Bandish: Tanpura & Tabla Riyaz

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4.7
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About this app

Elevate your Indian Classical Music Practice with Bandish – Your Complete Tabla, Tanpura & Manjira Companion

Bandish is the go-to app for Indian classical music practitioners, offering authentic tabla, tanpura, and manjira sounds to transform your riyaz (practice), lessons, or performances. Whether you are a Hindustani vocalist, Carnatic musician, or dancer, Bandish provides the tools you need to master rhythm, pitch, and shruti.

With over 75 taals and 200+ variations, Bandish adapts to every practice style—from beginners learning basic taal cycles to professionals preparing for concerts.

Key Features:
• Seamless Adjustments: Change pitch, tempo, volume, and octave instantly without interrupting playback.
• Studio-Quality Sounds: Professionally recorded tabla and tanpura that sound like live instruments.
• 30+ Taals & Variations: Practice with Teentaal, Dadra, Keharwa, Rupak, Ektaal, Jhaptal, and more.
• Displayed Thekas: Visualize tabla thekas on the home screen for clear rhythmic guidance.
• Quick Access & Favorites: Save and switch between your most-used taals easily.
• Beat Counter: Train your rhythm with an accurate beat counter that stays in sync.
• Customizable Tanpura: Adjust shruti and tanpura speed for personalized drone accompaniment.
• Background & Lock Screen Controls: Continue uninterrupted practice, even while multitasking.
• Push Notifications: Stay disciplined with reminders for daily riyaz.
• Refined Audio Balance: Improved tabla and tanpura mix for natural accompaniment.

Premium Features in Bandish Plus
Unlock professional tools to unlock your true music potential:
• Voice Recording & Playback – Record your riyaz, lessons, or performances directly in Bandish.
• New Manjira Instrument – Add authentic manjira patterns to your tabla and tanpura.
• Pitch Finetuning – Precisely tune your Sa to match your shruti.
• Always-on Focus Mode – Keep the app awake with a distraction-free view.
• 50+ Exclusive Premium Taals – Explore advanced thekas and variations beyond the core set.
• Tap Tempo – Set your BPM instantly by tapping the rhythm you feel.

Upgrade to Bandish Plus with a monthly or annual subscription and try it free for 7 days.

Why Choose Bandish?
Bandish isn’t just another shruti box or tabla app. It combines tabla, tanpura, manjira, metronome, and recording, and much more into one powerful app. Designed with students of music in mind, Bandish ensures every feature is practical, customizable, and rooted in the needs of real musicians.

Unlike basic tools, Bandish lets you:
• Adjust every detail of your practice (shruti, pitch, tempo, volume, octave).
• Stay on beat with precise counters and real-time theka display.
• Favorite taals and receive reminders to keep a consistent practice routine.
• Enjoy an ad-free, modern design focused entirely on your musical growth.

Many musicians switching from iShala, SurTaal, Rhythm, and other apps discover that Bandish not only offers the same essentials, but also unique features like Tap Tempo, pitch finetuning, manjira, voice recording, and a streamlined modern interface.

Perfect For:
• Vocalists practicing with tabla and tanpura accompaniment.
• Carnatic & Hindustani students learning rhythm and shruti.
• Dancers seeking precise live-like tabla rhythms.
• Instrumentalists who need authentic background tracks.
• Composers & teachers preparing lessons and workshops.
• Professionals looking for a reliable, portable digital accompanist.

Download Bandish today and start mastering your Indian classical music practice with the most authentic tabla and tanpura app on Android.
Updated on
Sep 22, 2025

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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.55K reviews
Vishal Patel
October 14, 2025
Plus version Is too Much Expensive. This Is not Course that you Are Going To Sale Monthly. Request And Problems 1. App Stops after few Minutes, I have to restart the app. 2. I i want to change Taal it's very long time to change. 3. Can Directly change The Taal menu instead of going in side and choose taal. 4. Variation Tap Button for taal not Disturbed taal playing, When we tap variation. It will play Directly without Stop or change previous loop/Taal. 5. Add Vilambit Ektaal and other taal .
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Madhusmriti Das
September 26, 2025
amazing makes riyaz easier and more fun special features of tabla ar amazing too
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Baapi Maa
September 27, 2025
this app is terrible like for gods sake it's stops the taal in between and restarts it the makers do not know anything about hindustan classical music.
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What’s new

Bandish 1.5 – Our biggest update yet!

Introducing Bandish Plus with Voice Recording, Manjira, Pitch Finetuning, Always-on Focus Mode, 50+ Premium Taals & Tap Tempo. Try Bandish Plus free for 7 days!

Free updates: More Authentic Tabla sounds, sort taals by beats, improved beat counter, new home screen UI, better notifications, corrected taals, landscape mode for tablers, and more.