Comparison

Plants Play vs GRFX

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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.

Screenshots

Plants Play4 screens
GRFX4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plants Play ships an update every 2 months, GRFX monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Plants Play versus GRFX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlants PlayGRFX
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#199 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size321 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlants PlayImaginando Lda

Customer experience

Plants Play

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GRFX

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Plants Play

No in-app purchases

None

GRFX

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plants Play free?
Plants Play is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GRFX free?
GRFX costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plants Play or GRFX?
Plants Play is rated higher. Plants Play averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while GRFX averages 4.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Plants Play or GRFX have ads?
Neither Plants Play nor GRFX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plants Play or GRFX?
Plants Play ships an update every 2 months, and GRFX monthly. Most recently, Plants Play was updated on September 19, 2026 and GRFX on September 26, 2026.

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