Lissa vs Bounce
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Bounce
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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
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Verdict
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
Lissa is free to download; Bounce costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lissa ships an update fortnightly, Bounce monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Lissa | Bounce |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nardo Dorsin | DGR Labs |
In-app purchases
Lissa
No in-app purchases
Bounce
No in-app purchases







