Comparison

Harmonica Real Pro vs Gesture Synth

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

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About

Harmonica Real Pro

This app simulates a diatonic harmonica, offering various practice modes and features. Learn and play songs with adjustable speed and pitch, and record your performances.

Highlights
  • Diatonic harmonica simulation
  • Offline and online song library
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Transpose and reverb effects
  • Normal and RealTime play modes
  • Autoplay option
  • Recording and sharing functionality
Features
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The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica include diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one (or more) holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. The most common is the diatonic Richter-tuned with ten air passages and twenty reeds, often called the blues harp. A harmonica reed is a flat, elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound. Reeds are tuned to individual pitches. Tuning may involve changing a reed's length, the weight near its free end, or the stiffness near its fixed end. Longer, heavier, and springier reeds produce deeper, lower sounds; shorter, lighter, and stiffer reeds make higher-pitched sounds. If, as on most modern harmonicas, a reed is affixed above or below its slot rather than in the plane of the slot, it responds more easily to air flowing in the direction that initially would push it into the slot, i.e., as a closing reed. This difference in response to air direction makes it possible to include both a blow reed and a draw reed in the same air chamber and to play them separately without relying on flaps of plastic or leather (valves, wind-savers) to block the nonplaying reed. An important technique in performance is bending, causing a drop in pitch by making embouchure adjustments. Bending isolated reeds is possible, as on chromatic and other harmonica models with wind-savers, but also to both lower, and raise (overbend, overblow, overdraw) the pitch produced by pairs of reeds in the same chamber, as on a diatonic or other unvalved harmonica. Such two-reed pitch changes actually involve sound production by the normally silent reed, the opening reed (for instance, the blow reed while the player is drawing). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica) The Harmonica Real is Diatonic Harmonica musical instrument simulation app. More offline and online songs for practice (With the ability to change speed, transpose, reverb). Play with 2 modes: - Normal - RealTime You can choose autoplay for listening songs. Record feature: record, play back and share to your friends. Reverb feature. ** Songs is updated regularly

About

Gesture Synth

Create music by playing notes with hand gestures and sing along to your favorite songs. Record your performances and share them instantly on social media. Explore melodies and turn your movements into a unique musical instrument.

Highlights
  • Play notes with hand gestures
  • Select musical scales
  • Sing along to songs
  • Record performances
  • Share to social media
  • Turn hands into an instrument
Features
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Gesture Synth is a creative music app that lets you synthesize notes from a selected musical scale using hand gestures and capture the experience on video with your synthesized sound and singing. - Choose your scale Select a scale and experiment within its notes, making it easy to create musical phrases that stay in key. - Make music with your hands Use hand gestures to play a chord from a selected scale. - Sing along Add your singing to make cover of your favorite songs. - Record your performance When you ready, record your cover that will be immediately ready to share for socials. Whether you're exploring melodies, practicing musical ideas, or simply having fun creating sound through movement, Gesture Synth turns your hands into a musical instrument.

Screenshots

Harmonica Real Pro4 screens
Gesture Synth3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gesture Synth at none against Harmonica Real Pro's shown. Gesture Synth also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Harmonica Real Pro's advantage is ratings volume (4.6K vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gesture Synth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Harmonica Real Pro has 4.6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Harmonica Real Pro versus Gesture Synth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarmonica Real ProGesture Synth
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.6K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.6K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSon Truong NgocVladislav Dugnist

Customer experience

Harmonica Real Pro

All ratings4,621 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative14.6%

Gesture Synth

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Harmonica Real Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Gesture Synth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Harmonica Real Pro free?
Harmonica Real Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gesture Synth free?
Gesture Synth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Harmonica Real Pro or Gesture Synth?
Gesture Synth is rated higher. Harmonica Real Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.6K ratings, while Gesture Synth averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Harmonica Real Pro or Gesture Synth have ads?
Harmonica Real Pro shows ads; Gesture Synth does not.

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