iShala - practice Indian music

Swar Systems

In-app purchases

About this app

iShala is an Indian music mobile app that provides flawless accompaniment for classical music practice, be it vocal, instrumental or rhythmic. It features:

• tanpura (x6)
• tabla
• swarmandal
• harmonium
• manjeera (x3)

all fully customisable in practice sessions that can then be loaded on demand. It effectively replaces a tabla machine, a lehra player and an electronic tanpura. It is therefore an ideal tool for anyone practicing Indian classical music, or just wishing to jam along virtual Indian musicians on any other musical style.

iShala includes over 60 rhythmic cycles, melodies in more than 110 ragas and 7 different tempos. You can also create your own ragas and fine-tune each of their notes at micro-tones (or shrutis) level. Possible combinations are thus nothing short of endless!

Along with accompaniment, iShala now also corrects your pitch*! Sing/play freely or over a harmonium melody and iShala will highlight any discrepancy from the correct note. This is an incredible tool to improve your pitch accuracy.

iShala has a pay once, use forever policy. A Premium* In-App purchase option gives you additional functionality under the same terms.

* Included with PREMIUM option (In-App Purchase):

• 4 additional tanpuras
• a low pitch tabla
• 3 additional manjeeras
• pitch detection to make sure you sing/play on the right note
• autotune session by pitch recognition

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Ratings and reviews

It is a full featured app, but the user interface could be simplified a little more, so that common controls could be clustered into a single screen, instead of having to choose different screens for different instruments. Also, the tabla tempo and pitch cannot be chosen from the tabla screen.

This app succeeds in several areas that are critical to its performance. The pre recorded sounds are good, the interface is transparent enough, and the overall experience is positive. I have a couple of bug reports and suggestions though, and would really appreciate a forum where such concerns can be raised.

Distorted noise breaks in between after every few seconds. Can't concentrate on sadhana. I'm using on my Motorola G82 5G and every other app works smoothly. The app is running on the latest update. Kindly fix this bug asap.

What's new

- Settings: Auto check-box allows for improved AUTO tune button to adjust global pitch as well
- Settings: now allows alternating between 440 and 432 Hz tuning
- New mic icon on top right corner allows for turning off mic when not used (like pitch detection)
- New rhythmic cycles (Gandharva, Ikwai and Vivek taals)
- Raga > Edit: shruti sliders now show value in Cents