iShala - practice Indian music

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4.1
1.94K reviews
10K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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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• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SwarClassical
• twitter: @swarsys
Updated on
Oct 30, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.0
1.88K reviews
Surya Chakrabarti
April 29, 2022
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.
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Swar Systems
April 29, 2022
Hi Surya, you can send any such feedback to support@swarsystems.com. Thanks.
Mayura Oak
January 21, 2022
long time user, Updating from 3 star (just ok) to 1 star (constant cracking sound) to 4 star: new updates are fantastic! the GUI with different instruments looks sleek, 2 tanpuras, tabla with individual volume control for tabla and dagga, sound is really good. All in all, a much needed and very good upgrade. took off 1 star because it stops after 30 mins of playing in background (run in background already on).
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Swar Systems
January 21, 2022
Hi Mayura, the stopping after 30 mins (and the cracking) is because you didn't properly allow the app to run in background. Thus Android stops it after 30 mins to reduce battery consumption. Please do a full uninstall, then reinstall and click on ALLOWing the app to run unoptimised. This will solve the problems
Dipu Deshmukh
June 27, 2022
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.
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Swar Systems
June 27, 2022
Hi Dipu, this was the case in version 3, but now there are so many controls that it's impossible to have them all in a single screen. But most session settings are in the first, global pane. And you can save your specific settings under a session name, so that with a single click you can retrieve them all.

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