackets. TAKE IT WITH YOU • Save and recall your patterns on-device. • Export a MIDI file — a clean tempo map carrying your modulation timeline, plus one track per layer — and drop it straight into any DAW. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No internet required. Everything lives on your device. One purchase, yours to keep.

Screenshots

24seven.fm4 screens
Anacru4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 24seven.fm at Free against Anacru's $4.99. On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

24seven.fm is free to download; Anacru costs $4.99 up front. 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 24seven.fm against 5.0 for Anacru. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

24seven.fm ships an update every 2 months, Anacru monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
24seven.fm versus Anacru: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter24seven.fmAnacru
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilipp KursaweEVAN TRACEN POWERS

Customer experience

24seven.fm

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Anacru

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

24seven.fm

No in-app purchases

None

Anacru

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 24seven.fm free?
24seven.fm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anacru free?
Anacru costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 24seven.fm or Anacru?
24seven.fm and Anacru are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do 24seven.fm or Anacru have ads?
Neither 24seven.fm nor Anacru shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 24seven.fm or Anacru?
24seven.fm ships an update every 2 months, and Anacru monthly. Most recently, 24seven.fm was updated on October 10, 2026 and Anacru on October 12, 2026.

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