Comparison

Thrayam vs Sangatkaar

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

Head to head
About

Thrayam

This app provides essential tools for Karnatik musicians, including a digital thaalam with animated hand gestures and tempo control, a customizable tanpura with string animations, and a precise tuner that displays swaras in multiple languages. It helps musicians practice and refine their skills with detailed visual and auditory feedback.

Highlights
  • Animated thaalam hand gestures
  • Tap-tempo for thaalam
  • Playable tanpura with string animations
  • Single/Dual tanpura options
  • Fine-tune Shruti
  • Swaras display in multiple languages
  • Color-coded sharp/flat tuning
Features
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A Thaalam, Tanpura, and Tuner app for Karnatik musicians. It is the brainchild of Maestro Kumaresh Rajagopalan, designed and developed by Dr. Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan. Thaalam: Detailed Hand animations for each thaalam with 1 or 2 kalai options. Tap-tempo option to easily provide tempo for the thaalam. A thaalam progress bar to track the current aksharam. Tanpura: Playable tanpura with engaging string animations. Extensive controls for the tanpura. Single / Dual tanpura options. Fine-tune Shruti easily. Tuner: Display swaras in various Languages. Note wheel display along with fine-tune view. Note, frequency, and octave display for clear reference Color-coded sharp and flat tunings

About

Sangatkaar

This app provides a comprehensive practice tool for Hindustani classical music, featuring a tunable tanpura, a versatile tabla with multiple taals and patterns, and a customizable swarmandal. It offers curated raags and the ability to save personal presets for seamless practice sessions.

Highlights
  • Dual independent tanpuras
  • 26 taals with 33 patterns for tabla
  • Customizable 24-note swarmandal sequences
  • Pluck mode for swarmandal
  • 12 curated raags and custom presets
  • Seamless tempo and taal changes
Features
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Sangatkaar is a practice companion for Hindustani classical music: tanpura, shruti box, tabla and swarmandal, tuned and played together. Every instrument is built from real recordings, not synthesis. Nothing makes a sound until you ask it to. MICRO TUNING Tune every note to your own ear — up to fifty cents, to a tenth of a cent. The tuning is held per note, so retuning one Ga retunes every Ga: drone, strum and shruti box together. Sa and Pa stay locked, because everything else is tuned against them. Each rail carries that note's two classical shruti positions as snap points. TANPURA Two independent tanpuras, each with its own strings, pan, tone and level. Set your Sa and fine-tune in cents. Choose each string freely — Sa, Pa, Ma or Ni on String 1, any interval on String 2. Dual Octave for a fuller bed. Fine Adjust opens a drawn tanpura neck with per-string volume, tuning and javari. SHRUTI BOX Four reeds from real recordings — Sa, two of your choosing, and a coupler an octave below — each with its own level and pan, and its own channel in the mixer. It follows your Sa and your Micro Tuning, so it can never disagree with the drone. TABLA 26 taals in 33 selectable patterns, played from real strokes. Variations per taal, or Auto Variation that moves on its own. Tap Tempo, or step it by 1 or 5, with each taal keeping its own workable range. Sur Tabla drops the chati a register. Theka for the bare cycle, Sangat for variations. Manjira on the taals that carry it. Count yourself in, or start the cycle from any matra. A real metronome, with any time signature from 1 to 23 beats. A riyaz timer you start and stop yourself. SWARMANDAL A 24-cell sequencer in two independent sequences. Play a full pass, or Pluck to sound cells under your finger. Re-trigger every 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds while you sing. Shuffle between the two sequences, or hold one. Randomise the speed, or skip empty cells for an even line. Swipe to Play for a surreal experience. PRESETS Thirty Six raag setups, ready to load. A preset carries the strings, the octave, the shruti box, both sequences and the tuning — and deliberately leaves taal, tempo, Sa and the mix alone, because those belong to you and your room. Save your own, mark favourites, and share a preset as a file that opens on iPhone and Android alike. FIND YOUR WAY AROUND A guided tour walks you through the whole app, one card at a time. Start or end it whenever you like, from About. BUILT FOR PRACTICE Keeps playing with the screen off, or while you read notation in another app. Steps aside for a call and comes back afterwards. Works entirely offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, and nothing you do is collected or sent anywhere. FREE TRIAL, THEN A ONE-TIME PURCHASE Tanpura, Select Taals and Presets is unlocked free for 24 hours. After that, Tanpura unlocks both tanpuras and presets; Full unlocks everything including tabla and swarmandal; and if you already own Tanpura, a one-time upgrade completes it. No subscriptions. Buy once, keep it. Terms of Use: https://fluteschoolpro.com/sangatkaar/terms Privacy Policy: https://fluteschoolpro.com/sangatkaar/privacy

Screenshots

Thrayam4 screens
Sangatkaar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sangatkaar at Free against Thrayam's $14.99. Sangatkaar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Thrayam's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1). On review sentiment, 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

Sangatkaar is free to download; Thrayam costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sangatkaar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thrayam has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Thrayam's written reviews are positive against 90% of Sangatkaar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thrayam ships an update monthly, Sangatkaar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Thrayam versus Sangatkaar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThrayamSangatkaar
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews — better90.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB282 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaghavasimhan SankaranarayananKrishnamurthy Srinivasan

Customer experience

Thrayam

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative0.0%

Sangatkaar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Thrayam

No in-app purchases

None

Sangatkaar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thrayam free?
Thrayam costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sangatkaar free?
Sangatkaar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Thrayam or Sangatkaar?
Sangatkaar is rated higher. Thrayam averages 4.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Sangatkaar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Thrayam or Sangatkaar have ads?
Neither Thrayam nor Sangatkaar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thrayam or Sangatkaar?
Thrayam ships an update monthly, and Sangatkaar weekly. Most recently, Thrayam was updated on October 8, 2026 and Sangatkaar on October 18, 2026.

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