Comparison

Things vs TATAT

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

Head to head
About

Things

This app offers an experimental filter bank delay effect for creative sound design. It features up to 10 band pass filters with adjustable resonance and individual delay controls. Users can manipulate various parameters across bands to generate unique echoes, reverbs, and sequences.

Highlights
  • Up to 10 band pass filters
  • Controllable resonance per band
  • Dedicated delay with feedback per band
  • Parameter spread across bands
  • AUv3 and Standalone support
Features
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Bubbles is an unusual filter bank effect plugin (AUv3 and Standalone) aimed at experimental sound design. You can use up to 10 band pass filters, represented by bubbles in the UI, with controllable resonance. Each band can have a dedicated delay with feedback. You can spread the cutoff, resonance, delay time, and delay feedback across each band to get very creative effects, from odd-sounding echoes/reverbs to impossible sequences.

About

TATAT

Generate endless, ever-changing musical sequences and sketch new song ideas quickly. This app allows you to define moods and parameters to create unique note streams, which can then be recorded, tweaked, and played along with.

Highlights
  • Infinite note sequence generation
  • Mood and parameter customization
  • Real-time stream intervention
  • MIDI data enrichment (Thru function)
  • Melodic, harmonic, and percussive support
  • Multiple time resolutions
  • Velocity, delay, and length processing
Features
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TATAT is a MIDI FX designed to create always-changing sequences, to quickly sketch music ideas, to add unexpected events to fixed patterns. If you’re looking for new ways of generating musical ideas, then look no further than TATAT! Set up your parameters, define a mood and listen to an endless flow of notes which you can then record, tweak, and play along to. HOW IT WORKS /// TATAT generates infinite and always changing sequences of notes. You cannot say exactly what TATAT will do, but you can suggest a path to it: by setting up its parameters you can create what we call a mood for TATAT. A mood is a configuration of notes, intervals, time fragmentation, velocity fluctuation, and other factors. Once you set a mood that you are happy with, you’ll listen to an infinite stream of events, always changing, all staying in the mood. 
At this point, according to your needs, you can: - Let TATAT play its stream, and make some intervention to control it: to add silence (Less), to obtain smooth accelerando and ritardando (Ratio), to control how TATAT generates intervals. You can enable Key In function to change notes on the fly. - Add some stability by controlling/automating the Liv/Mem slider, moving between the generated stream and frozen patterns. - Use TATAT to send its notes to enrich (by enabling Thru) existing/incoming MIDI data/parts. TATAT gives you excellent results both with melodic/harmonic and percussive parts! MULTIPLE TIME RES /// Set chance for each time resolution to rule the stream, and scale results with main ratio to create organic time fluctuations. NOTES /// Set chance for each notes to get triggered, enable the keys toggle to change the notes on the fly, giving a different color to the stream. DOUBLE HIT /// Set two intervals and the probability they got triggered, adding harmonic weight to the stream. LET’S PROCESS THE STREAM! /// You can process the generated notes with several parameters: add a velocity variation, a delay, set the length, randomize, and mute some notes. It’s easy and intuitive. FLOW VS PATTERN /// LIV/MEM parameter has a 0-100% range. When is set on 0%, a buffer with given length continuously records the stream; when it’s different than 0%, the buffer got locked, and you set the chance to get live or buffered notes. When you set 100% you always have the buffer content as a static pattern. You add the stability you want to the lunatic stream! 2 FLAVOURS: DARK AND LIGHT SKIN *** Please note: TATAT is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app compatible with MIDI FX like AUM, Logic Pro, Cubasis, etc... ***

Screenshots

Things1 screens
TATAT3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Things at 5.0 against TATAT's 4.8. Things also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). TATAT's advantage is iOS requirement (10.13 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Things costs $6.99 and TATAT $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Things holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Things's written reviews are positive against 89% of TATAT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Things ships an update every 32 months, TATAT every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Things versus TATAT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThingsTATAT
Price$6.99$6.99
Rating5.0 (19 ratings) — better4.8 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better88.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1921 — better
Update frequencyEvery 32 monthsEvery 19 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.010.13 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudioThing Ltd.K-Devices

Customer experience

Things

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TATAT

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Things

No in-app purchases

None

TATAT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things free?
Things costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TATAT free?
TATAT costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things or TATAT?
Things is rated higher. Things averages 5.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while TATAT averages 4.8 from 21 ratings.
Do Things or TATAT have ads?
Neither Things nor TATAT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things or TATAT?
Things ships an update every 32 months, and TATAT every 19 months. Most recently, Things was updated on August 31, 2026 and TATAT on August 24, 2026.

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