Cortex Cloud vs EarWorm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cortex Cloud
Manage your Nano Cortex and access cloud-based content with an elegant interface. Browse and download presets, neural captures, and more. Control your device's profile and privacy settings.
- Control Nano Cortex
- Access Cortex Cloud
- Browse users and presets
- Download content
- Manage profile and privacy
- Share content
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Control your Nano Cortex and access Cortex Cloud through an intuitive and elegant interface. Browse users, Presets, Neural Captures, and more. Download items to have them display instantly on your device. You can also manage your profile and change the privacy settings for any files you have uploaded to Cortex Cloud. Benefits: Access deeper customization options for your Nano Cortex. Seamlessly download Presets, Neural Captures, and other items to your Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex. Manage your profile and the items you have uploaded to Cortex Cloud. Discover and follow users. Share Presets and Neural Captures with your friends. Cortex Cloud requires a free Neural DSP account and a registered Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex. Cortex Cloud is not required to use the Quad Cortex or Nano Cortex but provides deeper customization options for the Nano Cortex.
EarWorm
Turn your favorite songs into a fun messaging game. Challenge friends to identify song clips before they run out of guesses. The game builds pressure with each attempt, sending results back to your chat thread.
- Create song clip challenges
- Challenge friends within messages
- Guess song titles
- Progressive clip reveals
- Real-time results sharing
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EarWorm turns your favorite songs into a game you play right inside Messages. Pick a track, and EarWorm sends your friend a short audio clip challenge. They have to name the song before they run out of guesses. Every wrong guess or skip unlocks a longer piece of the clip, so the pressure builds with every attempt. Once your friend finishes, their result gets sent right back to you in the thread
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EarWorm at 5.0 against Cortex Cloud's 3.4. EarWorm also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). Cortex Cloud's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EarWorm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cortex Cloud has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cortex Cloud ships an update every 6 weeks, EarWorm every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cortex Cloud | EarWorm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Neural DSP | Brady Phelps |
In-app purchases
Cortex Cloud
No in-app purchases
EarWorm
No in-app purchases
