Comparison

Canu vs Lala

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

Head to head
About

Canu

Features
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Canu is your personal vocal coach. Learn to hit the right notes, develop your voice, and sing with more confidence, step by step. Features: • Daily vocal exercises — discover fresh, suggested exercises and build a regular practice habit. • Real-time pitch feedback — see which note you are singing and how accurately you hit it. • Custom exercises — build your own scales and note sequences, choose notes and tempo, and save them. Practice them with Canu Pro and live feedback. • Adjustable tempo — change the BPM to slow down a challenging exercise or gradually build speed. • Vocal range discovery — explore your voice and find out which notes you can sing. • Statistics and progress — follow your practice results and see how your voice develops. • Achievements — earn awards for your practice routine. • Exercises for every level — practice with exercises suited to your experience and goals. Get more with Canu Pro: 68 extra exercises, unlimited daily sessions, practice your custom exercises, hear your voice live, and listen to, save, and share your recordings. Your voice grows with practice. Open Canu, choose an exercise, and take the next step toward more confident singing. routing_app_coverage_file: null

About

Lala

This app listens as you sing, providing real-time visual feedback on your pitch accuracy. It adapts exercises to your vocal range and offers gamified practice sessions with song scoring and progress tracking. Recordings are stored locally, ensuring privacy.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch detection
  • Personalized vocal range tuning
  • Gamified singing exercises
  • Song practice with phrase scoring
  • Progress tracking and recording
  • Multi-player singing challenges
Features
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Nobody books a studio to get better at singing. People sing in the car, in the shower, over the washing-up — badly and happily. Lala just starts listening in one of them. Sing into your phone and your voice becomes a live line on the screen, drawn 43 times a second against the notes you're aiming for. Centre it and it glows. Drift and Lala tells you which way to lean, and by how much. REAL PITCH DETECTION, NOT A GUESS Lala runs YIN — the pitch-detection algorithm built for voices — in real time, on your phone. No lag, no internet, and no score you can't trust. TUNED TO YOUR RANGE, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S Before anything else, Lala measures your lowest and highest comfortable note. Every exercise is then retuned to your voice, so nothing is ever out of reach or too easy to bother with. PRACTICE THAT PLAYS LIKE A GAME Eighteen exercises across five units. Star a take to unlock the next one. Three paces, so you can slow a phrase down until it's right, then speed it up when it is. SING WHOLE SONGS Ten melodies scored phrase by phrase, from "Dead on!" down to "Ouch". Lala forgives the octave, so a low voice and a high one can sing the same song and both get their due. HEAR YOURSELF IMPROVE Every take is recorded on your phone. Play "then vs now" and hear a month of practice in ten seconds. CLIMB THE RANKS Five rungs between your first note and the top one — Rookie, Natural, Standout, Headliner, and Lala, which is named after the app because we ran out of bigger compliments. PASS THE PHONE Two to eight singers, one phone, one crown. Phrases rotate, scores tally, and somebody's grandma turns out to have a voice. YOUR VOICE STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Recordings are stored on your device and are never uploaded. No ads, nothing sold, nothing shared. Lala is free. Sing every day.

Screenshots

Canu4 screens
Lala4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lala at none against Canu's 2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Canu sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lala asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Canu versus Lala: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanuLala
PriceFreeFree
Rating—2.5 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksander WoichanksyGino Swanepoel

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Canu

Subscriptions2
  • Canu Pro monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Canu Pro yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Lala

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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