Comparison

Glory Math 2 vs HeatonCA

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

Head to head
About

Glory Math 2

Create unique music by touching and shaking your device. This app generates melodies and harmonies with accompanying visual color fields, offering a collaborative experience between user input and computer generation.

Highlights
  • Interactive music generation
  • Touch and shake controls
  • Melody and harmony creation
  • Generative audio
  • Visual color field feedback
  • Collaborative user-computer experience
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Glory Math 2 is an interactive, generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Starting with a blank slate, touch and shake to create melodies and harmonies, with corresponding fields of color. Touch the top area to create your melodies, and use the controls on the bottom to experiment with sets of notes and tempo. Each piece is a collaboration between you, and the computer.

About

HeatonCA

Features
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Evolve colorful cellular automata rulesets and view existing ones. A gallery of known cellular automata is built into this application, additionally you can evolve your own new rules. This application implements the algorithm described in the paper: Evolving continuous cellular automata for aesthetic objectives in Genetic Programming Evolvable Machines, Heaton, J. March (2018). You can try out three different rulesets provided by this program. For more details of the algorithm refer to the cited paper.

Screenshots

Glory Math 24 screens
HeatonCA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: HeatonCA at 4 against Glory Math 2's 2. Glory Math 2's advantage is iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 15.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Glory Math 2 versus HeatonCA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlory Math 2HeatonCA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 52 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoffeeshopped LLCJeffrey Heaton

In-app purchases

None

Glory Math 2

No in-app purchases

None

HeatonCA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Glory Math 2 free?
Glory Math 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HeatonCA free?
HeatonCA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Glory Math 2 or HeatonCA have ads?
Neither Glory Math 2 nor HeatonCA shows ads.

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