Comparison

Splat vs Things

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

Head to head
About

Splat

Create hard-hitting urban beats with a vast library of drum sounds and advanced synthesis. Import your own samples, utilize built-in effects, and route audio for professional mixing. Perfect for aspiring and experienced producers alike.

Highlights
  • 10,000 Drum Sounds
  • 750 Beat Chops & Kits with MIDI
  • Import Your Own Samples
  • Host Plugin Effects
  • Full Synthesis for Pads
  • Route Pads to Individual Outs
  • Swing Groove Templates
Features
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The Ultimate Urban Drum Rompler If you've always wanted to make the phattest urban beats with incredible hard-hitting drum sounds, but never spent the years being a beat chopper or crate digger, then this library is for you. It takes years to properly learn how to chop samples, rip breakbeats, create the right "swing", and run it all through the expensive hardware to get those perfect drums. This library does all of this for you. And for the experienced producer, you have access to advanced features like importing your own drums with MIDI and running them through our synthesis and incredible effects. Route pads to separate audio outs, use your own plugin FX inside the app, and get full access to synthesizer type programming to make for the ultimate urban drum rompler! Highlights: - 10,000 Combined Drum Sounds - 750 Beat Chops & Kits with MIDI - Load/Save your Own Samples - Host your own Plugin Effects - Insert FX, Global & Master Buss - Full Synthesis for Pads 1-12 - Route Pads to Individual Outs - Dedicated "Slug" Knob - Swing Groove Templates Factory Preset Style The factory presets come with Kits, Full Loops, and Chops from the Loops all in the style of Boom-Bap, Lo-Fi, Hip-Hop Soul, Vinyl and Chill-Hop. Similar to these artists: The Roots, J Dilla, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, and the Wu-Tang, etc.. Use Chops for Drums Any beat maker knows that loop chops represent the phatest sound. So along with the chops on each pad, you can tweak the chopped drums in order to create your own kits from the chops. Sampled from Hardware No drum sounds will ever sound good if they are not sampled from the correct hardware. We use all of the industry standard and our own secret gems in order to produce the hardest hitting drums. Secret Weapon Features: - Alias Name and Tagging for Drum Sounds - Route Drum Sounds to Separate Outputs - Load Your Own Plugins into FX Slots - Ability to Export MIDI Patterns - Save Presets with MIDI Data Embeded - Dedicated Knob to Lay Behind the Beat - Use Chops as Drum Sounds - 5-Insert FX Per Pad 1-12 Route Audio Outputs to any Channel Our app gives you the ability to route any drum pad sound to any output on your multi-channel audio device. This is paramount for mixing drums and separating them out for more flexibility when editing and mastering. Stacking and Layering With 36-pads, you can even stack and layer different drum sounds, which is a very popular producer trick. Simply assign the same MIDI Note to multiple sounds and stack as many drums as you want with one hit. This is how producers get those "out of this world" phat drum sounds. Amazing Effects In partnership with Overloud™, we have the full version of the famous Vintage Keyboard FX Suite of effects readily available. We also have licensed a ton of other high quality effects, all with very lush, warm, and vintage sounds. Each pad 1-12 can have up to 5 insert effects per pad, along with global and master busses. Every knob/fader can be MIDI learned, so you can adjust effects in real-time with a controller. Run the entire beat through a crazy reverb or phaser to instantly change the entire "feel" of the beat or drum sound. Our FX arsenal is so vast that you will spend months just exploring all of the possibilities.

About

Things

This audio effect plugin offers a voice-optimized compressor inspired by a vintage German radio broadcast instrument. It provides a simple one-knob interface for achieving loud yet smooth vocal tones, with optional tube gain saturation and a euphonic EQ for authoritative bass.

Highlights
  • Voice-optimized compressor
  • One-knob simplicity
  • Vintage German radio broadcast design
  • Tube gain saturation
  • Euphoric EQ for bass boost
Features
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Things - Voice is a simple one-knob "throw it on and it sounds good" compressor for voice-over and vocals. Based on our channel strip Dials it gives you everything you need to make your voice loud yet smooth. The compressor is an unusual and complex design from a German 1950 radio broadcast instrument. If you desire to get even closer to that unit's vintage tone, add authentically modded tube gain with the saturation button. For an authoritative bass boost we have added a rather euphonic EQ that excites just the right frequencies. This is the seventh plugin in our ongoing collaboration with Berlin musician and video personality Hainbach.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Splat at 64% against Things's 0%. Splat also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (31 vs 8). Things's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and price ($6.99 vs $14.99). On ads and iOS requirement 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

Splat costs $14.99 and Things $6.99 up front. Splat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Things asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Things holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Splat's written reviews are positive against 0% of Things's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splat ships an update every 5 months, Things every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Splat versus Things: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplatThings
Price$14.99$6.99 — better
Rating4.2 (31 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings31 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 25 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size341 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMIDIculous LLCAudioThing Ltd.

Customer experience

Splat

All ratings31 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral12.9%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral17.9%
Negative17.9%

Things

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Splat

One-time1
  • Splat-to-Click Vol 1$12.99
None

Things

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Splat free?
Splat costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Things free?
Things costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Splat or Things?
Things is rated higher. Splat averages 4.2 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Things averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Splat or Things have ads?
Neither Splat nor Things shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splat or Things?
Splat ships an update every 5 months, and Things every 25 months. Most recently, Splat was updated on October 16, 2026 and Things on October 15, 2026.

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