Enso Looper vs UltraTap Delay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Enso Looper
This real-time audio looper plugin offers a unique and characterful toolkit for producers and live performers. It combines intuitive design with deep features for creating layered grooves, complex textures, and evolving soundscapes. Advanced controls allow for independent speed and direction manipulation, tape-style effects, and MIDI integration.
- Real-time audio looping
- Overdub modes (conventional and dual tape)
- Up to four definable Sectors
- Independent speed and direction control
- Onboard tape-style saturation, filtering, and chorus
- Comprehensive MIDI assignment system
- Animated waveform display
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Enso is a looper. Not a phrase sampler, not a beat slicer: a real looper, built in the image of the pedal loopers and reel-to-reel tape systems that defined the form, then extended well past what hardware can do. Press one button and it records; press it again and you are looping. Up to five minutes of stereo audio, host-synced or free-running. The play and record heads are completely decoupled, each with its own through-zero speed control from -4x to +4x. Play backwards at half speed while overdubbing forwards at double, and things get strange in the best way. Four sectors give you separate loop regions to crossfade between and overdub within, and a built-in effects section (tape-style saturation and hiss, filters, and chorus) can sit in the feedback path so your loop ages like tape with every pass. Enso runs as an AUv3 plugin in your favorite host, and includes a standalone mode for sketching. FEATURES - Full automatic looping engine: simple to learn, exceedingly powerful, with one-button looping control, both host-synced and free time. - Independent play and record heads: through-zero speed from -4x to +4x on each, with selectable increment and decrement values. - Dub In Place: work like a traditional digital looper, or like a tape looper with the effects and speed changes in the feedback path. - Sector crossfading: define four start and end points, crossfade between them, and overdub or re-record within them. - Effects section: tape-style saturation and hiss, high- and low-pass filters, and a stereo chorus. - MIDI Slice mode: play your loop from a MIDI controller, automatically sliced into 4 to 16 equal pieces. - Full MIDI CC implementation: an assignable MIDI CC page covers most of the looping engine, tuned for foot control. - Auto RTZ: automatically return to zero at a chosen interval to keep loose material in sync. - Cross-platform preset format: XML presets that can store the buffer, compatible with the desktop version of Enso. No subscriptions and no nonsense. Buy it once and it is yours, with free updates. Enso is also available for Mac, Windows, and Linux at audiodamage.com.
UltraTap Delay
Create rhythmic delays, glitchy reverbs, and evolving soundscapes with up to 64 taps. This app offers unique controls for shaping sound, including LFOs, envelopes, and a "Slurm" control for smearing and modulation. Explore over 150 inspiring presets and innovative performance features.
- Up to 64 taps for complex delays
- Spread knob for rhythmic spacing
- LFOs and envelopes for stutter effects
- Slurm control for unique modulation
- Stereo image control
- Over 150 presets
- Ribbon and Hotswitch controls
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UltraTap is a unique multi-tap effect capable of rhythmic delays, glitchy reverbs, huge pad-like volume swells and extraordinary modulation. It’s the perfect tool for creating drum fills, vocal choruses, swelling guitar chords and other evolving effects — everything from reversed reverbs to a massed church choir singing a Gregorian chant in Notre-Dame Cathedral. Features: - Use up to 64 taps to create simple repeats or morph delays into choruses and reverbs. - Speed up or slow down the rhythmic spacing between taps using the Spread knob. - Use the onboard LFOs and envelopes to chop the sound source into stuttered rhythms. - Use the innovative "Slurm" control to smear taps together or modulate them to create truly unique reverbs. - Control the stereo image of taps to alternate between hard-panned and mono. - Over 150 presets designed to inspire; including artist presets by Chris Carter, Colin Newman, Sasha and many more. - Innovative Ribbon and Hotswitch allow for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously. - Use Mix Lock to scroll through presets while keeping the wet-dry mix constant. - Available as an Audio Units AUv3 plug-in and Standalone App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: UltraTap Delay at 88% against Enso Looper's 49%. UltraTap Delay also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Enso Looper's advantage is price ($7.99 vs $14.99). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Enso Looper costs $7.99 and UltraTap Delay $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UltraTap Delay holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Enso Looper's written reviews are positive against 88% of UltraTap Delay's.
Enso Looper ships an update every 3 months, UltraTap Delay every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Enso Looper | UltraTap Delay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (22 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.5% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Audio Damage, Inc. | Eventide |
Customer experience
Enso Looper
UltraTap Delay
Bugs and requests
Enso Looper
Reported bugs
15 issues- Hit record and it won't record
- Audio popping/clicking when switching sectors or playback modes
- Timing is off after playing a while when reopening sessions
- Crashes before saving, losing all work
- Crashes when trying to control via MIDI
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- Stopped loading/functioning
- Does not connect to GarageBand
- Does not go past initial message screen
- Does not register as an audio unit extension in GarageBand
- Does not show up in GarageBand's 'External' app list
- Does not show up in DAWs (AUM, Beatmaker, Auria)
- Buttons do not work (cannot activate recording/playback)
- Loop still plays even when channel fader is down
- Instance crashes when routing audio to AudioShare
- Loses all ENSO instances in a project when one crashes
Requested features
13 requests- Fix recording issues
- Fix audio popping/clicking
- Implement Undo/Redo functionality
- Improve stability and fix crashes
- Respond to tech support queries
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- Make a standalone version
- Add threshold auto-start
- Render loops as uncompressed audio files
- Allow loading pre-existing loops
- Save INIT setups for automatic loading
- Add MIDI version
- Add an Undo button as a failsafe
- Improve color coding or button size
UltraTap Delay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Enso Looper
No in-app purchases
UltraTap Delay
No in-app purchases









