Comparison

soundtronics vs Harmonauta

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

Head to head
About

soundtronics

Features
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soundtronics reconstructs microphone input in real time. Speak just a single word, and waves of sound begin to ripple outward. This isn’t a simple echo β€” it’s a live remix, a live rework.

About

Harmonauta

Features
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Harmonauta is a music maker for songwriters that starts where songs actually start: with a feeling. Instead of scales, wheels and chord tables, you get a living galaxy of sixteen emotions. Tap Longing, add a little Joy, pull Serenity closer, and the Core hums the key it hears. Forge it, and Harmonauta lays out a chord progression that carries that feeling: the right mode, the right movement, the right extensions, voiced and played back so you can judge it by ear. Then keep shaping. FORGE A TONE β€’ Blend up to four emotions and weight them by dragging them toward the Core β€’ Progressions built from a library of emotional archetypes across seven modes β€’ Depth control: Pure triads, Rich sevenths, or Lush ninths and colour tones β€’ Feel control: hold, pulse, strum, picked or piano comping, plus tempo and key β€’ Genre: Pop, Rock, Hip-hop, R&B, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Lo-fi, Bossa nova, MPB, Reggae or Blues, or let the feeling decide β€’ A melody line written over your chords, shown as a piano roll, rerollable β€’ Reroll for another take on the same feeling HEAR IT PROPERLY β€’ Ten instruments (pad, glass keys, pluck, electric piano, nylon guitar, crunch guitar, organ, bells, strings, flute) and three basses β€’ Drums with sixteen grooves, from a soft pulse and bossa to boom bap, swing, samba, one drop, four on the floor and a blues shuffle β€’ Bass lines that play a real part: a pedal under calm, lush chords, root and fifth, octaves when it gets loud, a walking line through the key; genres bring their own, from a blues boogie to samba and bossa β€’ Five spaces from dry to cathedral and plate β€’ Binaural beat for headphones: a quiet tone in each ear around the key note, pulsing in time with the song β€’ The screen stays awake while anything is playing β€’ Auto picks all of it from the feeling or the genre; override anything in the Sound sheet RESHAPE ANY CHORD β€’ Shards: smart substitutions for every chord, from relative minors and mediants to secondary dominants, tritone subs and borrowed colour β€’ Change chord lengths, add and remove chords β€’ See the guitar shape for every chord, with alternatives one tap away GROW IT INTO A SONG β€’ The Journey builds an intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge and outro from your seed β€’ Tint any section with a different feeling and Harmonauta rewrites its harmony to match β€’ Reorder, duplicate, repeat and regenerate sections β€’ Play the whole arrangement end to end; the trail scrolls itself to the section being played TAKE IT WITH YOU β€’ Guitar sheet PDF: chord diagrams above every bar, fingerings, barres, positions β€’ MIDI export for any tone or full song with chord, bass line, melody and drum tracks, ready for your DAW β€’ Copy a chord sheet as text β€’ A library that remembers every tone and song with its mood Harmonauta is built for songwriters, composers, producers and anyone who has a feeling before they have a chord. It runs entirely on your device, with no account and no internet required.

Screenshots

soundtronics4 screens
Harmonauta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Harmonauta at none against soundtronics's 1. Harmonauta also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

soundtronics ships an update every 2 months, Harmonauta every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
soundtronics versus Harmonauta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersoundtronicsHarmonauta
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days β€” better
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasayuki AkamatsuEvandro Guedes Machado

In-app purchases

1 purchases

soundtronics

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Harmonauta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is soundtronics free?
soundtronics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Harmonauta free?
Harmonauta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do soundtronics or Harmonauta have ads?
soundtronics shows ads; Harmonauta does not.
Which is updated more often, soundtronics or Harmonauta?
soundtronics ships an update every 2 months, and Harmonauta every 4 days. Most recently, soundtronics was updated on November 5, 2026 and Harmonauta on October 31, 2026.

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