# Phase84 — user reviews > 46 indexed App Store user reviews of Phase84 by Retronyms Inc, rated 3.80/5 from 41 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phase84/id940880314/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phase84/id940880314.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 22 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (12 of 46) ### 4/5 — Fixed *2023-01-05* Thank you for fixing the app! After 3 years with no updates, I didn’t have much hope it would be fixed, but it is once again loading as an AUv3. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Thank you for the great feedback. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you. Cheers -Robert ### 4/5 — Four and a half *2020-09-18* Having already a dozen of synths in your iPad stable? This would be a good addition especially when price drops. Unfortunately I was unable to record function automation when loaded the app as an AUv3 plugin into NanoStudio 2. Is a fix possible? ### 3/5 — Background static with iMPC2 *2020-01-20* I’m trying to load sounds with Phase 84 onto the pads on iMPC2. There is a a lot of background static that comes with the Phase 84 app when I’m sampling from both my MIDI controller and from within the app. Other than that, this app could be great! **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16. Please let us know if this static bug is corrected for you. Cheers -Robert ### 4/5 — Great but needs some refinement *2019-10-30* Wicked sounding synth but needs more precision for certain parameters Eg attack time / LFO speed ### 3/5 — Not for hip hop *2019-08-23* The sounds are too harsh for most forms of rap and hip hop. Maybe a lil bit of trap but mostly EDM presets. Most of the sounds are too quiet when not using headphones and all the sounds almost sound the same. Would not recommend. I feel like I wasted $10. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16 and added new presets. Please reach out to us for suggestions in what you'd like to see in the future for Phase84. Cheers -Robert ### 4/5 — Rocking synth, but please allow Audiobus compatibility *2017-07-06* This is my favorite synth app because of my affection for Phase Distortion synthesis, and I understand you want to keep it affiliated to Tabletop, but PLEASE make it accessible through Audiobus. I think more folks will actually purchase it if it was able to be used within Audiobus and other IAA hosts (like Modstep) so that it can be sequenced, resampled, etc in more open setups with other great iOS apps. ### 3/5 — 堀さん *2017-01-11* 暫く使ったので改めてレビュー。 今となっては、良いシンセが他に沢山あるので、これを選ぶ理由は無くなってきていると思う ### 2/5 — Take or leave it *2016-12-29* Presets are uninspiring , Almost boring in todays market ..Synth lacks punch in a mix **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16 and added new presets. Please reach out to us for suggestions in what you'd like to see in the future for Phase84. Cheers -Robert ### 3/5 — Retronyms' Best Work *2016-10-05* Shame they've abandoned it and refuse to give it Audiobus support. ### 5/5 — Phase 84 is excellent - at a silly low price. *2016-04-11* The sounds are great, easy to use and this is the best synth I have downloaded. I use it in iMPC pro and alongside all the other Metonyms apps - it works without fail. I have had no problems with the app cutting out. A must get for any travelling musician. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. FEAR NOT! We released an update for Phase84 that is optimized for iOS 16. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you! Cheers -Robert ### 3/5 — Good could be great *2016-03-26* Love the sounds you can make but after a few minutes of tweaking the audio cuts out and I have to turn my iPad off and on to bring it back. All the changes I've made to a given sound are lost. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. FEAR NOT! We released an update for Phase84 that is optimized for iOS 16. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you! Cheers -Robert ### 5/5 — Excellent synth with a slightly different flavor *2016-03-07* There's a lot of criticism of Retronyms apps for some of their marketing tactics and resistance of implementing AudioBus connectivity in their apps. (Retronyms instead provides IAA support and steers you towards Tabletop, their own free but also very problematic ecosystem for housing music apps). But I actually find Phase84 to be a very nice and somewhat unique synth, especially if they continue to offer it at 4.99. Phase84 has an "FM Synth" flavor to it, but they introduce phase distortion for some gritty sounds. There's a decent wealth of presets and they are well sorted - ranging from basses to leads and stabs. The control parameters for the synth are laid out almost entirely on a single screen, which is nice. Plus, as others have noted, there are plenty of workarounds for using the synth via AudioBus (by way of AudioShare or AUM), or just recording the synth using IAA, which is pretty widely implemented nowadays. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. FEAR NOT! We released an update for Phase84 that is optimized for iOS 16. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you! Cheers -Robert ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Phase84 *2023-01-14* Yeat another Retronyms update that falls short of good got me al excited for nothing The demo presets are almost all the same from each other it is more stable! But none of the Retronyms apps are any good except for Tabletop IMO and that hasn’t been updated for almost going on a decade I used to really enjoy using Tabletop bought all the plugins as they came out. Can’t remember the last time any of them worked together. It even had or has some Arturia Synths that were awesome and they are completely unfunctional Can’t Believe Arturia used to Colaborate with Retronyms I can definitely why that’s not a thing anymore. If you are serious about music production on iOS look elsewhere don’t waste your time and hard earned money on any of their apps like I did. Use AudioKit instead **Developer response:** Hello Hippo Iver, Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. I am glad to hear you tested out the presets in Phase84. We are actively working on a plan for updating Tabletop. Please send us you suggestions for features you’d like to see in Tabletop. Cheers -Robert ### 1/5 — Öffnet sich nicht in iMPC2 pro *2022-12-07* Es kommt eine Fehlermeldung bei dem Versuch ### 1/5 — Not working since ioS13. *2019-11-10* Sounds are heavily cracking and popping. Only recordings prior to ios13 still sound good. Anyone else having this issue? **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16. Please let us know if this static bug is corrected for you. Cheers -Robert ### 1/5 — Weak App *2019-10-28* App crashed within 2 minutes while I tried to change semi tones on a iPhone X. Lame, gave it another try and same thing. Not worth the money. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16. Please let us know if this static bug is corrected for you. Cheers -Robert ### 1/5 — nice potential, frustrating bugs *2017-03-02* So this can make some great sounds, and phase distortion + fm + filter is extremely powerful yet retro, but the bugs are painful. Can't open in tabletop. Sustain pedal doesn't work. The user interface is also confusing and kind of a pain to use. Retronyms continues to disappoint - no audiobus? To whoever said 'presets are uninspiring' I would suggest that you can get some great sounds out of it if you understand the underlying phase distortion + fm + subtractive synthesis engine. It is a nice digital synth that can produce anything from metallic tones to glassy to wooden to warm analog-ish to cold to fuzzy to percussive, but its main feature is channeling Casio's phase distortion synths (though with fewer envelope stages.) **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16 and added new presets. Please reach out to us for suggestions in what you'd like to see in the future for Phase84. Cheers -Robert ### 1/5 — audiobus? *2016-07-16* audiobus? ### 1/5 — Request *2015-02-12* I really hate having to adjust the keyboard zoom every time I go to use it it should remember where I had it last.. Please fix ### 1/5 — What it's worth and what it should be worth *2014-12-26* The app is a great for techno music artists but the price for it is too much, expensive in fact It feels more like a $2 - $5 app and not a $17 app I would not recommend it at the moment but if the price goes down I would recommend it but ATM I don't recommend it to anyone ### 2/5 — What happened to Table Top *2024-09-05* I k whited about why table top crashes Only response maybe your iPad isn’t up to date or too old Spend a few buck on the app in purchases ### 2/5 — Abandoned ware? *2019-05-22* No updates of feature updates (like adding key latching)in three years. I was mistaken thinking that Retronyms was better than that. Write them off as an iOS developer. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. Please reach out to us at support@Retronyms.com with your experience so we can get the details of your situation and work on a fix. We recently released an update for Phase84 to be optimized for iOS 16 and added new presets. Please reach out to us for suggestions in what you'd like to see in the future for Phase84. Cheers -Robert ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nachdem mein erster Eindruck nicht sooo war... *2024-06-30* I’m Standalone geht. Sonst kann ich es nicht bewerten. Ist wohl die einzig brauchbare app von retronyms ### 5/5 — One of the best sounding synths on my iPad *2020-11-30* Phase Distortion synths rock for EBM. Phase84 is a bit old but still sounds as good as newer similar synths like Shockwave. I really hope Retronyms updates this soon as I’m scared of updating to the latest iOS. **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. FEAR NOT! We released an update for Phase84 that is optimized for iOS 16. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you! Cheers -Robert ### 5/5 — Yes *2020-09-22* Just jumps out at you and simply says: “yes”. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2020-09-18* Get this now it is fabulous! It can do so much more than a Casio cuz synth it claims to replicate. In AUM it is very CPU efficient. A steal at this price. ### 5/5 — works well,... *2019-06-19* ...sounds digital which is part of the concept. UI very effective. gater unit is fun. now it's even AU and universal. nice. great service, too. definitely worth buying. ### 5/5 — Finally an update, and... *2019-06-19* AUv3! Very happy with this purchase. Great synth! ### 5/5 — Always liked this synth and it's great to see Au added! *2019-06-19* Purchased many years ago at launch but never got to use it in a track. I broke my Auv3 only rule earlier this year and used it on one of my tracks. Will be making full use now Auv3 has been added. Great retro synth. ### 5/5 — One of my favs *2017-05-23* It's my go to Synth **Developer response:** Thank you for reaching out to us with your feedback. We appreciate the time and effort you and all of our Music Makers have invested in our apps and writing reviews. We are constantly working to fix bugs when they appear and your feedback is a major part of this process. FEAR NOT! We released an update for Phase84 that is optimized for iOS 16. The world would be dull and boring without Music Makers like you! Cheers -Robert ### 5/5 — Tres bien *2017-02-08* Petit synth bien sympatique... ### 5/5 — おすすめ *2017-01-26* 音楽制作に使えます。 --- *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 2026-08-16.*