Comparison

WizzJ vs Sphaudio

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

Head to head
About

WizzJ

Experience stunning generative art that dynamically syncs with your music. This app creates immersive visualizers from your device's music library or microphone input, offering a unique artistic interpretation of sound.

Highlights
  • Generative art animations
  • Music library sync
  • Microphone input support
  • 36 unique visual styles
  • High-resolution display support
  • Create music videos
Features
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WizzJ is a cutting-edge music visualizer for high-end iOS devices. It fully exploits the latest advances in graphic processors to create a flow of animated generative art. The animations are synced with the beat and texture of the music being played from your music library. If no music is playing, WizzJ can capture input from the microphone. WizzJ represents a new generation in the art of music visualization! Download WizzJ for free and enjoy a fully functional preview of the available 36 styles, each providing a unique and immersive experience: A Flower of Life, Alien Speak, Ancient Glyphs, Beat Tunnel, Beat'n Chaos, Blossoming, Breeze of Oil, Brick Islands, Color Wand, Cricumpunct, Crystal's World, Dancing Blobs, Disco Sun, Entwined, Girl's Best Friend, Holes of Color, LP's Revenge, Matrix, Neon Ice, Ocean, OneHundredEiiigghtyyyy, Phoenix, Polar Texture, Pop Art Dive, Puzzled, Rainbow's Birth, Sandworms, SpeedBeat, T-Rex's Skin, Tentacles, The Beauty Within, Threads of Light, Threesome, Wanna Kiss?, Wave Dance, Wheel of Color. WizzJ uses Apple's built-in media player and can thus access your existing songs and playlists. In contrast to most other visualizers, WizzJ analyzes the sound of played songs without using the microphone; hence you can enjoy WizzJ even with headsets. Note: Apple does not allow to analyze streamed music. Thus, only music saved on your device and played through the internal iOS audio player is supported. Unfortunately, Apple Music, Spotify et al can therefore not be supported. WizzJ can support the device's native display resolution for a detailed and crystal clear presentation. Activate this feature in the Settings App if you have a powerful device. You can easily create your own music videos by capturing WizzJ's animations with QuickTime and your Mac. Videos and more info can be found on the "Developer Website". Customer comments: ***** Unbelievable Music App "Best music app so far in iTunes Store. Can't go wrong with this one." ***** Beyond beautiful "I just downloaded WizzJ on my iPhone 6 Plus, and I really wanted to express my gratitude for this app. The graphics are beyond beautiful and amazing." ***** 5 stars for sure! "I am delighted to look at the magnific moving designs while listening to my own music. Very Impressed by the various choice of fascinating designs available too. Thank you very much for creating such a beautiful app. It is worth to see it, I am sure that you will enjoy !!!" ***** Unique to iOS, beautiful visualizer "Beautifully crafted automata to match your music. Few apps are made in iOS for generative visualizations and this is by far the best quality; maybe the only app with a very select choices of algorithms/colorizations!" ***** Finally a real visualizer! "Been looking exactly for this! Now if only it had the nice equalizer functions of a couple other apps - and if it would just play my playlists! Other than that! Six stars. You heard me six stars. Love it!" ***** Love it "I'm in love with this app!" Supported Gestures: - one finger double-tap: show/hide player - two finger single-tap: show/hide styles list - two finger swipe right/left: next/previous style - two finger swite down: pause/resume animation - three finger single-tap: screenshot System requirements: - iPhone 8 or higher - iPad 5th generation or higher - iPad Air 3rd generation or higher - iPad mini 5th generation or higher To enable devices without microphone for AirPlay or Bluetooth headphones disable the microphone input by tapping the microphone icon.

About

Sphaudio

Visualize audio waveforms as bouncing spherical balls, with each ball representing a specific frequency range. The amplitude of the sound directly influences how high each ball bounces.

Highlights
  • Spherical ball audio visualization
  • Frequency range mapping
  • Amplitude-driven bouncing
  • Real-time audio feedback
Features
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In the Sphaudio visualizer application, audio waveform data is mapped to spherical balls. Each ball corresponds to a specific frequency range and bounces up and down according to the average amplitude of the nodes sampled in their corresponding frequency ranges.

Screenshots

WizzJ4 screens
Sphaudio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sphaudio at 4.0 against WizzJ's 3.2. Sphaudio also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.6). WizzJ's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

Both are free to download. WizzJ sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sphaudio asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sphaudio holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WizzJ has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of WizzJ's written reviews are positive against 50% of Sphaudio's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
WizzJ versus Sphaudio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWizzJSphaudio
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (25 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoachim WolfframAlex Harrison

Customer experience

WizzJ

All ratings25 ratings
Positive56.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral5.9%
Negative41.2%

Sphaudio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WizzJ

One-time2
  • Style Bundle "Living Light"2 variants$1.99
  • Style Bundle "Jump Start"$2.99
None

Sphaudio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WizzJ free?
WizzJ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sphaudio free?
Sphaudio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WizzJ or Sphaudio?
Sphaudio is rated higher. WizzJ averages 3.2 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Sphaudio averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do WizzJ or Sphaudio have ads?
Neither WizzJ nor Sphaudio shows ads.

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