VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience53.0% of reviews
Neutral10.8% of reviews
Negative experience36.1% of reviews

~ Based on 83 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave Safe?

VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 132 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

72.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 132 App Store ratings for VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave.

Is VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave Legit?

VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for VHS Synth | 80s Synthwave is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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根本进不去

Awesomeness

Excellent features and great sounds!

Great fun

Lots of fun, easy controls, like it a lot, wish could one time buy but 12 bucks for a year is forgettable enough,

Pricing is absurd

I’ve never seen any other synth with the option to rent it weekly, and this synth is not worth a monthly or even yearly subscription at any cost, compared to the other iOS synths, it should be what the weekly cost is to just buy it outright. You can get synth one (both regular and j6) and a free lo fi/tape effect and get better results that aren’t just playing back multi samples of stuff that was run through a tape vst.
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Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. If there's anything else we can assist you with, feel free to contact us at audiobus.help@gmail.com.

Scam

They made the newest few updates break when putting it in GarageBand so you’d have to buy their new subscription based app. Pretty scummy.

Love this synth

I love the lo-fi vibes. This is one of my favorites. So far I’ve just been having fun tweaking the presets, there are some good ones. I’m sure I’ll get some great results once I initialize a patch and see what I can come up with. Seems like a very capable little synth with great vibes.

high jacked by audiobus …

i remember this app (& a few others now under the audiobus pty banner) was initially developed & released by audiokit pro a few years ago & after a while considered deprecated & time consuming so I assume in good faith passed on these apps to audiobus pty to maintain to allow audiokit pro to focus on newer apps (of which there is a version 2 of this one & others?)
i gather some other audiokit pro apps were also passed on to some other devs, but i digress..

now there is a subscription gate here & on the other ex audiokit pro apps & the claim this app & others was made using audiokit pro code system implying not by audiokit pro initially now this isn’t exactly true is it & a disrespect to audiokit pro who don’t engage in subscription shenanigans.

this comes across as hijacking to be fair & i dont care about the arrangement/agreement between audiokit pro & audiobus pty as a lay customer who obviously had nothing to do with it & didn’t know anything about it.

“but I need to feed my family” says the audiobus pty dev. well, don’t we all ….

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Response from developer

We value your input and appreciate your feedback. If there's anything we can assist you with, please get in touch with us at audiobus.help@gmail.com.

So many great presets. The subscription model is garbage

Bummer how they chose this absurd subscription model, immediate hate from the community and absolute silence from the developer.

I love the presets in this and VHS, they are really really good and there's a preset artist featured (Mark Hupkins) who is an absolute mastermind and doesn't appear in any of the other audiokit apps to my knowledge.

It's a great app, one that I use often- the choir and bell presets are so lush.

It really is a bummer that the subscription mode thing is preventing folks from even considering it- but that's understandable.
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Data collection

Deleted the app once user data started being collected. Wont buy any more.

Response from developer

We apologize for the inconvenience and understand your frustration. Your feedback is essential in helping us improve, and we'd love the chance to assist you. Reach out to us anytime at audiobus.help@gmail.com for further support.

Love this app. But there is one problem.

I’ve been using this app for a couple years now and it is amazing. I just learned how to use it in GarageBand. After I updated my iPhone 16 Pro Max to iOS 26 the app will no longer work in GarageBand as an Extension. Here is the error message that I get every time I try to load it as an extension. “Audio Unit Extension Quit: The Audio Unit Extension has quit unexpectedly. Tap Reload to reload the extension, or tap Disable to disable the extension and continue.” I would love to continue using this app as an extension in GarageBand. Would you guys please fix this? Thanks much.
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Bad

Very bad

Time Travel

This app has so much to offer ! Two banks, multiple samples, comprehensive effects - and a serious MIDI implementation. Top marks team ! 😎

Thieves

My purchases and downloads were taken away after subscription model 0 Stars

Way to kill the vibe (subscription model nonsense)

I owned this - until they decided to try and monetize even further by converting it into a subscription based app! Now it’s gone from my devices forever. Cautionary tale for other devs.

Great Synth

Great Synth.

Data Tracking

Seriously? You need to track what musicians are doing, huh? No thanks.

Rent seeking

I bought this app when it came out, and it’s has a few presets on it that I liked and used. Then the developer broke all of my projects that used it when they switched over from AudioKit because AUM doesn’t recognize it as the same app. Now all of my saved presets are behind a paywall, making it harder to fix all the projects that got broken. I won’t be paying rent for a mediocre app I already paid for, even if it means I’ve lost some songs.
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User Data Now Tracked (?)

What’s with user data now tracked?

Shame… I really liked this app.

Deleted.

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback, we are sorry for your issue. Please contact audiobus.help@gmail.com for support.

Scam

Paid for the app when it was released. I don’t expect magical updates and features for life - but I did expect the application I paid for to remain on my device and usable. Now it has tracking software in it and I can’t use the app unless subscribing to pay for something I already have? Restore purchase does nothing. New owners seem to be out for a very different goal than the creators.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback, we are sorry for your issue. Please contact audiobus.help@gmail.com for support.

Dissapointed

This was one of my most used apps. Some of the absolute best patches in the App Store. Nearly every project I worked on had an instance of this app. Since these new developers took over for AudioKit this synth doesn’t open in any of my projects. Whether it be GarageBand, Logic, or Cubasis. No amount of updates or deleting and reinstalling has helped. It’s such a disappointment and headache.
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