Comparison

Sangatkaar vs Riyaz Room

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

Head to head
About

Sangatkaar

This app provides a comprehensive practice tool for Hindustani classical music, featuring a tunable tanpura, a versatile tabla with multiple taals and patterns, and a customizable swarmandal. It offers curated raags and the ability to save personal presets for seamless practice sessions.

Highlights
  • Dual independent tanpuras
  • 26 taals with 33 patterns for tabla
  • Customizable 24-note swarmandal sequences
  • Pluck mode for swarmandal
  • 12 curated raags and custom presets
  • Seamless tempo and taal changes
Features
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Sangatkaar is a practice companion for Hindustani classical music: tanpura, shruti box, tabla and swarmandal, tuned and played together. Every instrument is built from real recordings, not synthesis. Nothing makes a sound until you ask it to. MICRO TUNING Tune every note to your own ear — up to fifty cents, to a tenth of a cent. The tuning is held per note, so retuning one Ga retunes every Ga: drone, strum and shruti box together. Sa and Pa stay locked, because everything else is tuned against them. Each rail carries that note's two classical shruti positions as snap points. TANPURA Two independent tanpuras, each with its own strings, pan, tone and level. Set your Sa and fine-tune in cents. Choose each string freely — Sa, Pa, Ma or Ni on String 1, any interval on String 2. Dual Octave for a fuller bed. Fine Adjust opens a drawn tanpura neck with per-string volume, tuning and javari. SHRUTI BOX Four reeds from real recordings — Sa, two of your choosing, and a coupler an octave below — each with its own level and pan, and its own channel in the mixer. It follows your Sa and your Micro Tuning, so it can never disagree with the drone. TABLA 26 taals in 33 selectable patterns, played from real strokes. Variations per taal, or Auto Variation that moves on its own. Tap Tempo, or step it by 1 or 5, with each taal keeping its own workable range. Sur Tabla drops the chati a register. Theka for the bare cycle, Sangat for variations. Manjira on the taals that carry it. Count yourself in, or start the cycle from any matra. A real metronome, with any time signature from 1 to 23 beats. A riyaz timer you start and stop yourself. SWARMANDAL A 24-cell sequencer in two independent sequences. Play a full pass, or Pluck to sound cells under your finger. Re-trigger every 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds while you sing. Shuffle between the two sequences, or hold one. Randomise the speed, or skip empty cells for an even line. Swipe to Play for a surreal experience. PRESETS Forty Seven raag setups, ready to load. A preset carries the strings, the octave, the shruti box, both sequences and the tuning — and deliberately leaves taal, tempo, Sa and the mix alone, because those belong to you and your room. Save your own, mark favourites, and share a preset as a file that opens on iPhone and Android alike. FIND YOUR WAY AROUND A guided tour walks you through the whole app, one card at a time. Start or end it whenever you like, from About. BUILT FOR PRACTICE Keeps playing with the screen off, or while you read notation in another app. Steps aside for a call and comes back afterwards. Works entirely offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, and nothing you do is collected or sent anywhere. FREE TRIAL, THEN A ONE-TIME PURCHASE Tanpura, Select Taals and Presets is unlocked free for 24 hours. After that, Tanpura unlocks both tanpuras and presets; Full unlocks everything including tabla and swarmandal; and if you already own Tanpura, a one-time upgrade completes it. No subscriptions. Buy once, keep it. Terms of Use: https://fluteschoolpro.com/sangatkaar/terms Privacy Policy: https://fluteschoolpro.com/sangatkaar/privacy

About

Riyaz Room

Features
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Riyaz Room is your daily companion for Hindustani classical music practice. Sit down and play — your tanpura and tabla are ready. FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED • Tanpura — a warm, recorded drone at any Sa • Tuner — precise pitch for sitar, voice or any instrument • Tabla / Metronome — real thekas in Teentaal, Ektaal, Jhaptaal, Kaharwa, Rupak & Dadra, at any tempo • Raga Library, and a Music tab of performances PRO (subscription) • Riyaz Streak — a daily habit with synced history, heatmap & note counts • Guided "Pro Riyaz Streak" tempo programs — from vilambit through drut to a jhala finale • Every taal in Basic and Shuffle; every tanpura jod, at any Sa • Unlimited practice and per-instrument EQ FOR SITARBUG STUDENTS Take lessons with Vatsal Dave? Enter your student code to unlock My Lessons — your class recordings, delivered right in the app so you can revisit every lesson. Practice tools are free forever. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Privacy: https://www.sitarbug.com/riyaz/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sitarbug.com/riyaz/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sangatkaar4 screens
Riyaz Room4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sangatkaar at weekly against Riyaz Room's every 6 weeks. 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. Sangatkaar sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Riyaz Room sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sangatkaar ships an update weekly, Riyaz Room every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sangatkaar versus Riyaz Room: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSangatkaarRiyaz Room
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKrishnamurthy Srinivasan7source LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sangatkaar

One-time3
  • Tanpura$14.99
  • Upgrade to Everything$24.99
  • Everything$39.99
2 purchases

Riyaz Room

Subscriptions2
  • Pro — Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Pro — Annual$109.991 Year

Questions

Is Sangatkaar free?
Sangatkaar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Riyaz Room free?
Riyaz Room is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sangatkaar or Riyaz Room have ads?
Neither Sangatkaar nor Riyaz Room shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sangatkaar or Riyaz Room?
Sangatkaar ships an update weekly, and Riyaz Room every 6 weeks. Most recently, Sangatkaar was updated on November 5, 2026 and Riyaz Room on October 31, 2026.

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