GlitchBreaks vs GlitchScaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GlitchBreaks
This app is a powerful tool for manipulating breakbeats and creating new sounds. It offers real-time audio manipulation, loop editing, and effects for electronic musicians. Record your creations and export them for further use in other applications.
- Real-time audio manipulation
- Loop point editing
- Four audio channels
- Performance tool
- Granular sound destruction
- Recording and export
- Auto-BPM detection
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Glitchbreaks is an iOS Universal manipulation tool for “Glitching” breakbeats. Manipulate beats to create new beats and record them. ● "Glitchbreaks is a sick sample loop glitching app with a groovy interface and nice instant touch control of real time audio. It's capable of seriously twisting sounds out, is one of the most modern audio apps I've seen yet and Ninjas will love it" -Ninja Tune Records ● GlitchBreaks is an addictively fun and very useful app that will appeal to electronic musicians in a variety of settings. it’s a serious tool for manipulating audio loops. - iosmusicandyou.com ● I've spent many hours playing with Glitch Breaks, cutting, and modulating my way to pure glitch bliss. It's unmistakable high quality, effortless interface makes it easy to forget the world outside and go full tilt boogie to your hearts content. -smitematter.com Glitchbreaks uses four audio channels setup like mute groups. You can quickly switch between them to construct new beats, or manipulate loop points to “Cut” or “Glitch” the breaks. Glitchbreaks can be used as a performance tool to juggle breaksbeats or destroy sounds at a granular level. You can make interesting effect-like-sounds by manipulating pitch, loop start, length, and cutting the beats with fluid responsive controls. You can record your performance and bring it into iTunes through file sharing, or copy it out into another iOS application via Audio Copy and Paste. You pre determine the length of your recording by bars to easily make pieces to bring into a song without the need for further sample editing. Auto-BPM detection will detect the tempo of a sample you copy into Glitchbreaks (you just need to specify the bars between 1-4). You can turn this feature off in order to manipulate audio that doesn’t have tempo, this is especially useful for manipulating voice samples. Glitchbreaks contains a 4 channel mixer to adjust the levels of each sample, as you change the levels the sounds are combined into the mix, on the iPad version this is displayed graphically with a rendered waveform that is combined to give you an indication of what the entire sound looks like. All of this is very easy to operate and even a beginner will be glitching and juggling breaks like a pro in minutes. Features : ● 130 high quality factory beat loops ● Audiobus Support: Now you can stream live audio from Glitchbreaks directly to other Audiobus-compatible apps. ● Audio Copy and Paste and General Pasteboard support ● Full MIDI support, Virtual MIDI, MIDI Clock Sync In and Out, MIDI Learn ● 4 continuous looping channels with 4 channel mixer ● Dynamic Effects ● Auto-BPM detection / with on/off setting ● Set the BPM up to 2.9 times the original sample BPM ● Touchable Waveform Display with accurate position indicator ● Large Waveform view for iPad ● XY-Pad Loop Modulation (Loop Length, Loop Start) ● Cut Editor / Sequencer with 4 user save slots ● XY-Pads for selecting 4 Glitch or Cut styles ● Index Tracking keeps the beat on time ● Retrigger pads with quantize ● Pitch Shift ● Pitch Reset ● Independent time settings Whole, Half, Quarter ● Quantize for Cut and Glitch operations ● Recording to 44.1khz 16bit Wav files ● Set custom record length in bars ● Background Audio supports mixing with other apps ● iTunes File Sharing ● Mute ● Reverse ● Mixer view with volume faders per channel. ● Master volume ● Universal app ● Supports the New iPad retina display / iPhone retina display ● Load sounds while playing without hitting stop ● Preset Loading and Saving ● Background Audio Tracks ● Snap to Index System Requirements and Recommendations Glitchbreaks requires iOS 8.1 or higher It is recoomended to run Glitchbreaks on : iPad/iPhone4/iPod Touch 4th Gen higher.
GlitchScaper
Create unique glitchy patterns and soundscapes with a rhythm machine featuring six sound generators and a two-layer cycle sequencer. Explore random sequence and tone generation, advanced effects, and spatial audio processing.
- Six sound generators
- Two-layer cycle sequencer
- Random sequence and tone generation
- Advanced effects and envelopes
- Spatial audio processing
- MIDI support
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GlitchScaper is a rhythm machine with six sound generators, each controlled by a two-layer cycle sequencer, designed to easily create glitchy patterns and scapes. To quickly find new ideas, each generator has separate options for making sequences and tones. The parameters of the new sequences and tones are set randomly, but are guided by several user-defined options, which in outline define the steps of the sequence and the type of tone or noise. This allows you make a quick draft of a pattern and then simply tweak it to get the final sound. The advanced copy function gives you ability to quickly make a new preset by copying sequences and tones from existing ones. The tone generator makes bright and rich sounds based on 12 complex waveforms or various types of noise, and can also use an external input as a signal source. Effects transform the tone from smoothly varying to full of squeaks and rattles. Each effect is modulated by a special envelope generator with different shapes that change throughout the sequencer step. The sound generators have individual spatial effects, as well as a common reverb space for all generators that adds an ambient layer to the final mix. The final mix can be even brighter and heavy or pumping with the built-in harmonic exciter and bass enhancer. The intuitive interface and powerful sound design features make this application super convenient for creating your own, unique sound. GlitchScaper is great for creating simple beats with an interesting and unusual sound, but it was originally designed for digital distorted patterns with longer steps that blend perfectly with the rhythms of classic drum machines and sequencers. GlitchScaper is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). GlitchScaper works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, and supports Audiobus and Ableton Link. On MacOS, GlitchScaper can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. GlitchScaper has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. A brief overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T50WVIPUPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeF3oBoXp80 You can find more information on GlitchScaper and other experimental audio processing apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GlitchBreaks at $4.99 against GlitchScaper's $15.99. GlitchBreaks also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and chart position (#156 vs unranked). GlitchScaper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On ratings volume, 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
GlitchBreaks costs $4.99 and GlitchScaper $15.99 up front. GlitchBreaks sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. GlitchScaper asks for nothing beyond the download.
GlitchScaper holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of GlitchBreaks's written reviews are positive against 91% of GlitchScaper's.
GlitchBreaks ships an update every 5 weeks, GlitchScaper every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GlitchBreaks | GlitchScaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $15.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (20 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #156 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Matheu | Igor Vasiliev |
Customer experience
GlitchBreaks
GlitchScaper
Bugs and requests
GlitchBreaks
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes on launch after importing samples
- Crashes when changing presets
- White noise output when importing custom audio
- Incompatibility with Audiobus 3
- Cut editor buttons disappear after saving
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- Cut values not saving properly
- Sample stops snapping back to real time on iPad
- Cut button indicator states incorrect
- App crashes with three-finger glitch input
- Preset loading causes crashes
- Audio playback freezes during certain operations
- Crashes on iOS 5.1.1 and older devices
- App closes immediately after opening on some iOS versions
- Memory warnings causing sample loss
- Incompatible with BeatMaker 2 audio paste
- Imported samples play at different BPM
- NanoStudio pasted audio cut in half
Requested features
15 requests- Ability to record own audio directly into app
- Custom sound import without white noise conversion
- Working manual and documentation
- Transport control and MIDI clock synchronization
- Hardware version of the app
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- Multi-screen interface similar to Akai i-MPC
- Ambient record mode for live audio capture
- Parameter automation recording
- Better sample preview before assignment
- Support for longer audio files (3+ minutes)
- WAV editor integration
- Improved cut editor with proper swiping controls
- Support for 24-bit audio quality
- Step sequencer functionality
- Simultaneous playback of multiple loops
GlitchScaper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GlitchBreaks
- BreakLoops Volume 1$1.99
- BreakLoops Volume 2$1.99
GlitchScaper
No in-app purchases









