Comparison

ShrutiLove vs Fifths

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

Head to head
About

ShrutiLove

This digital instrument app offers a realistic shruti box simulation with bellows. Explore a variety of instruments, tuning effects, and accompaniment options like tabla loops and drum kits. Create your own beats and record your musical creations.

Highlights
  • Realistic shruti box simulation
  • Multiple instrument sounds
  • Voice tuning effects
  • Overtone simulator
  • Tabla loops and drum kits
  • Beat Studio for custom patterns
  • Recording function
Features
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The versatile digital shruti box for sound, accompaniment, full songs, and creative exploration. Features: • Authentic shruti box with bellows simulation • 8 instruments: shruti (2), organ (2), violin, choir, horn, synthi (2) • 440 or 432 Hz tuning • 6 voice tuning effects • Overtone simulator with different tunings • 12 tabla loops for accompaniment • 16 beats, 2 drum kits • Beat Studio for your own patterns • Drum pad for live accompaniment • Chord mode for harmonic exploration • Recording function (in-app purchase) More: • No tracking • No subscriptions • No ads • No user accounts

About

Fifths

This app helps musicians practice by creating custom drone progressions and looping sections of songs. It offers hands-free control via Siri and includes a metronome, a visual circle of fifths, and daily music theory questions.

Highlights
  • Create looping drone progressions
  • Practice with metronome and subdivisions
  • Hands-free Siri control
  • Visual circle of fifths exploration
  • Turn YouTube lessons into practice loops
  • Daily music theory questions and streaks
  • Over 100 instrument sounds
Features
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Fifths is built around one idea: practicing with musical context, not just isolated exercises. Create moving drone progressions, explore harmony through the circle of fifths, and turn YouTube lessons into focused practice loops. Build the exact practice environment you need for intonation, improvisation, fretboard awareness, phrasing, ear training, and learning real songs section by section. When you want a fixed reference, Fifths also works as a focused single-note drone, or a continuous tanpura for a rich harmonic center. And when your hands are on your instrument, just ask Siri: start a drone, load a preset, start the metronome, or answer today's question without touching your phone. Use Fifths to: - Build looping drone progressions for scale, melody, and improvisation practice - Create single-note or multi-note drone steps to outline changing harmonic centers - Hold a single drone when you want a stable key center for ear training or intonation work - Practice in time with a built-in metronome from 30 to 400 BPM, synced to your drone progressions, with subdivisions from eighths and triplets to swing, sixteenth patterns, quintuplets, and septuplets - Control Fifths hands-free with Siri and Shortcuts: start drones by key or preset, start the metronome, look up scale notes and intervals, check your practice streak, and hear and answer the Daily question - Load ready-made chord progressions from a library of pop, rock, minor-key, blues, jazz, and classical examples, organized around the circle of fifths - Turn YouTube lessons into saved practice loops, and share loops with other Fifths users - Slow down difficult sections, set rep targets, and let Fifths automatically ramp up speed as you progress - Fine-tune loop start and end points and adjust volume - Quickly search for a song's key and BPM while you practice - Explore the circle of fifths visually and hear key relationships instantly - See key signatures, relative keys, parallel keys, and scale notes at a glance - Train faster with daily questions, streaks, and multiple quiz difficulties - Add the Music Theory Daily widget to keep a fresh question on your Home Screen, and answer it right from the widget - Practice with 100+ sounds including strings, choir, organ, guitar, winds, pads, and synth textures - Save presets, favorite sounds, loops, and sounds tailored to your workflow - Customize the Drone screen by reordering or hiding sections, plus note naming, reference pitch, octave range, fade time, and quiz length - Keep practicing alongside other audio apps Fifths Pro unlocks unlimited saved loops, longer drone progressions, the full sample progressions library, the full sound library, and Medium and Hard quiz difficulty. Whether you are working on intonation, improvisation, key signatures, modes, intervals, songs, or general musicianship, Fifths gives you a practice tool that is immediate, musical, and built for repetition. Privacy Policy: https://fifthsdrone.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ShrutiLove4 screens
Fifths4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fifths at every 8 days against ShrutiLove's every 4 months. ShrutiLove's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShrutiLove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fifths sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ShrutiLove against 5.0 for Fifths. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShrutiLove ships an update every 4 months, Fifths every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ShrutiLove versus Fifths: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShrutiLoveFifths
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid FehrRichard Chirino

Customer experience

ShrutiLove

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fifths

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShrutiLove

One-time1
  • Recording Function$3.99
3 purchases

Fifths

Subscriptions2
  • Fifths Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Fifths Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Fifths Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is ShrutiLove free?
ShrutiLove is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fifths free?
Fifths is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ShrutiLove or Fifths?
ShrutiLove and Fifths are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ShrutiLove or Fifths have ads?
Neither ShrutiLove nor Fifths shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShrutiLove or Fifths?
ShrutiLove ships an update every 4 months, and Fifths every 8 days. Most recently, ShrutiLove was updated on October 19, 2026 and Fifths on October 31, 2026.

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