Comparison

Music Pulse vs Bounce

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

Head to head
About

Music Pulse

Transform ambient sound into dynamic visual displays like VU meters and light shows. Customize themes, colors, and text for a personalized audio-visual experience. Audio is processed locally for privacy.

Highlights
  • VU meters and LED displays
  • Frequency spectra and light effects
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Adjustable sensitivity
  • Add custom text overlays
  • Offline audio processing
Features
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Give sound a visual form with Music Pulse. Place your phone or tablet near the music, enable the microphone, and explore VU meters, spectra and glowing scenes that react to sound. EXPLORE THREE COLLECTIONS Browse square previews in Initial, Halloween and Christmas packs. Discover 18 initial designs, five Halloween scenes and five Christmas visualizers with snow, glowing lights and warm fireplace effects. MAKE IT YOURS Adjust sensitivity, choose colors in supported themes, and add your own text. Double-tap to hide the controls and enjoy the visuals. ACCESS AND ADS Voluntarily watch a rewarded video to enter a pack. Use and switch its themes without another video until you leave the pack. Returning to the pack selector ends access; entering any pack again requires another rewarded video. Banners appear only in pack and theme selectors. No ads appear during visualization. No account or in-app purchases are required. AUDIO PROCESSED LOCALLY Microphone audio is processed on your device. It is not saved as a recording or uploaded to our servers. Advertising may process data as described in the privacy policy. Music Pulse uses the microphone. It is not a music player and does not directly capture internal audio from other apps. Its meters are visual effects, not calibrated measuring instruments. Some themes contain flashing lights and rapid changes in brightness.

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

Music Pulse4 screens
Bounce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Music Pulse at Free against Bounce's $2.99. Music Pulse also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Bounce's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Music Pulse 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

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

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Music Pulse versus Bounce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic PulseBounce
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAdrian FernandezDGR Labs

In-app purchases

None

Music Pulse

No in-app purchases

None

Bounce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Music Pulse free?
Music Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bounce free?
Bounce costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Music Pulse or Bounce have ads?
Music Pulse shows ads; Bounce does not.
Which is updated more often, Music Pulse or Bounce?
Music Pulse ships an update fortnightly, and Bounce monthly. Most recently, Music Pulse was updated on October 31, 2026 and Bounce on October 31, 2026.

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