Comparison

Osculatrix vs FakeTake

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

Head to head
About

Osculatrix

This audio effect plugin offers modulated filters, delays, and saturation for creative sound design. It can transform audio from subtle coloration to complete destruction. Use it within your favorite music production apps.

Highlights
  • Modulated filters
  • Delay effects
  • Saturation
  • AUv3 plugin
  • Subtle coloration to destruction
Features
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Osculatrix is a tremolo with ideas above its station. With modulated filters, delays, a bit of saturation. Like its predecessors, it is cryptic and opinionated, and it goes from subtle colouration to total destruction at the twist of a knob. Osculatrix is an AUv3 effect plugin. It does nothing on its own. Use it in GarageBand, AUM or your favourite audio application. Osculatrix does not want your money and it doesn't want your data. It is 100% free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no surveillance, no nag screens.

About

FakeTake

This audio effect plugin creates the illusion of an overdubbed track using a combination of short delay, stereo processing, and modulation. It's designed to enhance instruments like guitar and vocals by adding depth and width to your mix.

Highlights
  • Automatic Double Tracker effect
  • Adjustable delay time
  • Modulation with drift control
  • Variable stereo width
  • Standalone and AUv3 host compatibility
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FakeTake Double Tracker Plugin (AUv3) FakeTake is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic or GarageBand. Overview FakeTake is a tribute to the old "automatic double tracker" studio trick. The idea is that ADT creates the illusion of the same part, overdubbed again (a "fake take") which can work great with many instruments, especially guitar and vocals. There are various approaches for achieving this effect, but most use a short delay, a bit of stereo processing and possibly some modulation applied to the delay. FakeTake uses all three! Parameters Active - Toggles the effect On or Off. Delay - Sets the base delay time of the "fake take". Low settings can be thought of as "tighter", and higher values, "looser", going up to almost a slap-back echo effect. Drift - Varies the amount of delay time modulation. This is applied to the original and processed signal. At zero, no modulation is applied to the dry signal. Spread - Varies the stereo width of the ADT effect. At maximum, the original and delayed signals are panned hard-left and hard-right respectively. At zero, both are dead-centre. Spread can also be used to create space in a mix. For example, apply spread to a guitar track to leave room for vocals in the middle. If the name sounds familiar, FakeTake is an improved and simplified version of the FAKE TAKE ADT module developed for Voltage Modular by Waverley Instruments. Please do take a look at my other AudioUnits on the App Store if you can spare the time. Supporting paid apps allows me to release free ones as a little thankyou from time to time. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson

Screenshots

Osculatrix2 screens
FakeTake2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FakeTake at 12.0 against Osculatrix's 15.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Osculatrix against 5.0 for FakeTake. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Osculatrix versus FakeTake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOsculatrixFakeTake
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings77
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew CaldwellRob Jackson

Customer experience

Osculatrix

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FakeTake

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Osculatrix

No in-app purchases

None

FakeTake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Osculatrix free?
Osculatrix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FakeTake free?
FakeTake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Osculatrix or FakeTake?
Osculatrix and FakeTake are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Osculatrix or FakeTake have ads?
Neither Osculatrix nor FakeTake shows ads.

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