Sonaur vs Meshk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonaur
This app transforms real-time data, like weather or biometrics, into evolving ambient music. It offers unique, artist-composed soundscapes that adapt to your environment and personal rhythms, perfect for focus, relaxation, or sleep. Enjoy an uninterrupted, personalized listening experience.
- Real-time weather-driven music
- Artist-composed sonic palettes
- Biometric sound shaping (Apple Watch)
- Binaural beats for focus/sleep
- Sleep timer
- Lock screen playback
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Let the world become your soundtrack. Most focus music repeats. Your brain notices. Sonaur responds — transforming real-time data into evolving ambient music composed and recorded by musicians, not AI. No repetitive loops. Just responsive soundscapes designed for immersive, extended listening. WEATHER MODE (FREE) Temperature, wind, clouds, light, and rain shape how and when sounds unfold. A foggy morning feels different than a bright afternoon. The same city never sounds the same twice. • Real-time weather shapes the music • Curated, artist-composed sonic palettes • Optional binaural beats for sleep, focus, meditation, or mental clarity • Sleep timer • Lock screen playback controls • No ads. No interruptions HEALTH MODE (Apple Watch Required) — $19.99 One-Time Unlock Let your body's rhythms shape the sound. With Apple Watch, your heart rate, HRV, activity, and movement shape the music in real time. Calm moments create space. Increased activity builds layers. Adaptive binaural beats gently shift within your selected range based on your biometrics. • Real-time biometric sound shaping • Apple Watch companion app • Health data processed locally — nothing stored or transmitted • Works in Airplane Mode • One-time purchase. No subscription PERFECT FOR Focused work, concentration, and writing. Meditation and mindfulness. Creative flow sessions. Relaxation, evening wind-down, or sleep. Anyone who appreciates ambient music and wants a soundtrack that feels unique, personal, and alive. Inspired by a quote from Brian Eno: "You know, a wind chime is basically a simple piece of generative music." Press play. Your personal ambient soundtrack — created by the world.
Meshk
Master beautiful handwriting with real-time stroke guidance and validation across multiple writing systems. Learn Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Devanagari with structured courses, animated guides, and scored practice sessions. Designed for iPad and Apple Pencil.
- Real-time stroke guidance and validation
- Support for 6+ writing systems
- Animated stroke guides
- Structured courses and exams
- Lined notebook mode
- Custom font import
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Learn to write by hand — really write. Meshk is a handwriting and calligraphy trainer that guides your pen stroke by stroke, scores every stroke in real time, and covers 140 writing systems in one app. From Latin cursive and Arabic calligraphy to Chinese hanzi, Japanese kana, Korean Hangul, Devanagari, Tamil, Thai, Cherokee, Ge'ez and N'Ko — 73 scripts in living use today, 66 historic ones, 163 practice packs and 12,818 characters, every one with authentic stroke order. WHAT YOU PRACTICE 140 writing systems Latin (print, cursive, formal script, school manuscript) and Cyrillic · Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Thaana · Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese kanji and kana, Korean Hangul and hanja, Bopomofo · 39 Brahmic scripts including Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Odia, Sinhala and Tibetan · 17 Southeast Asian scripts including Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, Balinese and Baybayin · African scripts including Ge'ez, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Vai, Adlam and Bamum · Armenian, Georgian and Greek · and 66 historic scripts from Egyptian-era alphabets to Runic, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Brahmi, Linear B and Cuneiform-era writing. Hat — classical Arabic calligraphy Five historical styles taught the traditional way: Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah and Kufi, with right-to-left guides and reed-pen (qalam) simulation that reproduces the angled nib of a real calligrapher. Hat Studio Meşk the way calligraphers learn it: 896 Arabic compositions, from single words and joined words to full lines, stacked compositions, panels, the tughra and mirrored writing, each written stroke by stroke with a reed pen. Eight more pen hands (Foundational, Uncial, Cyrillic and Greek broad pen, Hebrew Ashuri, Hangul Panbonche, Chinese Kaishu, Japanese Kaisho) and a drawing shelf of 84 exercises in line, ellipse, form, perspective, value, contour and construction. Real stroke scoring Not tracing theatre. Every stroke is compared with the master stroke for direction, order, shape and placement, then scored. Hints show exactly where your stroke went off. Animated stroke guides Watch each character written stroke by stroke, replay at your own speed, then write it yourself over a dotted outline, on lines, or on a blank page. Courses, lessons and exams Every script has a structured course: single letters, lowercase and uppercase, connecting letters, words, then an exam that scores you and awards stars. Kids Zone Playful, age-appropriate letter tracing for children — shapes, letters, words, badges and streaks, with a progress map they want to finish. Your own practice material Add your own words, your own texts and blank practice papers. Meshk builds lessons from whatever you want to write — a name, a poem, a vocabulary list. Import your own fonts Bring any writing style in as SVG and Meshk turns it into a guided, scored course. MADE FOR APPLE PENCIL Low-latency ink, pressure and tilt response, paper-texture haptics and hover support. It feels like a pen on paper, not a finger on glass. Works on iPhone too. PERFECT FOR • Adults fixing their handwriting • Language learners who want to write, not just type • Calligraphy beginners and enthusiasts • Children learning their first letters • Teachers and tutors running handwriting classes • Anyone learning a new alphabet before a trip, a course or an exam MESHK PRO Meshk Pro opens connecting letters, word lessons, unlimited exams and your own words, texts and practice papers in every course. Download Meshk and write your first letter today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sonaur at 5.0 against Meshk's 3.9. Sonaur also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Meshk's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Sonaur sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meshk asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sonaur holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Sonaur's written reviews are positive against 75% of Meshk's.
Sonaur ships an update every 9 days, Meshk weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sonaur | Meshk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | 3.9 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Kiekbusch | Cihat Salik |
Customer experience
Sonaur
Meshk
In-app purchases
Sonaur
- Sonaur Health Mode$19.99
Meshk
No in-app purchases





