Comparison

Year One vs Eternal Flow Dub

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

Head to head
About

Year One

Experience music in a new dimension with augmented reality. Move around your space to uncover hidden sounds, build melodies, and create unique listening experiences by interacting with spatial audio arrangements.

Highlights
  • Spatial album listening
  • Augmented reality soundscapes
  • Interactive music exploration
  • Build melodies and chords
  • Dynamic audio effects
  • Create unique listening experiences
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Hear different lyrics in the corners of your room; build melodies as you walk around your couch; hear hidden parts and build your own chords just by walking through the space around you. Year One is the first spatial album, utilizing the possibilities of augmented reality technology, by D.C. group and label TCW. Upon launching the Year One app, the different sounds and instruments of the songs will populate and begin moving through the space around you. Your movement, tracked by your smartphone, will affect which sounds you hear and change how individual effects are applied to them, making for a different listening experience each time. This final release of the album contains all eight spatial arrangements from TCW, Wall of Trophies, and N.E. Hertzberg. TCW has released a how-to guide for any musician to build their own similar app independently. Alongside the guide, TCW has begun cataloging spatial composition techniques for other musicians to use and contribute to. This guide and techniques can all be found on tcwav.com. TCW released their first spatial album, Inauguration, in early 2017 using smartphone GPS positional tracking, and released a similar guide for building spatial applications. Contact the group at tcw@tcwav.com Headphones required for proper audio spatialization.

About

Eternal Flow Dub

This app generates endless dub techno music directly on your device. Enjoy a unique "live" mix experience that works offline, with features to control track changes, loop freezing, and instrument muting.

Highlights
  • Endless dub techno music generation
  • Offline playback
  • Automatic track changes
  • Loop freezing
  • Instrument muting
  • Track delay
Features
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If you like dub techno music, you can turn your phone into endless dub techno "mix" or "live" generator. Just turn it on, press Start and listen as a usual player, but music will never end. Main theme or "track" will change in every 3-4 minutes automatically. All music is created right on your phone so it can work offline without internet connection. - To switch to next track tap Reset button. - To record/stop recording created music tap R icon. - If you like current loop and want to listen to it for a long time, press snowflake icon - loop will freeze and instruments and patterns will not change until you tap snowflake again. - If you want to postpone next track's start tap on plus icon and current track's time will be increased by 64 bars. - Also it has "mute" feature - tap on gear icon and you can disable chosen instruments and use app as a chord generator, for example.

Screenshots

Year One4 screens
Eternal Flow Dub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Eternal Flow Dub at 100% against Year One's 0%. Eternal Flow Dub also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). Year One's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Year One is free to download; Eternal Flow Dub costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eternal Flow Dub holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Year One's written reviews are positive against 100% of Eternal Flow Dub's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Year One ships an update every 7 months, Eternal Flow Dub every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Year One versus Eternal Flow Dub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYear OneEternal Flow Dub
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.010.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size407 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTCWPetr Serkin

Customer experience

Year One

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Eternal Flow Dub

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Year One

No in-app purchases

None

Eternal Flow Dub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Year One free?
Year One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eternal Flow Dub free?
Eternal Flow Dub costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Year One or Eternal Flow Dub?
Eternal Flow Dub is rated higher. Year One averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Eternal Flow Dub averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Year One or Eternal Flow Dub have ads?
Neither Year One nor Eternal Flow Dub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Year One or Eternal Flow Dub?
Year One ships an update every 7 months, and Eternal Flow Dub every 3 months. Most recently, Year One was updated on October 22, 2026 and Eternal Flow Dub on October 29, 2026.

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