Comparison

Psychodeli vs DiscoBallLight

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

Head to head
About

Psychodeli

This app transforms music into dynamic, ever-changing visuals. It reacts to live audio input, user movement via the camera, and offers various visual styles and color palettes. Enjoy an immersive, non-repeating visual experience that syncs with your music.

Highlights
  • Live music visualization
  • Camera-based motion and face tracking
  • Dynamic kaleidoscopic and organic patterns
  • Multiple color palettes
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Tunnel and Duplex visual modes
  • Autonomous ambient mode
Features
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Psychodeli+ turns the music around you into a living visual performance. It follows rhythm, harmony, builds, quiet passages and returning themes — not just volume. Generative art, drawn live out of chaos math: nothing pre-rendered, nothing looped. Psychodeli enjoys music. It leans into a build, settles into the quiet, opens at the drop. When the hook comes back around, so does the visual idea that met it the first time. It is also a fidget toy you can fall into. Spin your fingers to spin the visuals, with or without a song. GROOVE WITH YOUR MUSIC It can listen through the microphone, so it jams with whatever is in the room: a speaker, a laptop, a turntable, a live band. Typical for iOS, it cannot reach inside Apple Music or Spotify for their audio. Play them out loud and Psychodeli hears them like anything else. And if you give it more signals, it tries to enjoy it with you. Turn on the camera feature and nod, sway or lean and the picture answers. Up to four people can appear in the fractal at once, reflecting real smiles and head tilts. Camera frames are processed on-device and are not sent to a server. KEEP THE LOOKS YOU LOVE Explore 15 ready-to-play Pdeli Looks: six Originals and nine Animal Patterns. Tap a square preview to recall a setup. Keep favorites in Personal, or save your own with a name you can edit. Assign Looks to numbered Jukebox slots, or discover something new with Random. Your saves stay on your device; music and movement keep each setup alive. OUR MISSION IS TO HELP YOU GROOVE Everything above is free. So is all of this: • Every curated palette, plus seasonal palettes • Kaleidoscope mandalas and free-flowing organic patterns • Motion reactivity — tilt to lean into the picture, circle to set it spinning, or roll left and right for fading echoes • Compatible Govee Room Lights in full, including color that travels along a light strip • Saved Looks and personal Jukebox slots • Full-frame PNG saving and sharing • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no subscription, no nagging PSYCHODELI TOUCH — ONE PURCHASE, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION • Perform deck — play the visuals yourself: scrub color, speed, shape and effects live • Self, Mask and Eyes — expressive forms driven by your face • Camera color — choose Color then Camera (that choice, and nothing earlier, starts it), then pan across a sunset, a record sleeve, your room, and repaint Psychodeli in its colors. Keep it and it joins your library • Seasonal hold — keep automatic color changes inside one collection: Halloween, Pride, a solstice • Live Photo — turn the current visual into a moving Lock Screen, saved to Photos for you to choose in Wallpaper settings • Keep the display awake • Room controls — hold a lighting groove, and set how strongly the room responds LET THE PALETTE LEAVE THE SCREEN Compatible Govee lights carry the picture's palette and the music's movement into the room. Each lamp takes a different color from the same palette, so the room looks composed instead of every bulb doing the same thing. On a strip that can light its LEDs separately, the colors spread along it, drift, and pulse with the beat. Psychodeli connects locally over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, with no Govee account and no cloud. Compatibility varies by model; some Wi-Fi lights require LAN Control in Govee Home. Underneath: chaotic attractors and GPU wave functions, steered by a listener built for harmony, tension, structure and groove. The math is deep. Watch it listen, nudge it with Vibe, or take the whole performance with Touch. Photosensitivity notice: Psychodeli fills the screen with motion, flashing, and rapidly changing colors and patterns. A small number of people may experience discomfort, dizziness, or—rarely—seizures when exposed to such visuals, even with no prior history. View in a well-lit room, sit back from the screen, take breaks, and stop immediately if you feel unwell.

About

DiscoBallLight

Features
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DiscoBallLight turns your iPhone or iPad into a light rig: the app listens to the music through the microphone and renders a light show in real time — bass, mids, highs and beats drive colors, motion and flashes. Point a projector at a disco ball, connect your device via HDMI or AirPlay and place the circle of light exactly on the ball: shape (round or square), size and position are fully adjustable while the rest of the screen stays black. An external display shows only the show — the controls stay on your device. No disco ball? Run the show fullscreen. • 13 light show styles with live preview, including Strobe, Duotone and Burst • Random white flashes in three strengths • Sensitivity slider with beat indicator and automatic volume balancing • Keystone correction and ellipse for projectors placed at an angle • Real-time microphone analysis, nothing is recorded or stored • No ads, no data collection Note: The show contains rapid light changes and strobe-like effects.

Screenshots

Psychodeli4 screens
DiscoBallLight3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Psychodeli at every 4 days against DiscoBallLight's every 2 months. Psychodeli also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

Psychodeli ships an update every 4 days, DiscoBallLight every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Psychodeli versus DiscoBallLight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPsychodeliDiscoBallLight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKent Andrew EdmondsMatthias Hennemeyer

In-app purchases

None

Psychodeli

No in-app purchases

None

DiscoBallLight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Psychodeli free?
Psychodeli is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DiscoBallLight free?
DiscoBallLight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Psychodeli or DiscoBallLight have ads?
Neither Psychodeli nor DiscoBallLight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Psychodeli or DiscoBallLight?
Psychodeli ships an update every 4 days, and DiscoBallLight every 2 months. Most recently, Psychodeli was updated on October 1, 2026 and DiscoBallLight on October 1, 2026.

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