Features & Capabilities

iShala is a comprehensive Indian music practice app that provides flawless accompaniment for vocal, instrumental, or rhythmic riyaaz. With fully customizable practice sessions, it offers tanpuras, tablas, swarmandal, harmonium, and manjeeras, scalable from Standard to Pro editions. It supports loading rhythmic and melodic cycles on demand, and includes over 60 rhythmic cycles, more than 110 ragas, seven tempos, and microtonal shrutis to explore endless musical possibilities.

Available in Standard and Pro editions, iShala unlocks features like pitch correction, additional instruments, manual playing, MIDI keyboard support, loop recording, and practice session recordings. Pro adds more instruments (including vibraphone) and cloud-sourced cycles via SwarShala, while both editions are lifetime-use with a one-time upgrade.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Swar Systems
Rating:
4.60
(153)
Version:
5.3.5 Last updated: 2026-01-18
Version code:
879549266
Creation date:
2010-04-17
Compatible devices:
Size:
110.95MB
Price:
12.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-05
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Ranking

Other platforms

Android
iShala - practice Indian music (v5.3.1)
41,966 4.14 (3,281)

Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Swar Systems
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ishala/id366107163
Website:
https://www.swarclassical.com/iShala/

User Reviews

iShala is praised for its strong tanpura tones and convenient—if imperfect—practice features, but suffers from stability and audio reliability issues plus an aging UI. The app offers an integrated tanpura/tabla/lehera toolkit that users find valuable for riyaz, but crashes and inconsistent sound detract from the experience.
Pros
  • Excellent tanpura sound quality (deep and rich).
  • All-in-one feature set: tanpura, tabla, and lehera in a single app.
  • Very useful for practice/riyaz and generally intuitive to use.
Cons
  • Frequent crashes and instability (crashes when changing settings; frequent app crashes).
  • Audio issues: no sound or intermittent playback, external speaker/Bluetooth problems, and need to reinstall in some cases.
  • Outdated UI/UX and aesthetics; interface feels behind newer iOS apps and can be non-intuitive.
Recent reviews
Why is the speed multiplier not working?
by Sk*****, 2026-01-10

Tabla in this app sounds much more natural than iTabla pro app. Thanks for this app. It is well worth it. But it still cannot match absolute natural sound of Riyaz studio app that is unfortunately available only on windows. I request developers to please listen to Riyaz studio on windows and replicate the same natural sound.
by Pi*****, 2025-03-10

After latest update I am facing trouble to get sound on my external speaker from this app. Please sort this issue
by Sa*****, 2024-07-31
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