Electronic Music Guide vs Boom Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electronic Music Guide
Explore a vast encyclopedia of electronic music genres and artists. Discover detailed genre descriptions, artist biographies, and preview music directly within the app. Features a visually appealing interface with dynamic color changes.
- 190+ electronic music genres
- 3000+ artists with bios and photos
- Detailed genre descriptions
- Wikipedia links for genres
- In-app music previews
- Dynamic color UI
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EMG is the ultimate guide to the world of electronic music. It includes information about 190 electronic music genres and more than 3000 artists. Some of the features: - beautiful UI with dynamically changing colors, - detailed genre descriptions with links to Wikipedia, - artists info, biographies and photos, - preview music inside the app.
Boom Lab
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Boom Lab is a futuristic mobile music creation app for building beats, mixing tracks, recording original sounds, and organizing project ideas on your device. Start in Beat Lab with glowing pads, BPM controls, loop recording, quantize, swing, and a collapsible mini synth keyboard. Move into DJ Lab to load two decks, blend tracks, scratch virtual vinyl, adjust deck volume, and save sample ideas back into your crate. Stem Lab tools provide the interface for vocals, drums, bass, and instrumental separation workflows as the app evolves. Boom Lab is designed around local device storage. Saved projects, sample metadata, and recorded sounds are kept on your device so you can keep working smoothly and offline. Current features include: - 4-pad beat machine - Loop recording controls - BPM, swing, and quantize controls - Collapsible mini piano synth - Landscape-style DJ mixing board - Two deck import and playback controls - Virtual vinyl scratch interaction - Sample crate for saved sounds - Original sound recorder - Stem Lab placeholder workflow - Saved project vault - .boom project export and import - Device-first offline workflow Boom Lab is free with ads. The only paid upgrade is Boom Lab Premium, which removes ads. Core creation tools are not locked behind a paywall.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Electronic Music Guide at 7.0 against Boom Lab's 15.1. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Electronic Music Guide | Boom Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denis Tokarev | Joseph Wright |
In-app purchases
Electronic Music Guide
No in-app purchases
Boom Lab
No in-app purchases
Questions
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