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What is the best tabla app for riyaz and lehra?
For serious riyaz on iPhone and iPad, Tabla Focus is the most complete tabla app — it does far more than play a lehra. Go deeper with advanced layakari, Jati, Anagat, Ateet and Mukhda, and explore playing one taal against another. Build your accompaniment skills with Sangat — karaoke for tabla, with bhajans, instrumentals and jazz — plus Sheet Music for practice with Western scores, and more. Bring your compositions, notes, recordings and progress together, so every session becomes part of a lifetime of riyaz.
Most tabla apps give you a tool. Tabla Focus gives your riyaz a home — for life.
Compare featuresA home for your riyaz
For students preparing for an exam, teachers building a repertoire and artists preparing to perform — tools for the practice you do today, and everything you want to carry forward.
Shape the music around your practice
Program tempo changes over time or avartans with Lay Automation, and set the mix of each part in Sangat. Hum a melody into Lehra Composer, turn it into a lehra in your key, and export it as MIDI. Explore Sheet Music, an experimental way to practise tabla with real Western scores.
Shape every beat with the Taal Metronome, tune with Tanpura and the Tabla Tuner, and see a tihai land on sam with Tabla Math.
Build and share your tabla repertoire
Download verified compositions or write and edit your own kaidas, relas, tukras and tihais on the bol keyboard, in Latin or Devanagari. Share .tabla files with your gurubandhus and build your libraries together. Scan your guru’s handwritten notes into your private iCloud, and record, trim and shape a take without changing the original.
Give every session a direction
Set a daily reminder and a goal for each piece — what to play, at which tempo, and by when. See your recorded practice time grow month by month, and export a Lifetime Progress Report as a PDF. Your progress stays personal and private.
Learn from the wider world of tabla
Explore artists, gharanas and guru–shishya lineage with Parampara. Listen to solo and accompaniment previews in the Listening Room, and prepare for exams with Mock Exam, from Prarambhik to Visharad Poorna.
Keep practising, wherever you are
Use offline-first practice tools and downloaded material. Start hands-free with Siri, keep taal and tempo on the Lock Screen, and sync your notes, recordings and lehras through your own iCloud. Built for iPhone and iPad, with accessibility features and iPad keyboard shortcuts.
Comparison of tabla practice apps
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| Feature | Tabla Focus | NagmaLive | Lehra Studio Pro | iLehra | LayaLab | Vishwamohini web | Riyaz Plus (Android) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehra | Handpicked traditional melodies, with layakari options and laya automation | Recorded artists: sarangi, harmonium, sitar | Professionally recorded loops: harmonium, sitar, sarangi, bansuri, with BPM progression | Electronic lehras: harmonium, violin, flute, santoor | Professionally recorded loops: harmonium, sitar, sarangi, bansuri, with BPM progression | Leheras and sitar gats | Leheras: sitar, flute, violin, piano, tabla-tarang |
| Advanced lehra tools | Layakari options across sama and vishama — aadha and barabar through athgun, kuad, aad, biad and dhai — with laya automation that shapes the tempo across the aavartans | Timed sessions with BPM progression | — | Tap tempo, automatic laya ranges, and 2×/½× tempo controls | BPM progression | — | Automatic tempo progression |
| Tanpura | Yes | Yes, tanpura drone | Tanpura | Tanpura, auto-tuned to the lehra | Not stated in current listing | — | Tanpura |
| Metronome | Taal Metronome for any cycle, with Lay Automation to raise the tempo | — | Synchronous metronome and beat counter | Optional metronome click-track | Custom metronome step sequencer | — | — |
| Compositions library | Your own compositions in bol notation on a bol keyboard, shared as encrypted .tabla files — plus a set of verified traditional pieces you can add whenever you want them | — | — | — | — | Editable and playable notation library | — |
| Your tabla notebooks, digitized | Scan Notes — scan years of your tabla notes, from every book and place, into one archive you can always reach | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Recordings | Record a take, then trim and shape it without touching the original — kept in your own iCloud | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Analytics | Lifetime practice record: Activity Map, all-time records, monthly read-back, and a Lifetime Progress Report with PDF export — personal only, never a ranking | Simple progress tracking | — | — | — | — | — |
| Practice Progress | One goal for every piece — play this at that tempo by then — with every minute of riyaz added up from your recorded practice, never a check-in prompt | — | — | — | Practice reminders and notes | — | — |
| Tabla exam prep | Mock Exam — a 30-question syllabus paper, Prarambhik through Visharad | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tabla discography | Parampara — artists, gharanas, lineage, and an annotated recording catalogue — with the Listening Room's featured recordings | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Platform | iPhone and iPad | iPhone, Android | iPhone, iPad, Android | iPhone, iPad | Android | Web | Android |
| Apple features | Siri, Home Screen widgets, Live Activity on the Lock Screen, Sign in with Apple | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Price | Free tools; weekly or annual subscription | Free, in-app purchases to $24.99 | Free trial; paid unlock; regional price | $19.99 | Free tier; ads; in-app purchases | Free | Paid app; regional price |
| Last updated | Diwali 2026 planned* | 28 September 2025 | 13 February 2026 iOS; 18 March 2026 Android | 12 April 2016 | 9 July 2026 | — | 5 August 2023 |