Cleveland Orch vs The Sorting Synth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cleveland Orch
Discover and purchase tickets for upcoming performances by The Cleveland Orchestra. Manage your digital tickets, explore concert details, and access exclusive student offers. Enhance your concert experience with convenient access to events at Severance Music Center and Blossom Music Center.
- Browse concert calendar
- Purchase tickets with seat selection
- Manage digital tickets
- Student Advantage Program access
- Receive concert notifications
- Add tickets to mobile wallet
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Experience The Cleveland Orchestra like never before with the official Cleveland Orchestra app. Discover upcoming concerts, purchase tickets seamlessly, and manage your tickets digitally for performances at Severance Music Center and Blossom Music Center. Find and explore concerts easily Browse the full concert calendar, explore programs, artist details, and plan your concert nights from anywhere. Whether it’s classical favorites, guest artists, or special events, you’ll have everything at your fingertips. Buy tickets with seat selection Purchase tickets directly in the app with a few taps. Choose your own seats with our interactive seat map, review pricing, and check out securely. You can even receive notifications about concerts, updates, and exclusive offers. Manage your tickets on your phone Access and manage your tickets within the app or add them to your Apple Wallet or Google Wallet for easy scanning at the door. View your seat details, event information, and share tickets with friends through your phone’s wallet feature. Student Advantage Program Students can sign up for our Student Advantage Program directly in the app using SheerID for quick, secure verification to access exclusive student offers. Stay connected with The Cleveland Orchestra Enable notifications for reminders, schedule changes, and insider updates, ensuring you never miss a moment of music. Download today and enhance your concert experience with The Cleveland Orchestra, at your convenience, in your pocket.
The Sorting Synth
This app offers a creative outlet for generating unique musical patterns and textures. Inspired by vintage synthesizers, it allows for endless sonic exploration with configurable settings and effects. It's perfect for both casual time-passing and serious music composition.
- Vintage synthesizer design
- Configurable settings
- Built-in effects
- Speed controls
- Vast pattern possibilities
- Offline functionality
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The simple joys in life are fun for the sake of fun, while sparking your creativity and letting the chaos sort itself out. The Sorting Synth embodies that philosophy. You can mindlessly pass the time or use it as an instrument to add colorful melodies and textures to your music. Features include: - Design inspired by 1970's synthesizers - Configurable settings - Effects - Speed Controls - 11,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 unique patterns possible (1.1 x 10^21) - No internet required after install Happy Sorting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cleveland Orch at Free against The Sorting Synth's $2.99. Cleveland Orch also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (830 vs 5). The Sorting Synth's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Cleveland Orch is free to download; The Sorting Synth costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Cleveland Orch against 4.8 for The Sorting Synth. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cleveland Orch has 830 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Cleveland Orch's written reviews are positive against 50% of The Sorting Synth's.
Cleveland Orch ships an update fortnightly, The Sorting Synth every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cleveland Orch | The Sorting Synth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (830 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 830 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cleveland Orchestra | Kelly Mylett |
Customer experience
Cleveland Orch
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In-app purchases
Cleveland Orch
No in-app purchases
The Sorting Synth
No in-app purchases
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