Comparison

Choral Lab vs Phase Garden

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

Head to head
About

Choral Lab

Compose and study Bach-style four-part chorales. Harmonize melodies with automatic voice generation, explore a library of 410 Bach chorales, and analyze chords in real-time. Offers both score and piano roll views for detailed study.

Highlights
  • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style
  • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales
  • Interactive soprano piano roll
  • Real-time chord analysis
  • Score and piano roll views
  • MIDI export
Features
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Choral Lab brings the art of four-part Bach chorale writing to your iPhone. Whether you're a composer, music student, or theory enthusiast, explore one of the most refined harmonic styles in Western music. Harmonize your melodies. Draw a soprano line on the interactive piano roll and watch Choral Lab instantly generate alto, tenor, and bass voices following authentic Bach voice-leading rules — avoiding parallel fifths and octaves, resolving leading tones, and building natural cadences. Browse 410 Bach chorales. Explore the complete corpus of J.S. Bach's four-part chorales with full score display, real-time chord analysis, and playback with rich choir sounds. Two ways to read the music. Switch between a traditional four-part score view with proper notation and clefs, or a piano roll view to see the voice leading clearly laid out across time. Mute individual voices to focus on any single part or study how voices interact. Generate original chorales. Let the app create complete chorales from scratch in any key — major or minor — with realistic harmonic progressions, passing tones, and Picardy thirds. Study chord analysis. Follow along with real-time Roman numeral chord labels as the music plays. Features: • Interactive soprano piano roll with tie support • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales • Score view with Bravura music engraving font • Piano roll view with per-voice muting • Real-time chord analysis • Choir, piano, and organ sounds • MIDI export • AUv3 plugin — works in GarageBand, AUM and other hosts • One-tap host tempo sync in plugin mode • MIDI output per voice (soprano, alto, tenor, bass on channels 1–4)

About

Phase Garden

This app offers a unique multi-phaser effect with three independent voices for dynamic and evolving audio modulation. It allows for subtle, spacious, or complex phase textures on various instruments and mixes.

Highlights
  • Three independent phaser voices
  • Evolving multi-phaser architecture
  • Organic modulation drift
  • Controlled unpredictable behavior
  • Adjustable voice separation
  • Integrated stereo movement
  • Resonant feedback control
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Phase Garden takes the familiar sound of a phaser and lets it grow wild. Instead of relying on a single repeating sweep, Phase Garden uses three independent phaser voices moving together as a constantly evolving network. Each voice has its own modulation relationship, sweep behavior, feedback character, and stereo position. At restrained settings, Phase Garden creates smooth, dimensional movement that can add life to synths, guitars, pads, drums, vocals, and complete mixes. Increase Spread and the voices begin separating into a wider, more complex field. Add Drift and their relationships slowly evolve over time. Then there’s Wild. Wild introduces occasional controlled disturbances into the garden. A voice may change pace, alter its sweep, become more prominent, or temporarily move away from the others before settling back into the larger pattern. The result is phasing that doesn't feel locked to a perfectly repeating modulation cycle. Phase Garden can be subtle, spacious, liquid, hollow, tangled, resonant, unstable, or gloriously overgrown—but it always remains recognizably a phaser. Three phasers grow from the same source. None of them behave exactly alike. Plant a phase. Let it wander. Features Three independent phaser voices Evolving multi-phaser architecture Smooth organic modulation drift Controlled unpredictable behavior Adjustable separation between phaser voices Integrated stereo movement Resonant feedback from subtle to aggressive Wide range from gentle movement to tangled phase textures Factory presets ranging from restrained to overgrown

Screenshots

Choral Lab4 screens
Phase Garden1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Phase Garden at $3.99 against Choral Lab's $6.99. Phase Garden also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Choral Lab costs $6.99 and Phase Garden $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Choral Lab against 5.0 for Phase Garden. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Choral Lab versus Phase Garden: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoral LabPhase Garden
Price$6.99$3.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin AdlerJeremy Phillips

In-app purchases

None

Choral Lab

No in-app purchases

None

Phase Garden

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Choral Lab free?
Choral Lab costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phase Garden free?
Phase Garden costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Choral Lab or Phase Garden?
Choral Lab and Phase Garden are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Choral Lab or Phase Garden have ads?
Neither Choral Lab nor Phase Garden shows ads.

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