Comparison

Kyma Control vs Old Phone Ringtone Composer

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

Head to head
About

Kyma Control

This app acts as a versatile wireless controller for the Kyma Sound Design Workstation. It offers multiple control modes including a virtual surface mirror, pen tablet, keyboards, and motion controls, allowing for expressive sound manipulation away from your computer.

Highlights
  • Virtual Control Surface mirroring
  • Multi-touch pen/tablet controller
  • Standard and Tonnetz keyboards
  • Accelerometer controls
  • Compass heading control
  • View and select active Sounds
Features
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Kyma Control is the Swiss-army-knife of controllers for the Kyma Sound Design Workstation, providing four of the most popular Kyma controller-modes in one, wireless multi-touch package: a bi-directional mirror of Kyma's Virtual Control Surface, a multi-touch pen/tablet controller, a standard and a Tonnetz keyboard, accelerometer controls, and compass heading for using direction as a control. For use in the studio, on stage, in the lab, at home, or in classroom, Kyma Control frees you from having to sit in front of your laptop; put yourself inside the sound field and perform your Sounds in an expressive, intuitive manner using your hands and gestures. FEATURES • Auto-mapping, bi-directional multi-touch mirroring of Kyma's Virtual Control Surface (VCS) • View and select the active Sounds in a Kyma Multigrid • Pen/tablet surface tracking as many as 11 fingers with color trails to help you track finger position • A keyboard for sending !KeyDown and either continuous or discrete values for !KeyPitch & !KeyTimbre • A Tonnetz pitch-space with configurable vertical and horizontal intervals • Pitches can be rounded to equal tempered pitch, rounded only on !KeyDown and continuously variable after that, or, in Strum-mode, triggered when your finger passes by the key • Trigger or control Sounds with the iPad's accelerometer measurements in the X, Y, Z directions, as well as controls corresponding with Pitch, Roll and Yaw • Compass heading from the iPad's magnetometer tells you which way the iPad is pointing so you can use it for panning and other controls REQUIREMENTS • iPad, iOS 8 or newer • Symbolic Sound Kyma 7 (or newer) with Paca(rana) Sound Computation Engine • WiFi or Ethernet connection to network accessible to the Paca(rana)

About

Old Phone Ringtone Composer

Create custom monophonic ringtones using your phone's keypad. Dial musical notes, adjust duration, pitch, and octave to compose unique sounds reminiscent of 1997 ringtones.

Highlights
  • Dial musical notes (C-B)
  • Adjust note duration
  • Insert rests
  • Modify note pitch
  • Change octave
  • Compose monophonic ringtones
Features
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Compose your ringtone like it was 1997 Use your phone buttons to dial the 7 musical notes and create all the monophonic ringtones that you want. 1->C 2->D 3->E 4->F 5->G 6->A 7->B 8->increase duration 9->decrease duration 0->insert a rest in your ringtone *->increase duration by 1.5 #->modify the pitch of the note +->modify the octave of the note

Screenshots

Old Phone Ringtone Composer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kyma Control at 100% against Old Phone Ringtone Composer's 29%. Kyma Control also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Old Phone Ringtone Composer's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $14.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On ads and device support 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

Kyma Control costs $14.99 and Old Phone Ringtone Composer $2.99 up front. Old Phone Ringtone Composer sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Kyma Control asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kyma Control ships an update every 4 months, Old Phone Ringtone Composer monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kyma Control versus Old Phone Ringtone Composer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKyma ControlOld Phone Ringtone Composer
Price$14.99$2.99 — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better28.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSymbolic Sound CorporationFurlan Paolo

Customer experience

Kyma Control

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Old Phone Ringtone Composer

Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%

In-app purchases

None

Kyma Control

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Old Phone Ringtone Composer

One-time11
  • Starwars theme$0.99
  • The final countdown (Europe)$0.99
  • Pink panther theme$0.99
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  • We are the champions (Queen)$0.99
  • Wanna be (Spice Girls)$0.99
  • Boom boom boom (Venga boys)$0.99
  • X-Files theme$0.99
  • Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)$0.99
  • Blue (Eiffel 65)$0.99
  • Star wars theme (Imperial march)$0.99
  • All Tunes$9.99

Questions

Is Kyma Control free?
Kyma Control costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Old Phone Ringtone Composer free?
Old Phone Ringtone Composer costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Kyma Control or Old Phone Ringtone Composer have ads?
Neither Kyma Control nor Old Phone Ringtone Composer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kyma Control or Old Phone Ringtone Composer?
Kyma Control ships an update every 4 months, and Old Phone Ringtone Composer monthly. Most recently, Kyma Control was updated on June 5, 2026 and Old Phone Ringtone Composer on September 21, 2026.

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