TaalMala vs Singtico
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TaalMala
This app provides realistic accompaniment for Indian classical musicians, featuring high-quality sampled instruments like Tabla and Tanpura. It offers extensive pre-composed compositions and allows users to create their own Taals, Lehras, and SwarMandal patterns. Ideal for daily practice or live performances.
- High-quality sampled instruments
- 360+ pre-composed Taals
- 246+ pre-composed Lehras
- 620+ pre-composed SwarMandal patterns
- Compose custom Taals and Lehras
- Sequencer for arranging patterns
- Adjustable tempo and pitch
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TaalMala provides personalized accompaniment of Tabla, Pakhawaj, Manjeera, Tanpura, SwarMandal and Lehra/Nagma on Santoor and Harmonium. Use TaalMala for your daily riyaaz or live concerts. With high-quality Tabla, Pakhawaj, Manjeera, Tanpura, SwarMandal, Santoor and Harmonium sounds sampled from real instruments, more than 360+ pre-composed Taals and Sequences, and more than 246+ pre-composed Lehra/Nagma compositions, and 650+ SwarMandal patterns in 65+ Ragas, TaalMala provides a complete practising solution for any Indian musician. With TaalMala Composer, you can compose your own Taals, Lehras/Nagmas, SwarMandal patterns by simply typing the notation of the Taal/Lehra on special built-in Taal/Lehra keyboard. With TaalMala Sequencer, you can arrange sequences of fixed or randomized or tempo-based Taal and Lehra/Nagma patterns. TaalMala features: - High-quality studio-recorded Tabla, Pakhawaj, Tanpura, SwarMandal, Santoor, Harmonium and Manjeera (Zanj) sounds - Two sets of Tabla/Dagga sounds and ability to choose and mix-match between the two sound sets - 360+ pre-composed Taals and Taal sequences, including most popular Taals and their variations - 246+ pre-composed Lehra/Nagma compositions and sequences in multitude of ragas and Taals - 620+ pre-composed SwarMandal patterns in 62+ Ragas - New Taals, Lehras/Nagmas and compositions added frequently as updates - Compose your own Taals and Lehras/Nagmas by simply entering the notation - Powerful sequencer to compose fixed, tempo-based and randomized sequences from the Taals and Lehras library - Taal/Lehra/SwarMandal pad; play any Taal/Lehra/SwarMandal pattern on-demand in live accompaniment - Automatic Manjeera/Zanj accompaniment, synchronized with the Tabla/Pakhawaj Taals - Adjustable tempo from 10 bpm to 1000 bpm - Pitch control (+/- 0.5 octave), with independent fine-tuning of all instruments for precise matching with your scale - Pitch detector for detecting your pitch and precise matching, built within the app - Independent volume control for Tabla/Pitch, Dagga/Bass, Manjeera and Lehra/Nagma - Choice of chromatic or just/harmonic tuning for all instruments, with fine-tuning capability. - Up to 2 simultaneous Tanpuras - High-quality Tanpura sounds (male and female tones) with all popular Tanpura patterns included - Adjustable Tanpura tempo and strumming speed of 4 Tanpura strings independently - Option to slightly vary the Tanpura plucking delays randomly for better realism - Tap on the screen twice to set exact Taal tempo, as required This version of the application has following limitations: Playback restricted to 5 minutes every hour. To unlock full functionality and remove the limitation above, click "Buy" option on the main screen. Once you purchase a subscription to the app, the 5-minute per hour limitation will be removed. Please contact us at service@taalmala.com if you have any questions. Licensing terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our privacy policy: https://www.taalmala.com/privacy.shtml
Singtico
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Singtico for Indian music practice and learning. Singtico provides an online platform and studio that lets you practice and learn along with high quality virtual music instruments including an high quality tanpura droid. It is targeted for beginners and advanced level music practitioners. It can be used by anyone learning Indian classical vocals, practicing or learning any Indian classical instruments like tabla, flute, harmonium and classical dancers. With Singtico, we have focussed on being a one stop platform for all your hindustani classical music needs. Singtico has a bandish database of thousands of bandish that you can practice along with. A recording feature is available for you to measure your progress. Singtico also gives you the feature of sharing your practice sessions with your peers and gurus over watsapp or any other medium. With Singtico, we focus on overall knowledge in Indian classical music by providing the users regular content from top blogs to enhance your understanding. Singtico features: - 95+ tabla loops in total including all major taals. - Multiple variations of tabla taals. - Change tempo range from 10 to 350 including ati-vilambit and vilambit. - Metronome for tabla players. - Tanpura sa-ma, sa-pa, sa-ni, sa-sa. - Scale change features to suit male and female scales. - Swarmandal with 60+ ragas. - Recording feature. - Share recordings with friends on watsapp and other mediums - 5000+ raag bandish collections to sing along with. - Real tabla and tanpura sounds. - Knowledge on various Indian classical music articles - Premium features include Riyaz statistics, Riyaz reminders, audio recording sync, background play, offline mode(play with our internet). Tabla taal list: - Bhajani - Dadra - Deepchandi - Ektaal - Jhaptaal - Kehrwa - Rupak - Teentaal - Adha Chautaal - Sitarkhani/Punjabi - Chautaal - Dhamaar - Dhumaali - Sool Taal - Jaitaal - Jattaal - Jhampak - Jhoomra - Matta Taal - Metronome - Moghuli - Pashto - Sasthi - Shiva taal - Teevra - Tilwada Swarmandal : 60+ Swarmandal ragas including bhimpalasi, vrindavani Sarang, Bhopali and many more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: TaalMala at 3 against Singtico's 1. TaalMala also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. TaalMala sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Singtico sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TaalMala | Singtico |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (177 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 177 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Abhijit Patait | Subtlerr Technologies Private Ltd |
In-app purchases
TaalMala
- Premium Edition - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Edition - Yearly$29.991 Year
Singtico
- Premium$12.99







