Comparison

PANet vs Simple Handpan

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

Head to head
About

PANet

Learn to play the handpan with this intuitive app. It offers interactive lessons, step-by-step songs, and free play modes for beginners to explore calming melodies and understand musical notes.

Highlights
  • Interactive lessons
  • Step-by-step songs
  • Free play mode
  • Learn musical notes
  • Understand rhythm and notation
  • Beginner-friendly interface
Features
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PANet is a handpan learning app for learning, playing, and exploring handpan, hang drum, and pantam music. Whether you are completely new to the instrument or already play handpan, PANet gives you practical tools to learn songs, practice, explore scales, and improve your playing. Learn handpan step by step with the PANet Way Course. Learn practical techniques, understand handpan notation, and build the skills you need to play songs with more confidence. Explore a large collection of handpan songs with easy-to-follow numeric notation. Adjust playback speed, practice at your own pace, and use the notation editor to create, save, and work with your own patterns. Use Game Mode to practice your timing and accuracy while playing along with notes on screen. Track your performance and make practice more interactive. Explore handpan scales and discover different note layouts to better understand your instrument. PANet also includes Magic PAN, a digital handpan experience for playing and exploring musical ideas. Discover handpans and makers through the PANet marketplace, where you can explore available instruments and handpan makers. Whether you call it a handpan, hang drum, or pantam, PANet brings learning, songs, practice tools, scales, notation, and handpan discovery together in one app.

About

Simple Handpan

Experience the calming sounds of a handpan on your mobile device. This app offers multiple sound sets, built-in songs with MIDI playback, rhythmic accompaniment, and a recording library for creative musical exploration and relaxation.

Highlights
  • Multiple handpan sound sets
  • Built-in songs with MIDI playback
  • Falling-note visual guide
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Rhythm accompaniment
  • Melody recording and management
Features
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Bring the soothing and atmospheric sound of the handpan to your iPhone and iPad. Simple Handpan is a modern handpan simulator built for relaxation, creativity, and musical exploration — featuring multiple handpan sound sets, songs, rhythms, MIDI playback, and a simple recording library. MULTIPLE HANDPAN SOUNDS Play with quality of handpan sound set which designed to create a unique tonal atmosphere. SONGS + MIDI PRACTICE Practice with built-in songs, follow MIDI playback using a falling-note style visual guide, and adjust playback speed to match your learning pace. RHYTHMS & FLOW Add gentle rhythm accompaniment to enhance timing and create a natural musical flow. MANAGE YOUR RECORDINGS Record your handpan melodies, replay them anytime, and keep all recordings neatly organized. If you’re looking for a portable handpan app for relaxation, meditation, or creative music making, Simple Handpan helps you find calm and inspiration wherever you are.

Screenshots

PANet4 screens
Simple Handpan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PANet at none against Simple Handpan's 1. PANet also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (177 vs 2). Simple Handpan's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Simple Handpan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PANet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Handpan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PANet has 177 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PANet versus Simple Handpan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPANetSimple Handpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings177 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size125 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHossein MehrabaniMustafa Demir

In-app purchases

None

PANet

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Handpan

One-time1
  • Get Premium$5.99

Questions

Is PANet free?
PANet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Handpan free?
Simple Handpan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PANet or Simple Handpan?
Simple Handpan is rated higher. PANet averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Simple Handpan averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PANet or Simple Handpan have ads?
Simple Handpan shows ads; PANet does not.

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