Comparison

iPulsaret vs soundfruuze

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

Head to head
About

iPulsaret

This app offers a real-time granular synthesis playground for iPad, generating diverse audio effects. It provides extensive control over grain parameters and includes a post-effects chain. Users can shape sounds, manipulate live input, and save presets.

Highlights
  • Real-time granular synthesis
  • Live input manipulation
  • Grain control and shaping
  • Post FX chain (Echo, Reverb, Filters)
  • Snapshot presets morphing pad
  • AUv3 support
Features
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iPulsaret is rated as a Killer App by Apps4iDevices. iPulsaret is a new real-time software capable of all time-domain varieties of granular synthesis. A genuine granular playground able to generate a wide range of usual and not so usual effects: Grainlet, Trainlet, FM, time/pitch shifting, time/pitch jittering, intricate textures, grain fountain/pulverizer, Live Input manipulation and many more. Control and shape grains, anytime, anywhere with iPulsaret for iPad. - Full AUv3 support - 32 Polyphony Voices - Granulation Sources: Wave, Trainlet, Sample, Live and Harmonic - Grain Envelope Deformation - Grain Glisson Sweep - Grainlet Linkage - ADSR Note Envelope - Snapshots Presets Morphing Pad - Sharing common audio files via iTunes, Dropbox AudioCopy etc... - Post FX chain: Echo, Ring Modulation, Lowpass Ladder and High Shelf filters, Reverb FDN and Dynamic Compressor/Expander - Capture Master Audio Output - Keyboard Musical Scales, up to 35 + User Defined Scale - etc...

About

soundfruuze

This app records and manipulates the last 10 seconds of live audio. It offers five lanes, each with unique sound manipulation effects like granular synthesis, looping, and FFT processing. Customize sound by touching lanes, controlling parameters like speed, pitch, and effects.

Highlights
  • Live audio recording and manipulation
  • Five customizable effect lanes
  • Granular synthesis and scrubbing
  • FFT-based freezing and looping
  • Frequency shifter, ring modulation, reverb
  • Looper with adjustable speed and pitch
Features
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'soundfruuze' is an exprerimental live sampler / looper / granular and FFT scrub effect It records live the recent 10 seconds of audio and allows you to manipulate it with special controls. The interface is divided into five “lanes”, sound is produced by touching the lanes. Each lane can be set up to use different effect and has various control parameters mapped to the touch position: Scratch Most basic lane type. You can control the volume of the resulting sound and smoothness of the position interpolation. Lesser smooth value produces the sound with more high frequencies. Speed Another basic playback type. Starts playing from the position in the sound that you selected with touch. Vertical position controls playback speed, horizontal parameter is assignable. Granular Freeze Allows you to select the sound at some position and use both horizontal and vertical coordinates of touch as 2 independent parameters. You can control volume, playback speed (pitch) and the grain size. Granular Scrub This type of lane is very similar to granular freeze but it allows to change the position of the grain after its start. Granular Stream This lane type enables granular playback with random parameters. You can randomise grain position in the selected range, speed, grain size and pan. There is special control for that type lane. The 2-dimensional slider is assignable so you can change 2 parameters for each touch independently. FFT Freeze and FFT Scrub In both FFT types of lanes another algorithm is used to process sound. In both FFT Freeze and Scrub sound is analyzed with the FFT transform and divided into frames. FFT Freeze allows you to select the frame at the desired sample position and to play it making the sound “freeze” at this point. Looper This lane type allows you to make loops / repeat large grains of sound. When you touch a looper lane, a new looper control is created and is kept there until you turn it off with the red ‘close’ button. You can change loop speed, volume, size and position for each loop individually or for all loops on one lane together using additional controls FFT Looper This type works the same way as basic Looper but allows to change playback speed while keeping the pitch. It uses FFT algorithm for playback allowing constant pitch for any playback speed and the same FFT effects (gate and phase randomisation) Each lane has also five effects: - Frequency shifter - Ring modulation - Sample-and-hold (" lo-fi") - HP/LP filter - Reverb

Screenshots

iPulsaret4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: soundfruuze at $6.99 against iPulsaret's $9.99. soundfruuze also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

iPulsaret costs $9.99 and soundfruuze $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for iPulsaret against 4.8 for soundfruuze. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of iPulsaret's written reviews are positive against 79% of soundfruuze's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPulsaret ships an update every 3 weeks, soundfruuze fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iPulsaret versus soundfruuze: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPulsaretsoundfruuze
Price$9.99$6.99 — better
Rating4.8 (31 ratings)4.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews — better78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings31 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperapeSoftAlexey Nadzharov

Customer experience

iPulsaret

All ratings31 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative16.3%

soundfruuze

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

iPulsaret

No in-app purchases

None

soundfruuze

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPulsaret free?
iPulsaret costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is soundfruuze free?
soundfruuze costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iPulsaret or soundfruuze?
iPulsaret and soundfruuze are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 31 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do iPulsaret or soundfruuze have ads?
Neither iPulsaret nor soundfruuze shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPulsaret or soundfruuze?
iPulsaret ships an update every 3 weeks, and soundfruuze fortnightly. Most recently, iPulsaret was updated on October 18, 2026 and soundfruuze on October 14, 2026.

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