Comparison

Mozaic Plugin Workshop vs Fauve

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

Head to head
About

Mozaic Plugin Workshop

Design and build your own custom MIDI plugins for music production. This tool offers a simple yet powerful scripting language and pre-built components to create filters, sequencers, and generative music tools. It integrates with AUv3 MIDI hosts for seamless workflow.

Highlights
  • Custom MIDI plugin creation
  • Easy-to-learn scripting language
  • Generative music tools
  • MIDI filters and sequencers
  • AUv3 support
  • Tilt sensor integration
  • Built-in script editor
Features
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Create your own MIDI plugins: MIDI filters, generative music tools, basic sequencers, MIDI control panels, chaos experiments... Let your imagination take you places. Mozaic runs inside your favorite AU MIDI host, and gives you practical building blocks such as LFOs, pre-fab GUI layouts, musical scales, AUv3 support (with AU Parameters, transport events, tempo syncing, etc.), random generators and a super-simple yet powerful script language. Mozaic even offers quick access to your device’s Tilt Sensors for expressive interaction concepts! The Mozaic Script language is designed from the ground up to be the easiest and most flexible MIDI language on iOS. A language by creatives, for creatives. You’ll only need to write a few lines of script to achieve impressive things - or to create that uber-specific thing that was missing from your MIDI setup. Check out the Programming Manual on Ruismaker.com to learn about the script language and to get inspiration for awesome scripts of your own. Mozaic comes with a sizable collection of tutorials and pre-made scripts which you can use out of the box, or which can be a starting point for your own plugin adventures. Features in a nutshell: - Easy to learn Mozaic Script language: easy to learn, easy to read - Sample-accurate-everything: the tightest MIDI timing possible - Built-in script editor with code-completion, syntax hints, etc. - 5 immediately usable GUI layouts, with knobs, sliders, pads, etc. - In-depth, helpful programming manual available on Ruismaker.com - Easy access to LFOs, scales, MIDI I/O, AU parameters, timers - Supports Sysex, with built-in checksum calculations - AUv3; so you'll get multi-instance, state-saving, tempo sync and resource efficiency out of the box Mozaic opens up the world of creative MIDI plugins to anyone willing to put in a few hours and a hot beverage or two. Practical notes: - Mozaic requires a plugin host with support for AUv3 MIDI plugins (AUM, ApeMatrix, Cubasis, Auria, Audiobus 3, etc.) - The standalone mode of Mozaic lets you edit, test and export projects, but for MIDI connections you need to run it inside an AUv3 MIDI host - MIDI is not sound; Mozaic on its own does not make noise... so bring your own synths, drum machines and other instruments! - AUv3 MIDI requires iOS11 or higher

About

Fauve

This audio processor captures and reinterprets sonic fragments, introducing intentional glitches, distortions, and variations. It allows users to reshape sounds, creating unique soundscapes that blend memory and reality.

Highlights
  • Records and breaks down incoming audio into fragments
  • Introduces intentional glitches, distortions, and memory errors
  • Allows shaping playback with sampling/slicing parameters
  • Sculpts amplitude through 'Absence' parameter
  • Blurs reality with 'Mirage' parameter for dream-like effects
  • Lock parameters to preserve settings while browsing presets
  • In-GUI information for parameter details
Features
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Fauve is an audio processor that collects sonic fragments and replays them, not always faithfully. It forgets, distorts, and glitches into new meanings.  Like the hallucination of a broken machine. A fractured memory, yours to reshape. "Fauve is a perfect cure for sound-alike effects. It really is distinct from other buffer/glitch and granular tools. And it strikes an ideal balance between predictability and weirdness, between polished controls you can learn and master and unexpected combinations that surprise you." Peter Kirn – CDM By continuously recording incoming audio, Fauve analyzes and breaks sound into small units we call collections. When playing them back, it sometimes fails, opening space for the user to edit and shape the material according to their own sonic vision. Fauve can be a harsh distortion, a gentle shadow, a paroxysmal dance between reality and dream, and much more. It can slightly scramble your sound, completely strip it of its original meaning, or introduce subtle, almost imperceptible variations to make it richer, yet always organic. Fauve disrupts, but never destroys. REMEMBER / FORGET Fauve listens and remembers — but it may forget to capture the present, getting stuck in the past. It blends memory and reality, shaping a soundscape as if it were truly what it just heard. BEHOLD THE HALLUCINATION Beyond the native errors of its faulty replicatory nature, Fauve opens space for your design: you can shape the playback of fragments using classic sampling/slicing parameters like Disorder, Repeat, Freeze, and playhead rate. SHAPING THROUGH ABSENCE Sculpts amplitude in two distinct ways through Absence: turn left to assign a random value to each fragment for more organic results, or turn right to introduce audio drops, adding uncertainty, or even reaching distortion wilderness on shorter fragments. BEYOND BALANCE: ENTER THE MIRAGE Let Fauve blur reality with its dream using the Mirage parameter. Shape the balance, focus it across the stereo field, and control amplitude for both source and processed sound. LOCK PARAMETERS Enable lock toggle to preserve key parameters values while browsing presets. IN-GUI INFOS Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter. Fauve is a totem/series plugin, and like all totems, it follows its own logic. Timing in Fauve doesn’t rely on beats or note values — it’s driven by the material itself. Every operation is triggered by zero crossings, making the outcome deeply dependent on the source. Same settings, radically different results.

Screenshots

Mozaic Plugin Workshop4 screens
Fauve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mozaic Plugin Workshop at $1.99 against Fauve's $7.99. Mozaic Plugin Workshop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (95% vs 75%). Fauve's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 12.4). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Mozaic Plugin Workshop costs $1.99 and Fauve $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mozaic Plugin Workshop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Mozaic Plugin Workshop's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fauve's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mozaic Plugin Workshop versus Fauve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMozaic Plugin WorkshopFauve
Price$1.99 — better$7.99
Rating5.0 (81 ratings) — better4.7 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews94.6% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings81 — better18
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.49.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBram BosK-Devices

Customer experience

Mozaic Plugin Workshop

All ratings81 ratings
Positive98.8%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive94.6%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.7%

Fauve

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mozaic Plugin Workshop

No in-app purchases

None

Fauve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mozaic Plugin Workshop free?
Mozaic Plugin Workshop costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fauve free?
Fauve costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mozaic Plugin Workshop or Fauve?
Mozaic Plugin Workshop is rated higher. Mozaic Plugin Workshop averages 5.0 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Fauve averages 4.7 from 18 ratings.
Do Mozaic Plugin Workshop or Fauve have ads?
Neither Mozaic Plugin Workshop nor Fauve shows ads.

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