Comparison

STREAM by Roxcore vs Vascular

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

Head to head
About

STREAM by Roxcore

Features
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The Roxcore Stream App allows you to control music from your iOS devices to all Stream speakers from Roxcore. The App allows you to play the same music in all speakers or different music in all rooms depending on your choice. Easy to install and easy to control. Stay Tuned We will be updating the App regularly to introduce new music service providers and features.

About

Vascular

Create electroacoustic music by visually connecting sound generators and processors on a canvas. Manipulate stereo position, control synthesis and processing, and build complex signal paths. Explore a vast array of synthesis types, effects, and controllers to craft unique sonic textures.

Highlights
  • Canvas-based sound design
  • Modular signal path building
  • Extensive synthesis families
  • 71 built-in processors
  • Advanced controller modules
  • Sample playback and manipulation
  • Microphone input processing
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Vascular is a canvas-based electroacoustic instrument. Create sound generators and processors by touching the canvas, then connect them to build the signal path. Moving a node changes its stereo position, while each node provides its own synthesis, processing, modulation and rhythmic controls. FEATURES - 55 synthesis families, including subtractive, FM, additive, granular, spectral, physical modelling, wavetable, wave-terrain, pulsar and stochastic synthesis. - 3 macrosynths, complete synthesizers in a single node: resurgent (2 scenes, 3 oscillators, 2 filters, effects), bayarea, a West Coast voice, and poundhard, an FM drum voice from kicks to industrial percussion. - A complete DX7 implementation. - Holos, a special node that combines elements and parameters from other nodes to create a new semi-modular synthesizer instantly. - A sample player for loading your own loops, with time-stretching, forward and reverse playback, stuttering, splicing and tape-style manipulation derived from classic electroacoustic techniques. - Sampled acoustic instruments that generate melodic loops in the session's tonal key. - Drum synthesis, a 303, a 16-oscillator supersaw and live granular processing. - Microphone input for processing external sound. - 71 processors, including filters, distortion, delays, combs, phasing, diffusion, reverb, spectral freezing, convolution, pitch tracking, harmony, vocoding, spectral delays, tape loops and broken-media effects. - Host your own AUv3 instruments, effects and MIDI plugins as nodes on the canvas, their settings kept with your sessions (in-app purchase). - 7 controllers that play or move other nodes: a melodic sequencer with a piano-roll editor; an arpeggiator that turns a single arpeggio into a fugue across up to 6 voices; a drum machine with fills and breaks; a shift register; bouncing cars whose collisions are notes; a Game of Life swept by a playhead; and an LFO controller with 3 LFOs on each of up to 6 nodes. - Kick side chains with adjustable depth, and a master bus compressor. - An effects sequencer with 4 lanes of any processor, each with its own length. - A randomizer that creates whole patches, transforms what is on the canvas, expands it or dismantles it, and deals or removes LFOs, gates and motifs. - A padlock on every parameter, keeping it out of reach of the randomizer and every LFO. - Mute and solo: tap a node to mute it, hold it to hear it alone with its chain. - Angiogenesis, which moves nodes, rewires connections, adds processors and changes their parameters automatically. It never removes your voices, cuts a controller's connections or modifies microphone nodes. - Adjustable mutation rate and automatic adaptation to the processing capacity of the device. - A shared session clock with tap tempo and an independent clock division for each rhythmic source. - 27 scales from 4 musical traditions, plus microtonal tunings imported from Scala files. - Guided paths for restricting generators and processors to a selected musical territory. - A searchable palette, in alphabetical order, with favourites. - Rebalance, which spreads the outputs evenly across the whole stereo field. - A multilayer gesture looper. - 32 pattern slots with adjustable morphing between complete instrument states. - Sessions that store the network, settings and tonal key together. - 48 levels of undo and redo. - Recording, playback, renaming and sharing of takes. - A transport that stops active sound sources while allowing effect tails to decay naturally. AUV3 Vascular also runs as an AUv3 instrument in AUM, Loopy Pro, Logic and other compatible hosts, and follows the host's tempo and transport. The interface runs full-screen in landscape orientation and is operated directly with your fingers. The main buttons remain along the top of the display, away from the hand interacting with the canvas.

Screenshots

STREAM by Roxcore4 screens
Vascular4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: STREAM by Roxcore at Free against Vascular's $3.99. STREAM by Roxcore also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). Vascular's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On ads, in-app purchases 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

STREAM by Roxcore is free to download; Vascular costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

STREAM by Roxcore ships an update every 3 days, Vascular daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
STREAM by Roxcore versus Vascular: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSTREAM by RoxcoreVascular
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating—4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKjell & CompanyAbsolute Management SIA

In-app purchases

None

STREAM by Roxcore

No in-app purchases

None

Vascular

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is STREAM by Roxcore free?
STREAM by Roxcore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vascular free?
Vascular costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do STREAM by Roxcore or Vascular have ads?
Neither STREAM by Roxcore nor Vascular shows ads.
Which is updated more often, STREAM by Roxcore or Vascular?
STREAM by Roxcore ships an update every 3 days, and Vascular daily. Most recently, STREAM by Roxcore was updated on October 13, 2026 and Vascular on October 11, 2026.

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