Comparison

ström vs Enso Looper

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

Head to head
About

ström

A simple internet radio player that supports various audio formats. Customize presets with your favorite stations or enjoy the included fluid, lake, and Swedish radio channels. It can also play streams of limited duration.

Highlights
  • Plays mp3, wav, aifc, aiff, m4a, mp4, caf, aac
  • Customizable radio presets
  • Includes fluid, lake, and Swedish radio channels
  • Supports finite length streams
  • Minimalistic interface
Features
Read full description

Ström is a minimalistic streaming internet radio. It is capable of playing the formats mp3, wav, aifc, aiff, m4a, mp4, caf and aac. Ström comes preset with fluid radio, lake radio and swedish radio p1, p2 and p3, but these can easily be changed to the user's choice. Of course, ström is also capable of playing streams of a finite length. Powered by Sparrow. Made by humble.

About

Enso Looper

This real-time audio looper plugin offers a unique and characterful toolkit for producers and live performers. It combines intuitive design with deep features for creating layered grooves, complex textures, and evolving soundscapes. Advanced controls allow for independent speed and direction manipulation, tape-style effects, and MIDI integration.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio looping
  • Overdub modes (conventional and dual tape)
  • Up to four definable Sectors
  • Independent speed and direction control
  • Onboard tape-style saturation, filtering, and chorus
  • Comprehensive MIDI assignment system
  • Animated waveform display
Features
Read full description

Enso is a looper. Not a phrase sampler, not a beat slicer: a real looper, built in the image of the pedal loopers and reel-to-reel tape systems that defined the form, then extended well past what hardware can do. Press one button and it records; press it again and you are looping. Up to five minutes of stereo audio, host-synced or free-running. The play and record heads are completely decoupled, each with its own through-zero speed control from -4x to +4x. Play backwards at half speed while overdubbing forwards at double, and things get strange in the best way. Four sectors give you separate loop regions to crossfade between and overdub within, and a built-in effects section (tape-style saturation and hiss, filters, and chorus) can sit in the feedback path so your loop ages like tape with every pass. Enso runs as an AUv3 plugin in your favorite host, and includes a standalone mode for sketching. FEATURES - Full automatic looping engine: simple to learn, exceedingly powerful, with one-button looping control, both host-synced and free time. - Independent play and record heads: through-zero speed from -4x to +4x on each, with selectable increment and decrement values. - Dub In Place: work like a traditional digital looper, or like a tape looper with the effects and speed changes in the feedback path. - Sector crossfading: define four start and end points, crossfade between them, and overdub or re-record within them. - Effects section: tape-style saturation and hiss, high- and low-pass filters, and a stereo chorus. - MIDI Slice mode: play your loop from a MIDI controller, automatically sliced into 4 to 16 equal pieces. - Full MIDI CC implementation: an assignable MIDI CC page covers most of the looping engine, tuned for foot control. - Auto RTZ: automatically return to zero at a chosen interval to keep loose material in sync. - Cross-platform preset format: XML presets that can store the buffer, compatible with the desktop version of Enso. No subscriptions and no nonsense. Buy it once and it is yours, with free updates. Enso is also available for Mac, Windows, and Linux at audiodamage.com.

Screenshots

ström3 screens
Enso Looper2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ström at Free against Enso Looper's $7.99. ström also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 49%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 3 months). Enso Looper's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.4). On ratings volume, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ström is free to download; Enso Looper costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Enso Looper holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of ström's written reviews are positive against 49% of Enso Looper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ström ships an update every 2 months, Enso Looper every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ström versus Enso Looper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterströmEnso Looper
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating3.4 (28 ratings)4.5 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better48.5% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErik SigthAudio Damage, Inc.

Customer experience

ström

All ratings28 ratings
Positive57.1%
Neutral3.6%
Negative39.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative36.0%

Enso Looper

All ratings22 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral13.6%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral8.9%
Negative42.6%

Bugs and requests

ström

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Enso Looper

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Hit record and it won't record
  • Audio popping/clicking when switching sectors or playback modes
  • Timing is off after playing a while when reopening sessions
  • Crashes before saving, losing all work
  • Crashes when trying to control via MIDI
Show 10 more
  • Stopped loading/functioning
  • Does not connect to GarageBand
  • Does not go past initial message screen
  • Does not register as an audio unit extension in GarageBand
  • Does not show up in GarageBand's 'External' app list
  • Does not show up in DAWs (AUM, Beatmaker, Auria)
  • Buttons do not work (cannot activate recording/playback)
  • Loop still plays even when channel fader is down
  • Instance crashes when routing audio to AudioShare
  • Loses all ENSO instances in a project when one crashes

Requested features

13 requests
  • Fix recording issues
  • Fix audio popping/clicking
  • Implement Undo/Redo functionality
  • Improve stability and fix crashes
  • Respond to tech support queries
Show 8 more
  • Make a standalone version
  • Add threshold auto-start
  • Render loops as uncompressed audio files
  • Allow loading pre-existing loops
  • Save INIT setups for automatic loading
  • Add MIDI version
  • Add an Undo button as a failsafe
  • Improve color coding or button size

In-app purchases

None

ström

No in-app purchases

None

Enso Looper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ström free?
ström is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Enso Looper free?
Enso Looper costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ström or Enso Looper?
Enso Looper is rated higher. ström averages 3.4 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Enso Looper averages 4.5 from 22 ratings.
Do ström or Enso Looper have ads?
Neither ström nor Enso Looper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ström or Enso Looper?
ström ships an update every 2 months, and Enso Looper every 3 months. Most recently, ström was updated on October 16, 2026 and Enso Looper on October 14, 2026.

Other comparisons