Musical Kittens vs Dial Upstrum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musical Kittens
Create unique musical compositions using adorable cat meows as sound effects. This application allows you to craft memorable cat music, save your creations, and share them with friends to impress them with your musical talent.
- Cat meow sound effects
- Musical composition
- Save songs
- Share creations
- Unique sound library
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Musical Kittens is an amazing musical composer application where all of the sound effects are generated with adorable cat meows! This app will change your life forever. Meow your way to fame and glory by making memorable cat music. Save your songs and share them with friends! Everybody will think you are so cool!
Dial Upstrum
Transform classic modem sounds into a unique musical instrument. Explore phase and pitch variations to create distinctive audio and visuals, and integrate with AUv3 hosts for advanced music production.
- Play 56k modem handshake sounds as an instrument
- Adjust phase and pitch of sounds
- Modify visuals alongside audio
- AUv3 plugin support
- Inspired by ZX Plectrum
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Boot up that beige box, hear the sweet symphony of your 56k modem screeching into life, and prepare to surf the information superhighway like it's 1999! Play the 56k DialUp handshake sounds as a musical instrument on your iPhone or iPad! Change the modem sounds (and visuals) phase and pitch to make some weird, wonderful and familiar sounds! Plugin to your favourite AUv3 host and make unique music unlike anything else. Log on. Dial in. Based on the critically acclaimed ZX Plectrum! (but with more sounds and flexibility!) What people say about ZX Plectrum: "As seen on TV" on Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit Used by multi-Platinum band Placebo in their live events. "ZX Plectrum lets you make music Spectrum style on your iPhone" pocket-lint.com "Utterly pointless but also utterly engaging" bamm.tv "For Nostlagia lovers of a very specific demographic this will sound like heaven" calmdowntom.com "The Greatest iPad App of ALL TIME" conoroneill.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Musical Kittens at 100% against Dial Upstrum's 0%. Musical Kittens also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (4.3 vs 3.7). Dial Upstrum's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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
Musical Kittens is free to download; Dial Upstrum costs $3.99 up front. Musical Kittens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dial Upstrum asks for nothing beyond the download.
Musical Kittens holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Musical Kittens's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dial Upstrum's.
| Parameter | Musical Kittens | Dial Upstrum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Stecklein | Dave Sapien Ltd. |
Customer experience
Musical Kittens
Dial Upstrum
In-app purchases
Musical Kittens
- Advertising Removal$1.99
Dial Upstrum
No in-app purchases
