3D Tone Touch vs Mazetools Soniface
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
3D Tone Touch
Explore musical tones and pitches with an interactive interface. This app uses touch sensitivity to alter pitch and create chords, making music creation accessible and fun for all ages. Enjoy visual feedback with a shower of sparks for each note played.
- 3D Force Touch integration
- Pitch alteration via touch pressure
- C major scale notes
- Multi-touch chord creation
- Visual spark feedback
- Note display
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Have fun making music! 3D Tone Touch is a fun way to learn about tones and pitches. It uses 3d Force Touch on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Press harder to raise the pitch and increase the number of sparks! Uses only the notes in the C major scale so it's easy for anyone to play. Use multi-touch to create triads and other chords. Force Touch is simulated on other devices, or you can turn it off and change pitch by touching up and down. Neato features: • 5 note polyphonic • Uses 3D Force Touch on compatible devices • Awesome shower of sparks for each note • Displays the played note right above your finger • C major scale Kids and adults alike can't stop playing with it!
Mazetools Soniface
Explore sound and music visually with a unique motion-controlled interface. Create and manipulate audio and visual elements using gestures, touch, and body tracking. Offers a modular approach to instruments and advanced automation for creative expression.
- Visual sound and music exploration
- Motion interface for gesture control
- Modular synth, sampler, and rhythm modules
- Generative Gridsynth synthesizer
- Advanced controller automation
- MIDI input/output and Ableton Link
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Mazetools opens up a unique approach to music and creativity. It's about exploring sounds in a new way, experiencing them visually, changing them through gestures, coming across something in the process, a sound, a melody, a groove, a song... For the first time, we have integrated an interface that allows you to control sound through movement. This is done through the camera of your device and ML-based body recognition. It enables new musical experiences and shared creative moments. Mazetools are unique in their operation and complex in their own way. For some it's a welcome change, for others it's too crazy, for some it's just the right introduction to the world of sound. There are currently two Mazetools: Mutant and Soniface. Mutant is comparable to a loop machine and works with a defined number of instruments. It produces results quickly, but thanks to the Hypercube it offers the possibility to change everything with a swipe and to hear sounds that always surprise us. Soniface, on the other hand, is more modular when it comes to adding instruments. The settings of the synth, sampler and rhythm modules go into great detail. An important feature is the Gridsynth, an area of lines that correspond to a scale over several octaves. Automation plays a major role in Soniface: all instruments and their controllers can be controlled via LFOs, touch and camera-based body tracking. Key Features - Creative space to explore sound, music and geometric visuals - Experiment with audio and visual objects and create your own scenes - Operate controllers and play instruments via multitouch - Motion interface to control instruments and parameters through gestures, movements and dance - Cross-platform compatibility of project files - Simple design for mobile devices, complex (regular) design for tablets and desktops - Advanced in-app guide, FAQ & help function in English and German Instruments - Gridsynth - A generative, visual synthesizer for drones and melodies incl. sequencer & arpeggiator - Rhythm sequencer for sample- and synth-based basses and drums - Spatial & granular soundscape sampler incl. mic input, sample library and file integration - Key interface for cross-instrument tonality incl. progression sequencer - Interactive LivePad and keyboard for Gridsynth, Bass & Sampler Automation & Connectivity - Advanced controller automation incl. multi-touch editor, body tracking interface - MIDI input and output - Master FX and Ableton Link - Audiobus & Inter-App Audio (experimental support) - Normal mouse and keyboard support Mazetools Soniface is free worldwide and without advertising. You can support our work, our vision and all Soniface users by purchasing Soniface Pro, which includes additionally: - Unlimited instruments (Mazes) - Pattern mode to create unlimited scenes for songs and performances - Visual mode with Airplay live video output for performance & VJing - Unlimited internal audio recording (.wav, up to 7.1 on desktop). We do our best to avoid bugs. So feel free to write us bugs and problems. Much more content, terms of use, credits and FAQ are in the app's guide. About Mazetools We are Stephan and Jakob, when we were 13 in 1999, we exchanged our first beat loops on floppy disks and wrote raps on them. Today we are still fascinated by sound, release our music and realize multimedia performances. You can find more information on Ectoplastic.com. With this background, we share a lot of practical experience with Mazetools, from generative sound & visual patches to the development of multi-touch & motion tracking interfaces and VR sound development. We use this technological core to empower creativity, make musical expression inclusive and thus democratize electronic music. We are still within this process, but there is a lot of potential! We invite you to join us. Every purchase directly supports, every positive review, post and constructive feedback. Thank you very much!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 3D Tone Touch at 100% against Mazetools Soniface's 60%. 3D Tone Touch also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). Mazetools Soniface's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
3D Tone Touch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mazetools Soniface has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of 3D Tone Touch's written reviews are positive against 60% of Mazetools Soniface's.
| Parameter | 3D Tone Touch | Mazetools Soniface |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 478 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Menter | Ectoplastic |
Customer experience
3D Tone Touch
Mazetools Soniface
In-app purchases
3D Tone Touch
No in-app purchases
Mazetools Soniface
No in-app purchases









