Comparison

Echo Pitch vs Robot Butter

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

Head to head
About

Echo Pitch

This app offers a multi-delay effect with pitch-shifting capabilities, allowing for harmonized sounds and ambient textures. It includes a looper, amp simulator, and reverb for creative sound design. Optimized for iOS devices with audio interface support.

Highlights
  • Pitch-shifting delays
  • 4-voice harmonizer
  • Built-in looper
  • Amp simulator
  • Reverb effect
  • Inter-delay routing
Features
Currently charting
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Echo Pitch pitch-shifting multi-delay for iPad and iPhone! Echo Pitch has 4 delays where each delayed signal can be pitched one octave up or down in 1/2 steps, and can function as a 4-voice harmonizer. Echo Pitch also has a built-in freeze loop, amp simulator and reverb. Each of the four delays can be routed into the other for incredible, swirling, ambient washes and otherworldly sounds. Echo Pitch works best with an iOS-compatible audio interface. Echo Pitch is also AUM/Audiobus compatible - as Inter-App Audio or Audio Unit. (Please note that the standalone/IAA version of Echo Pitch is now legacy. While the AU Echo Pitch has the same functionality, the pitch shifting is far superior. In addition, there are sonic differences between the Reverb, Master Delay EQ, Delay drives in the AU vs the Standalong/IAA version. But you get both updated AU and legacy IAA. Use whichever you prefer!) Brought to you by Avi Bortnick and Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas.

About

Robot Butter

This audio effect app creates dynamic soundscapes by blending animated modulation, adaptive reverb, and digital textures. It offers a fast, playable interface with direct control over key parameters and tempo-synced movement for evolving sound design.

Highlights
  • AUv3 audio effect for iPhone, iPad, and macOS
  • Animated modulation engine
  • Adaptive reverb stage
  • Tempo-synced LFO matrix
  • Digital texture effects
  • Built-in user manual
  • Factory and user presets
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Robot Butter is a creative AUv3 audio effect for compatible hosts on iOS & iPadOS. It blends animated modulation, adaptive reverb, tempo-aware movement, and digital texture into one fast, playable interface. At the core is the Robot engine, where Actuator, Viscosity, and Controller create the main motion and character of the signal. That signal then feeds Butter, an adaptive reverb stage designed to intelligently stay musical while responding to the effective movement of the Robot section. The result can move from focused width and pulse to washed ambience, strange motion, and unstable experimental color. The Chipset section extends the sound with a built-in assignable LFO matrix and a post-reverb System Bus reduction stage. Run the LFO freely in Hz or lock it to musical divisions for host-synced movement, then route it to key Robot or Butter controls for evolving motion. Add System Bus for subtle grain or push it harder for sharper, crushed digital edge. Robot Butter is designed to stay immediate. The interface gives you direct control over modulation, blend, depth, reverb shape, output mix, and motion timing without pushing you into a complicated modulation environment. A built-in user manual inside the standalone app includes overview pages, parameter explanations, quick-start guidance, glossary entries, MIDI notes, and troubleshooting help, with scrollable section pills that keep longer labels readable. Factory presets and user presets make it easy to jump from polished mix enhancement to stylized movement and aggressive sound design. Features: - Robot modulation engine with Actuator, Viscosity, Controller, and gain staging - Butter adaptive reverb with Churn, Emulsion, and Culture controls - Built-in LFO matrix with free or tempo-synced timing - Assignable LFO destinations across Robot and Butter parameters - System Bus sample-rate reduction stage for animated digital texture - Imaging modes including Mono, Wide, Ping, and Drift when stereo processing is available - Factory presets covering vocals, guitars, bass, keys, synths, drums, utility, and experimental categories - User preset save, recall, and delete support - Comprehensive built-in in-app user manual with quick-start, glossary, and troubleshooting sections - MIDI Learn, Host Learn support, and default CC mappings for hands-on control - Optional MIDI CC broadcast for compatible host-routing workflows - Host tempo sync with straight, dotted, and triplet divisions Use Robot Butter for vocal movement, guitar widening, synth pulse, drum bus animation, ambient wash design, or aggressive lo-fi modulation chains. It is built to move quickly from musical enhancement to animated destruction while keeping the workflow focused and playable.

Screenshots

Echo Pitch4 screens
Robot Butter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Echo Pitch at $4.99 against Robot Butter's $14.99. Echo Pitch also leads on chart position (#180 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Robot Butter's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 68%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Echo Pitch costs $4.99 and Robot Butter $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Echo Pitch against 5.0 for Robot Butter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Echo Pitch has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Echo Pitch's written reviews are positive against 100% of Robot Butter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Echo Pitch ships an update every 2 weeks, Robot Butter monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Echo Pitch versus Robot Butter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEcho PitchRobot Butter
Price$4.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.9 (16 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#180 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAvi BortnickChristian Thompson

Customer experience

Echo Pitch

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative21.1%

Robot Butter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Echo Pitch

No in-app purchases

None

Robot Butter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Echo Pitch free?
Echo Pitch costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Robot Butter free?
Robot Butter costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Echo Pitch or Robot Butter?
Robot Butter is rated higher. Echo Pitch averages 4.9 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Robot Butter averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Echo Pitch or Robot Butter have ads?
Neither Echo Pitch nor Robot Butter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Echo Pitch or Robot Butter?
Echo Pitch ships an update every 2 weeks, and Robot Butter monthly. Most recently, Echo Pitch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Robot Butter on October 17, 2026.

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