Comparison

Marshall vs PRISM

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

Head to head
About

Marshall

Customize your audio experience with this app, offering intuitive controls to fine-tune sound settings. Enjoy the signature audio quality or personalize it to suit your preferences for music, movies, or any mood. Stay updated with the latest features through seamless over-the-air updates.

Highlights
  • Sound customization
  • Quick setup guide
  • Personalized audio profiles
  • Over-the-Air updates
  • Signature sound control
Features
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After spending over 60 years mastering the art of sound, we know that the only right way to listen to music, is your way. The Marshall app puts you in control, letting you shape your sound the way you want it. Let the app walk you through the initial quick setup to put the all the settings right at your fingertips. Enjoy the Marshall signature sound straight up or fine-tune it to match your playlist, your film, your mood. This app is built for listeners who refuse to settle, and the Over-the-Air updates make sure your speakers are up to date with little or no effort.

About

PRISM

Experience a shared auditory space where your presence is represented by a beam of light on a global map. Send warmth and connection to others worldwide through simple gestures, accompanied by curated music for different states of mind.

Highlights
  • Global listening presence visualization
  • Send light gestures to connect
  • Seven curated music rooms
  • Binaural beats for different states of mind
  • Interactive music timeline control
  • Global shared room
Features
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PRISM is a quiet place to be together. Open the app and the Earth greets you where you live. Everyone listening right now stands on the globe as a beam of colored light, exactly where they really are, from Tokyo to Berlin to the town next door. No usernames. No profiles. No chat. Just light. Tap the globe and something rare happens: light leaves your beam, travels the curve of the planet to every listener on Earth, and lands as a small flare of warmth on theirs. Love and light, sent. That is the whole gesture, and it is enough. SEVEN WORLDS, ONE FOR EVERY STATE OF MIND Swipe between living rooms of light, each with its own music composed for the room, each tuned with a binaural beat for a different state of mind (headphones recommended): - GLOBE - the world listening together, gamma 40 Hz for deep work - RAINY TOKYO - a warm window on a rainy night, theta for unwinding - HORIZON - an endless dusk over water, alpha for calm - THE GRID - a neon wireframe road under a rising sun, beta for drive - GANZFELD - a single field of breathing color, delta for sleep - SKYSPACE - a knife-edged opening to a slowly deepening sky, alpha for presence - WEDGEWORK - veils of red and magenta light in a dark room, beta for focus TOUCH THE MUSIC The world is the timeline. Drag toward the horizon to move back through the song, drag toward yourself to move forward. Hold to charge the room, release for a shockwave. Pinch for depth. Tilt for parallax. On the globe, scrubbing spins the planet itself. NEVER ALONE PRISM has one global room, so there is always someone in the world with you. When someone new arrives, their light fades in. When you send light, they feel it. PRISM is free. Put on headphones, pick a world, and stay a while.

Screenshots

Marshall4 screens
PRISM3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PRISM at 5.0 against Marshall's 3.0. PRISM also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). Marshall's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

PRISM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marshall has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marshall ships an update every 3 weeks, PRISM daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Marshall versus PRISM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarshallPRISM
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMarshall Group ABSuper, Inc.

Customer experience

Marshall

All ratings8 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive19.6%
Neutral8.9%
Negative71.4%

PRISM

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

In-app purchases

None

Marshall

No in-app purchases

None

PRISM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marshall free?
Marshall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PRISM free?
PRISM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marshall or PRISM?
PRISM is rated higher. Marshall averages 3.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while PRISM averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Marshall or PRISM have ads?
Neither Marshall nor PRISM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marshall or PRISM?
Marshall ships an update every 3 weeks, and PRISM daily. Most recently, Marshall was updated on November 8, 2026 and PRISM on October 31, 2026.

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