Blackhole Reverb vs Phonolyth Cascade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackhole Reverb
This app creates expansive, otherworldly reverb effects for music production. It allows for the creation of impossible virtual spaces with unique controls for abstract sounds and angelic sheen. Ideal for guitars, vocals, pads, and drums.
- Create impossible virtual spaces
- Soft attack and lingering harmonic tails
- Supernatural settings for abstract effects
- Subtle settings for ambient washes
- Unique 'Gravity' control reverses decay
- Innovative Ribbon and Hotswitch controls
- Flexible mono and stereo options
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Create out of this world ambiance with Blackhole, a reverb effect as big as the cosmos. Blackhole breaks the rules by allowing you to create virtual spaces that could never exist in reality. At large sizes, its soft attack and lingering, harmonic tails allow it to really shine on guitars, strings, vocals and pads. At small sizes those very same qualities can add an angelic sheen to vocals or turn a simple drum track into an otherworldly rhythm section. Features: - Incredibly easy to use with over 80 presets; many created by Eventide artists. - Ability to create extremely musical effects useful for highlighting key instruments. - Supernatural settings for abstract spatial effects and drones. - Subtle settings for ambient washes and track highlighting. - Unique “Gravity” control reverses the arrow of time by inverting the reverb's decay. - Innovative Ribbon and Hotswitch allow for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously. - Fully flexible mono and stereo options. Bring new realms of stereo imaging to mono instruments. - Mixlock allows for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant. - Available as an Audio Units AUv3 plug-in and Standalone App.
Phonolyth Cascade
This app offers a versatile reverb and diffusion processor with an experimental edge. It allows for the creation of expansive modulated spaces, stereo widening, and hybrid delay/reverb effects. Explore unique sonic territories with a wide range of controls and randomized modulation.
- Expansive modulated supernatural spaces
- Stereo widening and transient smearing
- Hybrid delay/reverb effects
- Chorus, flanger, and resonator-like effects
- Randomized modulation
- Infinity and Freeze buttons
- Mix Lock for preset switching
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Cascade is a versatile reverb and diffusion processor with an experimental edge. Designed first and foremost with expansive modulated supernatural spaces in mind, it features an extensive set of controls to explore other sonic territories such as stereo widening, transient smearing, hybrid delay/reverb and chorus/flanger/resonator-like effects. Features: - Wide range of diffusion textures spanning from subtle smearing and widening to otherworldly reverberation - Lush randomized modulation - Infinity and Freeze buttons for never-ending reverb bliss - Mix Lock for switching presets while keeping the dry/wet mix constant - Freely resizable UI with light and dark color schemes - Cross-platform preset format for sharing across plugin formats and OSes - 30 factory presets to get you started - Includes an AudioUnit v3 plugin for use in host apps such as GarageBand and AUM, and a standalone app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Phonolyth Cascade at $7.99 against Blackhole Reverb's $19.99. Phonolyth Cascade also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Blackhole Reverb's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Blackhole Reverb costs $19.99 and Phonolyth Cascade $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Phonolyth Cascade holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Blackhole Reverb's written reviews are positive against 100% of Phonolyth Cascade's.
Blackhole Reverb ships an update every 2 months, Phonolyth Cascade every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackhole Reverb | Phonolyth Cascade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $7.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (56 ratings) | 4.9 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eventide | Yuri Turov |
Customer experience
Blackhole Reverb
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In-app purchases
Blackhole Reverb
No in-app purchases
Phonolyth Cascade
No in-app purchases
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