Lala vs ClassPlan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time pitch detection
- Personalized vocal range tuning
- Gamified singing exercises
- Song practice with phrase scoring
- Progress tracking and recording
- Multi-player singing challenges
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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.
ClassPlan
Organize your academic life by consolidating syllabi into a single, prioritized plan. Track upcoming assignments, view your week at a glance, and sync deadlines with your existing calendar. Collaborate with classmates on shared courses and receive timely reminders.
- Prioritized assignment list
- Weekly calendar view
- Automatic syllabus parsing
- Collaborative shared classes
- Calendar syncing
- Customizable reminders
- Event management
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Always know exactly what to work on next. Every term starts the same way: multiple syllabi, disconnected systems, and no single place that tells you what's actually due. ClassPlan reads them and turns the pile into one ranked plan. WHAT YOU GET Up next — the one screen that matters. Your next classes and the readings, problem sets and papers due before them, in the order you should do them. No sorting, no cross-referencing. Your week at a glance — every class, room and deadline on one calendar. Switch to By course when you want to see a single subject end to end. Add a class in seconds — upload the syllabus and ClassPlan pulls out the assignments, due dates and class times for you. Shared classes — when a classmate adds the same course, you're automatically placed in one shared class you can edit together. Someone corrects a due date, everyone gets it. No group chat archaeology. In the calendar you already use — subscribe once and every class, room and due date shows up in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, staying current all term. No new app to remember. Reminders that land before you need them — a nudge the day before something is due, a heads-up half an hour before class with the room number, and an alert when a classmate changes something in a class you share. Events — talks, mixers and get-togethers for your program, with RSVPs in the same place as everything else. BUILT BY A STUDENT ClassPlan was built by an MIT Sloan Fellow who was tired of rebuilding the same spreadsheet every term, and it's used daily by hundreds of classmates. It's now open to students at any university with a school email. PRICING Join your first class and your first 30 days are free — no card required to start. Subscriptions purchased in the app are billed through your Apple ID and renew automatically until cancelled in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://classplan.xyz/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or feedback? We read everything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ClassPlan at 5.0 against Lala's 2.5. Lala's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. ClassPlan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Lala asks for nothing beyond the download.
ClassPlan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Lala | ClassPlan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gino Swanepoel | Forge Lab, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Lala
No in-app purchases
ClassPlan
- ClassPlan Monthly$2.991 Month
- ClassPlan Annual$19.991 Year









