Panora vs Ritmik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Panora
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Panora is a virtual handpan app designed for expressive playing, recording, and composing. Play beautifully sampled handpan instruments with a natural touch experience, capture your ideas instantly, and turn your recordings into editable compositions. Whether you are practicing, sketching melodies, meditating, or creating full musical phrases, Panora gives you a clean and focused space to explore handpan sounds anywhere. Features: • Realistic virtual handpan playing with haptic feedback • Multiple handpan instruments and scales • Full screen mode for an immersive playing experience • Record your performance and layer new takes with loop overdub • Edit recordings in the grid based sequencer • Adjust BPM, time signature, start/end points, velocity, and offsets of notes • Normalize timing and velocity with a single tap • Undo your edits with ease • Loop playback for practice and composition • Built-in reverb and master volume control • Preset library with ready-to-play songs and patterns • Keep listening while your screen is locked • Export high-quality WAV audio in your chosen sample rate • Save projects to your library, organize them into groups, and reorder them • Save as a new project to keep different versions of your ideas • Automatic drafts so you never lose unsaved work • iCloud backup to keep your projects safe • Optimized for iPhone, iPad (portrait and landscape), and iPhone Duo Panora keeps the interface simple, musical, and distraction-free so you can focus on the sound. Create, play, and shape your handpan ideas wherever inspiration finds you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://panora.digital/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://panora.digital/terms/
Ritmik
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Create, hear, practice and share percussion rhythms with Ritmik. Ritmik is a rhythm notation app made for bendir, erbane and handpan players, students, teachers and composers. Build a new rhythm from scratch, begin with a traditional pattern or continue editing one of your saved scores. CREATE RHYTHMS Add Düm, Tek, Ka and rests using simple controls. Choose note values, arrange notes and adjust each measure without working with complicated music notation software. • Create rhythms from scratch • Add whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes • Use dotted notes, tenuto, tremolo and other percussion symbols • Move, duplicate or delete notes • Set different time signatures and measure structures • Write handpan parts with hand signs: left hand above the line, right hand below LISTEN AND PRACTICE Hear the rhythm as you work. Change the tempo, repeat difficult sections and follow the notation while playing. • Listen with bendir, erbane and handpan sounds • Adjust playback tempo • Loop rhythms for focused practice • Follow the score as it scrolls by itself while playing • Hide the measures you are not practising, and bring them back in one tap • Practice at your own speed EXPLORE TRADITIONAL RHYTHMS Browse 63 ready-made rhythm patterns, including Arabic rhythms and Turkish usûls. Preview a rhythm, explore its variations and load it into your own document. The library spans Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Azerbaijani, Balkan, Armenian and African traditions, plus 12 ready-made exercise documents by Ritmik. The library includes patterns such as: Arabic rhythms Maqsum, 4/4 Baladi, 4/4 Saidi, 4/4 Eyyub, 2/4 Malfuf, 2/4 Bambi, 4/4 Masmudi Kabir, 8/4 Turkish usûls Nim Sofyan, 2/4 Semai, 3/4 Sofyan, 4/4 Türk Aksağı, 5/8 Yürük Semai, 6/8 Devr-i Hindi, 7/8 Devr-i Turan, 7/8 Düyek, 8/8 Müsemmen, 8/8 Ağır Aksak, 9/4 Aksak, 9/8 Oynak, 9/8 Evfer, 9/8 Aydın, 9/8 Raks Aksağı, 9/8 Lenk Fahte, 10/4 Aksak Semai, 10/8 Cengi Harbi, 10/8 Curcuna, 10/16 Tek Vuruş, 11/8 Firenkçin, 12/8 Nim Çember, 12/8 İkiz Aksak, 12/8 CREATE AND MANAGE YOUR FILES Save compositions, find recent work and organise rhythm exercises using categories and favourites. Your library stays in sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud. Start something new or continue working on a saved score whenever inspiration returns. EXPORT CLEAN PDF SCORES Turn your composition into a clear, printable PDF. Use exported scores for personal practice, lessons, teaching or sharing with other musicians. Students can also open compatible Ritmik files shared by their teachers, listen to the written rhythm and practise along with the score. MADE FOR EVERYONE WHO KEEPS THE BEAT Students can hear exercises, slow down difficult rhythms and practise through repetition. Teachers can prepare clear rhythm sheets and share exercises with their classes. Players and composers can quickly capture ideas, explore variations and turn rhythms into readable scores. Ritmik is available in 19 languages. Bring the rhythms in your head onto the page with Ritmik. SUBSCRIPTION Ritmik Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered as a monthly or a yearly plan. The yearly plan includes a 3-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://studioscale.co/apps/ritmik/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Panora at 15.0 against Ritmik's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Panora sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Ritmik sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Panora ships an update every 4 days, Ritmik weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Panora | Ritmik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sercan Aktan | Sevginur Ak Parlak |
In-app purchases
Panora
- Panora Plus Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Panora Plus Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Panora Plus Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
Ritmik
- Ritmik Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Ritmik Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year









