Comparison

Syrinscape Sci vs Beat Hazard 2

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

Head to head
About

Syrinscape Sci

This app enhances tabletop gaming with immersive soundscapes and movie-like soundtracks. It uses adaptable sound libraries to create dynamic audio environments, offering a high degree of user control with minimal interaction during gameplay.

Highlights
  • Immersive sound design
  • Movie-like soundtracks
  • Adaptable sound libraries
  • Dynamic soundscapes
  • User-controlled audio
  • Minimal interaction required
Features
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The soundtrack to your gaming world, Syrinscape creates immersive sound design and a movie-like soundtrack for tabletop games. Transform your next role-playing or tabletop gaming session. Syrinscape is a revolutionary sound design app created in Australia by tabletop role-playing aficionados. The app conjures every aural landscape imaginable, from space ship battles, frozen moons and space docks to cyberpunk discos. Unlike other soundboard-style apps, Syrinscape uses adaptable libraries of sound files – SoundSets – to improvise soundscapes, allowing users a great degree of control over what they are hearing, while requiring almost no interaction while the app runs. The Syrinscape Sci-Fi Player app is optimized for iPad, giving users the ability to playback Syrinscape SoundSets with a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. All the Sci-Fi SoundSets you buy from the Syrinscape Store are available across all your devices, so you can pick up whichever device is to hand and immerse yourself in whatever sound world you desire. Plug this into some big speakers at your next game and blow your player's minds!

About

Beat Hazard 2

Transform your music library into an intense arcade shooter experience. Power up your spaceship with the rhythm of your songs and battle procedurally generated bosses. Discover unique player ships for each track and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Music-driven gameplay
  • Procedurally generated boss ships
  • Unique player ship generation
  • Local file support (MP3, FLAC, etc.)
  • Internet radio stations
  • Cross-platform leaderboards
  • Gamepad support
Features
Currently charting
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Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Beat Hazard 2 seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become greater than the sum of their parts. Beat Hazard 2 improves on and ramps up the awesome zen feeling of battling to your own music. Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on the enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups! Pushing the boundaries of music powered gameplay, the sequel includes procedurally generated boss ships. Each track will create a unique archenemy ship for you to vanquish. Each track you play will also creates a unique player ship, anything from a tiny 'Mosquito' ship to a huge 'Brute' battle ship! Created ships are consistent, if you discover an awesome ship tell your friends so they can unlock it too! Touch or gampad - Support for Bluetooth controllers Full support for your local files - Mp3, wma, flac, ogg, aac, m4a, wav Internet radio stations from SHOUTcast - Play to thousands of stations from around the world Procedurally generated boss ship! - What monsters will your tracks unleash? Cross Platform Per song leaderboards - Battle against your friends to own your favourite tracks Upgraded blistering visuals the lighting Awesome Original Sound Track - Composed by the great Johnny Frizz Note: Game will work with music from iTunes, but not Apple Music.

Screenshots

Syrinscape Sci3 screens
Beat Hazard 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Syrinscape Sci at Free against Beat Hazard 2's $4.99. Beat Hazard 2's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). 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

Syrinscape Sci is free to download; Beat Hazard 2 costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beat Hazard 2 holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beat Hazard 2 has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Syrinscape Sci's written reviews are positive against 28% of Beat Hazard 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Syrinscape Sci ships an update every 6 months, Beat Hazard 2 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Syrinscape Sci versus Beat Hazard 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSyrinscape SciBeat Hazard 2
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)3.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.2% of reviews28.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#62 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB74 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperSyrinscapeCold Beam Games Ltd

Customer experience

Syrinscape Sci

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative72.7%

Beat Hazard 2

All ratings12 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive28.3%
Neutral17.4%
Negative54.3%

Bugs and requests

Syrinscape Sci

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Beat Hazard 2

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Crashes after selecting play mode
  • Crashes after selecting controls
  • App not working on iOS 17.2 / iPhone 13 Pro
  • App not working on 17 pro max
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  • Authorization screen stuck
  • Game freezes at various parts of opening
  • Menus not visible on iPhone 6s plus
  • Doesn't find or play music
  • Only recognizes a few downloaded songs

Requested features

6 requests
  • Support for Spotify and Apple Music
  • Add more songs/music sources
  • Fix dynamic screen issue
  • Improve menu navigation
  • Add open mic function for external music sources
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  • Fix font size issues on smaller screens

In-app purchases

None

Syrinscape Sci

No in-app purchases

None

Beat Hazard 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Syrinscape Sci free?
Syrinscape Sci is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beat Hazard 2 free?
Beat Hazard 2 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Syrinscape Sci or Beat Hazard 2?
Beat Hazard 2 is rated higher. Syrinscape Sci averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Beat Hazard 2 averages 3.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Syrinscape Sci or Beat Hazard 2 have ads?
Neither Syrinscape Sci nor Beat Hazard 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Syrinscape Sci or Beat Hazard 2?
Syrinscape Sci ships an update every 6 months, and Beat Hazard 2 every 3 weeks. Most recently, Syrinscape Sci was updated on November 1, 2026 and Beat Hazard 2 on November 7, 2026.

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