Mantis vs Easy Ambience
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mantis
This audio plugin emulates a vintage 70s analog delay/echo unit, offering a warm, authentic sound. It features four echo taps, swell selectors, and a unique modulation section for chorus-like effects.
- Emulates rare 70s BBD delay/echo
- Warm analog sound
- Four echo taps
- Four swell selectors
- Rotafaze modulation section
- Mimics tape echo wow/flutter
- Chorus-delay effect
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Mantis is a plugin that emulates a rare BBD (bucket-brigade device) delay/echo unit of the 70s, faithfully recreating its warm and analog sound. Available as AUv3 and Standalone. As the original unit, Mantis features an echo section with four taps and four swell selectors. It also features the rotafaze section, a modulation that can mimic the wow/flutter of a tape echo or turn the unit into a unique chorus-delay.
Easy Ambience
Craft personalized relaxing soundscapes by mixing various audio elements like noise colors, recorded sounds, and waveforms. Shape your mix with effects and filters, or start with a preset. Enjoy background playback and save your custom creations.
- Customizable soundscape mixing
- Multiple adjustable audio tracks
- Variety of noise colors, recorded sounds, and waveforms
- Audio effects (filters, equalizers)
- Built-in presets
- Background audio playback
- Save and manage custom mixes
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Create your own relaxing ambient soundscapes with Easy Ambience. Combine colors of noise, recorded sounds, and waveforms, then shape them with effects like filters and equalizers to craft the mix you want. You can also start with a preset and customize it as much or as little as you like. Features include: • Multiple independently adjustable tracks • A wide selection of colors of noise, recorded sounds, and waveforms • Built-in presets • Audio effects including filters and equalizers • Real-time spectrum visualization • Background audio playback • Save and manage your own mixes • Light and dark themes • No account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Easy Ambience at Free against Mantis's $14.99. Easy Ambience also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months). Mantis's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On rating, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Easy Ambience is free to download; Mantis costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mantis against 5.0 for Easy Ambience. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
Mantis ships an update every 9 months, Easy Ambience every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mantis | Easy Ambience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AudioThing Ltd. | DJ Grossman, LLC |
Customer experience
Mantis
Easy Ambience
In-app purchases
Mantis
No in-app purchases
Easy Ambience
No in-app purchases
