Comparison

Synesthesia Synth vs Granula

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

Head to head
About

Synesthesia Synth

An experimental audio-visual instrument that allows users to sculpt evolving spatial audio by manipulating floating capsules. Position, rotation, and pulse changes affect tone, texture, and synchronized particle generation. It's a visual synthesizer, not a game.

Highlights
  • Experimental audio-visual instrument
  • Sculpt evolving spatial audio
  • Manipulate floating capsules
  • Control tone, texture, and particles
  • Visual synthesizer
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Synthaestesia is a free experimental audio-visual instrument. Three capsules float in space. Every contraction produces sound. Move them, rotate them, reshape their pulse — and sculpt evolving spatial audio. Position changes tone. Rotation alters texture. Delay generates synchronized particles. This is not a game. It’s a spatial synth you can see.

About

Granula

Features
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Granula is a granular synthesizer for the phone. It takes a sound — a chord it generates itself, a guitar, a kalimba, a tongue drum, or thirty seconds you record on the spot — and scatters it into hundreds of tiny overlapping grains. What comes back is a slow, shifting texture: ambient pads, drones, atmospheres that keep evolving as long as you keep listening. Everything is played with your hands. The whole screen is a morph pad: move a finger across it and the sound moves with you, while a field of glyphs lights up under your touch and churns in time with what you hear. FOUR CORNERS, FOUR CHARACTERS • Reverse — short grains, played mostly backwards, with octave and fifth sparkles on top • Gater — a denser cloud chopped on a 126 BPM grid, from halves down to sixteenths • Chorus — long, slow, detuned grains with the read position drifting like a tide • Scatter — harmonic intervals thrown at random and sprayed wide FOUR KNOBS • Grain size, from 15 ms clicks to one-second smears • Position — where in the sample the grains are lifted from • Density, from sparse drips to a solid wash • Dry/Wet — a six-second convolution reverb, plus the amount of reversed grains RECORD THE WORLD Hold the record button and capture up to thirty seconds of anything: your voice, a room, rain on a window, a string you plucked once. The take is granulated immediately and kept in your library under a name of its own. You can also import your own MP3 or WAV files. MADE FOR A PHONE • Keeps playing with the screen locked and in the background • Survives calls, headphone unplugs and output switches without losing your session • Plays through the silent switch, like an instrument should • Any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard plays it — plug in and go, nothing to pair inside the app • Honours Reduce Motion GRANULA PRO Every built-in sound is free and stays free. A free account also brings in one sound of your own — recorded or imported. Granula Pro lifts that limit: record and import as much as you like, and everything syncs to your account so a new phone picks up where the last one left off. Granula Pro is $2.99 per month, billed to your Apple Account and renewing until you cancel. Cancel any time in Settings. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Synesthesia Synth2 screens
Granula4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Synesthesia Synth at none against Granula's 1. Granula's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Granula sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Synesthesia Synth asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Synesthesia Synth ships an update every 10 days, Granula every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Synesthesia Synth versus Granula: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSynesthesia SynthGranula
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMICHELE ZACCAGNINISergey Duzhev

In-app purchases

None

Synesthesia Synth

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Granula

Subscriptions1
  • Granula Pro$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Synesthesia Synth free?
Synesthesia Synth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Granula free?
Granula is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Synesthesia Synth or Granula have ads?
Neither Synesthesia Synth nor Granula shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Synesthesia Synth or Granula?
Synesthesia Synth ships an update every 10 days, and Granula every 4 days. Most recently, Synesthesia Synth was updated on October 3, 2026 and Granula on October 10, 2026.

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