Comparison

Cality vs Beef

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

Head to head
About

Cality

This app is a creative MIDI processor that allows for rhythmic enhancement, controlled chaos, and the addition of new textures. It offers features like pitch quantization, probability gates, and a cloud module for generating additional notes.

Highlights
  • Rhythmic enhancement
  • Controlled chaos
  • Pitch quantization
  • Probability gate
  • Cloud module for additional notes
  • Midi controllable note quantizer
  • Swing and accents
Features
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Cality is a creative midi processor allowing subtle rhythmic enhancement, controlled chaos and everything in between. Add swing or accents, quantise the pitch of notes, use a probability gate or use the cloud module to add addition notes all under midi control The cloud section takes techniques common in granular synthesis and brings them to the realm of midi notes. It adds additional notes to the ones you are playing. This can be a simple rhythmic accompaniment or it can bring new textures from your synths by generating a cloud of tiny notes almost entering the realms of black midi. The note sections gives a fully automatable/midi controllable note quantiser with a range of scales, a transposer and the ability to constrain to simple chords as well The tempo section allows the addition of swing and accents to incoming midi notes as well as providing a probability gate Cality is great for bringing life to simple midi loops or patterns or for taking you deep into creative realms.

About

Beef

This audio plugin offers a versatile multi-effect processor designed to enhance the sound of your tracks, particularly for basses and drums. It provides a user-friendly interface with numerous presets to quickly achieve powerful and massive audio.

Highlights
  • Multi-effect audio processing
  • Create powerful bass and drum sounds
  • Enhance any audio source
  • User-friendly interface
  • Preset Mode for quick sound selection
  • 124 built-in presets
  • Artist presets from content creators
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Beef is a multi-effect audio plugin with a sole purpose, to make your tracks sound BEEFY. It brings all the effects you need to create powerful sounds into one efficient and easy to use window. Beef was originally built to focus on creating the fattest basses and drums as possible. If you’re tired of folder-diving through 808 samples and want to sculpt your own hard-hitting basses with ease, then look no further. Beyond its original aim, Beef will make anything sound massive, even the most feeble audio. From guitars to vocals and from synths to foley, flex your proverbial biceps and BEEF THEM UP. Tweaking parameters not your thing? You just want a great and immediate sound? Enjoy beef’s built-in ‘Preset Mode’ which removes everything except the mix control for ease of trying presets. When in this mode, the mix control will not change so that you can find and compare your perfect sound from our selection of 124 presets. 85 of these are artist presets from some of our favourite content creators and friends; Ali Ahmet, Ave Mcree, Gavinski’s Tutorials, Jamie Mallender, Nu-Trix The Synth Guy, The GarageBand Guide, The REAPER blog & Venus Theory. Beef is designed as an AUv3 plugin, meaning it works within iOS and iPadOS hosts such as GarageBand, Cubasis 3, AUM and Beatmaker 3.

Screenshots

Cality4 screens
Beef2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cality at every 4 weeks against Beef's every 4 months. Cality also leads on price ($6.99 vs $7.99). Beef's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Cality costs $6.99 and Beef $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beef holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Cality's written reviews are positive against 70% of Beef's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cality ships an update every 4 weeks, Beef every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cality versus Beef: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalityBeef
Price$6.99 — better$7.99
Rating4.4 (17 ratings)4.6 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews70.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1722 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPagefall limitedCaelum Audio Ltd

Customer experience

Cality

All ratings17 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral17.6%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative8.3%

Beef

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cality

No in-app purchases

None

Beef

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cality free?
Cality costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beef free?
Beef costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cality or Beef?
Beef is rated higher. Cality averages 4.4 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Beef averages 4.6 from 22 ratings.
Do Cality or Beef have ads?
Neither Cality nor Beef shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cality or Beef?
Cality ships an update every 4 weeks, and Beef every 4 months. Most recently, Cality was updated on October 2, 2026 and Beef on October 8, 2026.

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