Timbales vs QVox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timbales
Experience a realistic timbale set with authentic sounds. Play your favorite rhythms in real-time with this virtual instrument.
- Realistic timbale set
- Authentic sounds
- Real-time playing
- Virtual instrument
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A Timbal set with REAL sounds that users can enjoy playing in real time.
QVox
This app transforms audio into four independent voices with pitch shifting and delay. Create harmonies, widen instruments, and design rhythmic sequences by controlling key, scale, and voice parameters in real-time.
- Four independent voices with pitch shifting and delay
- Selectable key and scale for harmonies
- Adjustable delay intervals and tempo sync
- Real-time parameter control with Ribbon controller
- Factory and user presets
- Mixlock for consistent auditioning
- AUv3 plugin and Standalone app
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QVox is a creative audio effect that transforms vocals, guitars, drums, and synths into four independent voices. Create beautiful harmonies, widen instruments and design groovy rhythmic sequences with diatonic pitch shifting and delay. You can choose the key, scale, and each voice’s pitch and delay interval, with the ability to alter any parameters in real-time using the Ribbon controller. Features: - Four independent voices (labeled as A, B, C, D) with diatonic pitch shifting and delay. - Select Key and Scale to create harmonies that coincide with your compositions or use the Learn button to set the key by the incoming note you play. - Group the four delays so that they are evenly spaced or spread out. - Sync the delays to tempo, or a value of your own choosing. - The Ribbon controller allows for dynamic modification of several knobs at once to easily morph between settings. - Factory presets help get you started or create your own User presets. - Mixlock helps when auditioning different presets by enabling a global Mix value that will remain constant for every subsequently loaded preset. - Available as an Audio Units AUv3 plug-in and Standalone App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: QVox at 64% against Timbales's 0%. QVox also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.6) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 38 months). Timbales's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $14.99) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). 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
Timbales costs $0.99 and QVox $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
QVox holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Timbales's written reviews are positive against 64% of QVox's.
Timbales ships an update every 38 months, QVox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timbales | QVox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 1.6 (10 ratings) | 4.3 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #187 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guido Diaz | Eventide |
Customer experience
Timbales
QVox
In-app purchases
Timbales
No in-app purchases
QVox
No in-app purchases









