Comparison

@ vs Graba

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

Head to head
About

@

Features
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Pin is a field recording app. It is the first release by creative software studio Never alone.

About

Graba

This app helps musicians capture, organize, and develop song ideas. It offers recording, lyric writing with chord suggestions, a tuner, metronome, and video recording features. All your musical creations are stored locally and backed up to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Two-tap recording
  • Interruption-proof takes
  • Lyric sheets with inline chords
  • Rhyme suggestions
  • Chromatic tuner with alternate tunings
  • Metronome with haptics
  • Video recording with scrolling lyrics
Features
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A pocket studio for musicians. Two taps and you're recording. Develop the idea, and keep every version you make. CAPTURE Two taps from your pocket. Audio or video, straight from launch. Calls, alarms, and force quits can't eat a take: interrupted recordings are saved and recovered. • Start recording from a Lock Screen widget, the Action Button, or Siri • Film when you need to see the hands, with your lyrics scrolling over the camera • When the idea shows up as words, Write opens a blank sheet with the keyboard up DEVELOP The tools you reach for next. Lyrics with chords over the words, a tuner for guitar, bass and ukulele, a metronome, a playable piano, ear training, and a chord library you can hear. • Rhymes while you write, in English and Spanish, all offline • Chord suggestions in your key, and one-tap transpose with capo hints • Alternate tunings: Drop D, DADGAD, Eb Standard, Open G • Tap tempo, odd meters, and a metronome that keeps time on the Lock Screen • Loop any section of a take to learn your own part back • Stand mode, for reading your lyrics on a music stand KEEP Nothing gets written over. Every take lands in your Vault with versions, notes, and trims. Local first, synced through your own iCloud if you choose. • Projects hold every version, with tempo, key, tags, and notes • Notes pinned to the exact second of a take • Trim a take and keep the trim as a new version • Bring finished mixes in from Files, Mail, or AirDrop and keep them with their demos • Add a title to a video take and send it to TikTok or Instagram • Old ideas come back around on their own Free, with no account, no ads, and no subscription.

Screenshots

@4 screens
Graba4 screens

Verdict

The call

@ and Graba are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

@ ships an update every 2 weeks, Graba every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
@ versus Graba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter@Graba
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlone never LLCADRIEL CONDE MACKENZIE

In-app purchases

None

@

No in-app purchases

None

Graba

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is @ free?
@ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Graba free?
Graba is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do @ or Graba have ads?
Neither @ nor Graba shows ads.
Which is updated more often, @ or Graba?
@ ships an update every 2 weeks, and Graba every 3 weeks. Most recently, @ was updated on October 14, 2026 and Graba on October 1, 2026.

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