Rainbow Swaras

Ten apps. Start free, buy once, keep it.

Every level is a one-time purchase on Google Play: no subscription, no ads, no account to make. Prices are shown inside Google Play and each app before you buy. Coming to Google Play.

Basic is always freeIntermediate: one paymentAdvanced: one payment, includes Intermediate
The complete app

Raaga Search

Everything in one app, nothing to unlock.
Paid app
EverythingRaga search and play, the melakarta wheel, janya and mela pages, instruments with chords and scales, tuner, metronome and talas, world music scales, compare, practice, backup and themes.
Practice app

Rainbow Taal

Tala practice with the sounds it needs.
Paid app
EverythingThe tala practice page with every tala and its sounds.
Essentials

Rainbow Chords

Chord diagrams and the basic scales.
Paid app
EverythingChord diagrams for the core chords and the basic scales.
Three levels

Raaga Finder

Find a raga by name and play it in any root.
Free to download
Basic · freeThe 72 melakartas and the ten Hindustani thaats: search by name and play in any root.
IntermediateEvery Carnatic janya and every Hindustani raga, with the Carnatic and Hindustani filters.
AdvancedEverything in Intermediate, plus each raga's notes in your root and slow, medium or fast play.
Three levels

Rainbow Swara

Find the ragas that contain the swaras you pick.
Free to download
Basic · freeSwara search: pick swaras and see the ragas that contain them.
IntermediateNote search on a fretboard and on a keyboard.
AdvancedEverything in Intermediate, plus chords to ragas, custom raga and compare ragas.
Three levels

Rainbow Metronome

A metronome that speaks Indian tala.
Free to download
Basic · freeThe metronome.
IntermediateThe rhythms: Indian talas and Western drum grooves.
AdvancedEverything in Intermediate, plus practice: a tala under a drone, with a raga's notes and the recorder.
Three levels and an add-on

Rainbow Mela

The 72-mela chakra, to look at and to hear.
Free to download
Basic · freeThe 72 melakarta chakra as a picture you can zoom and pan (silent).
IntermediateThe wheel with its controls (colours, rings, sort, legend), the Chakra, 5ths and 4ths wheel and the Notes, Degree and Swara page, with the melas sounding in C, on guitar or piano.
All keys · add-onThe melas sounding in every key, not only C. Included in Advanced.
AdvancedEverything in Intermediate, plus all keys, and every mela's and janya's full raga page with its boards.
Three levels

Rainbow Instruments

A fretboard and a keyboard that know every chord and scale.
Free to download
Basic · freeOne board (fretboard or keys) in standard tuning; search the 10 core chords and the common scales.
IntermediateTwo boards, every chord, every Western scale, the common alternate tunings and capo, arpeggios, loop and record.
AdvancedEverything in Intermediate, plus three boards, note lines, every tuning and your own, ragas and world scales in the search, playing settings (temperament, vibrato, drone, MIDI, saved setups) and the notes you hold named as ragas and scales.
Buy only what you need

Rainbow Chords Pro

Every chord type, root and shape. Unlock features one at a time, or all at once.
Free to download
FreeThe 10 core chords (triads, suspended chords, sixth and 7ths), the natural-note roots, the easiest shape of each chord, standard tuning.
Features, each bought onceMore chords (all 48 types up to the 13th) · All 12 roots · Every shape (87 for C major) · All scales (nine families harmonised to the 13th, pentatonic, blues, bebop, diminished) · Indian equivalents of every mode.
Tuning packs, each bought onceGuitar tunings (drop, open, modal, DADGAD, slack key, 12-string, steel) · Ukulele pack (soprano to baritone, low-G, cavaquinho, cuatro, charango) · Bass, banjo, mandolin and lutes (oud, shamisen and more).
Your own tuningSet the note of every string, three to eight strings, and get the chord shapes.
Pro: everythingAll nine features and packs above, for less than buying them separately.
Free tuner, one Pro upgrade

Rainbow Strings

A string tuner that listens to quiet playing and noisy rooms.
Free to download
FreeThe standard tuning of each instrument.
Strings ProAll tunings of every instrument (about 260) with a note on what each is useful for · the 22 shrutis from your Sa · your own custom tunings · voice and any-note tuning with cents · left-handed board.

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