Comparison

Hypnogram vs Record Spinner

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

Head to head
About

Hypnogram

Effortlessly transform your music into stunning, beat-reactive visualizers. Choose from 60 dynamic worlds and let AI craft a cinematic promo reel for your tracks. Export in multiple formats for social media.

Highlights
  • 60 music-reactive visualizers
  • AI Director for automatic edits
  • Cinematic looks and color grades
  • Animated cover art scenes
  • Kinetic text overlays
  • Export for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, YouTube
Features
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Hypnogram turns your track and cover art into a beat-reactive music video: gig loops, templates, spinning vinyl, live visuals and seamless loops, made on your iPhone. NEW IN 1.5: 26 MORE GIG LOOPS 34 psychedelic visuals made for looping at gigs. 1.5 adds 26: Whiplash Halo, a 60s concert poster in vibrating inks; Solid Light, projector beams that hang in the smoke; Girih Quasicrystal, a gilt rosette in an endless interlace; a pastel toy-machine world (Machine Dream, Mirror Machine, Cable Curtain, Clone Parade, Specimen Vats); and Flux Stepper, Linocut Stack, Peacock Wheel, Vega Swell, Infinity Room, Pulsar Relief, Chladni Sand, Etched Tesseract, Skeleton Calibre, Siphonophore Drift, Kumiko Lantern, Phosphor Scope, Tide Walker, Beam Comb, Bead Rain, Glitter Planet, Kirigami Lung and Gold Bus. They join the original eight: Aperture Stack, Rorschach Bloom, Ebru Engine, Moire Engine, Doyle Bloom, Circle Limit, Cryptex Shaft and Skyline Hourglass. • Built from your cover: it becomes the lens, the ink, the print, the screen or the specimen inside the visual • Hits on every kick: each kick moves the whole structure exactly one step • Loops seamlessly on 8 or 16 bars with no crossfade: the last frame flows straight into the first • Made for the booth, projectors and LED walls: the Live console's pads start as gig loops, and every roll of the dice onto a gig loop is a new variation • With Dim Flashing Lights or Reduce Motion on, the gig loops calm their flashes TEMPLATES, SPIN STUDIO AND LIVE • Templates: 25 one-tap edits made for your track, in Out Now, Spotify Canvas, Vinyl, Gig Flyer, DJ/VJ loop and Teaser styles. Each one starts on your song's drop, lands on whole bars at the real tempo and fills in your title, artist, date and venue. • Spin Studio: the spin video everyone posts. Press your cover as a full-print record, pinch to size it and drag it anywhere, spin it over your own photo or video, add your title in the font you like and export 1:1, 9:16 or 16:9. Turntable, sleeve-reveal and needle-drop shots too, with picture disc, splatter, marble, gold and glow pressings. • Live mode: a gig console with scene pads that switch on the bar, auto mode, blackout, flash, strobe, freeze, tap tempo and Line In from your mixer or mic. On iOS 27, send a clean picture to a projector or LED wall while your phone stays the controller. • Immersive Worlds: Chrome Relic, Laser Cathedral and Prism Bloom, real-time 3D built around your art. EVERYTHING ELSE • 150+ beat-reactive visuals built from your art: 34 gig loops, abstract tunnels, photoreal scenes with your cover on real objects, toon worlds, demoscene classics and Logo FX • Stem FX: the kick punches the camera, the snare pops the light, the hats sparkle and the vocal blooms • AI Director: describe the vibe and it builds the whole edit (it works offline too) • Film-grade looks with halation, bloom and grain • Kinetic text that moves on your song's timeline • Seamless, bar-locked loops for DJ/VJ sets and Spotify Canvas • Export 9:16, 16:9 and 1:1 in one go, at 60 fps, as ProRes for Resolume and VDMX, or at custom sizes for LED walls • Projects remember your look, record, template, gig loop and track Rendering happens on your device. No timeline, no keyframes: drop a track, pick a vibe, export. Made for artists, DJs, producers and labels: release reels, Canvas loops, gig flyers and visuals for the booth.

About

Record Spinner

Features
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Record Spinner allows you to easily create videos to help promote your music on social platforms! Add artwork, add background videos and add beat/frequency driven visualizations. Features: - Highly customizable artwork spinner and bouncer. Including rotation speed, disc size, placement and more - Turn artwork into vinyl with tons of customizations - Add filters to your background videos - Add visualizations like scrolling wavelength, spectrum bars, grid pulse and much more - Visualizations have many color presets and are fully customizable - Export for common social media sizes - Explore safe area's for each social media site to ensure elements will be properly seen This is all free and for the music community. No in-app purchases. Use this to promote your releases and new music easily and quickly. Also available on the macOS store, which has additional features like managing DJ mixes.

Screenshots

Hypnogram4 screens
Record Spinner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hypnogram at every 2 days against Record Spinner's fortnightly. Hypnogram also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hypnogram ships an update every 2 days, Record Spinner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Hypnogram versus Record Spinner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHypnogramRecord Spinner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOB Data LLCSean Wilson

In-app purchases

None

Hypnogram

No in-app purchases

None

Record Spinner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hypnogram free?
Hypnogram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Record Spinner free?
Record Spinner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hypnogram or Record Spinner have ads?
Neither Hypnogram nor Record Spinner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hypnogram or Record Spinner?
Hypnogram ships an update every 2 days, and Record Spinner fortnightly. Most recently, Hypnogram was updated on October 7, 2026 and Record Spinner on September 29, 2026.

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