DholTime vs Dha
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DholTime
This app facilitates virtual meetings and lessons, breaking down barriers of distance, time, and language. It offers a platform for interactive learning experiences.
- Virtual meetings
- Interactive lessons
- Overcomes distance barriers
- Overcomes time barriers
- Overcomes language barriers
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Welcome to DholTime. Which will become our favorite place for virtual meetings and lessons. Through DholTime,neither distance, nor time, nor even the language of communication can hinder our lessons anymore. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Dha
Learn tabla with interactive lessons and accompaniment. Practice taals, lehras, and develop your rhythm with a taal-aware metronome and timing checks. Offers a free tier with foundational content and a one-time purchase for full access.
- 28 bundled taal cycles
- 41 guided tabla lessons
- Taal-aware metronome
- Optional microphone timing checks
- Playable dayan and bayan
- Roman or Devanagari bol notation
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Build a little riyaz into your day. Pick a taal, set your tempo and Sa, and practise with tabla, tanpura and lehra that return to sam every cycle. Dha brings together 28 accompaniment cycles and 41 guided tabla lessons on iPhone and iPad, plus a taal keeper on Apple Watch. Start free with five Foundations lessons, a playable dayan and bayan, sam, tali and khali markers, tanpura, lehra and a taal-aware metronome. PRACTISE WITH ACCOMPANIMENT • 28 bundled taal cycles, including Teental, Keharwa, Dadra, Jhaptaal, Rupak and Ektaal, with sam, tali and khali shown on a taal clock. • Set tempo and Sa, tap the tempo in, and mix tabla, tanpura and lehra. • A metronome that knows the taal: a click on every matra, strongest on sam and softest on khali. Turn the theka off for a click-only or lehra-only loop. • The lehra (nagma) is a simple synthesized loop through a chosen scale that keeps the cycle; it is not a raga performance. • Roman or Devanagari bol notation, an AUv3 instrument and MIDI input. MEET YOUR TABLA Explore the pair, dayan and bayan in an original visual guide with synthesized reference sounds, then open the related Foundations lesson. Physical stroke technique still needs practice on real tabla with a teacher's guidance. A GUIDED PATH 41 structured lessons in eight modules cover thekas, kaydas, relas, layakari, tihais and accompaniment. Each lesson gives a practice target, common errors to listen for, and a teacher or self-review checkpoint. Dha returns you to your saved lesson and tempo. UNDERSTAND THE TIMING Optional microphone checks estimate pulse, relative spacing, tempo consistency and return to sam. The estimates are experimental and may be wrong; quiet, clipped or uncertain takes are left ungraded. Dha does not recognize correct bols or verify physical technique. FREE, THEN LIFETIME Accompaniment, the metronome, tanpura, lehra, the five Foundations lessons, AUv3, MIDI and your practice history are free. Dha Pro adds the full 41-lesson course, unlimited experimental timing checks, private on-device Coach drills and the pattern composer. Dha Pro is sold as a one-time Lifetime purchase: pay once, no renewal, restorable, and available to Family Sharing. Where the app still lists monthly or yearly plans, they renew automatically until cancelled; manage them in Settings > Renewal & cancellation. Buying Lifetime does not cancel a subscription for you. No account is needed. Practice audio and coaching stay on your device. Dha is a Playsoloist app and a companion to your tabla practice. A real teacher still matters. Terms of Use: https://tabla.keenshift.ai/terms Privacy: https://tabla.keenshift.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DholTime at every 3 days against Dha's every 2 weeks. DholTime also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. DholTime sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $79.99 per year and Dha sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DholTime against 5.0 for Dha. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
DholTime ships an update every 3 days, Dha every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DholTime | Dha |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Khachatryan | Mitaanshu Agarwal |
Customer experience
DholTime
Dha
In-app purchases
DholTime
- DholTime Unlimited$79.991 Year
- Daily dhol Lesson$70.00
- Daily dhol lesson$80.00
- Daily dhol lesson$90.00
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- Daily dhol lesson$100.00
- Daily dhol lesson$109.99
- Daily dhol lesson$119.99
- Monthly dhol lesson$849.99
- Monthly dhol lesson$859.99
- Monthly dhol lesson$869.99
Dha
- Tabla Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Tabla Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









