Comparison

Celesta Sim vs Snare Drum Model

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

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About

Celesta Sim

This app brings the enchanting, bell-like tones of the celesta to your fingertips. Explore authentic sounds, multiple play modes, and built-in effects to create and share your music.

Highlights
  • Authentic celesta sound samples
  • Multiple sound and play modes
  • Real-time reverb and chorus effects
  • Sensitive touch dynamics
  • Microtonal tuning
  • Built-in audio recorder
  • Customizable keyboard layout
Features
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Discover the enchanting sound of the celesta with Celesta Sim Whether you're a professional musician, composer, student, or simply curious about new instruments, Celesta Sim brings the magical, bell-like tones of the celesta to your fingertips. With authentic samples, intuitive controls, and expressive features, this app delivers a beautiful and inspiring musical experience—anytime, anywhere. Play a Rare and Magical Instrument The celesta is a unique keyboard instrument that sounds like a cross between a glockenspiel and a piano-soft, shimmering, and dreamlike. Play It Your Way – Choose Between Sound Modes Tailor your playing experience with three expressive sound modes: Multi Note Mode – Play freely with rich polyphony for layered melodies and harmonies. Single Note Mode – One note at a time, great for solo lines or precision performance. No Hold Mode – Notes stop immediately when released, giving a staccato or music-box-like effect. Enhance Your Sound with Built-In Effects Add emotion and space to your performance using real-time effects: Reverb – Create depth and atmosphere with adjustable echo. Chorus – Add shimmer and harmonic richness. Sensitive Touch Mode – Press lower on each key for louder, more expressive tones—works independently per key for ultra-realistic dynamics. Customizable Keyboard Experience Make the interface work for you with flexible visual options: Note Labeling Options – Choose between Do Re Mi or C1 D1 E1... notation to suit your preference. Adjustable Key Width – Access the full 88-key range of a celesta comfortably, even on small screens. Advanced Musical Controls for Creative Exploration Microtonal Tuning – Dive into world music by adjusting individual note pitches for maqams, ragas, and alternative scales. Transpose Function – Instantly shift the entire keyboard up or down to match other instruments or vocal ranges. Capture and Share Your Music Keep track of your creativity and share it with the world: Built-In Audio Recorder – Save your performances directly in the app. Easy Sharing – Send recordings through messaging apps or share on social media. Screenshot Tool – Capture visuals of your keyboard and share instantly. Perfect for Practice, Performance, and Composition Whether you're studying music, composing for film or games, or just relaxing with ethereal melodies, Celesta Sim offers a magical and professional music-making experience. Why You’ll Love Celesta Sim Authentic celesta sounds crafted from real instrument samples Three tone styles and three play modes for total control Real-time effects and dynamic key sensitivity Microtonal tuning and transpose for global musical compatibility Built-in recording and sharing tools Fully customizable layout with note label options Clean, intuitive interface for all skill levels Download Celesta Sim today and let your creativity shine through the delicate, sparkling tones of this magical instrument!

About

Snare Drum Model

Features
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Snare Drum Model turns your iPhone into a responsive physical instrument. There are no recorded drum samples and no collection of canned hits. Every sound begins from silence and is synthesized in real time, responding to how and where you touch the screen. Strike the center of the head for a full, focused body. Move toward the edge to excite brighter, asymmetric overtones. Drag across the membrane to produce a roll, or use the brush for a broad, textured sweep made from multiple modeled bristle contacts. Leave a finger on the head to damp its vibration at that exact point. Tap the visible metal hoop for a separate rim voice with its own short, hard collision response. Choose between five physically modeled drums: piccolo, steel, wood, marching, and field. These are not sample sets or simple equalizer presets. Each configuration changes the behavior of the heads, shell, hoop, air volume, resonance, and snare wires. The piccolo is compact and quick; steel is bright and cutting; wood is warmer and more restrained; marching projects with a taut, disciplined voice; and field offers a deeper body with a longer response. Play with a stick, brush, rod, mallet, or hand. Each striker has a different contact size, hardness, force curve, and interaction with the membrane. A stick delivers a fast attack and bright rim crack. Rods spread their energy across multiple narrow contacts. The mallet produces a broader, softer impact without disappearing beneath the harder voices. Hand strikes are rounder and less metallic, while the brush has both a distinct tap and a continuous friction response as it moves over the coated head. Eight independently twistable tuning pegs surround the batter head. Instead of reducing tuning to a single global pitch control, every peg changes the local tension near its position. Uneven tuning can split, shift, and color the membrane’s resonant modes, just as it does on a physical drum. Tighten opposite pegs evenly for a controlled response, or deliberately unbalance the head to find rougher, more complex tones. The snare mechanism is equally playable. Adjust wire tension from loose and rattling to tight and articulate. Change the modeled snare-band width from one to six inches, altering the number and distribution of wires in contact with the resonant head rather than merely changing the volume of a noise layer. Use the throw-off to disengage the wires completely and hear the drum’s heads and shell on their own. A fixed internal damper presses against the upper edge of the membrane. Its pressure changes the local decay and modal response, and its visible contact shadow follows the amount of damping being applied. Open it for a freer, longer ring or bring it inward to shorten the head without muting the entire instrument. Each of the five drum types remembers its own setup. Tuning-peg positions, damper pressure, wire tension, snare-band width, and throw-off state are retained independently, both when switching between drums and when returning to the app later. You can build five distinct instruments instead of repeatedly recreating one shared configuration. Under the surface, two coupled circular membrane models interact with shell resonances, contact noise, wire damping, and position-dependent mode shapes. The metal hoop remains separate from the playable head, and different strikers excite it with appropriately different hardness and brightness. A limiter completes the signal path while preserving the immediate dynamics of touch. Snare Drum Model is intentionally direct: one playable surface, a focused set of physical controls, and no sequencer or transport between you and the instrument. Put on headphones or connect your iPhone to a larger system, choose a drum and a striker, tune the pegs, set the wires, and play. Snare Drum Model is the second in a family of fifteen single-instrument apps. Each one is designed around touch, physical behavior, and sound generated entirely on the device.

Screenshots

Celesta Sim4 screens
Snare Drum Model3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Celesta Sim at Free against Snare Drum Model's $0.99. Celesta Sim also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). Snare Drum Model's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Celesta Sim is free to download; Snare Drum Model costs $0.99 up front. Celesta Sim sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snare Drum Model asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Celesta Sim versus Snare Drum Model: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCelesta SimSnare Drum Model
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank—#194 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlper KahrimanRichard Barber

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Celesta Sim

One-time1
  • Get Premium$9.99
None

Snare Drum Model

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Celesta Sim free?
Celesta Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snare Drum Model free?
Snare Drum Model costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Celesta Sim or Snare Drum Model have ads?
Celesta Sim shows ads; Snare Drum Model does not.

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