Comparison

Nambu vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

Nambu

This app is a semi-modular FM synthesizer offering a unique sound design experience. It combines traditional FM operators with six distinct operator types, including analog-style oscillators, noise, filters, and resonators.

Highlights
  • Semi-modular FM synthesis
  • Six operator types
  • Analog synth-style oscillators
  • AM synthesis
  • Noise generator
  • Filters and resonators
Features
Currently charting
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NAMBU is a semi-modular FM synthesizer that allows you to create sounds by combining not only typical FM operators but also six different types of operators: analog synth-style oscillators capable of AM, noise, texture particles, filters, and resonators. For more detailed information about the product, please visit the website. The website offers detailed product descriptions, manuals and videos, as well as important notices. https://icegear.net/

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox 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). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox 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. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

Nambu4 screens
Stellarvox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nambu at fortnightly against Stellarvox's every 5 months. Nambu also leads on chart position (#150 vs unranked) and ratings volume (48 vs 11). Stellarvox's advantage is price ($11.99 vs $16.00) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Nambu costs $16.00 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stellarvox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Nambu's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stellarvox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nambu ships an update fortnightly, Stellarvox every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Nambu versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNambuStellarvox
Price$16.00$11.99 — better
Rating4.8 (48 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings48 — better11
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#150 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopericeWorks, Inc.Igor Vasiliev

Customer experience

Nambu

All ratings48 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive92.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.0%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Nambu

No in-app purchases

None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nambu free?
Nambu costs $16.00, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nambu or Stellarvox?
Stellarvox is rated higher. Nambu averages 4.8 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while Stellarvox averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Nambu or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither Nambu nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nambu or Stellarvox?
Nambu ships an update fortnightly, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, Nambu was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 24, 2026.

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