Comparison

Surreal Machines Diffuse vs Gatefold

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

Head to head
About

Surreal Machines Diffuse

This audio effect plugin blends analog-modeled delay with classic digital reverb, allowing users to morph between the two for unique soundscapes. It offers intuitive control over smearing, echoes, and damping, inspired by vintage hardware.

Highlights
  • Analog-modeled delay
  • Classic digital reverb
  • Morphing between delay and reverb
  • Nonlinearities and tape-style delay
  • Intuitive control over smearing, echoes, damping
  • AUV3 plugin compatibility
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Diffuse is inspired by classic hardware delay and reverb effects from the 1970’s and 1980’s. It takes a Surreal Machines look at the frontier between delays and reverbs. It's an analog/digital hybrid - an analog modeled delay fused with a classic reverb design used in early digital units. In Diffuse you get more than the best of both worlds - you can morph between delays and reverbs, and find all kinds of fantastical sounds in between the two. You’ll also find plenty of nonlinearities and smooth tape-style delay changes. Diffuse gives you complete control over smearing, echoes and damping in the most intuitive ways possible. ****** Diffuse is an Audio Unit V3 plugin; it benefits from an AUV3 host like Logic, GarageBand, Cubasis, FL Studio Mobile, AUM, etc.

About

Gatefold

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Gatefold is a social listening journal for album lovers. Log what you listen to, rate it, write about it, and build a wall of the albums that mean the most to you. - Log listens: Rate albums and write reviews - Track moments: mark the parts of individual tracks that hit you - Your wall: a curated shelf of albums, your taste on the Wall - Connections: curated sets that link the albums in your collection by finding the thread that connects them (producers, studios, etc.) - Follow friends, browse their walls, see what they're listening to - Missing an album? Submit it and help expand the database of our growing community! Built for people who still listen to albums front to back.

Screenshots

Surreal Machines Diffuse1 screens
Gatefold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gatefold at Free against Surreal Machines Diffuse's $7.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

Gatefold is free to download; Surreal Machines Diffuse costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Surreal Machines Diffuse versus Gatefold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurreal Machines DiffuseGatefold
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSurreal MachinesLUCAS EMILIO CU UNJIENG

In-app purchases

None

Surreal Machines Diffuse

No in-app purchases

None

Gatefold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Surreal Machines Diffuse free?
Surreal Machines Diffuse costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gatefold free?
Gatefold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Surreal Machines Diffuse or Gatefold have ads?
Neither Surreal Machines Diffuse nor Gatefold shows ads.

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