Comparison

zensoundlab vs ToneGame

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

Head to head
About

zensoundlab

Create personalized audio therapy sessions with real-time generation of binaural beats, noise colors, and pure tones. Customize frequency, spectrum, and layer sounds for focus, sleep, or relaxation. Features a smart sleep timer and optional responsive visuals.

Highlights
  • Real-time binaural beat generation (0.5-40 Hz)
  • Customizable noise colors (white, pink, brown, blue, violet)
  • Pure tones and Shepard tones
  • Layered sound sessions
  • Pre-set therapy sessions
  • Smart sleep timer with Lock Screen integration
  • Responsive visuals
Features
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Your own audio therapy. ZenSoundLab generates binaural beats, noise colours and pure tones in real time, and lets you layer them into a session you control down to the hertz. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD • Binaural beats from 0.5 to 40 Hz across the Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma bands, on a dial that gives the low frequencies the room they need • Noise in white, pink, brown, blue and violet — or shape your own spectrum • Pure tones, and rising or falling Shepard tones • Stack as many layers as you like, each with its own level SESSIONS TO START FROM Focus, Deep Sleep, Relaxation, Study Session, Settling, Paced Breathing, Alternating Pan, and the plain noise colours. Load one, then change anything about it. THE SLEEP TIMER Set it and the session winds down over its final 30 seconds rather than stopping dead. It runs on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, counting down on its own, with a pause button that works without opening the app. VISUALS, IF YOU WANT THEM Four generated visuals that respond to what you are actually hearing, or your own looping video. Or turn them off entirely. FREE, AND SELLING YOU NOTHING Apps in this category commonly charge around $60 a year. ZenSoundLab is free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, and no data collection of any kind — there is no account and no analytics. Binaural beats need headphones to work, and the app tells you when they are required.

About

ToneGame

Features
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Can you hear the difference between 440 Hz and 445 Hz? ToneGame is a deceptively simple challenge: a pure tone plays, then disappears. Your job is to find it again — as precisely as possible — using only your ears and a slider. No music theory. No instruments. Just pure listening. THREE WAYS TO PLAY ▶ SOLO 5 rounds. Score out of 50. Save your initials and climb the global leaderboard. How sharp are your ears compared to the rest of the world? ▶ ZEN No rounds, no score pressure, no end. Just you and the tones. A perfect daily warm-up for musicians, producers, and curious minds. ▶ DAILY CHALLENGE Every day, a new challenge — same tones for every player on Earth. One attempt only. No second chances. Come back tomorrow. TRAIN YOUR WAY • Easy mode — a wide frequency range, great for beginners • Hard mode — a narrow range that will humble experts • Octave shift — adapt the pitch register to your hearing range • Daily mode — its own range, fair for everyone, every time COMPETE GLOBALLY Every score is saved to a live leaderboard. Filter by today's challenge, all-time, easy, hard, or your own history. Badge of honor: can you reach the top? WHO IS THIS FOR? → Musicians developing absolute or relative pitch → Producers and engineers training frequency awareness → Audiophiles testing the limits of their hearing → Anyone who wants a daily 2-minute challenge that's genuinely hard FEATURES • Real-time pure tone synthesis — no samples, no loops • Daily Challenge — deterministic algorithm, identical worldwide • Global leaderboard with live rankings • Solo, Zen & Daily game modes • Easy / Hard + octave shift settings • Satisfying animations and detailed score feedback • English, French, Spanish, Portuguese & Chinese • No ads. No subscriptions. No paywalls. Your ears are more powerful than you think. Today's the day to prove it.

Screenshots

zensoundlab4 screens
ToneGame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ToneGame at every 9 days against zensoundlab's every 2 months. ToneGame also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

zensoundlab ships an update every 2 months, ToneGame every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
zensoundlab versus ToneGame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterzensoundlabToneGame
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPracticallyZen, LLCChristophe Colineaux

In-app purchases

None

zensoundlab

No in-app purchases

None

ToneGame

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is zensoundlab free?
zensoundlab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ToneGame free?
ToneGame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do zensoundlab or ToneGame have ads?
Neither zensoundlab nor ToneGame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, zensoundlab or ToneGame?
zensoundlab ships an update every 2 months, and ToneGame every 9 days. Most recently, zensoundlab was updated on October 10, 2026 and ToneGame on October 24, 2026.

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