Comparison

Imajourn vs Harmonograph

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

Head to head
About

Imajourn

Features
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Imajourn turns sound into shape. Touch the water and every ripple sings. Hum a note and the pattern blooms. Draw any shape, type your name or choose a photo, and hear where it rings. Every sound has a shape, and you can keep it. PLAY • Water: touch for ripples and notes, drag to strum the scale, two fingers for interference. • Hum: your voice drives the water; hold a note steady and the figure locks in. • Tones: sweep a pitch strip through the notes; the ones where your shape resonates glow. • Listen: music and claps in the room become drops. • Plate: sand leaps from the moving parts of a ringing plate and settles on the still lines, the figures Ernst Chladni drew in 1787. • Room: sound in three dimensions. Light gathers on the still surfaces of a ringing sphere, cube or cylinder, or watch live waves travel from a clap, reflect off the walls and build standing waves, even inside a 3D model you import, shaded so you can see in (Pro). MAKE • Your shape: draw one in a single stroke, type a word, pick a photo or import an SVG (Pro: words, photos and files). • Set any shape inside a circle or polygon: its outline becomes a wall, with water inside and around it. • Draw walls, lenses and sponges into the water: double slits, lenses that focus, soft edges. • Tone sources, symmetry, wave speed and linger, 13 palettes, four voices, eleven scales and a reverb from dry to cathedral. KEEP AND SHARE • Capture stills, or hold the shutter for a clip with sound, in Water, Plate and Room: vertical for Stories and Reels, or the shape of your screen. Save to Photos or share. • Keep the moment: turn it on and Imajourn always holds the last 30 seconds, so you can save something beautiful after it happened. Only Imajourn's own sound is kept, never your microphone. • Keep scenes in your Library and share them as links anyone can open. CALM AND CURIOUS • Discoveries: find reflection, reverberation, interference, beats, resonance, the double slit and more, each with a one-line explanation. • Today's Resonance: a daily puzzle. Match the figure by choosing the plate and the note. • Drift: the scene plays itself, fades out and goes dark when the timer ends (15 minutes free). • On your TV: AirPlay to an Apple TV or AirPlay TV and the water fills the big screen, while your iPhone stays the instrument. • Sensory mode: softer light and calmer palettes. FOR EVERYONE • Feel the waves: on iPhone, haptics follow the water under your finger, so patterns can be explored by touch. • Full VoiceOver support, with a Describe action that speaks the scene and plays its notes. • Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency respected. • In ten languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Hindi. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Imajourn listens only while the microphone is on. Audio is analysed on your device and is never recorded or sent anywhere. No account, no ads, no tracking. IMAJOURN PRO, ONE PURCHASE, YOURS TO KEEP • Every shape and plate, plus your words, photos and SVG files as shapes • All voices and scales • Energy and Caustics views and every palette • Room: 3D Chladni figures, and live waves in a sphere, cube, cylinder or your own 3D model • Clips up to 3 minutes at full resolution without the mark, 2Ɨ stills, unlimited Library and Drift Pro is a single in-app purchase with no subscription. If you bought it before, it's already yours.

About

Harmonograph

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ā—† One-of-a-kind geometric art, drawn by a pendulum Harmonograph recreates a classic 19th-century drawing machine: two swinging pendulums whose overlapping motion traces a glowing line that slowly spirals toward the center of the screen. Every drawing starts with slightly different parameters, so the same pattern never appears twice. What you see being drawn is truly one of a kind. ā—† Discover, collect, and decorate DISCOVER - A new pattern is drawn before your eyes every time you start - Watch the glowing pen tip as each line is born - Tap "Again" to meet the next one-of-a-kind pattern - Pause anytime to enjoy the moment COLLECT - Save your favorites to the gallery with a name of your choice - Patterns are classified into 4 types (petal, star, spiral, loop) with a rarity from 1 to 5 stars - 20 combinations in total: can you discover them all? DECORATE - Export saved patterns as iPhone-sized wallpapers (1290 x 2796) - Choose from 5 background themes: navy, jet black, deep green, wine, and ink purple - Composed to stay clear of the clock and icons on your lock screen ā—† Designed for quiet moments - Works fully offline (network is used only to show ads) - No account required, no personal information collected - Your saved recipes stay on your device only Harmonograph is free, supported by a small banner ad and an occasional full-screen ad when saving wallpapers. Sit back and enjoy the trail of light drawn by the pendulum.

Screenshots

Imajourn4 screens
Harmonograph4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harmonograph at none against Imajourn's 1. Harmonograph also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 11 months). Imajourn's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Imajourn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Harmonograph asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Imajourn ships an update every 11 months, Harmonograph every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Imajourn versus Harmonograph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImajournHarmonograph
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFabin RasheedTakashi Nemoto

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Imajourn

One-time1
  • Imajourn$4.99
None

Harmonograph

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Imajourn free?
Imajourn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Harmonograph free?
Harmonograph is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Imajourn or Harmonograph have ads?
Harmonograph shows ads; Imajourn does not.
Which is updated more often, Imajourn or Harmonograph?
Imajourn ships an update every 11 months, and Harmonograph every 10 days. Most recently, Imajourn was updated on November 9, 2026 and Harmonograph on November 6, 2026.

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