Comparison

Boom Lab vs SonaQuill

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

Head to head
About

Boom Lab

Features
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Boom Lab is a futuristic mobile music creation app for building beats, mixing tracks, recording original sounds, and organizing project ideas on your device. Start in Beat Lab with glowing pads, BPM controls, loop recording, quantize, swing, and a collapsible mini synth keyboard. Move into DJ Lab to load two decks, blend tracks, scratch virtual vinyl, adjust deck volume, and save sample ideas back into your crate. Stem Lab tools provide the interface for vocals, drums, bass, and instrumental separation workflows as the app evolves. Boom Lab is designed around local device storage. Saved projects, sample metadata, and recorded sounds are kept on your device so you can keep working smoothly and offline. Current features include: - 4-pad beat machine - Loop recording controls - BPM, swing, and quantize controls - Collapsible mini piano synth - Landscape-style DJ mixing board - Two deck import and playback controls - Virtual vinyl scratch interaction - Sample crate for saved sounds - Original sound recorder - Stem Lab placeholder workflow - Saved project vault - .boom project export and import - Device-first offline workflow Boom Lab is free with ads. The only paid upgrade is Boom Lab Premium, which removes ads. Core creation tools are not locked behind a paywall.

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SonaQuill

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Type a few words. Get a finished track. SonaQuill turns a written idea into a complete song — lyrics, vocals, and instrumental — on your iPhone. Describe the mood, the genre, or the story you want, and SonaQuill writes the words, performs them, and hands back a track you can play, compare, and export. BRING AN IDEA, BRING YOUR WORDS, OR BRING NEITHER • Describe a song in plain language and let SonaQuill write the lyrics for you. • Bring lyrics you have already written and have them performed. • Skip the words entirely and generate an instrumental. COMPARE BEFORE YOU COMMIT On a paid plan, one generation can return up to four versions of the same idea. Switch between them without losing your place in the track, keep the take that works, and clear out the rest. Each version after the first costs 40% fewer credits than the first. BORROW THE SOUND OF YOUR OWN RECORDINGS On a Creator or Studio plan, add a style reference to a generation. Pick one of your earlier takes, or import audio or a video you recorded from Photos or Files, and SonaQuill shapes the new song's sound around it — its timbre, not its melody. Only add recordings you made yourself or have permission to use. References stay private to your account, and you can remove one at any time. A LIBRARY THAT STAYS PUT Projects and finished tracks are saved on your iPhone, so your library opens instantly and your work is there between sessions. Waveforms are drawn from the actual audio. EXPORT WHAT YOU MAKE Take a finished track out of SonaQuill as an audio file you can use in whatever you are building. PLANS Every plan runs on credits. One generation spends credits based on how long the track is, how many versions you ask for, and whether it has vocals. Free • 100 credits each month • One version per generation • Tracks up to 2 minutes Creator — $7.99 per month, or $66.99 per year • 1,200 credits each month • 4 versions per generation • Tracks up to 5 minutes • Separated stems and timed lyric files (.lrc and .srt) • Style reference — borrow the sound of your own recordings • Unused credits roll over for 60 days • Commercial use of the music you create Studio — $24.99 per month, or $209.99 per year • 4,000 credits each month • 4 versions per generation • Tracks up to 10 minutes • Separated stems and timed lyric files (.lrc and .srt) • Style reference — borrow the sound of your own recordings • Unused credits roll over for 60 days • Full commercial license, including broadcast and sub-licensing to clients Need more credits before your month is up? A one-off pack of 500 credits is available on any plan. Subscriptions are billed through your App Store account and renew until you cancel. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sonaquill.app/privacy PRIVACY You sign in with Sign in with Apple, so SonaQuill never receives or stores a password. Your prompts, lyrics, style references, and generated tracks are saved to your account so your library works across sessions, and they stay private to you — there is no feed, no sharing, and no other user can see your work. SonaQuill runs no advertising SDKs and does not track you across other apps or websites. SonaQuill is made by Omnia Data Analytics LLC.

Screenshots

Boom Lab4 screens
SonaQuill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Boom Lab at none against SonaQuill's 5. Boom Lab also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. SonaQuill sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Boom Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Boom Lab versus SonaQuill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoom LabSonaQuill
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJoseph WrightOmnia Data Analytics LLC

In-app purchases

None

Boom Lab

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

SonaQuill

Subscriptions4
  • Creator$7.991 Month
  • Studio$24.991 Month
  • Creator (Yearly)$66.991 Year
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  • Studio (Yearly)$209.991 Year
One-time1
  • 500 Credits$7.99

Questions

Is Boom Lab free?
Boom Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SonaQuill free?
SonaQuill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Boom Lab or SonaQuill have ads?
Neither Boom Lab nor SonaQuill shows ads.

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