Comparison

Cymatics Lab vs Sacred Geometry Visualizer

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

Head to head
About

Cymatics Lab

Visualize sound by creating dynamic patterns from music or your own beats. Explore sand and liquid simulations, compose music, and share your creations. Experience sound in a unique visual dimension.

Highlights
  • Sound-to-pattern visualization
  • Sand and liquid simulation modes
  • Built-in music composer
  • Live performance tools
  • Frequency tuning
  • Pattern sharing and remixing
  • Audio and MIDI export
Features
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Cymatics Lab draws sound as moving patterns. Play a song, hum into the mic or make a beat, and the sound shapes sand on a vibrating plate or ripples of light in water. These are Chladni patterns, the figures a vibrating surface makes, drawn live from what you hear. SAND AND LIQUID Sand Lab has seven modes: Square, Circle, Sphere, Orbital, Cavity, Lissajous and Quasi. Liquid Lab has five: Round, Square, Bubble, Wave Tank and Drop. You can change the plate, the room, the lighting and the colors. MAKE MUSIC YOU CAN SEE The built-in Composer is for anyone, no experience needed, and the pattern moves with every note. • FEEL: tap a preset to start a groove, then turn Energy, Space, Tone and Drive. • BEATS: edit drums, bass, lead and pad on a step grid. • PERFORM: play drum pads or a keyboard and record what you play. • SOUNDS: shape each instrument. • SONG: chain sections into a full song. FIND YOUR FREQUENCY Dial in an exact tone, add a second frequency, or set a timed sweep, and watch the shape change with each hertz. WHAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO The microphone, your own music library, or the Cymatics Lab albums included in the app. Apple Music and Spotify work through the microphone while they play from your speaker. WAVES Release your patterns as Waves for others to find. Browse, save and remix theirs, follow creators, and like and comment. A shared wave link opens right in the app. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open it like a book with the Composer on one half and the pattern on the other, or fold it halfway like a laptop. The outer screen can show your pattern to the people across from you. FULL SCREEN AND AIRPLAY Turn your phone for a full-screen pattern, or AirPlay the pattern and music to a compatible TV. SAVE AND EXPORT Capture photos and videos of a pattern. Export your music as audio, separate instrument tracks or MIDI. CYMATICS LAB PRO The app is free to download. Pro unlocks every mode and tool, as a monthly or yearly subscription. If you bought Pro before version 2.0, you keep it for life as a Founder. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged at confirmation of purchase and on renewal. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://cymaticslabs.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://cymaticslabs.com/privacy/

About

Sacred Geometry Visualizer

Features
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Ten sacred geometry patterns, drawn live, moving with whatever you play. Flower of Life. Metatron's Cube. Sri Yantra. The Merkaba. The Torus. The Golden Spiral. The Thirteen-Petaled Lotus. The Triple Spiral. Celestial Mandala. Cosmic Bloom. These are forms people have been drawing for thousands of years, and they hold attention in a way an ordinary screensaver does not. Here they are rendered frame by frame in real time and tied to sound. The audio is split into six frequency bands with beat detection on top, so the structure responds to the shape of a track instead of just pulsing along with it. Nothing is pre-rendered or looped, so the same song never looks quite the same twice. Sit with one while you meditate, leave it running through a long record, or send it to the TV over AirPlay and let the room watch. Two Ways to Drive It: Play your own music. Bring in tracks from Files or iCloud Drive, or pull songs and whole playlists from your Apple Music library. Or open the microphone. Point it at a singing bowl, an instrument, a room full of people, and the geometry follows the sound around you. A Real Music Player Underneath: This started as a visualizer and became a player worth using on its own. Ten-band EQ with presets and a preamp Gapless playback, and crossfade up to twelve seconds Volume leveling, so a quiet track does not vanish between two loud ones Playback speed from half to double, pitch corrected Background playback with lock screen, Control Center, AirPods, and CarPlay controls Playlists, and browsing by artist, album, or genre Favorites, play counts, Most Played, and Recently Played Up Next queue, shuffle, repeat, search, and sorting Sleep timer with a soft fade, and an A-B loop Embedded lyrics and album art Picks up exactly where you left off Record It: Capture the visualizer as video and save it to Photos or send it wherever you like. In microphone mode the recording can include the audio in the room. Make It Yours: Swipe to change patterns, press and hold for the full carousel, tap to hide the controls. Each of the six frequency bands has its own sensitivity, so you can decide how much the bass moves things versus the high end. Every pattern remembers its own settings, and you can save presets and come back to them. Privacy: No ads. No accounts. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Your library, your settings, and your recordings stay on your device. Microphone audio is analyzed on the phone and never uploaded. Free, with nothing locked behind a purchase.

Screenshots

Cymatics Lab4 screens
Sacred Geometry Visualizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cymatics Lab at Free against Sacred Geometry Visualizer's $0.99. Cymatics Lab also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Sacred Geometry Visualizer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Cymatics Lab is free to download; Sacred Geometry Visualizer costs $0.99 up front. Cymatics Lab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sacred Geometry Visualizer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cymatics Lab ships an update daily, Sacred Geometry Visualizer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cymatics Lab versus Sacred Geometry Visualizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCymatics LabSacred Geometry Visualizer
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size542 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKiefer Studio LLCJonathon Darrel Eman

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cymatics Lab

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Sacred Geometry Visualizer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cymatics Lab free?
Cymatics Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sacred Geometry Visualizer free?
Sacred Geometry Visualizer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cymatics Lab or Sacred Geometry Visualizer have ads?
Neither Cymatics Lab nor Sacred Geometry Visualizer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cymatics Lab or Sacred Geometry Visualizer?
Cymatics Lab ships an update daily, and Sacred Geometry Visualizer every 4 days. Most recently, Cymatics Lab was updated on November 9, 2026 and Sacred Geometry Visualizer on November 6, 2026.

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