Comparison

ImmerGround vs ENVO

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

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About

ImmerGround

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Turn your music into live, reactive visuals, right from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The whole app now speaks 15 languages. ImmerGround is a music-reactive visual instrument for musicians, VJs, DJs, producers, and performers: a music visualizer you can play like an instrument. Start from a shader or bring your own video and images, map them to audio and MIDI, and watch every beat, note, and frequency reshape the picture in real time. ImmerGround is free to start, and anyone can create projects. ImmerGround Pro, an optional auto-renewing subscription, unlocks the Pro shaders and effects, sharing, and renders up to 4K. FEATURES Shaders That Move to Your Music: 40 generative scenes, from cymatics and city skylines to ink, posters, petals, and glyph storms. Every scene has four knobs of its own, already mapped to the music, so it moves with your track from the first second. Save a look as a preset and bring it back in one tap. Your Music, in Sync: Play songs from your files or your music library, build setlists, or use the mic. Open a streaming panel in the Music sheet: it plays in its own app and ImmerGround hears it through the mic. Music keeps playing in the background. The Music Clock follows tempo and beats live, so effects and pad scenes land on the beat. On Mac, visuals can also follow music playing in any other app. Audio-Reactive in Real Time: Split the spectrum into Sub, Bass, Mid, High, and Air, or dial in your own frequency window. Full MIDI Mapping: Connect any MIDI controller and map CC knobs, notes, pitch bend, and pads to anything on screen. Built-in MIDI Learn binds a control in one move. A Rack of Effects: Pixelate, glitch slicing, RGB split, zoom pulse, strobe, and more, plus eight effect packs: Kaleidoscope, ASCII, Motion Track, Old TV, Print, Film, Flow, and Depth. Stack and modulate them into a look of your own. Precise Source-to-Effect Routing: Pick a source (a bass band, a MIDI knob, a held note), pick a destination (glitch amount, zoom, kaleidoscope sides, playback speed), and shape how one drives the other with response curves, output ranges, and smoothing. Build as many links as you like, all at once. Trigger Mode, Pad Scenes & Video Cues: Load a bank of clips and images and fire them from pads. Split a video into pads and jump to any moment with a tap, a key, or a MIDI pad. Play setlists, not settings. Multi-Layer Compositing: Stack video, image, and effect layers with blend modes and opacity. Store: Free CC0 VJ loops you can use anywhere, plus shader looks and effect packs, right on the library page. In Your Language: ImmerGround now speaks English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Nederlands, Polski, Português (Brasil), Русский, Svenska, Türkçe, 简体中文 and 繁體中文. Projects That Remember: Unlimited projects, saved automatically, with undo and redo that survives across launches. Built for the Stage and the Studio: A fast, hardware-inspired interface designed for live control. Send the show to a projector or second screen over HDMI or AirPlay. Hit REC to capture your set, or render it offline up to 4K. Universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. From bedroom jams to club walls, ImmerGround makes expressive visual performance accessible. Bring your sound to life. SUBSCRIPTION ImmerGround Pro unlocks every Pro shader, effect pack, and loop, sharing and export, and renders up to 4K. It is available as a weekly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. SAY HI! Email: support@immerground.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://immerground.com/privacy

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ENVO

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Your volume, minus the noise. You know the dance. On the train, a tunnel roars and you can't hear your podcast, so you turn it up. The train stops and now it's blasting, so you turn it down. Café, gym, plane, sidewalk: all day, your thumb does a job a machine should be doing. ENVO is that machine. It listens to the room and gently levels your volume to match, up when the world gets loud, back down when it quiets, so what you're hearing stays in the same comfortable place. You set the volume. ENVO keeps it right. HOW IT WORKS Ten times a second, ENVO measures your surroundings through the microphone — not just how loud the room is, but how much of it is actually burying what you're listening to. Then it eases your volume up or down by a small, safe amount. Your chosen level is always the baseline: the instant you touch the volume buttons, that becomes the new normal. You are never fighting the app. BUILT ON REAL PSYCHOACOUSTICS • Measures masking, not just loudness. A bus or a plane cabin is mostly deep rumble a sound meter barely registers — yet it's what makes speech impossible to follow. ENVO splits the room into frequency bands and weighs each by how much it's burying your audio. • Thinks in decibels, the way your ears perceive loudness — an adjustment feels the same whether you started quiet or loud. • Defends against the Lombard Effect — why a restaurant slowly gets deafening as people raise their voices. ENVO tells voices from machinery by their frequency and by the rhythm of speech, then refuses to chase people simply talking louder. • Rejects transients — a door slam is loud but brief, and ENVO shrugs it off. • Knows its own voice. On a speaker the mic hears your music too — ENVO measures how much of what it hears is its own doing and takes that back out, so it can't chase itself upward. ROOM CALIBRATION Every iPhone's volume slider is a curve, not a straight line. A 35-second calibration measures yours, so the range you choose is the range you get. Until then ENVO plays it safe and adjusts a little less than asked. SAFETY FIRST ENVO is engineered so it can't run away with your ears: • A hard ceiling it will never exceed. • A range cap (±3, ±6, or ±9 dB) you choose. • A hard limit on how far it can move the slider. • Gradual, rate-limited changes — ENVO must see several seconds of consistent change before it moves at all. • Your manual volume change always wins, instantly. HONEST WHEN IT CAN'T HELP ENVO says plainly when it can't do its job, instead of reporting numbers it can't stand behind: • Microphone covered — pocket, bag, or face-down. ENVO can tell a muffled mic from a room that just went quiet, and holds steady rather than act on a reading it doesn't trust. • Nothing playing — it hands the volume back, so your next track never starts at a level you didn't choose. • An output that keeps its own volume, like an AirPlay receiver. ENVO says so instead of pretending. WHERE IT WORKS Commutes, cafés, open-plan offices, flights, the gym, a bar filling up. ENVO runs in the background with any audio app (Music, Spotify, Podcasts, YouTube, audiobooks, calls...) keeps hi-fi stereo on your Bluetooth headphones, and leaves your lock screen to your music app. Start and stop with Siri, the Action Button or Shortcuts. Headphones are its best case: the mic hears the room, not your music. Speech works out loud too, because the gaps between sentences let it hear underneath. With continuous music out loud, ENVO turns up for a noisier room and returns you to your chosen level — but can't go below it, because your music is then all the mic can hear. A limit of every microphone, not a shortcut. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No audio is ever recorded, stored, or transmitted. Only instantaneous sound levels are measured in memory and discarded. Everything runs on your device. No account, no server, no analytics. Free and OpenSource. ENVO reads your environment so your ears don't have to. From TOTEMPHONIA STUDIO BERLIN

Screenshots

ImmerGround4 screens
ENVO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ENVO at none against ImmerGround's 5. ENVO also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). ImmerGround's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. ImmerGround sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. ENVO asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
ImmerGround versus ENVO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImmerGroundENVO
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCUMA ALI KESICIKilian Fix

In-app purchases

5 purchases

ImmerGround

Subscriptions5
  • ImmerGround Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • ImmerGround Pro Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • ImmerGround Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • ImmerGround Pro Annual$39.991 Year
  • ImmerGround Pro Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

ENVO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ImmerGround free?
ImmerGround is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ENVO free?
ENVO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ImmerGround or ENVO have ads?
Neither ImmerGround nor ENVO shows ads.

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