Comparison

ImmerGround vs Beatworld

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

Head to head
About

ImmerGround

Features
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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: 28 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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Beatworld

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Pick a song, and the world on your screen starts moving to it. Beatworld is not just a waveform. The kick makes a crowd of balls jump, the snare sends out a shockwave, and when the chorus hits, the whole world lights up. Save what you see as a vertical video in one tap. WORLDS THAT DANCE TO YOUR MUSIC - Bouncing Balls: balls bounce on every kick, the floor shakes with the bass, and shockwaves ring out on the snare - Dancing Cats: neon cats change their choreography every two bars: steps, claps, waves, solos, and a big jump together on the drop - Neon Band: a robot band plays along: kick drum on the kick, sticks on the snare, and the crowd goes wild on the drop - Night Drive: cruise a neon city at night where the windows are an equalizer, through tunnels and over bridges, speeding up on the drop - Photo Beat: your own photo turns into pulsing tiles, shatters on the drop, and snaps back together on the next bar - Neon Tunnel: fly through a neon tunnel whose lights race along with the beat CLASSIC VISUALIZERS - Spectrum: every band from deep bass to bright highs becomes a bar of light - Circular Spectrum: a ring of frequencies that pulses with each beat - Particles: thousands of particles rise and burst with the song, swirling into vortexes and flowers - Kaleidoscope: a neon kaleidoscope that blooms on the beat and bursts outward on the drop - Laser Show: festival lasers sweep the venue, changing patterns with each part of the song SYNC THAT FEELS RIGHT When you load a song, Beatworld analyzes it once, on your device: loudness, bass, mids and highs, kick, snare, hi-hat, tempo, where each beat falls, and how the energy builds across the whole track. The visuals lean in just before the chorus and explode the moment it lands. Bluetooth headphone delay is compensated, too. SAVE AS A VERTICAL VIDEO - Export 9:16 vertical videos (1080x1920) to your photo library or share them right away. Square (1:1) and wide (16:9) are available too - Choose the part of the song to export - The song's audio is included MAKE IT YOURS Adjust color, sensitivity, glow, camera effects, thickness, particle amount and more for each visual. WHICH SONGS YOU CAN USE DRM-free audio files in the Files app (MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, AIFF and more) and the demo track in the app. Copy-protected streaming songs, such as Apple Music tracks, cannot be used. Before you publish a video, make sure you have the rights to the music. Songs are analyzed on your device only and are never uploaded. WHAT IS INCLUDED, AND WHAT NEEDS A PURCHASE The core visuals can be used without paying. Without Premium, exported videos carry a small watermark in the corner and are 30fps, and the app shows ads. Some visuals, watermark-free export and 60fps export require Premium (an in-app purchase). Watching a video ad unlocks one watermark-free export, or a locked visual until you close the app. SUBSCRIPTION "Beatworld Premium" is offered as an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly): no ads, no watermark, every visual, and 60fps export. The yearly plan may include a free trial for eligible users. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. LIFETIME "Beatworld Premium (Lifetime)" is a one-time purchase that unlocks the same Premium forever. It does not renew. NOTES You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple ID settings under Subscriptions. If you cancel, Premium stays active until the end of the current period. Partial periods are not refunded. RESTORE PURCHASES If you have purchased before, tap "Restore Purchases" on the purchase screen. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tomople.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ImmerGround4 screens
Beatworld4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ImmerGround at none against Beatworld's shown. Beatworld's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. ImmerGround sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Beatworld sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ImmerGround ships an update every 2 months, Beatworld every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
ImmerGround versus Beatworld: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImmerGroundBeatworld
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCUMA ALI KESICItomople

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
3 purchases

Beatworld

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$29.99

Questions

Is ImmerGround free?
ImmerGround is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beatworld free?
Beatworld is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ImmerGround or Beatworld have ads?
Beatworld shows ads; ImmerGround does not.
Which is updated more often, ImmerGround or Beatworld?
ImmerGround ships an update every 2 months, and Beatworld every 4 days. Most recently, ImmerGround was updated on October 28, 2026 and Beatworld on October 26, 2026.

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