Albumen vs Electrogene
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Albumen
This app offers a straightforward way to browse and play music from your device's library. It organizes your songs by albums and playlists, providing a simple interface for playback control. Enjoy your music with a clean, uncluttered experience.
- View music library
- Organized by albums and playlists
- Simple playback interface
- Background playback support
- Now playing track indicator
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Albumen provides a simple interface for viewing and playing songs (tracks) in your device's music library, organized into albums and playlists. Back when Albumen was originally written, Apple's Music app truncated song title and artist information, whereas Albumen displayed that information in full. Apple's Music app no longer truncates, but Albumen remains useful for the sheer simplicity of its interface. Tap a song (track) to start playing it. The iPhone's music player is used, so you can then quit Albumen and playback will continue, and you can use the iPhone's standard music interface (including the Music app, the Control Center, and the lock screen) to pause and resume play and so forth. Albumen also includes a play/pause button and a track progress indicator. Albumen also tells you what track is currently playing: the Now button takes you to the currently playing track within its album, and the currently playing track has a note mark.
Electrogene
This audio effect app offers a low-fidelity sound experience with bit-crushing, modulation, saturation, and filtering. It includes a real-time waveform visualizer and allows for saving and randomizing parameters. Compatible with various audio extensions for expanded workflow.
- Bit-crusher with sample rate and bit resolution control
- Frequency modulation
- Selectable low, high, or band pass filter
- Adjustable pre-gain and dry/wet levels
- Save and randomize parameters
- Realtime waveform scope visualizer
- Audio Unit Extension, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio support
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Electrogene is a low fidelity audio effect combining bit-crusher, modulation, saturation and filter with scope visualizer. Refined algorithms can produce warm or harsh sound reminding of retro digital or analog audio system. Electrogene features: – Modify sample rate and bit resolution – Apply drift variance to the bit-crusher sample rate value – Add frequency modulation to input signal – Low pass, High pass or Band pass filter – Set pre-gain and dry/wet levels – Ability to save and randomize parameters – Audio Unit Extension, Audiobus, Inter-App Audio support – 40 built-in presets – Background audio – Realtime waveform scope visualizer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Albumen at Free against Electrogene's $4.99. Electrogene's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On update cadence, 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
Albumen is free to download; Electrogene costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Electrogene holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Electrogene has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Albumen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Electrogene's.
Albumen ships an update every 14 months, Electrogene every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Albumen | Electrogene |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 12 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matt Neuburg | BACKPULLVER SOFTWARE LTD OOD |
Customer experience
Albumen
Electrogene
In-app purchases
Albumen
No in-app purchases
Electrogene
No in-app purchases









