Comparison

Nocturne vs Geography

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

Head to head
About

Nocturne

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Nocturneは、環境音とLofiを自分好みに組み合わせられる、睡眠・集中・作業用のサウンドミキサーです。 【好きな音を自由にミックス】 雨、焚き火、カフェ、波、森、夜の虫から3つの環境音と、Lofi曲1曲を選び、それぞれの音量を調整できます。 【オフラインで再生】 6つの環境音と12曲のLofiをアプリに収録しています。インターネットに接続していない場所でも再生できます。 【画面を消しても再生】 バックグラウンド再生に対応。ロック画面やコントロールセンターから再生・停止できます。 【やさしいスリープタイマー】 15・30・60・90分から選べます。終了30秒前から音量をゆっくり下げ、眠りを妨げずに停止します。 【お気に入りを保存】 気に入った音の組み合わせはプリセットとして保存し、いつでも呼び出せます。 アカウント登録は不要です。保存した配合やプリセットは端末内だけに保存されます。

About

Geography

This app transforms sound into an interactive landscape. Explore a sonic world from Earth's core to space, where each sound grain behaves like a particle. Customize gravity, string materials, and weather patterns to create unique sonic experiences.

Highlights
  • Interactive sound landscape visualization
  • Adjustable gravity and string materials
  • On-screen keyboard and ribbon controller
  • MIDI input and control
  • Layered strata with unique weather effects
  • Sequencer, arpeggiator, and built-in effects
  • Real-time weather integration from Earth's map
Features
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Geography turns a sound into a landscape. The sample is drawn as a cross-section of the Earth, from the burning core to outer space, and every grain of sound is a particle with weight that falls, bounces and sounds according to the layer it crosses. PLAY THE MATTER • Tap the terrain to drop grains, draw strings that ring when they're hit, and tilt your iPad or iPhone to change gravity. • Eight string materials: metal, wood, glass, skin, gut, bronze, bamboo and stone. • An on-screen keyboard of up to five octaves, or a continuous ribbon for gliding pitch. • MIDI: play from your keyboard and map its knobs to the app's with MIDI learn (endless encoders too, like the Akai MPK mini's). Program Change switches sounds. A WORLD WITH A LIFE OF ITS OWN • Six strata, each with its own weather: fire in the core, earthquakes in the geosphere, plants that bloom and release tuned spores, swell and bubbles in the water, wind in the atmosphere, satellites and comets in space. • Rituals: a sequencer of world events. The Moon, in its real phase, and the planets sing too. • Life: the instrument improvises, arpeggiates or mutates the sequence on its own. SEE IT IN 3D • Flat, Ridges, Living ridges, Surface, Point cloud, Planet and Sphere: seven ways to look at the same sound, with aurora, clouds and a free camera. THE LAB • Envelope, filter, two LFOs, echo, reverb, modulation (flanger, phaser, ensemble), scales and a 16-step sequencer/arpeggiator. • A mixer with one channel per sound source in the world, and a Space tab to place each source around your head, with scenes that morph on their own. THE REAL EARTH • Pick a place on the map and its live weather flows into the sound. Earthquakes from the last 24 hours shake the landscape. SAMPLER AND PRESETS • Sampler: record with the microphone or open a file, then trim, normalize, reverse and add fades. Up to 45 seconds, which become a landscape; it exports WAV too. • Save your sound under a name, with its settings and rituals, and export it as a file to move it between devices or share it. ON IPHONE AND IPHONE DUO • On iPhone, the world in full screen and a hidden dock with the essentials: play, draw, gyroscope, Life and the Ribbon. In landscape, Rituals, Earth, the Lab and the Mixer take the whole screen, and two fingers move, zoom and rotate the view. • Made for iPhone Duo too: closed, it is the world with the essentials, to play with one hand; open, the same world, bigger, with a keyboard in the dock and the panels in the middle of the screen. FOR YOUR STUDIO • Audio Unit (AUv3) for Logic Pro, GarageBand, AUM and more: every setting can be automated and is saved with your project. Stereo output, binaural spatial audio with head tracking, or 7.1.4, plus separate stems by source or by stratum. • Thirteen synthesized factory landscapes. You can also open your own sounds, or an image, which you hear as a landscape. Try it free (5 minutes per session). A one-time purchase unlocks everything on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No subscription. No accounts, no ads, no data collected.

Screenshots

Nocturne4 screens
Geography4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nocturne at none against Geography's 1. Geography's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Geography sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nocturne asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nocturne ships an update monthly, Geography every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Nocturne versus Geography: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNocturneGeography
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkeitaro nishimuraLuis Diaz-Faes

In-app purchases

None

Nocturne

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Geography

One-time1
  • Full Geography$22.99

Questions

Is Nocturne free?
Nocturne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Geography free?
Geography is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nocturne or Geography have ads?
Nocturne shows ads; Geography does not.
Which is updated more often, Nocturne or Geography?
Nocturne ships an update monthly, and Geography every 3 days. Most recently, Nocturne was updated on October 31, 2026 and Geography on November 4, 2026.

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