soundfruuze vs SKIIID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
soundfruuze
This app records and manipulates the last 10 seconds of live audio. It offers five lanes, each with unique sound manipulation effects like granular synthesis, looping, and FFT processing. Customize sound by touching lanes, controlling parameters like speed, pitch, and effects.
- Live audio recording and manipulation
- Five customizable effect lanes
- Granular synthesis and scrubbing
- FFT-based freezing and looping
- Frequency shifter, ring modulation, reverb
- Looper with adjustable speed and pitch
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'soundfruuze' is an exprerimental live sampler / looper / granular and FFT scrub effect It records live the recent 10 seconds of audio and allows you to manipulate it with special controls. The interface is divided into five “lanes”, sound is produced by touching the lanes. Each lane can be set up to use different effect and has various control parameters mapped to the touch position: Scratch Most basic lane type. You can control the volume of the resulting sound and smoothness of the position interpolation. Lesser smooth value produces the sound with more high frequencies. Speed Another basic playback type. Starts playing from the position in the sound that you selected with touch. Vertical position controls playback speed, horizontal parameter is assignable. Granular Freeze Allows you to select the sound at some position and use both horizontal and vertical coordinates of touch as 2 independent parameters. You can control volume, playback speed (pitch) and the grain size. Granular Scrub This type of lane is very similar to granular freeze but it allows to change the position of the grain after its start. Granular Stream This lane type enables granular playback with random parameters. You can randomise grain position in the selected range, speed, grain size and pan. There is special control for that type lane. The 2-dimensional slider is assignable so you can change 2 parameters for each touch independently. FFT Freeze and FFT Scrub In both FFT types of lanes another algorithm is used to process sound. In both FFT Freeze and Scrub sound is analyzed with the FFT transform and divided into frames. FFT Freeze allows you to select the frame at the desired sample position and to play it making the sound “freeze” at this point. Looper This lane type allows you to make loops / repeat large grains of sound. When you touch a looper lane, a new looper control is created and is kept there until you turn it off with the red ‘close’ button. You can change loop speed, volume, size and position for each loop individually or for all loops on one lane together using additional controls FFT Looper This type works the same way as basic Looper but allows to change playback speed while keeping the pitch. It uses FFT algorithm for playback allowing constant pitch for any playback speed and the same FFT effects (gate and phase randomisation) Each lane has also five effects: - Frequency shifter - Ring modulation - Sample-and-hold (" lo-fi") - HP/LP filter - Reverb
SKIIID
This app is a percussion synthesizer designed for live performance. It features four morphing pads where finger position controls sound parameters and velocity. Explore deep sound design with a step sequencer, auto-mutation, and chaos engine for instant sound generation.
- Four morphing percussion pads
- Real-time parameter control via touch
- 16-step sequencer per pad
- Auto-mutate sound evolution
- Chaos engine for instant sound generation
- AUv3 plugin support
- MIDI input and Ableton Link sync
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SKIIID is a percussion synthesizer built for real-time performance. Four pads. Each one is a sound sculpted by where your finger lands. Move left or right to morph between synth parameters. Move up or down to control velocity. Simple to play, deep to explore. — PADS — Four independent drum voices. Each pad morphs between parameter extremes based on X-axis position. Velocity is Y-axis. — STEP SEQUENCER — 16-step sequencer per pad. Variable step length for polyrhythms. Reverse playback, shuffle, pin and random step modes. Sync to Ableton Link or run free. — AUTO-MUTATE — Evolves your sound automatically. Individual interval and intensity per pad, synced to tempo. — CHAOS ENGINE — RANDOM, CHAOS, and MUTATE modes generate new sounds instantly. — AUv3 PLUGIN — Run SKIIID inside AUM, ApeMatrix, Audiobus, or any AUv3 host. Multiple instances work independently — different patches, different sequencers, no shared state. — MIDI — MIDI In for pad triggering. MIDI Learn for external controller mapping. Ableton Link for tempo sync. — WORKS ON — iPhone and iPad, all modern screen sizes. Landscape mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: soundfruuze at 4.8 against SKIIID's 4.4. SKIIID's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and price ($3.99 vs $6.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
soundfruuze costs $6.99 and SKIIID $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
soundfruuze holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of soundfruuze's written reviews are positive against 74% of SKIIID's.
soundfruuze ships an update fortnightly, SKIIID every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | soundfruuze | SKIIID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better | 4.4 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 73.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexey Nadzharov | Stephan Bolch |
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In-app purchases
soundfruuze
No in-app purchases
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