Comparison

Lissa vs Bounce

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

Head to head
About

Lissa

Transform your personal music collection into a dynamic light show. This app features a native player with a real-time visualizer that syncs to your audio, offering multiple customizable visual effects and sound shaping options. Enjoy your music privately, offline, and without ads.

Highlights
  • Real-time music visualizer
  • Supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF
  • Import from Files app
  • Eight hand-tuned visualizers
  • Preset editor for custom looks
  • Built-in equalizer
  • Offline and ad-free operation
Features
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Lissa turns your music library into a light show. Import your own audio files and play them through a fast, native player with a real-time visualizer that reacts to every beat, bass hit, and shimmer of the music — right on your phone. YOUR MUSIC, YOUR LIBRARY • Plays the files you already own: MP3, AAC/M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF • Import from the Files app, or drop songs in from your Mac with Finder file sharing — "Open in Lissa" works from Mail and Files too • Automatic metadata: titles, artists, albums, and cover art • Albums, artists, playlists, and a play queue with shuffle and repeat • Keeps playing in the background and from the Lock Screen EIGHT HAND-TUNED VISUALIZERS • Radial Pulse, Classic Bars, Neon Tunnel, Plasma Drift, Mirror Bars, Feedback Bloom, Scope, and Minimal Mono • Rendered with Metal for smooth motion, tuned to stay cool on battery • Fullscreen mode for the full effect — great on a desk or at a party • Tweak any preset, or build your own look with the preset editor • Visual Sync Offset lines the visuals up perfectly with Bluetooth and AirPlay audio SOUND SHAPING • Built-in equalizer with presets and custom settings PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking — ever • Works completely offline; your music never leaves your device • Respects Reduce Motion and adapts to thermal state Lissa is for people who still keep their own music — and missed watching it dance.

About

Bounce

Features
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Set your iPhone or iPad next to the speaker and it listens through the microphone. Prop it on a shelf, a desk, or a nightstand. It stays awake while the music plays and lets the screen sleep when it stops. NINE WAYS TO VISUALIZE YOUR MUSIC • LED Spectrum: a rainbow spectrum analyzer, glowing segments and floating peaks that fall with gravity • Pulsar: stacked waveform ridges • VU Meter: an analog needle on a faceplate • Classic LED: the classic grid with green, yellow, and red peaks • The Grid: a 3D wireframe of frequency, time, and level with a cyan glow • Spectrogram: frequency over time, scrolling across the screen • Terrain: a moving landscape as a lit, colored surface • Color Wave: continuous bars with peak indicators • Ferrofluid: a glossy black sphere that grows spikes with the music MONO OR STEREO Spread to split the screen into left and right channels. Pinch to bring them back together. SIMPLE CONTROLS Double-tap for the mode picker, swipe to change visualizations, drag up or down for sensitivity. Press ? to see them all. BUILT FOR THE SCREEN Rendered with Metal at up to 120 frames per second, on a pure black background, on every display size. UNIVERSAL PURCHASE Buy it once and unlock it for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. PRIVATE Bounce listens and draws. That is all. The audio is never recorded, stored, or sent anywhere. No account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription, no in-app purchases. One purchase and it's yours. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Privacy Policy: https://dgrlabs.co/privacy.html

Screenshots

Lissa4 screens
Bounce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lissa at Free against Bounce's $2.99. Lissa also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

Lissa is free to download; Bounce costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lissa ships an update fortnightly, Bounce monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lissa versus Bounce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLissaBounce
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNardo DorsinDGR Labs

In-app purchases

None

Lissa

No in-app purchases

None

Bounce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lissa free?
Lissa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bounce free?
Bounce costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lissa or Bounce have ads?
Neither Lissa nor Bounce shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lissa or Bounce?
Lissa ships an update fortnightly, and Bounce monthly. Most recently, Lissa was updated on October 31, 2026 and Bounce on October 31, 2026.

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