Comparison

AudioTheory Guitars vs DynaBit

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

Head to head
About

AudioTheory Guitars

This app serves as a comprehensive reference for guitarists, offering interactive chord and fretboard diagrams. It simplifies music theory by allowing seamless transcription between piano and guitar, with customizable tuning and note exclusion features.

Highlights
  • Interactive chord and fretboard diagrams
  • Piano to guitar transcription
  • Customizable tuning and capo settings
  • Chord sheet playback
  • Note exclusion for playing in key
  • Left-handed mode
Features
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AudioTheory Guitars is the ultimate reference tool for guitar notes and chords. Featuring a built-in keyboard, each note reacts to your input across the customisable chord and fretboard diagrams. For anyone who's ever wished music theory was that little bit more straightforward – this is the software you need. Features: –Seamlessly transcribe between piano and guitar using a straight-forward colour coding system and notation highlighting. Play a note on the keyboard, or directly from the chord and fretboard diagrams to see where it is across all formats. –Set your tuning and capo. Everything else adjusts accordingly – no need for a chord transposition chart. –Choose your chords with open, power, barre, sus2 and dim7 chord sheets with fullscreen diagrams and playback options. –Exclude notes and never play out of key again. Your fretboard diagram now only shows the notes you need and your keyboard doesn't play the ones you don't. –Full customisation. Select the chords you want. Left-handed mode for left-handed players. Set your fretboard size, number of strings, start fret and per-string tuning.

About

DynaBit

Create a wide range of bitcrushed audio textures, from subtle enhancements to extreme digital distortion. Animate tracks with dynamic chopping and expressive modulations using advanced controls and a powerful modulation matrix. Designed as an AUv3 plugin for iOS and iPadOS music production hosts.

Highlights
  • Bitcrushed audio texture creation
  • Dynamic audio-chopping and modulation
  • Low-Pass, Band-Pass, High-Pass filtering
  • Sample rate and resolution control
  • Envelope shaping and repetition effects
  • Modulation matrix with LFOs, Sequencers, Envelope Followers
  • AUv3 plugin for iOS/iPadOS hosts
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•Create rich, energetic and detailed bitcrushed textures. •Explore a wide range of tones, from refined, graceful characters to glitchy mutilated mayhem. •Animate your tracks with dynamic audio-chopping and expressive modulations. •Enjoy the straightforward, elegant design in your new and powerful bitcrush effect. Control whether the whole signal or a specific frequency range is affected using a Low-Pass, Band-Pass or High-Pass filter. Refine it further with 'Cutoff' and 'Resonance' control. Slash the rate of samples taken from the incoming audio down to 10hz, reduce unwanted sampling errors using the Nyquist filter and refine the sampling shape with the smoothen control. Crush the resolution of the audio down to a single bit, use the range booster to exploit all available bits and structure the chaos using the envelope to shape the original dynamics of the incoming signal. Mangle your tracks into digital disorder; use the Threshold to time the trigger, Time & Num Repeats to shape your repetitions then have them fade away using the Decay. Strike excitement into your productions with Dynabit´s powerful modulation matrix, including 2 LFO´s, 2 Sequencers, 2 Envelope Followers and MIDI control. Dynabit works brilliantly for a variety of styles and genres. From gentle sonic enrichment to digital oblivion, Dynabit comes jam-packed with 50 presets in Basic, Drums, Glitch & Tonal Folders. DynaBit is designed as an AUv3 plugin, meaning it works within iOS and iPadOS hosts such as Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubasis 3, AUM and Beatmaker 3.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AudioTheory Guitars at $6.99 against DynaBit's $12.99. DynaBit's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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

AudioTheory Guitars costs $6.99 and DynaBit $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AudioTheory Guitars versus DynaBit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudioTheory GuitarsDynaBit
Price$6.99 — better$12.99
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size412 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFraser MackenzieCaelum Audio

Customer experience

AudioTheory Guitars

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

DynaBit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AudioTheory Guitars

No in-app purchases

None

DynaBit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AudioTheory Guitars free?
AudioTheory Guitars costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DynaBit free?
DynaBit costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do AudioTheory Guitars or DynaBit have ads?
Neither AudioTheory Guitars nor DynaBit shows ads.

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