Comparison

Things vs Fauve

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 transforms sounds into ambient soundscapes or adds drone vibes to tracks using granular reverb, pitch shifting, and mid/side processing. It's inspired by sound design techniques from an award-winning indie game.

Highlights
  • Granular reverb
  • Pitch shifting
  • Mid/side mode
  • AUv3 plugin
  • Standalone app
  • Soundscape creation
Features
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Texture is an easy to use granular reverb with pitch shifting and mid/side mode available as AUv3 and Standalone. Texture can transform any sound into an ambient soundscape, or add that drone vibe to your tracks. This plugin was inspired by the techniques used in the soundtrack and sound design of the award-winning indie game The Swapper.

About

Fauve

This audio processor captures and reinterprets sonic fragments, introducing intentional glitches, distortions, and variations. It allows users to reshape sounds, creating unique soundscapes that blend memory and reality.

Highlights
  • Records and breaks down incoming audio into fragments
  • Introduces intentional glitches, distortions, and memory errors
  • Allows shaping playback with sampling/slicing parameters
  • Sculpts amplitude through 'Absence' parameter
  • Blurs reality with 'Mirage' parameter for dream-like effects
  • Lock parameters to preserve settings while browsing presets
  • In-GUI information for parameter details
Features
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Fauve is an audio processor that collects sonic fragments and replays them, not always faithfully. It forgets, distorts, and glitches into new meanings.  Like the hallucination of a broken machine. A fractured memory, yours to reshape. "Fauve is a perfect cure for sound-alike effects. It really is distinct from other buffer/glitch and granular tools. And it strikes an ideal balance between predictability and weirdness, between polished controls you can learn and master and unexpected combinations that surprise you." Peter Kirn – CDM By continuously recording incoming audio, Fauve analyzes and breaks sound into small units we call collections. When playing them back, it sometimes fails, opening space for the user to edit and shape the material according to their own sonic vision. Fauve can be a harsh distortion, a gentle shadow, a paroxysmal dance between reality and dream, and much more. It can slightly scramble your sound, completely strip it of its original meaning, or introduce subtle, almost imperceptible variations to make it richer, yet always organic. Fauve disrupts, but never destroys. REMEMBER / FORGET Fauve listens and remembers — but it may forget to capture the present, getting stuck in the past. It blends memory and reality, shaping a soundscape as if it were truly what it just heard. BEHOLD THE HALLUCINATION Beyond the native errors of its faulty replicatory nature, Fauve opens space for your design: you can shape the playback of fragments using classic sampling/slicing parameters like Disorder, Repeat, Freeze, and playhead rate. SHAPING THROUGH ABSENCE Sculpts amplitude in two distinct ways through Absence: turn left to assign a random value to each fragment for more organic results, or turn right to introduce audio drops, adding uncertainty, or even reaching distortion wilderness on shorter fragments. BEYOND BALANCE: ENTER THE MIRAGE Let Fauve blur reality with its dream using the Mirage parameter. Shape the balance, focus it across the stereo field, and control amplitude for both source and processed sound. LOCK PARAMETERS Enable lock toggle to preserve key parameters values while browsing presets. IN-GUI INFOS Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter. Fauve is a totem/series plugin, and like all totems, it follows its own logic. Timing in Fauve doesn’t rely on beats or note values — it’s driven by the material itself. Every operation is triggered by zero crossings, making the outcome deeply dependent on the source. Same settings, radically different results.

Screenshots

Things1 screens
Fauve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Things at 100% against Fauve's 75%. Things also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($6.99 vs $7.99). Fauve's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 12.0). On ratings volume, 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

Things costs $6.99 and Fauve $7.99 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 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Things's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fauve's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Things versus Fauve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThingsFauve
Price$6.99 — better$7.99
Rating5.0 (15 ratings) — better4.7 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1518 — better
Update frequencyEvery 32 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudioThing Ltd.K-Devices

Customer experience

Things

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fauve

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Things

No in-app purchases

None

Fauve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things free?
Things costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fauve free?
Fauve costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things or Fauve?
Things is rated higher. Things averages 5.0 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Fauve averages 4.7 from 18 ratings.
Do Things or Fauve have ads?
Neither Things nor Fauve shows ads.

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