Comparison

MangledVerb vs Magma

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

Head to head
About

MangledVerb

This audio effect app blends rich reverb with intense distortion to create a wide range of sounds, from ambient textures to chaotic mangled audio. It offers extensive controls for shaping instruments and vocals, with features optimized for live performance.

Highlights
  • Rich reverb and devastating distortion
  • Create ambient soundscapes or mangled chaos
  • Smooth clipping to hard-ripping overdrive
  • Wobble control for spooky effects
  • The Ribbon for live parameter manipulation
  • Hotswitch for instant parameter changes
  • Flexible I/O options (Mono/Stereo)
  • MIDI control and Tap Tempo for live use
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MangledVerb is a unique effect combining a rich reverb with devastating distortion. It’s capable of creating everything from granular ambience and moody auras to sound-sculpting mangled chaos. Transform your instruments and vocals with this classic Eventide effect. Features: - Create out-of-this world-soundscapes by turning up Size and Overdrive. - Smoothly morph from soft-clipping to hard-ripping overdrive. - Use the Wobble control to create spookiness. - Use The Ribbon control to easily manipulate multiple parameters in a live situation. - Program the Hotswitch to instantly change multiple parameters at once. - Flexible I/O: Mono-In/Mono-Out, Mono-In/Stereo-Out or Stereo-In/Stereo-Out. - Optimized for live use with MIDI control of The Ribbon and Tap Tempo for quick meta-control on the fly. - Use Mixlock to scroll through presets while keeping the wet-dry mix constant. - Available as an Audio Units AUv3 plug-in and Standalone App.

About

Magma

This audio processing tool manipulates incoming sound by blending it with its past, creating unique textures from drones to ethereal timbres. It acts as a micro-looper, granular engine, sustainer, and sound warmer, allowing for extensive sound sculpting.

Highlights
  • Time-based audio blending
  • Micro-looper and granular engine
  • Sustainer and sound warmer
  • EQ and Mid/Side sculpting
  • Distortion and amplitude modulation
  • Freeze toggle for infinite sustain
Features
Currently charting
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Magma is an audio processor that grabs incoming audio and twists its presence throughout time, blends it with its past self, unravels its most recondite shades and controls its weight in space, creating everything in between dark drones, shimmery textures and weird percussive timbres. At the very crossroad between a micro-looper, a granular engine, a sustainer, and a sound warmer, Magma can squash your sounds with reverb-like, big shaking auras, or sprinkle air and make your lines ethereal. Simply load Magma on your track and give your sounds a new identity. Magma is a sound processor with its very own character. Magic when paired with acoustic sounds, it can transfigure all kind of sources in unexpected ways: it will react differently, according to the input you feed it with. It can either magnify or disintegrate. Magma can be molten lead, screaming metal, frozen wind. You will handle Magma with care, paying attention on how each parameter acts, according to different contexts. Magma will carry your sound around unexplored territories. HOW IT WORKS Magma continuously records the incoming signal in a short buffer, it then plays back the content by blending different moments in time, creating a texture. User can set the density and the persistence of the texture, that can sound as a reverb, an infinite sustain, or a sort of spectral shadow. Several parameters let user sculpt the texture: an EQ section, a Temperature knob (a specifically designed distortion adds a noise-based amplitude modulation on higher values), and a Mid/Side knob to handle its weight in space. GO RAW OR KEEP IT SMOOTH /// The RAW switch disables an envelope follower applied to the input by default. Set it ON for a sharpen sound, or OFF for a smooth texture. MEMORIES AND FROZEN TIME /// Choose how much persitent memories should be, and let Magma blend past with present; enable the freeze toggle for an organic infinite sustain. SPEED /// Set the playback speed of memories to harmonize the present with perfect and odd intervals. SCULPT /// Use the intuitive EQ section to boost/cut hi and low frequencies and get the perfect timbre for your texture. WEIGHT /// We included a classic Mid/Side operator; you’ll love how it can sculpt the texture, giving weight or adding air to it! IN-GUI INFOS /// Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter. 2 FLAVOURS /// Dark and light skin. *** Please note: Magma is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app like AUM, Drambo, Cubasis, etc... ***

Screenshots

MangledVerb3 screens
Magma3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Magma at 80% against MangledVerb's 0%. Magma also leads on price ($3.99 vs $14.99) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). MangledVerb's advantage is update cadence (every 14 months vs every 45 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MangledVerb costs $14.99 and Magma $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magma holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of MangledVerb's written reviews are positive against 80% of Magma's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MangledVerb ships an update every 14 months, Magma every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
MangledVerb versus Magma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMangledVerbMagma
Price$14.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.6 (18 ratings)4.9 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 14 months — betterEvery 45 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#192 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEventideK-Devices

Customer experience

MangledVerb

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Magma

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

MangledVerb

No in-app purchases

None

Magma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MangledVerb free?
MangledVerb costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magma free?
Magma costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MangledVerb or Magma?
Magma is rated higher. MangledVerb averages 4.6 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Magma averages 4.9 from 16 ratings.
Do MangledVerb or Magma have ads?
Neither MangledVerb nor Magma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MangledVerb or Magma?
MangledVerb ships an update every 14 months, and Magma every 45 months. Most recently, MangledVerb was updated on November 11, 2026 and Magma on November 7, 2026.

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