Resonance vs Hypnogram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resonance
Transform audio into dynamic, real-time visuals with GPU-accelerated effects. This app offers multiple visual skins and interactive tracking for hands and faces, allowing you to create and share mesmerizing video content.
- GPU-accelerated real-time visuals
- Four cinematic visual skins
- Real-time hand and face tracking
- Live microphone and camera input
- Video and image import
- Record and share video creations
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Resonance turns sound into a living visual instrument — transforming audio into mesmerizing, real-time visuals powered by GPU acceleration, right on your iPhone. Whether you're a musician, content creator, DJ, or just love visual effects, Resonance lets you see your music come alive through four hand-crafted visual skins, each powered by custom Metal shaders. FOUR CINEMATIC VISUAL SKINS ◆ Field — Organic, flowing wave patterns that ripple and pulse with your audio. Smooth and hypnotic. ◆ Signal — A digital glitch aesthetic with corruption effects that sync to every beat. Tap the screen to trigger glitch bursts. ◆ Matrix — Cinematic falling glyphs with layered depth and real-time motion. Streams emanate from your hands and face, creating a fully immersive effect. ◆ Aura — Luminous energy effects that follow tracked objects, creating multi-point auras that breathe with the music. REAL-TIME HAND & FACE TRACKING Point your camera at yourself or others — Resonance detects hands, faces, and body silhouettes using Apple's Vision framework. Visual effects react to your position, creating an interactive experience that goes beyond passive visualization. ◆ Hand pose detection with fingertip tracking ◆ Face detection and position tracking ◆ Person segmentation for background separation ◆ Tap-to-track any object on screen MULTIPLE INPUT MODES ◆ Live Microphone — Visualize any sound around you in real time ◆ Live Camera — Combine audio-reactive visuals with your camera feed ◆ Video Import — Apply skins and tracking to any video from your library ◆ Image Import — Use a photo as your canvas with crop tools RECORD & SHARE Capture your creations as video. Resonance records rendered frames directly to disk at 30 FPS, syncs audio perfectly, and exports polished MP4 files ready for social media, music videos, or live performance content. BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE Every visual is rendered on the GPU using Apple's Metal framework with custom shaders. FFT audio analysis runs through the Accelerate framework, delivering responsive, low-latency visuals that react to bass, mids, and highs independently. Perfect for: • Music videos & visualizers • Live performance visuals • Social content creation • Creative experimentation • VJing & live events
Hypnogram
Effortlessly transform your music into stunning, beat-reactive visualizers. Choose from 60 dynamic worlds and let AI craft a cinematic promo reel for your tracks. Export in multiple formats for social media.
- 60 music-reactive visualizers
- AI Director for automatic edits
- Cinematic looks and color grades
- Animated cover art scenes
- Kinetic text overlays
- Export for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube
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Hypnogram turns your track and cover art into a beat-reactive music video: gig loops, templates, spinning vinyl, live visuals and seamless loops, made on your iPhone. NEW IN 1.5: 26 MORE GIG LOOPS 34 psychedelic visuals made for looping at gigs. 1.5 adds 26: Whiplash Halo, a 60s concert poster in vibrating inks; Solid Light, projector beams that hang in the smoke; Girih Quasicrystal, a gilt rosette in an endless interlace; a pastel toy-machine world (Machine Dream, Mirror Machine, Cable Curtain, Clone Parade, Specimen Vats); and Flux Stepper, Linocut Stack, Peacock Wheel, Vega Swell, Infinity Room, Pulsar Relief, Chladni Sand, Etched Tesseract, Skeleton Calibre, Siphonophore Drift, Kumiko Lantern, Phosphor Scope, Tide Walker, Beam Comb, Bead Rain, Glitter Planet, Kirigami Lung and Gold Bus. They join the original eight: Aperture Stack, Rorschach Bloom, Ebru Engine, Moire Engine, Doyle Bloom, Circle Limit, Cryptex Shaft and Skyline Hourglass. • Built from your cover: it becomes the lens, the ink, the print, the screen or the specimen inside the visual • Hits on every kick: each kick moves the whole structure exactly one step • Loops seamlessly on 8 or 16 bars with no crossfade: the last frame flows straight into the first • Made for the booth, projectors and LED walls: the Live console's pads start as gig loops, and every roll of the dice onto a gig loop is a new variation • With Dim Flashing Lights or Reduce Motion on, the gig loops calm their flashes TEMPLATES, SPIN STUDIO AND LIVE • Templates: 25 one-tap edits made for your track, in Out Now, Spotify Canvas, Vinyl, Gig Flyer, DJ/VJ loop and Teaser styles. Each one starts on your song's drop, lands on whole bars at the real tempo and fills in your title, artist, date and venue. • Spin Studio: the spin video everyone posts. Press your cover as a full-print record, pinch to size it and drag it anywhere, spin it over your own photo or video, add your title in the font you like and export 1:1, 9:16 or 16:9. Turntable, sleeve-reveal and needle-drop shots too, with picture disc, splatter, marble, gold and glow pressings. • Live mode: a gig console with scene pads that switch on the bar, auto mode, blackout, flash, strobe, freeze, tap tempo and Line In from your mixer or mic. On iOS 27, send a clean picture to a projector or LED wall while your phone stays the controller. • Immersive Worlds: Chrome Relic, Laser Cathedral and Prism Bloom, real-time 3D built around your art. EVERYTHING ELSE • 150+ beat-reactive visuals built from your art: 34 gig loops, abstract tunnels, photoreal scenes with your cover on real objects, toon worlds, demoscene classics and Logo FX • Stem FX: the kick punches the camera, the snare pops the light, the hats sparkle and the vocal blooms • AI Director: describe the vibe and it builds the whole edit (it works offline too) • Film-grade looks with halation, bloom and grain • Kinetic text that moves on your song's timeline • Seamless, bar-locked loops for DJ/VJ sets and Spotify Canvas • Export 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1 in one go, at 60 fps, as ProRes for Resolume and VDMX, or at custom sizes for LED walls • Projects remember your look, record, template, gig loop and track Rendering happens on your device. No timeline, no keyframes: drop a track, pick a vibe, export. Made for artists, DJs, producers and labels: release reels, Canvas loops, gig flyers and visuals for the booth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hypnogram at none against Resonance's 1. Hypnogram also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). 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
Both are free to download. Resonance sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hypnogram asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Resonance against 5.0 for Hypnogram. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Resonance ships an update every 4 months, Hypnogram every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resonance | Hypnogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Galeano | OB Data LLC |
Customer experience
Resonance
Hypnogram
In-app purchases
Resonance
- Resonance Pro$6.99
Hypnogram
No in-app purchases








