iDensity vs Pure Pop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDensity
This app offers real-time asynchronous sound file granulation, enabling users to create a wide array of audio effects. It provides tools for time/pitch manipulation, texture generation, buffer recording, and complex sound exploration. Designed for musicians and sound designers, it offers flexibility for live performance, studio composition, and on-the-go sound design.
- Real-time sound granulation
- Time/pitch shifting and jittering
- Texture generation
- Buffer recording and manipulation
- Scrub pad exploration
- Dynamic envelope shaping
- Audio Unit (AUv3) support
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iDensity is rated as a Killer App by Apps4iDevices. iDensity is a new real-time software designed for asynchronous sound file granulation, a genuine granular playground able to generate a wide range of usual and not so usual effects: time/pitch shifting, time/pitch jittering, intricate textures, grain fountain/pulverizer, recording and manipulation of buffers, complex scrub pad exploration, dynamic envelope shape and many more. iDensity for iPad will give you all the basic and advanced tools you need to manipulate sound in subtle and surprising ways. All these features are packed in an optimized, user-friendly, visually sharp interface that is easy to access when fast-improvising live, composing in a studio, or sound designing at home and on the go! You will have the power, freedom, and flexibility to create like never before – on your iPad! Control and shape grains, anytime, anywhere with Density for iPad. + Six Granular Streams + Six Remote Audio Units Host support + Full Instr and FX AudioUnit (AUv3) support + High Density Granulation + Sampled and Live granulation + In-Stream Echo and RM post Fx + Multichannels Audiobus Inter-App Audio support + MIDI, Virtual Midi and Network + Sharing common audio files via iTunes, Dropbox AudioCopy etc... + Snapshots Presets Morphing Pad + Post Fx chain: Parametric and High Shelf Filters, Classic Reverb and Dynamics Processor + Scrub Recording and playback + etc.
Pure Pop
Scan product barcodes with your camera to preview them on your phone. Access store news, events, offers, and promotions. Create wishlists or order products directly from the app.
- Barcode product lookup
- In-store news and events
- Exclusive offers and promotions
- Product wishlisting
- In-app ordering
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A Pure Pop store shopping companion that uses your camera to lookup products' barcode to preview them on your phone. Listen to products in the store and get news, events, offers and marketing promotions conveniently for you. Utilize the app to order or wishlist products from our store and website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pure Pop at Free against iDensity's $9.99. Pure Pop also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). iDensity's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (48 vs 2). On rating, in-app purchases 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
Pure Pop is free to download; iDensity costs $9.99 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 — 4.9 for iDensity against 5.0 for Pure Pop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDensity has 48 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
iDensity ships an update monthly, Pure Pop every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDensity | Pure Pop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | apeSoft | Broadtime |
Customer experience
iDensity
Pure Pop
Bugs and requests
iDensity
Reported bugs
10 issues- Occasional crashes (historically)
- AudioBus issues (historically)
- Preset management not working correctly (historically)
- Transport sync not working (historically)
- GUI bugs (e.g., maximizing a strand)
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- Craquements, grésillements (cracking, crackling)
- X/Y snapshot morphing not working on iPad 1
- Sample import issues (cut off)
- Unable to record from microphone (historically)
- App crashes upon recording (historically)
Requested features
10 requests- Independent MIDI note control over pitch for each stream
- Alphabetical preset sorting
- Load existing project name into 'Save As'
- Multi-port output for AUM/Ape Matrix
- Built-in wave-editor for sample cutting
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- Ability to determine loop length
- Motion sequencer or assignable LFOs
- Sync AU3 transport to host (historically)
- Add MIDI note and channel select as modifier/controller
- Dark mode option
Pure Pop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iDensity
No in-app purchases
Pure Pop
No in-app purchases
