Comparison

LFOH! vs GlitchScaper

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

Head to head
About

LFOH!

This app is an advanced LFO tool that enhances classic cycling envelopes with unique shaping and morphing features. It functions as both an audio processor and a MIDI modulator, offering extensive control over modulation signals.

Highlights
  • Morphable and selectable waveforms
  • Advanced waveform shaping
  • Sample and Hold circuit
  • Audio amplitude modulation
  • MIDI CC output
  • AUv3 extension
Features
Currently charting
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LFOH! is an augmented, stunning (as the name suggests!), LFO which enhances the possibilities of the classic cycling envelope by adding control over a set of advanced and unique features. LFOH! is a single oscillator LFO and has a set of continuously morphable and selectable waveforms that represents the core of its modulation signal. Apart from the classic frequency and phase parameters (which make it capable of all of the classic modulation stuff), the waveform can also be shaped by swinging its cycles, bending its curve, squeezing portions of oscillation in the same period of time, scaled and transformed while exceeding its boundaries. An additional Sample and Hold circuit provides quantization for the resulting signal. A tool you already know, with the most advanced features: simple and powerful. LFOH! is both an audio processor and a MIDI modulator: while is capable to send its modulation signal out as MIDI CC (according to the MIDI routing flexibility of the app that hosts it), it can also modulate the amplitude of incoming audio. *** Please note: LFOH! is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app like AUM, Drambo, Cubasis, etc... ***

About

GlitchScaper

Create unique glitchy patterns and soundscapes with a rhythm machine featuring six sound generators and a two-layer cycle sequencer. Explore random sequence and tone generation, advanced effects, and spatial audio processing.

Highlights
  • Six sound generators
  • Two-layer cycle sequencer
  • Random sequence and tone generation
  • Advanced effects and envelopes
  • Spatial audio processing
  • MIDI support
Features
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GlitchScaper is a rhythm machine with six sound generators, each controlled by a two-layer cycle sequencer, designed to easily create glitchy patterns and scapes. To quickly find new ideas, each generator has separate options for making sequences and tones. The parameters of the new sequences and tones are set randomly, but are guided by several user-defined options, which in outline define the steps of the sequence and the type of tone or noise. This allows you make a quick draft of a pattern and then simply tweak it to get the final sound. The advanced copy function gives you ability to quickly make a new preset by copying sequences and tones from existing ones. The tone generator makes bright and rich sounds based on 12 complex waveforms or various types of noise, and can also use an external input as a signal source. Effects transform the tone from smoothly varying to full of squeaks and rattles. Each effect is modulated by a special envelope generator with different shapes that change throughout the sequencer step. The sound generators have individual spatial effects, as well as a common reverb space for all generators that adds an ambient layer to the final mix. The final mix can be even brighter and heavy or pumping with the built-in harmonic exciter and bass enhancer. The intuitive interface and powerful sound design features make this application super convenient for creating your own, unique sound. GlitchScaper is great for creating simple beats with an interesting and unusual sound, but it was originally designed for digital distorted patterns with longer steps that blend perfectly with the rhythms of classic drum machines and sequencers. GlitchScaper is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). GlitchScaper works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, and supports Audiobus and Ableton Link. On MacOS, GlitchScaper can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. GlitchScaper has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. A brief overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T50WVIPUPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeF3oBoXp80 You can find more information on GlitchScaper and other experimental audio processing apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

LFOH!3 screens
GlitchScaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LFOH! at $3.99 against GlitchScaper's $15.99. LFOH! also leads on chart position (#200 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.4). GlitchScaper's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 63%). 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

LFOH! costs $3.99 and GlitchScaper $15.99 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 — 4.7 for LFOH! against 4.8 for GlitchScaper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of LFOH!'s written reviews are positive against 91% of GlitchScaper's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
LFOH! versus GlitchScaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLFOH!GlitchScaper
Price$3.99 — better$15.99
Rating4.7 (18 ratings)4.8 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews90.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1822 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.3 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperK-DevicesIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

LFOH!

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

GlitchScaper

All ratings22 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

None

LFOH!

No in-app purchases

None

GlitchScaper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LFOH! free?
LFOH! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GlitchScaper free?
GlitchScaper costs $15.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LFOH! or GlitchScaper?
GlitchScaper is rated higher. LFOH! averages 4.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while GlitchScaper averages 4.8 from 22 ratings.
Do LFOH! or GlitchScaper have ads?
Neither LFOH! nor GlitchScaper shows ads.

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