SpeedPitch vs plugdata
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpeedPitch
This app creates an augmented sonic reality by altering music playback speed based on your GPS ground speed. Experience unique sound distortions as your movement directly influences the audio, turning everyday motion into an artistic soundscape.
- GPS-based music playback speed alteration
- Pitch and tempo change with movement
- Dragging audio samples on sudden stops
- Media art experiment
- Designed for exploration of sound and motion
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_SpeedPitch_ is a simple augmented sonic reality experiment that alters music playback rate based on your actual GPS ground speed. The faster you go, the higher the pitch and sudden stops lead to dragging audio samples. Natural motion leads to unnatural sound. # What Is This Thing, Really? A media art app. SpeedPitch is a music player which is controlled by your GPS navigation speed. If the device is not moving, the audio file playback will be *very* slow. As such, this is not a general-purpose media player but an augmented sonic reality meant to induce exploration into movement and its relation to sound. This app is best used with bicycles, bluetooth loudspeakers, and lots of friends but will work equally well by foot, car, plane, or even rocket. This project has been developed as part of the Nix Wie Raus! Fahrrad Kunst Sommer / Bicycle Art Summer exhibition at the BBK in Karlsruhe Germany 2021.
plugdata
This app provides a visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping, and education. It allows users to create and run audio patches on their mobile devices, enabling creative sound design on the go.
- Visual programming environment
- Audio experimentation
- Prototyping
- Educational tool
- Standalone application
- Audio plugins
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plugdata is visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping and education. With plugdata for iOS, you can bring your plugdata patches with you everywhere you go. This app ships with a standalone application and audio plugins.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: plugdata at 63% against SpeedPitch's 0%. SpeedPitch's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). 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.
SpeedPitch ships an update every 2 weeks, plugdata every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpeedPitch | plugdata |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.4 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 63.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Wilcox | Timothy Schoen |
Customer experience
SpeedPitch
plugdata
In-app purchases
SpeedPitch
No in-app purchases
plugdata
No in-app purchases
