Bandish – Tabla, Tanpura & Manjira: Elevate Your Indian Classical Music Practice
Whether you are a seasoned musician or just starting your journey, Bandish is your ultimate digital accompanist for Indian classical music. With authentic tabla, tanpura, and manjira sounds, Bandish transforms your riyaz (practice), teaching sessions, or performances into immersive experiences. Designed for both students and professionals, Bandish offers an intuitive interface, powerful tools, and professional-quality sound.
Key Features for Every Musician
• Studio-Quality Sound: Enjoy the rich tones of professionally recorded tabla, tanpura, and now manjira, designed to capture the authenticity of live instruments.
• Seamless Adjustments: Fine-tune pitch, tempo, octave, and volume instantly without interrupting your practice flow.
• 75+ Taals & 200+ Variations: Practice with teentaal, dadra, ektaal, jhaptaal, rupak, and many more—complete with multiple variations and real-time theka display.
• Customizable Tanpura: Match your shruti with precision, and choose between different tanpura speeds to suit your vocal training.
• Boosted Tabla Volume: Clearer, louder tabla designed for both vocal accompaniment and instrumental practice.
• Beat Counter: Train your rhythm with an accurate counter that stays in sync with the taal cycle.
• Background Playback: Keep Bandish running seamlessly while you multitask.
New in Bandish Plus (Premium)
Take your practice to the next level with Bandish Plus:
• Voice Recording & Playback – Record your riyaz, lessons, or concerts inside the app and listen back instantly.
• New Manjira Instrument – Add manjira patterns to your tabla and tanpura for a fuller, more authentic accompaniment.
• Professional Pitch Finetuning – Adjust shruti and fine-tune tabla, tanpura, and manjira to your exact pitch.
• Always-on Focus Mode – Keep your device awake with a distraction-free view for long practice sessions.
• 50+ Exclusive Premium Taals – Explore advanced thekas and variations beyond the core taal set.
• Tap Tempo – Set your BPM by tapping the rhythm you feel.
Upgrade to Bandish Plus with a monthly or annual subscription and try it free for 7 days.
Extended Tools & Benefits
• Favorite Taals – Save and quickly access your most-used taals.
• Displayed Thekas – See the current theka and switch between variations easily.
• Push Notifications – Stay consistent with reminders for daily riyaz.
• Lock Screen Controls – Manage playback from lock screen and notification center.
• Accessibility-Friendly – Thoughtfully designed for musicians of all abilities.
Why Choose Bandish?
• Bandish goes beyond a basic shruti box or tabla app. It combines tabla, tanpura, manjira, metronome, and recording into one app—perfect for Hindustani and Carnatic music. Whether you’re a vocalist, instrumentalist, or composer, Bandish adapts to your needs.
• Many musicians switching from iTabla Pro, Rhythm, SurTaal, or iLehra find Bandish familiar yet more streamlined—with features like Tap Tempo, pitch finetuning, voice recording, and modern UI design.
• Stay ad-free, practice smarter, and enjoy authentic sound.
Download Bandish Today
Whether you’re a beginner seeking guidance or a professional preparing for a concert, Bandish is the perfect companion for your Indian classical music journey.
I would like to thank the developer for such a simplistic app. It has all the basic functions required for one to do some riyaaz. Also, I must say, this app has no ads and delusional in-app purchases, which makes it a perfect tool. Much appreciated. Thanks for the hard work :)
Developer Response
Thank you so much Shivam for taking the time to leave us this amazing review! 🚀 Your kind words mean the world to us and truly make our day 🤩. We're thrilled to hear that you're finding Bandish 🪕to be a simplistic yet useful tool for your riyaaz. We're also happy to hear that you appreciate the fact that we don’t have any ads🚫. At Bandish, we believe in providing our users with the best experience possible, and we're constantly working hard to make that happen.We have some exciting new features in the works that we can't wait to ship to our users, so stay tuned! 🎉 Thank you again for your support, and please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any feedback or suggestions. 🙏
Quality
bidisha choudhury
I have downloaded this app today and if I compare this with another app this one is really very very good and it’s really working good for me. I don’t know about others but yeah I will recommend everyone to use this app for their practice session. Thank you
It good
Anupras5
I have been using from last 3 months. It does what it says. There is options where you can choose and fine tune just enough to avoid clutter and focus more on singing.
Not playing through Blutooth speaker
Kamal K T
After recent update app stops playing through blutooth speaker. Am I missing something or it’s a bug.
Developer Response
This is fixed with version 1.5.1
- Fixed a critical issue of not being able to play the audio on Bluetooth devices and other output devices.
Version 1.5.1
The developer, Metapod LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Provider
Metapod LLC
Size
80.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.