Tone Gen Studio vs Bungee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tone Gen Studio
Generate precise audio frequencies, conduct sweep tests, and analyze sound with a built-in microphone tuner and RTA analyzer. This toolkit is designed for musicians and audio engineers needing accurate tone and measurement tools.
- Pure tone generator with custom frequency
- Preset tone pads
- Sweep generator
- Noise profiles (white, pink, brown)
- Binaural beats
- Mic tuner with real-time display
- RTA analyzer
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Test speakers, find frequencies, tune instruments, and keep time during practice with Tone Gen Studio. Generate tones, sweeps, and noise, explore your microphone input with the tuner and spectrum analyzer, or practice with the built-in metronome. Tone generation and speaker testing - Set a custom frequency or choose a preset tone pad. - Select sine, square, sawtooth, or triangle waveforms. - Run linear, exponential, or stepped frequency sweeps. - Generate white, pink, and brown noise. - Set burst on and off durations for pulsed tones. - Adjust binaural carrier and beat frequencies for headphone playback. Tuning and audio analysis - View the detected note, frequency, and cents with the microphone tuner. - Explore input levels with a real-time spectrum analyzer and 1/3-octave RTA bands. Metronome and practice - Set a tempo from 20 to 300 BPM or use tap tempo. - Choose time signatures, subdivisions, accents, and five click sounds. - Practice with swing, polyrhythms, gradual tempo ramps, and random mute. - Use a count-in and practice timer. Start at a low volume and adjust gradually. Binaural playback requires headphones. Speaker response and microphone measurements depend on your device and connected audio equipment. For musicians, audio engineers, educators, and anyone working with sound on iPhone and iPad.
Bungee
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Bungee turns your iPhone and iPad into a musical instrument. Touch the screen to play a granular synthesizer, pluck glowing stripes like strings, and let sequences and drum beats play along. No music theory needed: every note fits the scale, so everything you play sounds musical. PLAY THE PLATE Every finger sprays clouds of tiny grains of sound. Move left and right to travel through the sound, up and down to change the grain size, press harder for denser clouds and swipe fast for stutter bursts. Up to ten fingers play at once. PLUCK, HOLD AND STRETCH STRIPES The stripes behave like strings. Pluck them, hold them to sustain, stretch them until they snap, or bow them with a slow swipe. Hold one stripe with up to four fingers and pull: the note rises as it stretches. Each stripe plays a note of the scale, and you can draw your own. THROW THE NODES Nodes sit on the stage and play whenever a stripe touches them. Drag them into place, or flick one and it flies across the stage, bouncing off the edges and plucking every stripe it crosses. TWENTY LOOKS, ONE INSTRUMENT Pick a theme and the whole app changes with it, from the stage to the menus, and Settings shows each one with a preview. ASCII terminal green (the default), Teletype ink on paper, Watercolor washes, black-and-white Noir, ringing Bronze, Blueprint drafting lines, Glass over an aurora, Mosaic tiles, 8-bit Handheld and Arcade, liquid Chrome, white Clay, Neo Brutalism, Acid neon, Pixel, Op Art, a Thermal heat camera, Glacier satellite maps, Orbit planets and Bubble. Your home-screen icon follows the theme too. 82 READY-TO-PLAY INSTRUMENTS Every template is a complete instrument with its own sound, stripes, effects and sequence, laid out on shelves: Techniques, Weird, Ambient, Melodic, Beats, Drums and Glitch. Each template opens in a look picked to fit it. Long-press one to preview or star it, start a New project on an empty stage, or take the nine-step guided tour. PLAY REAL MATERIALS The Techniques shelf teaches a way to play on a material that sounds like the real thing: steel strings to slide, singing glass to rub, rubber bands to stretch, a nylon harp to swipe, a musical saw and a bronze singing bowl to bow, coil springs, icicles, bamboo chimes, water drops and a talking drum whose pitch bends under your finger. WEIRD: IDM AND GLITCH Beat-led IDM templates: drill'n'bass, chopped breaks, acid, braindance and glitch, with growling Reese bass, modem leads, FM tines and stuttering pads. RECORD, UNDO, TRANSFORM Record what you play and share it straight away. Undo and redo anything. Three big controls, Glitch, Space and Tone, transform any template in one move, and Mutate varies the running sequence. DRUM MACHINES BUILT IN Ten drum templates play real beats: footwork, house, boom bap, bongos, metal, wood, chiptune, IDM clicks, water drums and half-time trap. Play along on the stripes. SOUND NODES AND SAMPLES Drop sample, synth, noise and drone nodes on the stage and play them by holding or dragging. Use 13 built-in samples (kalimba, felt piano, Rhodes, tape choir, rain and more) or import your own from Files: WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF, FLAC and OGG. SEQUENCER Pick a pattern and a tempo, or open Advanced for the step grid, Euclidean and Turing patterns, swing and direction. EFFECTS AND MIXER Reverb, delay, phaser and drive, balanced in a touch-friendly mixer. MIDI, AUV3 AND ABLETON LINK - Use Bungee as an AUv3 instrument inside your favourite host app - Connect a MIDI controller and it maps itself: Korg nanoKONTROL2, Novation Launch Control XL, Launchkey Mini and more, plus MIDI learn for anything else - Sync the tempo with other apps and devices over Ableton Link MAKE IT YOURS - Save projects and your own templates, and share them - A retro terminal view that shows every event as you play Everything is generated live on your device. No account, no sign-up, no subscription. Touch the screen and start playing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tone Gen Studio at $0.99 against Bungee's $9.99. Bungee's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Tone Gen Studio costs $0.99 and Bungee $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tone Gen Studio ships an update every 6 weeks, Bungee weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Tone Gen Studio | Bungee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Manley | Ibrahim Sefa Tuna |
Customer experience
Tone Gen Studio
Bungee
In-app purchases
Tone Gen Studio
No in-app purchases
Bungee
No in-app purchases









