Psychodeli vs With Handlebars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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Give the music in your room a world of color. Psychodeli+ creates flowing patterns and kaleidoscopes on iPhone and iPad, drawn live as you watch. Play music through speakers and enable microphone listening, or enjoy an evolving picture on its own. MADE FOR iPhone Duo Open, fold and rotate your phone while the picture keeps flowing. Controls stay clear of the fold and move below it in tabletop position. Closing the hinge gently slows the visuals; reopening restores your chosen pace. APPLE MUSIC PLAYER: macOS ONLY The in-app Apple Music player is macOS only for this release. It is not included on iPhone or iPad. The Mac edition requires macOS 26 or later and Apple silicon; catalog playback requires an Apple Music subscription. The player is included without a Psychodeli purchase. HOW THE VISUALS LISTEN Enable the microphone in Reactivity. Psychodeli listens to sound in the room, shaping motion and color from rhythm, energy and changes in the music. It can respond to speakers, a turntable or live music nearby. Microphone listening does not access the protected stream from Apple Music or other music apps. Music playing only through headphones cannot drive the visuals through the microphone. You can still enjoy the visuals on their own. MAKE THE ROOM PART OF IT Compatible Govee lights carry the visual palette into your room. Supported segmented strips spread the colors along their length. Connections are local over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth; model support varies, and some Wi-Fi lights need LAN Control enabled in Govee Home. Turn on camera reactivity to let your head movement influence the picture. Camera frames and microphone audio are processed on your device. KEEP YOUR FAVORITE LOOKS Explore 17 Pdeli Looks across Originals, Animal Patterns and Kaleido. Save your own in Personal and assign favorites to Jukebox slots. Your Looks stay on your device. Choose a palette, settle into a kaleidoscope, or let the picture keep evolving. START WITH THE FREE EXPERIENCE The visualizer, microphone listening, camera reactivity, curated palettes, Saved Looks, compatible Room Lights and PNG sharing are included. You do not need a Psychodeli account. PSYCHODELI TOUCH One optional purchase adds the Perform deck for hands-on visual control, expressive Self, Mask and Eyes modes, palette holds, keep-awake and extra room controls. Supported iPhone and iPad features also include camera color capture and silent Live Photo creation from your visuals. Features vary by device. Psychodeli Touch is not a subscription and does not include an Apple Music subscription. 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 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.
With Handlebars
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Most guitarists learn the fretboard in fragments: a shape here, a box there, a scale that only works when it starts on the sixth string. The fragments are fine. What takes years is the map that joins them. With Handlebars draws that map. Pick a chord or a scale and every tone of it lights up across the whole guitar neck at once, in the tuning you actually play — not a dictionary entry you look up and close, but a room you stay in until the shapes you half-know turn out to be the same handful of tones in different places. THE WHOLE NECK, ANY TUNING • 168 scales and 58 chord qualities, up to 24 frets • 23 tunings, left- or right-handed • Strict enharmonic spelling — a G# stays a G# and never slides into a lazy Ab, because the name is what explains the shape LENSES, NOT CLUTTER • Narrow the board to one position, one string, the octaves of a single note, or the guide tones that carry the harmony • Tone roles in colour, roman numerals on the diatonic overlay, the circle of fifths • Plain-language anatomy of whatever you are looking at A PRACTICE ROOM • Quizzes that send you hunting for tones on the neck • Pattern runs for working a scale across positions • Progression playback with voice-led chords • A metronome and a tonic drone to play against • Sampled guitars, so what you see you can also hear SHAREABLE BY DESIGN Every setting lives in the link. Any board you land on is a URL you can send to a student, a bandmate, or yourself next week, and it opens exactly as you left it. QUIET BY DEFAULT No account, no ads, no tracking. The privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth, and the app keeps working with the network off. WHY THE NAME A nod to "Handlebars" by Flobots, a song about riding a bike hands-free and how far raw talent can coast with nobody steering. Guitar gets learned that way too: memorised grips, borrowed licks, shapes that work right up until the song turns underneath you. With handlebars means hands on the controls — knowing why a shape works, where the next tone lives, and which way to lean when the harmony moves. From CosmoCrew: calm, capable software, crafted to last.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: With Handlebars at none against Psychodeli's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Psychodeli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. With Handlebars asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Psychodeli | With Handlebars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kent Andrew Edmonds | LUVITA TEKNOLOJI ENERJI YAZILIM SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI |
In-app purchases
Psychodeli
- Psychodeli Touch$3.99
With Handlebars
No in-app purchases
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