# iShala

> Indian music practice (riyaaz)

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id366107163](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id366107163)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id366107163`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Swar Systems
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (161 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.3.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-18
- **First published:** 2010-04-17
- **Size:** 111 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ishala/id366107163)
- **Website:** [https://www.swarclassical.com/iShala/](https://www.swarclassical.com/iShala/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.swarclassical.com/privacy/iShalaiOSPrivacyPolicy.pdf](https://www.swarclassical.com/privacy/iShalaiOSPrivacyPolicy.pdf)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #113,654 — Overall

## Review summary

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- Outdated UI/UX and aesthetics; interface feels behind newer iOS apps and can be non-intuitive.

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