Comparison

RhythmReel vs Hypnogram

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

Head to head
About

RhythmReel

This app synchronizes your videos and Live Photos with music, making them react dynamically to the beat. You can use existing clips or record new ones, and import audio files or let the microphone capture sound. It offers creative overlays and multi-clip functionality for engaging video creation.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio-reactive video playback
  • Works with any video or Live Photo
  • Record new clips
  • Microphone input or import audio
  • Live waveform visualizer
  • Text overlay reacting to audio
  • Multi-clip playlist mode
Features
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RhythmReel is an iPhone app that makes your videos and Live Photos move to music. When the beat drops, your video jumps forward. When it quiets, it eases back. Pick any clip from your camera roll or record a short video in the app. Play music out loud through your speakers and the microphone picks it up automatically. Or import an audio file directly. Short clips work especially well. Live Photos are perfect. Free to download. A one-time purchase removes the watermark and unlocks high-resolution export. FEATURES • Real-time audio-reactive video playback • Works with any video or Live Photo from your camera roll • Record a new clip from the front or rear camera • Microphone input or import audio files • Live waveform visualizer overlay • Text overlay that reacts to the audio • Multi-clip playlist mode • Export as .mp4, share anywhere Made by Evan Roth, a Berlin-based artist whose work is in the permanent collection of MoMA.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

RhythmReel4 screens
Hypnogram4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hypnogram at none against RhythmReel's 1. Hypnogram also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). RhythmReel's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. RhythmReel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hypnogram 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 RhythmReel against 5.0 for Hypnogram. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RhythmReel has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RhythmReel ships an update every 3 weeks, Hypnogram every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
RhythmReel versus Hypnogram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRhythmReelHypnogram
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB191 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvan Andrew RothOB Data LLC

Customer experience

RhythmReel

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hypnogram

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RhythmReel

One-time1
  • Remove Watermark & High-Res Export$2.99
None

Hypnogram

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RhythmReel free?
RhythmReel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hypnogram free?
Hypnogram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RhythmReel or Hypnogram?
RhythmReel and Hypnogram are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do RhythmReel or Hypnogram have ads?
Neither RhythmReel nor Hypnogram shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RhythmReel or Hypnogram?
RhythmReel ships an update every 3 weeks, and Hypnogram every 2 days. Most recently, RhythmReel was updated on October 6, 2026 and Hypnogram on October 7, 2026.

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