Comparison

Astral Effects Visualizer vs Psychodeli

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

Head to head
About

Astral Effects Visualizer

Transform your music into immersive 3D visual journeys with real-time audio reactivity. Explore unique visualizers, customize settings, and even record your creations to share.

Highlights
  • 10 unique 3D music visualizers
  • Real-time audio reactivity
  • Built-in music player
  • Internet radio streaming
  • Customizable visualizer settings
  • Record visualizations as video
  • Gyroscope support
Features
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Experience your music in a stunning new way! Astral Effects transforms your favorite tracks into mesmerizing 3D visual journeys — from deep space tunnels to morphing crystal objects, all perfectly synced to your music. Immerse yourself in 10 unique visualizers including Crystal Morph, Nebula Tunnels, Galaxy Journey, Interstellar Flight, Magic Constellations, and more. Each one reacts to your music's bass, treble, and rhythm in real time, creating an ever-changing visual experience. Lose yourself in hypnotic patterns as you soar through majestic galaxies, ride through fractal tunnels, and watch crystalline shapes morph to the beat. Features - 10 unique 3D music visualizers with real-time audio reactivity - Play music from your local library with the built-in player - Stream internet radio across multiple genres - Customize each visualizer with detailed settings — textures, colors, speed, camera, and more - Record visualizations as video to share with friends - Premium color themes and textures - Gyroscope support — look around inside the visuals by moving your device - NDI streaming for professional setups - iPad optimized with sidebar navigation - AirPlay support Perfect for relaxation, meditation, or simply enjoying your music in a whole new dimension.

About

Psychodeli

This app transforms music into dynamic, ever-changing visuals. It reacts to live audio input, user movement via the camera, and offers various visual styles and color palettes. Enjoy an immersive, non-repeating visual experience that syncs with your music.

Highlights
  • Live music visualization
  • Camera-based motion and face tracking
  • Dynamic kaleidoscopic and organic patterns
  • Multiple color palettes
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Tunnel and Duplex visual modes
  • Autonomous ambient mode
Features
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Psychodeli turns the music around you into a living visual performance. It follows rhythm, harmony, builds, quiet passages and returning themes — not just volume. Generative art, drawn live out of chaos math: nothing pre-rendered, nothing looped. Psychodeli enjoys music. It leans into a build, settles into the quiet, opens at the drop. When the hook comes back around, so does the visual idea that met it the first time. It is also a fidget toy you can fall into. Spin your fingers to spin the visuals, with or without a song. GROOVE WITH YOUR MUSIC It can listen through the microphone, so it jams with whatever is in the room: a speaker, a laptop, a turntable, a live band. Typical for iOS, it cannot reach inside Apple Music or Spotify for their audio. Play them out loud and Psychodeli hears them like anything else. And if you give it more signals, it tries to enjoy it with you. Turn on the camera feature and nod, sway or lean and the picture answers. Up to four people can appear in the fractal at once, reflecting real smiles and head tilts. Camera frames are processed on-device and are not sent to a server. OUR MISSION IS TO HELP YOU GROOVE Everything above is free. So is all of this: • Every curated palette, plus seasonal palettes • Kaleidoscope mandalas and free-flowing organic patterns • Motion reactivity — move the phone and the performance lifts with you; shake it for a jukebox jolt • Compatible Govee Room Lights in full, including color that travels along a light strip • Full-frame PNG saving and sharing • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no subscription, no nagging PSYCHODELI TOUCH — ONE PURCHASE, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION • Perform deck — play the visuals yourself: scrub color, speed, shape and effects live • Self, Mask and Eyes — expressive forms driven by your face • Camera color — choose Color then Camera (that choice, and nothing earlier, starts it), then pan across a sunset, a record sleeve, your room, and repaint Psychodeli in its colors. Keep it and it joins your library • Seasonal hold — keep automatic color changes inside one collection: Halloween, Pride, a solstice • Live Photo — turn the current visual into a moving Lock Screen, saved to Photos for you to choose in Wallpaper settings • Keep the display awake • Room controls — hold a lighting groove, and set how strongly the room responds LET THE PALETTE LEAVE THE SCREEN Compatible Govee lights carry the picture's palette and the music's movement into the room — free, all of it. Each lamp takes a different color from the same palette, so the room looks composed instead of every bulb doing the same thing. On a strip that can light its LEDs separately, the colors spread along it, drift, and pulse with the beat. Psychodeli connects locally over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, with no Govee account and no cloud. Compatibility varies by model; some Wi-Fi lights require LAN Control in Govee Home. Underneath: chaotic attractors and GPU wave functions, steered by a listener built for harmony, tension, structure and groove. The math is deep. Watch it listen, nudge it with Vibe, or take the whole performance with Touch. Photosensitivity notice: Psychodeli fills the screen with motion, flashing, and rapidly changing colors and patterns. A small number of people may experience discomfort, dizziness, or—rarely—seizures when exposed to such visuals, even with no prior history. View in a well-lit room, sit back from the screen, take breaks, and stop immediately if you feel unwell.

Screenshots

Astral Effects Visualizer4 screens
Psychodeli4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Psychodeli at none against Astral Effects Visualizer's 1. Psychodeli also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Astral Effects Visualizer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Psychodeli asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Astral Effects Visualizer against 5.0 for Psychodeli. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astral Effects Visualizer ships an update every 3 weeks, Psychodeli every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Astral Effects Visualizer versus Psychodeli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstral Effects VisualizerPsychodeli
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile VisualsKent Andrew Edmonds

Customer experience

Astral Effects Visualizer

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

Psychodeli

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Astral Effects Visualizer

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$4.99
None

Psychodeli

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astral Effects Visualizer free?
Astral Effects Visualizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Psychodeli free?
Psychodeli is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Astral Effects Visualizer or Psychodeli?
Astral Effects Visualizer and Psychodeli are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Astral Effects Visualizer or Psychodeli have ads?
Astral Effects Visualizer shows ads; Psychodeli does not.
Which is updated more often, Astral Effects Visualizer or Psychodeli?
Astral Effects Visualizer ships an update every 3 weeks, and Psychodeli every 4 days. Most recently, Astral Effects Visualizer was updated on September 21, 2026 and Psychodeli on September 13, 2026.

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