Nocturne vs Geography
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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。
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Geography sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nocturne asks for nothing beyond the download.
Nocturne ships an update monthly, Geography every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nocturne | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | keitaro nishimura | Luis Diaz-Faes |
In-app purchases
Nocturne
No in-app purchases
Geography
- Full Geography$22.99









