# Ioniarics — user reviews > 13 indexed App Store user reviews of Ioniarics by Pagefall limited, rated 4.40/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ioniarics/id1473268015/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ioniarics/id1473268015.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I don’t see how to get it to work with garage band/aum *2020-01-09* After clicking on the icon it says it will work with garage band?it doesn’t seem to show up in externals? Do I have to buy AUM? Update: Bought aum ... and I also don’t see ioniarics listed....even after un-re-installing Update of update: Almost have it working....found it listed in the midi au files in aum ### 1/5 — Total Disappointment *2019-08-23* No web site. Basically just goes to a picture. No documentation. No MIDI driven sound. No clue what some of the controls do. Basically a waste of money! ### 1/5 — Struggling to make this work *2019-08-17* Says it is installed and I can use it in GarageBand but it doesn’t appear anywhere. Maybe I am doing something wrong but also no obvious support. Hoping that this will jog some help. ### 4/5 — Great audio unit *2020-04-15* Was glad to see you are updating your website and working on something new :) I would love a manual thus the 4 star review, not worth leaving any less than that since I’m having fun without it. To all those lame review ones that can’t do some experimentation without a manual- You try doing all these devs have to do its a lot of work usually doesn’t pay off big either so put yourself in their shoes! ### 4/5 — Amazing yet... *2019-10-29* A bit of learning curve for sure. I made alot of user errors and thought it was too weird, then it clicked. Very advanced and unique graphic display that means something. Cheers and manuals to come eh? ### 4/5 — Arp innovations.... *2019-09-05* This is a great take on an arpeggiator. It’s very easy to make interesting and inspirational patterns. It’s good to see the option to play the arp in the order you play the notes, and it respects your velocities too which adds to the playability. Would love to see some polyphonic options and pattern phases that can fall in between steps. ### 5/5 — Excellent ambient tool *2022-04-08* This is lovely. Load in the scale of your choice- an octave and a half, say- dial in a couple of prime numbers, and let it play. For hours. Well thought out, not difficult to use, and utterly delightful. ### 5/5 — Amazing app - use it with chords *2022-02-12* I use Ioniarics with midi chords as input - Chordjam - and output to Scaler before injecting into a synth. Then adjust a couple of parameters in Ioniarics and it generally sounds musically nice quite fast, it is good for enhancing a beat with that a delicate line of lead or keys on the top. Awesome. ### 5/5 — Not for the stupid *2020-10-09* It is outrageous some people apparently cant follow simple instructions then fairly assess an app but rather choose to spew their ego onto the piste after a minimal effort of self education and thereafter try to make others wrong by way of a negative review . Pathetic moronic behaviour in my opinion. It’s such a zero position and an insult to the folks who clearly have perhaps spent scores of hours in development....shame on you for playing a game no one wins 🥱 If you read the instructions and take in a couple of tutorials, do a little experimentation you will definitely get fantastic creative use from this app....I have .🙏🎩👏👏👏 ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2019-12-04* Very nice to see an arpeggiator or sequencer work in something other than 8ths & 16ths. I still need a little more “figuring-out” time with this one before I resort to trying to find a manual; exploration, the joy of discovery... GREAT app! ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — After me being dumb I got it working fine *2019-08-06* I am new to MIDI music generation and I initially had trouble with finding this app in my DAWs, AUM, Audiobus and Garageband. After some research, and my brain actually working, I discovered how to make the app and am now happily fiddling and tweaking and making some great arpeggiated sounds. Newbs like me need to persevere, seasoned professionals will enjoy playing and enhancing their music. ### 5/5 — Regenerative Orchestral Ensemble Master *2019-07-31* 5 star rating is a no-brainer. Used it to process midi generated by Rozeta (anything these developers create is worth buying) and then connected FM Tines (Butterfly Pad preset) and iSymphonic to Ioniarics. Wow! So easy, so fast, so smooth! Efficient too, AUM DSP meter was single digits the whole time! Ran it all night and most of the next day. Basically all the iSymphonic presets I had time to sample sounded great (iSym AU usually needs at least a little Bleass Reverb to smooth out the starts and stops)! All the big ensemble orchestral sounds have found a long-playing generative music soul-mate with Ioniarics and it's all-powerful length-button. Kneel! I got nothing worthy to whine about with Ioniarics, besides, I'm not qualified to comment on anything to do with the musicality of the app. But I have been using various bits of software for a few decades and two suggestions come to mind. First, some sort of in app Help. Just a phrase per knob, and if your feeling windy, maybe an entire sentence, (but please don't bore us with more than two sentences 😉). An alternative would be a webpage we can convert to PDF document. Second, and I've no idea if this is worth the effort on iOS, but it would be really nice if the fonts and knobs enlarged when the AU window was dragged open wider and taller on the iPad (or iPhone too I suppose). ### 5/5 — Adventures in rhythm await. *2019-07-23* I fiddled with it yesterday and kind of liked it, but today really liked it. I bought it cause I like the developer’s other apps. I also read the word “West Coast” some where presumably referring to the Buchla uncertainty mode. It can do that thing Morton Subotnick did with percussive marimba like sounds. I tried it today with 2 AU instances in AUM with midi out into an analog synth tabla like patch and holy cow ! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*