Plants Play vs GRFX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plants Play
Transform your plants into musical instruments. This app connects to a device that reads your plant's electrical signals and converts them into music. Customize instruments, scales, and effects to create unique plant-generated melodies and share your creations.
- Listen to plant-generated music
- Customize instruments and scales
- Real-time plant electrical activity display
- Apply audio effects
- Save and share audio/video
- Create custom presets
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Listen to the Music of your Plants. Plants Play is a pocket device that allows you to listen to the Music generated by Plants and Trees. Through two electrodes settled on the leaves, Plants Play converts electric plant variations into music notes, and send them by bluetooth on your smartphone. BUY NOW: http://www.plantsplay.com The Plants Play app, lets you easily customize the instruments, rules and effects to create music by Plants. You can listen to live or recorded music and share it on your social networks. The App shows you the electrical activity of the plant in real-time, and you can figure out when you and the Plant are connected. Features App: - Plants Activity - Over 35 Instruments - Custom Scale - Audio Fx: delay, reverb, chorus, envelope, velocity, detuning, 432/440 hz - Create new Preset - Save Audio/Video/MIDI - Share on your Social Network Music & Video
GRFX
Transform ordinary audio into unique sonic textures, evolving soundscapes, and rhythmic glitches. This app offers precise control over sound manipulation with a unique pitch controller, multiple LFOs, and a flexible multi-effect chain. Create complex and immersive audio transformations in real-time.
- Granular engine for textures and rhythms
- Harmonic Triangle pitch controller
- Multi-effect chain with probabilistic routing
- Four self-modulating LFOs
- Real-time audio sculpting
- AUv3 plugin and standalone app
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GRFX is a powerful and creative granular effects processor that turns ordinary audio into extraordinary sonic landscapes. Slice your sound into grains and reshape them into evolving textures, shimmering chords, rhythmic glitches, haunting drones, and more. At the heart of GRFX is the Harmonic Triangle – an intuitive 3-way pitch controller that lets you morph simple tones into lush pads, arpeggiated patterns, or abstract gestures. Whether you’re aiming for organic soundscapes or synchronized stutters, GRFX gives you precise control over the flow of grains and modulation. Build complexity with four self-modulating LFOs, a multi-effect chain with probabilistic routing, and an elegant drag-and-drop modulation system. Shape your sound, modulate nearly every parameter, and sculpt immersive audio transformations in real time. Key Features: - Granular engine for creating textures, rhythms, chords, glitches, drones, ambiences, and more - Harmonic Triangle for 3-way pitch control, detuning, and microtonality - Built-in Chord Selector with 32 triads for instant harmonic richness - Grain envelope shaping for plucky, smooth, or abrupt grains - Buffer size, division, sync, and freeze controls - Rhythmic synchronization for tempo-synced effects and patterns - 4 LFOs with self-modulation and drag-and-drop assignment - Modulation panel & view mode for streamlined modulation management - 2 Multi-Effect slots (Filter, Distortion, Delay, Peak EQ, Chorus, Phaser, Bitcrusher, Reverb) with probability-based routing - Dedicated Send FX with Delay and Reverb in series or parallel mode - Flexible mixer section for sculpting wet/dry balance and routing AUv3 Audio Unit plugin – requires an AUv3-compatible host app such as Logic Pro, GarageBand, AUM, or Cubasis. Standalone version included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Plants Play at Free against GRFX's $6.99. Plants Play also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). GRFX's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). 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
Plants Play is free to download; GRFX costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plants Play holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GRFX has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Plants Play ships an update every 2 months, GRFX monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plants Play | GRFX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #199 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 321 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plants Play | Imaginando Lda |
Customer experience
Plants Play
GRFX
In-app purchases
Plants Play
No in-app purchases
GRFX
No in-app purchases









