Tails vs Arguments
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tails
This music app creates harmonic reverb using novel double-buffered technology and threshold swapping between two separate reverbs. It offers auto-ducking for cleaner sound and includes classic reverb algorithms with new modes. It's designed for performance with MIDI control and works as a standalone app or AUv3 plugin.
- Dual reverb buffers
- Threshold swapping
- Auto-ducking
- Classic and new reverb algorithms
- Spatial and Shimmer modes
- Global Sample Rate control
- MIDI performance control
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Unfiltered Audio's Tails is now available on iOS as a Standalone app or AUv3 plugin! Unfiltered Audio joined forces with electronic music superstar BT to create Tails, the world's most harmonic reverb. Tails utilizes a novel double-buffered technology to create two separate reverbs in parallel. The twist comes with special threshold swapping: Whenever Tails detects a major change in amplitude or tone, it can smoothly swap between the two reverbs. Additionally, Tails can auto-duck on its inputs and outputs. This keeps your reverb as clean as possible. With auto-ducking on attacks, you can keep the metallic noise of percussive hits out of your reverbs. Alternatively, you can keep passing tones and blue notes out of your melodic echoes so that your reverb is free of dissonance. Even without its innovative ducking and swapping, Tails is the most flexible reverb in your arsenal. Two of Unfiltered Audio's classic BYOME reverb algorithms (Renoun and Deep) are available with a Spatial mode inspired by Silo and a brand new Shimmer mode designed to BT's exacting specifications. In true Unfiltered Audio fashion, a global Sample Rate knob affects the sampling rate of the entire DSP algorithm, stretching your reverb tails out into crispy, lo-fi oblivion. Finally, Tails is built to be performed. Your MIDI keyboard's Pitch and Mod wheels can be assigned quickly to a selection of key parameters, while Note messages can be used to manually duck or mute the reverb. As an AUv3 plugin, Tails has been tested to work perfectly with Garageband, Drambo, AUM, Cubasis, Beatmaker, Nanostudio, apeMatrix, Loopy Pro, and more! Additionally, with its clear layout and smart resizing, Tails can be used on tablets and phones with ease. (Note for Drambo users: Drambo does not yet have automatic Plugin Delay Compensation for managing plugins with latency. As a result, tracks with Tails will not line up properly with other tracks. An upcoming patch for Drambo will add this feature in.)
Arguments
This vintage-style audio processing plugin generates unique sounds by combining two signals with complex math. It functions as a tone generator, distortion unit, or multimode filter, encouraging sonic exploration.
- Vintage-style audio processing
- Dual signal combination
- Test tone generation
- Complex distortion unit
- Multimode filter
- Encourages sonic exploration
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Arguments is a vintage-style test equipment plugin for tone generation and dual audio processing. It takes two signals and smashes them together using math derived from analog nuclear research processors. The results are dynamic, often unpredictable but always unique. Since each part of Arguments can run independently, it also works as a sonically rich test tone generator, as a complex distortion unit, or as a multimode filter. Arguments open nature rewards exploration, the presets are a mere suggestion for you to jump off from.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tails at $9.99 against Arguments's $19.99. On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Tails costs $9.99 and Arguments $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tails against 5.0 for Arguments. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Tails | Arguments |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Unfiltered Audio | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
Tails
Arguments
In-app purchases
Tails
No in-app purchases
Arguments
No in-app purchases









