raveZap vs Mazetools Soniface
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
raveZap
Create dynamic party visuals that react to sound and touch. Explore a variety of animations, from serene to energetic, and even integrate your own photos. Enhance your experience with VR capabilities for immersive 3D visuals.
- Sound and touch-reactive visualizations
- 50+ free animations
- AirPlay/Screen Mirroring support
- VR pack for 3D animations
- Photo folder integration
- Selfie camera effects
- Animation playlists (Full Version)
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Amazing party visuals: ▪ Visualizations respond to sound and touch ▪ 50 animations for free ▪ Looks great connected to a TV with AirPlay / Screen Mirroring ▪ Animations range from soft and dreamy to wild with crazy flashes ▪ Combines 3D, live video, particles, fractals, water, glass, bump and random effects… ▪ Create a raveZap photo folder to have those pictures blended in ▪ Some animations have weird video effects for making selfies ▪ Get a VR pack to see virtual reality 3D animations with a Google Cardboard viewer Upgrade to Full Version: ▪ 25 More animations ▪ Set timing ▪ Swipe to switch animations ▪ Built-in music player ▪ Take snapshots to camera roll ▪ Switch to selfie camera ▪ Animation playlists ▪ No Ads To set up for VR: ▪ (Assuming purchase of Full Version & VR Pack) ▪ 2 Finger press or tilt for menu ▪ Touch "Playing All" / "VR" / "Done" ▪ Touch "Settings" to set time on the slider ▪ Touch outside the menu
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 rating: Mazetools Soniface at 4.5 against raveZap's 2.0. Mazetools Soniface also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (60% vs 47%). raveZap's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. raveZap sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Mazetools Soniface asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mazetools Soniface holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of raveZap's written reviews are positive against 60% of Mazetools Soniface's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | raveZap | Mazetools Soniface |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (13 ratings) | 4.5 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 478 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soft Wares Inc | Ectoplastic |
Customer experience
raveZap
Mazetools Soniface
In-app purchases
raveZap
- Pack2 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Pack3 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Pack4 of 25 Animations$0.99
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- Pack1 of 25 VR Animations$0.99
- Pack2 of 25 VR Animations$0.99
- Pack 5 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Pack 6 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Pack 10 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Pack 11 of 25 Animations$0.99
- Full Version$1.99
Mazetools Soniface
No in-app purchases









