Yellofier vs VS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yellofier
Transform any sound into music with this innovative app. Record your voice, instruments, or everyday noises, and instantly create groovy tracks. Edit sounds and effects with an intuitive block-based interface, even without prior music knowledge.
- Record any sound
- Automatic sound slicing for grooves
- Create melodies with pitch changes
- Innovative step sequencer
- Bundled sounds by Boris Blank
- Share your music
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Yellofier makes anything into music. Record your voice, a musical instrument or everyday noises. Within seconds the app magically turns them into groovy music. #1 in Music (iPad) in 8 countries, top 10 in 50 countries. Top 5 in 3 countries (iPhone). Edit the sounds and effects by moving and twisting colored blocks. Yellofier doesn’t look like any other music program. You can create a full song within minutes – even without knowing anything about music! Create unique music with your own sounds and with the sounds of Yello’s musical maestro Boris Blank. The Yellofier also includes sounds and songs by some of the greatest musicians within electronic music. Anything can be yellofied! • Automatically slice your sound into 8 pieces and create a groove • Record up to 16 custom sounds per song, divided into two user sound banks • Combine sounds and effects in an innovative step sequencer • Change pitch of each step to create melodies • Multiple effects and variations • Share your work • 112 bundled sounds by Boris Blank • Songs and sounds by the finest artists within electronic music: Carl Craig, Henrik Schwarz, The Orb, Trentemøller, Booka Shade, Orbital, The The, Thomas Fehlmann, Charles Webster, Håkan Lidbo and more… • Record the sound of other Audiobus compatible apps • Play back the sound into other Audiobus compatible apps For best sound, use headphones. NOTE: Since version 1.2, the preview-sound function changed from single tap to long-press! So the functionality is not gone, but we changed to long-press to not interfere with the music. The demo tracks in Yellofier are under copyright protection. Learn more about Yellofier and discover more of Yello’s music at yello.com Produced by Boris Blank Developed by Jonatan Liljedahl Designed by Håkan Ullberg Concept by Håkan Lidbo Presented by Electronic Beats – Telekom’s international music program. electronicbeats.net Here is an online tutorial video: http://vimeo.com/62158758
VS
Generate dynamic, audio-reactive visuals for your music projects. This app offers extensive customization with layers, shaders, images, and video, allowing you to perform visuals live or record them for your tracks. Integrate seamlessly with DAWs and external displays.
- 8 polyphonic visual layers
- Shader, image, and video materials
- Modulation matrix
- AUv3 plugin support
- Live performance output
- Built-in video recorder
- Custom shader editor
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VS provides a creative way to generate beautiful graphical representations of your music projects. Driven by both audio and MIDI data, VS is the visual equivalent of a traditional synthesizer. VS takes the concept of music visualisation to a whole new level of customisation and expression, putting you in control and giving you the power to perform however you want. VS is powered by 8 flexible layers which can use shaders, images or videos, allowing you to create generative graphics that you can interact with and layer on top of each other to create complex evolving visuals. With customizable parameters, a modulation matrix and an array of blend modes, use your audio and/or MIDI to trigger and manipulate your layers accordingly with your music. You can even import and create your own shaders to give your visuals a more personal feeling. As the name suggests, VS - Visual Synthesizer can be played live like an audio synthesizer; use your MIDI keyboard to make each layer come alive with the concept of ‘polyphonic visual voices’. As well as a standalone app, VS includes an AUv3 plugin version, so you can run it directly inside your favourite iOS DAW programs like AUM, Drambo, BAM, Cubasis, Loopy Pro, Groove Rider 2, Logic Pro etc. You can now give your existing projects a visual touch of creativity. Simply route the MIDI and audio of your tracks and watch the magic happen. You can connect your mobile device to an external screen or projector for a live visual performance. If you prefer to create a video for your music, the built-in recorder lets you capture both visuals and audio. Record in landscape or portrait mode, with multiple output resolutions available. We partnered with new media artist ‘Perplex On’ to bring you a factory preset bank full of amazing interactive visuals you can start using right away to create dazzling animations and make your music move in a whole new medium. With an ever growing collection of expansions, you can further augment your visual arsenal with preset packs created by handpicked new media art talents. Features: - 8 Polyphonic visual layers (with blend modes) - 4 voices per layer - 32 built-in material effects - Layer material can be a shader, image or a video - Background layer with solid color/image/video - 4 LFO’s with SIN, SQR, TRI, SAW, S&H and filtered S&H - 2 EG’s with ADSR controls - 4 Dual-mode Audio Modulators (envelope and frequency band detection) - Modulation matrix - Full Screen mode - HDMI output for external screen/projector - NDI output - Built-in audio player with MIDI support - Built-in video recorder - Built-in material code editor for custom material creation - Exclusive factory presets by Perplex On
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Yellofier at $5.99 against VS's $24.99. Yellofier also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 16.1). VS's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Yellofier costs $5.99 and VS $24.99 up front. VS sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Yellofier asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Yellofier against 4.6 for VS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 125 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Yellofier's written reviews are positive against 80% of VS's.
Yellofier ships an update every 4 months, VS every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yellofier | VS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $24.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (38 ratings) — better | 4.6 (125 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better | 80.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 125 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #187 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 787 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Boris Blank | Imaginando Lda |
Customer experience
Yellofier
VS
User reviews
Yellofier
From 38 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎵 Unique and intuitive music creation interface
- 👍 Easy to learn and use for beginners
- 🎨 Creative and inspiring sound manipulation
- ⚡ Quick beat and loop generation
- 🎧 High-quality pre-loaded Yello samples
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes on iOS 8 and later versions
- 🐛 App freezes and becomes unresponsive
- 🐛 Microphone recording issues on newer iOS
- 🚫 Cannot close app without restarting phone
- 🚫 No longer appears in iOS sharing menu
VS
From 125 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Awesome audiovisual workflow
- 💡 Powerful yet easy to use
- 🎨 Great for getting vibes out
- 🌟 Expands musical aspirations visually
- 🎛️ Easy to work with (Imaginando apps)
Room to improve
- 🐛 No elegant way for live synchronized video out
- 🔌 Popout to external displays only in standalone app
- 🚫 Standalone app can't run in background
- 🎛️ Doesn't work well plugged into looper or DAW
- ❌ Not fun at all
Bugs and requests
Yellofier
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on iOS 8 and beyond
- Microphone input produces noise/distortion
- App doesn't appear in iOS sharing menu
- Cannot close app without phone restart
- Audiobus compatibility broken
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- GarageBand integration no longer works
- Audio export only saves one loop instead of full song
- App runs constantly in background draining battery
- Bluetooth audio output distorted
- Screen doesn't optimize for iPhone 5 display
- App incompatible with iOS 13.3 on older devices
Requested features
20 requests- MIDI sync and clock synchronization
- Ableton Link support
- Audio Unit (AUv3) plugin support
- Multiple sample recording slots
- Sample editing and trimming capabilities
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- Swing and triplet timing options
- More than 4 tracks/channels
- Extended recording length
- Individual track panning
- ADSR envelope controls
- Undo/redo functionality
- Separate track export (stems)
- Custom sample bank saving
- Audio import from other apps
- Bluetooth audio output support
- iPhone 5 display optimization
- More preset sample banks
- Ability to work on multiple songs simultaneously
- Delay effects with tempo sync
- LP/HP filters and additional effects
VS
Reported bugs
15 issues- No elegant way to get live synchronized video out
- Popout to external displays only in standalone app, which can’t run in background
- Video record export issue: videos are 30+ minutes when recorded for shorter duration
- NDI stream not working
- App crashes frequently
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- Cannot cope with 'large' MP3 files (around 10MB)
- No way to seek to anywhere but the beginning of audio files
- Does not support .aiff files (only .aif)
- Missing Bluetooth MIDI support
- App is not smooth and freezes
- No MP3 support
- Jaggy and slow performance with video file background and one material layer
- Unresponsive interface and frame rate drops with HD video
- In-app help does not work
- AUv3 mode displays AUM stuff and app menus, destroying aesthetics
Requested features
20 requests- Integrate an audio tool for Spotify/other audio sources
- Allow using any graphic or photo content as a layer
- Hope for Metal rendering for super performance shaders
- More ways to interact between layers (displacement, feedback)
- Post-processing effects (luma key, feedback, kaleidoscope, mirror)
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- Option to load videos and images in layers other than B layer
- More flexible/bigger choice of MIDI controllable artifacts
- Use MIDI to trigger pre-programmed words
- Ability to change font size in materials code editor
- Pause and resume feature for audio playback
- Ability to set play cursor anywhere in the middle of the file
- iCloud file sharing
- HDMI output for live use
- Save audio file with the patch in standalone mode
- Deeper mutating possibilities for items
- Other textural possibilities with imported images
- More mod sources for audio reactivity, device tilt, camera brightness, gestures
- Option to create own materials from scratch (shader coding)
- Cover the whole display in AUv3 mode (e.g., two-finger double tap)
- Add shaders to the library
In-app purchases
Yellofier
No in-app purchases
VS
- Retina Refill Preset Pack$17.99
- Textural Memories Preset Pack$17.99
- Cyber Spells Preset Pack$17.99
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- Retro Riot Preset Pack$17.99
- Raw Reflections Preset Pack$17.99
- Noir Cuts Preset Packs$17.99






