Riffer vs Autony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riffer
This app generates random MIDI patterns and melodies for synths, samplers, and drum machines. Explore scales, complexity, and playback options to create unique musical ideas. Save your favorite riffs and use Infinity mode for endless generation.
- Random pattern and melody generation
- Supports software and hardware MIDI devices
- Customizable scales, complexity, and steps
- Playback motion and transpose controls
- Infinity mode for endless generation
- MIDI output over WiFi or cable
- Ableton Link sync
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Riffer is a creative MIDI sequencer that generates random patterns and melodies for you. Designed to feed any Synth, Sampler, Drum Machine and anything that accepts MIDI signal both software and hardware. You can choose scales, complexity, steps, start and end points, playback motion, set pitch, transpose, measures and many more. Generate fresh ideas, sequences, melodies, riffs and musical patterns. Turn them into something of your own, or let it run endlessly using the Infinity mode. Riffer is built both for studio and live performance. The app includes a huge variety of scales, from western to eastern and you can save your favorite Riffs for quick access. Featuring MIDI output support over WiFi or MIDI cable. Riffer also supports Ableton Link for tight sync between apps on the same network.
Autony
This app generates evolving musical sequences using a MIDI signal. It can be constrained to scales and chords, transposed, and mutated for dynamic musical output. All controls are MIDI-automatable and it requires a host app to function.
- Generates evolving musical sequences
- MIDI output for synths and hardware
- Constrain sequences to scales and chords
- On-the-fly transposition
- Sequence mutation for dynamic evolution
- MIDI automation of all controls
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AUv3 Midi sequence generator which generates musical evolving sequences that you can further automate or modulate via midi. A clever algorithm creates a musical sequence which is output as a midi signal which can be used to drive a software synthesiser or a hardware device. Various settings allow the sequence to be constrained to scales and chords, transposed on the fly and also allowed to gently mutate giving an evolving sequence. All the controls can be modulated or automated via midi. Needs a AU host like AUM and generates no sound on its own. "My solution has been to make the equipment unreliable in various ways." - Brian Eno
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Autony at every 5 days against Riffer's every 6 weeks. Autony also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and price ($3.99 vs $9.99). Riffer's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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
Riffer costs $9.99 and Autony $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Autony holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 87 and 40 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Riffer's written reviews are positive against 61% of Autony's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Riffer ships an update every 6 weeks, Autony every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Riffer | Autony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (87 ratings) | 4.5 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews — better | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AUDIOMODERN | Pagefall limited |
Customer experience
Riffer
Autony
In-app purchases
Riffer
No in-app purchases
Autony
No in-app purchases
