Comparison

Vatanator vs Stellarvox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Vatanator

This app is a drum machine designed for simple and instant rhythm creation. It offers advanced MIDI functionality, 140 vintage hardware emulations, and real-time pattern recording with quantization. It supports various audio integration technologies and allows for sample import and song arrangement.

Highlights
  • 140 vintage hardware emulations
  • Real-time pattern recording with quantization
  • 16/32 step sequencer with advanced MIDI
  • Full MIDI and Bluetooth MIDI support
  • Audiobus, IAA, and Ableton Link support
  • Sample import via Files
  • Real-time effects with XY pads
  • Song arranger
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Vatanator is a unique drum machine with advanced MIDI functionality. It features 140 built-in presets emulating every classic vintage hardware. It is aimed for simplicity and instant rhythm creation. Vatanator features: – Audio Unit Extension – Record patterns in real-time with quantization, MIDI assignable – 16/32 steps sequencer with advanced MIDI options – Fast loading of presets on the fly – Full MIDI implementation, Bluetooth MIDI – Background audio – Audiobus, Audiobus Remote, Inter-App Audio and Ableton Link support – Ability to import samples via Files – Real-time effects with envelope follower and XY pads, MIDI assignable – Song arranger, ability to store a sequence of patterns and play them in order – Export pattern to MIDI file – 8 channel mixer with volume control and mute/solo for any individual instrument “Vatanator listed in 10 Best iOS / iPad Drum Machines Apps” - ProducerSpot "it’s a solid bread-and-butter drum machine that plays nice with AudioBus, IAA, Ableton Link and CoreMIDI, and, at this price, could find a place in anyone’s iPad studio workflow" - MusicRadar/Computer Music

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stellarvox at 100% against Vatanator's 68%. Stellarvox also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Vatanator's advantage is price ($7.99 vs $11.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Vatanator costs $7.99 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stellarvox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Vatanator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stellarvox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vatanator ships an update every 3 months, Stellarvox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Vatanator versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVatanatorStellarvox
Price$7.99 — better$11.99
Rating4.6 (17 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size337 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBACKPULLVER SOFTWARE LTD OODIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

Vatanator

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral17.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral18.2%
Negative13.6%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vatanator

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vatanator free?
Vatanator costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vatanator or Stellarvox?
Stellarvox is rated higher. Vatanator averages 4.6 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Stellarvox averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Vatanator or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither Vatanator nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vatanator or Stellarvox?
Vatanator ships an update every 3 months, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, Vatanator was updated on September 20, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 9, 2026.

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