Cality vs ab PitchPad X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Rhythmic enhancement
- Controlled chaos
- Pitch quantization
- Probability gate
- Cloud module for additional notes
- Midi controllable note quantizer
- Swing and accents
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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.
ab PitchPad X
This audio effect app allows for dimensional pitch shifting of stereo signals. Users can independently control pitch for left, right, or mid poles, with musical or free octave adjustments. A viscosity control offers smooth pitch manipulation.
- Stereo-only pitch shifting
- Independent dimensional pole control (Left, Right, Mid)
- Musical (semitone) and free octave pitch control
- Viscosity control for smooth manipulation
- AUv3 plugin compatibility
- Compatible with AUv3 hosts like Garageband
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'ab PitchPad X' for iOS is a 'Light', stereo-only version of 'ab PitchPad' (part of 'ab PitchShifter'), an immersive Pitch Shifter designed for bending the pitch of an audio signal at dimensional levels. With 'ab PitchPad X', the pitch of a signal can be controlled whole, or per dimensional level: Control the Left, Right, or Mid dimensional pole independently for unique results! The pitch can be controlled musically (per semitones) or freely: From -2 Octaves all the way to +2 Octaves. A Viscosity control is also included to control the smoothness at which the pitch is manipulated. 'ab PitchPad X' comes as an AUv3 Plugin and is compatible with any iOS host that supports AUv3 (e.g. Garageband).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cality at every 4 weeks against ab PitchPad X's every 13 months. Cality also leads on price ($6.99 vs $9.99). ab PitchPad X's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On rating, 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
Cality costs $6.99 and ab PitchPad X $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Cality against 4.4 for ab PitchPad X. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Cality's written reviews are positive against 75% of ab PitchPad X's.
Cality ships an update every 4 weeks, ab PitchPad X every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cality | ab PitchPad X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pagefall limited | Alejandro Cabrera Zuniga |
Customer experience
Cality
ab PitchPad X
In-app purchases
Cality
No in-app purchases
ab PitchPad X
No in-app purchases









