touchAble Pro vs GlitchScaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
touchAble Pro
This app provides deep, customizable control over music production software, allowing users to perform and edit without a mouse. It offers waveform views, piano roll editing, and full access to device parameters, all from a mobile device.
- Audio clip view with waveforms
- Piano roll view for pattern editing
- Draw and edit clip automations
- Customizable device templates
- Access track I/O
- Control transport, clips, and scenes
- Play instruments with grid/piano layouts
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touchAble Pro makes it easy to produce and perform music in Ableton Live by putting everything you need directly at your fingertips. Eight years ago touchAble defined what a touch controller app for Live could do. touchAble Pro has been reimagined and recoded from the ground up, incorporating years of feedback from musicians at every level. touchAble Pro provides a cleaner interface, allows much more powerful customisation and gives you the deepest access possible to Ableton Live. From waveform views to editors to automations - with touchAble Pro, you now have the complete Ableton Live experience literally at your fingertips. You can perform and edit without ever touching a mouse, you can customize your experience to access exactly the controls you need to edit or play. You’ll gain complete control that’s as portable as the smartphone, tablet or laptop you’re carrying with you. - Audio clip view with waveforms, including side-by-side waveform view - Edit patterns easier and faster than ever with the new piano roll view - Draw and edit Clip-Automations - Templates for Live devices are now included at no added cost - Create your own custom Device Templates for M4L or Live Devices, VSTs & AUs - Access a tracks I/O right from the app. - Make your own Device templates, with complete support for third-party plug-ins and Max for Live (IAP - soon to come) - Build your own complete custom layouts with the overhauled Template Editor - Make performance-friendly templates that include focus on individual clips and scenes, custom controls and even full modules. - New layout options: view modules fullscreen or duplicate them side by side - For iPhone & iPad (Universal) touchAble lets you access all of Ableton Live via simple, robust connections, either wired or wireless, and provides access to nearly every aspect of the software. touchAble Pro builds on that support with an updated interface for all of the features that made touchAble popular: - Control the transport, metronome, cues, and quantization - Trigger clips and scenes and control looping - Arm, mute, and solo tracks - Adjust monitoring - Mix, pan, crossfade, and control sends and returns - Play instruments with grid or piano-style layouts, with scales, note repeat, aftertouch, and velocity (based on finger position) - Control device parameters, using faders or assignable X/Y pad modules - X/Y Pad: assign physics, make and morph snapshots or even record full gestures - Navigate Live’s Browser, and drag and drop Devices and samples Please find the Server and installation instructions on https://zerodebug.com/#/touchable Requires iOS 9.3 Requires the latest version of Ableton Live 9 or 10 Introduction: https://youtu.be/H6EnpjfztNw (Youtube) Features: https://youtu.be/R4_GRVPbDn8 (Youtube) Multiplatform demo: https://youtu.be/-NPXlJcyELY (Youtube)
GlitchScaper
Create unique glitchy patterns and soundscapes with a rhythm machine featuring six sound generators and a two-layer cycle sequencer. Explore random sequence and tone generation, advanced effects, and spatial audio processing.
- Six sound generators
- Two-layer cycle sequencer
- Random sequence and tone generation
- Advanced effects and envelopes
- Spatial audio processing
- MIDI support
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GlitchScaper is a rhythm machine with six sound generators, each controlled by a two-layer cycle sequencer, designed to easily create glitchy patterns and scapes. To quickly find new ideas, each generator has separate options for making sequences and tones. The parameters of the new sequences and tones are set randomly, but are guided by several user-defined options, which in outline define the steps of the sequence and the type of tone or noise. This allows you make a quick draft of a pattern and then simply tweak it to get the final sound. The advanced copy function gives you ability to quickly make a new preset by copying sequences and tones from existing ones. The tone generator makes bright and rich sounds based on 12 complex waveforms or various types of noise, and can also use an external input as a signal source. Effects transform the tone from smoothly varying to full of squeaks and rattles. Each effect is modulated by a special envelope generator with different shapes that change throughout the sequencer step. The sound generators have individual spatial effects, as well as a common reverb space for all generators that adds an ambient layer to the final mix. The final mix can be even brighter and heavy or pumping with the built-in harmonic exciter and bass enhancer. The intuitive interface and powerful sound design features make this application super convenient for creating your own, unique sound. GlitchScaper is great for creating simple beats with an interesting and unusual sound, but it was originally designed for digital distorted patterns with longer steps that blend perfectly with the rhythms of classic drum machines and sequencers. GlitchScaper is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). GlitchScaper works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, and supports Audiobus and Ableton Link. On MacOS, GlitchScaper can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. GlitchScaper has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. A brief overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T50WVIPUPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeF3oBoXp80 You can find more information on GlitchScaper and other experimental audio processing apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GlitchScaper at 91% against touchAble Pro's 41%. GlitchScaper also leads on price ($15.99 vs $29.99) and rating (4.8 vs 2.9). touchAble Pro's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.4). On ratings volume, 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
touchAble Pro costs $29.99 and GlitchScaper $15.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GlitchScaper holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 54 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of touchAble Pro's written reviews are positive against 91% of GlitchScaper's.
touchAble Pro ships an update weekly, GlitchScaper every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | touchAble Pro | GlitchScaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $15.99 — better |
| Rating | 2.9 (54 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppBC | Igor Vasiliev |
Customer experience
touchAble Pro
GlitchScaper
Bugs and requests
touchAble Pro
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on startup or during use
- Connection drops after wake-up requiring force quit
- Server software download links return 404 errors
- Version mismatch between iPad app and Mac/Windows server
- Clip recording glitches (records only one bar, records indefinitely)
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- Clip triggering delays and quantization issues
- Undo history pollution from slider interactions
- Waveform not loading in Simpler plugin
- Repeat/hold function glitches causing endless playback
- Freezing when using sliders
- App crashes when enabling arm button in keyboard section
- Detached track headers in clip view when scrolling
- Incompatibility with Ableton Live 11.3+ and Live 12
- Server executable flagged as malicious by Windows security
- MIDI not registering from iPad to Ableton
- Laggy piano roll and automation recording
Requested features
8 requests- Larger Scenes Launch button with adjustable size
- Arrangement view option
- Customizable UI color scheme for outdoor/bright environments
- Light mode theme option
- Chord mode functionality
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- Automatic version synchronization between app and server
- Better font size and label visibility for device controls
- Improved X/Y pad mirroring in split-screen mode
GlitchScaper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
touchAble Pro
No in-app purchases
GlitchScaper
No in-app purchases









