Comparison

DOTEC vs NerDie

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

Head to head
About

DOTEC

This audio application offers advanced equalization with a simplified interface, featuring just two sliders for bass and treble adjustments. It provides powerful sound shaping capabilities for iOS devices, including AudioUnit V3 support.

Highlights
  • Two-slider equalization
  • Semi-automatic EQ
  • Bass and treble adjustment
  • AudioUnit V3 support
  • Easy to use interface
Features
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DOTEC-AUDIO presents DeeEQ, as a popular "Equalizer" for MacOS, now available for iOS, including AudioUnit V3 support. DeeEQ has great equalization with just 2 sliders. It's a semi-automatic EQ with just 2 sliders for great equalization, and it's easy to use, with just a few simple "turn up (or down) the bass (treble)" commands. Main Functions - Cut and boost with vertical slider. - Use the horizontal slider to adjust the effect to a bass & treble.

About

NerDie

This application generates 8-bit noise and chip sounds using a variety of oscillators, LFOs, and a sequencer. It offers extensive sound manipulation options and can be used as a standalone instrument or an AUv3 plugin.

Highlights
  • Four oscillators with 16 waveforms
  • Four LFOs with 8 shapes
  • Complex summing topologies
  • Resonant low-pass filter
  • One-bar sequencer with overdub
  • 32 registers with MIDI Learn
  • MPE support
Features
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NerDie is an 8-bit noise machine for iPad and iPhone: four oscillators, four LFOs, a summing tree with eight algorithms, a resonant low-pass filter and a one-bar sequencer. Thirty-two registers, integer arithmetic, mono output — the sound of a chip rather than a picture of one. The engine runs in whole numbers at a fixed chip rate. Overflow, wrap and quantisation are not added afterwards to make it sound old: they are the signal itself. It runs on its own or as an AUv3 instrument on a MIDI track in any host that loads them, in portrait and in landscape. THE MACHINE • 4 oscillators, 16 waveforms each, 19 to 1350 Hz • 4 LFOs, 8 shapes, moving pitch or volume — free-running in Hz, or multipliers of the clock up to x128 with the phase reset on every tick • 3 summing topologies x 3 nodes x 8 algorithms: addition, overflow, subtraction, ring modulation, XOR, FM and wave-shaping — 1,536 ways to add four voices together • 8-bit resonant low-pass filter that self-oscillates at the top of its travel • One-bar sequencer with overdub, recorded finer than a sixteenth-note grid, driven by the internal clock, the host transport or MIDI clock • 32 registers on 8 pages of 4 pots, with optional hardware-style pot pickup • Four chip rates — 15625, 31250, 62500, 78125 Hz — and three outputs: RAW, CLEAN, TAPE TWO KINDS OF ACCIDENT CHAOS throws every register at once, the way the machine does, and sometimes lands on silence. RND builds a whole patch, renders it and measures it before handing it over, so it always makes a sound. UNDO brings back what you had. MADE FOR GLASS Drag a knob up and down for the coarse move and sideways for the fine one, eight times slower, without lifting your finger. Long press to type a value in its real unit - Hz, ms, %, the name of a waveform - to reset it, or to assign a MIDI CC with MIDI Learn. Double tap for the default. Two knobs turn at once, and the four pads are played with as many fingers as you like. Pinch the panel up to 250% and drag it around; the top bar and the value strip never scale, so the preset name and the register you are turning stay readable at any zoom. MPE The four oscillators become four MPE voices. Press, slide, strike and bend pass through a matrix that decides what each one moves — tuning, level, waveform, LFO depth, filter cutoff — with a response curve per gesture. Controllers reach the app over Bluetooth or a Camera Connection Kit, and reach the AUv3 through its host. THREE FACES The pixel panel with its four pots and page buttons; the matrix, with all 32 registers on screen at once; and a photograph of the circuit with the controls mounted on it. PRESETS 45 factory presets in nine folders — Bass, Drones, FX, Glitch, Melodic, Noise, Rhythms, Sequenced, Init — installed on the first run. The ones you save live in the Files app under On My iPad / NerDie / Presets, so you can copy them out or drop new ones in. The .ner format is identical to the desktop version and travels in both directions. Presets saved inside a host are there when you open the app on its own. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ADS Buy it once. There is nothing to activate, nothing to sign in to, and nothing is collected. NerDie is an independent project, modelled on the behaviour of the SOMA Laboratory Rumble of Ancient Times. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by SOMA Laboratory, and no firmware, artwork, font or layout of the original is used in this product.

Screenshots

DOTEC1 screens
NerDie2 screens

Verdict

The call

DOTEC and NerDie both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of NerDie's written reviews are positive against 50% of DOTEC's. NerDie also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months) and price ($4.99 vs $7.99). DOTEC's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

DOTEC costs $7.99 and NerDie $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DOTEC against 5.0 for NerDie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of DOTEC's written reviews are positive against 100% of NerDie's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DOTEC ships an update every 7 months, NerDie every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
DOTEC versus NerDie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDOTECNerDie
Price$7.99$4.99 — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#155 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerfmfmsoft Corp.Diego Capoccitti

Customer experience

DOTEC

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

NerDie

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DOTEC

No in-app purchases

None

NerDie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DOTEC free?
DOTEC costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is NerDie free?
NerDie costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DOTEC or NerDie?
DOTEC and NerDie are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do DOTEC or NerDie have ads?
Neither DOTEC nor NerDie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DOTEC or NerDie?
DOTEC ships an update every 7 months, and NerDie every 2 days. Most recently, DOTEC was updated on October 7, 2026 and NerDie on October 14, 2026.

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