Comparison

GalileoTuner vs What About Phase?

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

Head to head
About

GalileoTuner

Features
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Galileo is a music tuner. Earth mode shows the pitch by chromatic scale in circle.(Please set the microphone on). Jupiter mode shows detailed pitch in smaller circle. When the red mark in the opposite side of "50" aligns with the red arrow bellow the smaller circle, it produces equal temperament pitch. The two smaller red marks on both side of the red mark shows just intonation of major 3rd (-) and minor 3rd (+). ※For monophonic instrument

About

What About Phase?

Record short audio clips and transform them into evolving, hypnotic soundscapes. This pocket instrument uses phasing and other processes to create unique, unfolding audio patterns from simple sounds.

Highlights
  • Audio recording and looping
  • Ten distinct audio processes
  • Radial display of sound patterns
  • On-device pitch detection
  • Save, share, and revert recordings
  • Live control over audio parameters
Features
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Record a few seconds of anything — your voice, a clap, a passing train — and let the app pull it apart in time. What about phase? is a pocket instrument for process music: it loops your recording in two channels and lets them drift out of sync, so simple sounds grow into shifting, hypnotic patterns. Inspired by the tape-phasing experiments of 1960s minimalism, it makes the process itself audible — you set it in motion, then listen as it unfolds. TEN PROCESSES • Phasing — two copies of your loop, one drifting a few cents faster; hear them separate into echo, then canon • Gradual process — a ramp that grows louder and sweeps across the stereo field • Tape loop multiplication — your loop fanned into a detuned chorus • Rhythmic construction — a rhythm assembled hit by hit • Pattern substitution — beats replaced one at a time: silence, octaves, fifths • Resultant patterns — two interlocking rhythms revealing a third • Clapping Music — a pattern rotating against its fixed copy • Pulse / drone — a pulse grid over a deep foundation • Canon — staggered voices entering one after another • Speech melody — a syllable pulsed in speech rhythm and dynamics THE WHEEL A radial display shows what the process is doing: your loop's waveform — or the process's own pattern — wrapped around a circle, left channel in coral, right in cyan, a comet sweeping the playhead. In Phasing you can watch the two rings physically drift apart. Volume and pitch views included, with on-device pitch detection. MADE FOR EXPLORING • Ten built-in demo takes, one per process, playable from the very first launch • Every take saves with its process and settings; rename, share as WAV, revert • Takes named after where you record them (optional, location used only while in the app) • Live controls: drift in cents, process amount, tempo, sample offset • No account, no ads, no analytics — recordings never leave your device unless you share them Record something small. Let it become something long.

Screenshots

GalileoTuner3 screens
What About Phase?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GalileoTuner at none against What About Phase?'s 1. GalileoTuner also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). What About Phase?'s advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 33 months). On price, ads and device support 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. What About Phase? sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GalileoTuner asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GalileoTuner ships an update every 33 months, What About Phase? daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GalileoTuner versus What About Phase?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGalileoTunerWhat About Phase?
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 33 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomohisa HimenoVladimir Gusev

In-app purchases

None

GalileoTuner

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

What About Phase?

One-time1
  • Full Version$0.99

Questions

Is GalileoTuner free?
GalileoTuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What About Phase? free?
What About Phase? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GalileoTuner or What About Phase? have ads?
Neither GalileoTuner nor What About Phase? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GalileoTuner or What About Phase??
GalileoTuner ships an update every 33 months, and What About Phase? daily. Most recently, GalileoTuner was updated on October 4, 2026 and What About Phase? on October 10, 2026.

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