Comparison

Augmented Theatre vs R

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

Head to head
About

Augmented Theatre

Features
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Augmented Theatre turns the phone in your pocket into part of the stage design. During the performance the production cues every phone in the house at once, over the venue's own Wi-Fi: โ€ข Surtitles โ€” a line appears in your hand at the moment it is spoken, in any language, as large or as quiet as the scene needs. โ€ข Film and stills โ€” video and photographs play on every phone together, started by a single cue and running in step across the room. โ€ข Light โ€” a hundred screens fill with one colour, or a hundred torches come up together. โ€ข Touch โ€” a pulse timed to a heartbeat, a knock, a tremor. โ€ข The theatre through the camera โ€” the room seen through rain running down the glass, through heat rising off the stage, through scratched film, or turned around so the audience is looking at itself. โ€ข Scenery โ€” hold a printed image, point the phone at it, and the set rises off the paper in three dimensions with video playing on its surfaces. โ€ข Sound with a place in the room โ€” with headphones, a voice can be set down beside you and moved around you mid-sentence. Everything the evening needs arrives quietly while the audience finds its seats, over the venue's own network โ€” no internet, no waiting, and nothing on screen until the show wants it. The app carries no advertising and asks for no account, and it does nothing at all until a production cues it: a phone that walks out of the building goes back to being a phone. For producers: shows are driven from Augmented Theatre Dashboard for Mac and iPad, which delivers the media and sends the cues. augmented-theatre.web.app

About

R

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A revolutionary concept of real-time PK touch. PK touches, instant accomplice... Let yourself be carried away by this new concept with infinite possibilities. R-Touch is a groundbreaking application that offers an unmatched user experience in controlling the vibrations of your phone, a borrowed phone, and much more.

Screenshots

Augmented Theatre1 screens
R4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Augmented Theatre at every 2 days against R's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Augmented Theatre ships an update every 2 days, R every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Augmented Theatre versus R: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAugmented TheatreR
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days โ€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size41 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladimir GusevBenjamin Vianney

In-app purchases

None

Augmented Theatre

No in-app purchases

None

R

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Augmented Theatre free?
Augmented Theatre is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is R free?
R is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Augmented Theatre or R have ads?
Neither Augmented Theatre nor R shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Augmented Theatre or R?
Augmented Theatre ships an update every 2 days, and R every 5 weeks. Most recently, Augmented Theatre was updated on October 24, 2026 and R on October 10, 2026.

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