Comparison

ström vs TATAT

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
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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

TATAT

Generate endless, ever-changing musical sequences and sketch new song ideas quickly. This app allows you to define moods and parameters to create unique note streams, which can then be recorded, tweaked, and played along with.

Highlights
  • Infinite note sequence generation
  • Mood and parameter customization
  • Real-time stream intervention
  • MIDI data enrichment (Thru function)
  • Melodic, harmonic, and percussive support
  • Multiple time resolutions
  • Velocity, delay, and length processing
Features
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TATAT is a MIDI FX designed to create always-changing sequences, to quickly sketch music ideas, to add unexpected events to fixed patterns. If you’re looking for new ways of generating musical ideas, then look no further than TATAT! Set up your parameters, define a mood and listen to an endless flow of notes which you can then record, tweak, and play along to. HOW IT WORKS /// TATAT generates infinite and always changing sequences of notes. You cannot say exactly what TATAT will do, but you can suggest a path to it: by setting up its parameters you can create what we call a mood for TATAT. A mood is a configuration of notes, intervals, time fragmentation, velocity fluctuation, and other factors. Once you set a mood that you are happy with, you’ll listen to an infinite stream of events, always changing, all staying in the mood. 
At this point, according to your needs, you can: - Let TATAT play its stream, and make some intervention to control it: to add silence (Less), to obtain smooth accelerando and ritardando (Ratio), to control how TATAT generates intervals. You can enable Key In function to change notes on the fly. - Add some stability by controlling/automating the Liv/Mem slider, moving between the generated stream and frozen patterns. - Use TATAT to send its notes to enrich (by enabling Thru) existing/incoming MIDI data/parts. TATAT gives you excellent results both with melodic/harmonic and percussive parts! MULTIPLE TIME RES /// Set chance for each time resolution to rule the stream, and scale results with main ratio to create organic time fluctuations. NOTES /// Set chance for each notes to get triggered, enable the keys toggle to change the notes on the fly, giving a different color to the stream. DOUBLE HIT /// Set two intervals and the probability they got triggered, adding harmonic weight to the stream. LET’S PROCESS THE STREAM! /// You can process the generated notes with several parameters: add a velocity variation, a delay, set the length, randomize, and mute some notes. It’s easy and intuitive. FLOW VS PATTERN /// LIV/MEM parameter has a 0-100% range. When is set on 0%, a buffer with given length continuously records the stream; when it’s different than 0%, the buffer got locked, and you set the chance to get live or buffered notes. When you set 100% you always have the buffer content as a static pattern. You add the stability you want to the lunatic stream! 2 FLAVOURS: DARK AND LIGHT SKIN *** Please note: TATAT is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app compatible with MIDI FX like AUM, Logic Pro, Cubasis, etc... ***

Screenshots

ström3 screens
TATAT3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ström at Free against TATAT's $3.99. ström also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 10.13). TATAT's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (90% vs 60%). 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; TATAT costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TATAT holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of ström's written reviews are positive against 90% of TATAT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ström ships an update every 2 months, TATAT every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
ström versus TATAT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterströmTATAT
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating3.4 (28 ratings)4.8 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 19 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#176 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better10.13
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErik SigthK-Devices

Customer experience

ström

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

TATAT

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ström

No in-app purchases

None

TATAT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ström free?
ström is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TATAT free?
TATAT costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ström or TATAT?
TATAT is rated higher. ström averages 3.4 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while TATAT averages 4.8 from 21 ratings.
Do ström or TATAT have ads?
Neither ström nor TATAT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ström or TATAT?
ström ships an update every 2 months, and TATAT every 19 months. Most recently, ström was updated on October 23, 2026 and TATAT on October 26, 2026.

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