Beatsogram! vs A«iD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beatsogram!
Transform any audio file into engaging videos with a variety of visualizers and templates. Perfect for social media, this app lets you create shareable video content from music, podcasts, or voice recordings.
- Universal audio-to-video creation
- Multiple video generator styles
- Ready-made video templates
- Customizable background library
- Multiple aspect ratios
- Seamless looping
- High-quality video export
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Transform ANY audio into engaging videos with Beatsogram! Turn music, podcasts, voice recordings, interviews, or any sound into shareable video content. Perfect for social media where video is king! Universal Audio-to-Video Creation Step 1: Import ANY audio — music, podcasts, voice memos, interviews, speeches Step 2: Choose from ready-made templates, or generate custom visuals personalized to your content Step 3: Beatsogram automatically loops visuals to match your audio length Export high-quality videos perfect for every platform 5 Powerful Video Generators Custom Waveform — Personalized audio visualization for podcasts and voice content Custom Vinyl Record — Spinning vinyl with your own artwork Custom Cassette — Retro cassette tape with your image Custom CD — Spinning disc from realistic to artistic styles Simple Background — Your image or color, cleanly behind your audio Ready-Made Video Templates Vinyl Record Player — Classic spinning vinyl aesthetic Cassette Wall — Retro cassette tape vibes Boom Box — Classic boom box style And more — new templates added regularly Wallpaper Library Save your favorite background images once, reuse them across any project. Includes 7 curated wallpapers to get you started — no importing needed. Professional Features Multiple aspect ratios (Square, Vertical, Widescreen) Seamless looping for perfect social media posts Real-time preview while editing High-quality video export optimized for all platforms iCloud sync across all your devices Social Media Superpower Create engaging video content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more. Video gets 5x more engagement than audio alone — Beatsogram makes every audio clip social-ready in minutes. Perfect For: Musicians and audio creators Podcasters sharing episode highlights Content creators and influencers Business professionals sharing audio content Anyone who wants their audio seen, not just heard
A«iD
This app synthesizes video in real time, reacting to audio input. It offers a modular chain of effects to manipulate visuals, allowing for custom masks and intricate distortions. Create unique, psychedelic visual experiences inspired by vintage video synthesizers.
- Audio-reactive video synthesis
- Modular effects chain
- Customizable masks (SVG, PNG, PDF)
- Real-time feedback and distortion
- Color manipulation and remap
- CRT phosphor and DV tape emulation
- Edge detection and raster effects
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A«iD is an audio-reactive video synthesizer inspired by Eric Siegel's legendary EVS Electronic Video Synthesizer from the 1970s. ——— THE CHAIN ——— Modules process the video signal in real time. Stack them in any order, tap to open controls, drag to reorder, long-press to bypass. GEOMETRY SOURCE — Generate a synthetic shape and composite it over the signal. Circle, diamond, bar, cross, ring, triangle, hexagon — or load your own SVG, PNG, or PDF as a custom mask. Position, size, hue, and edge softness are all independently audio-modulatable. FEEDBACK — Route the processed signal back into itself. Pinch and rotate on the canvas to control zoom and spin in real time. KEYER — Unified luma and chroma key in a single module. Cut foreground from background by luminance or isolate a color as a matte. Tap the eyedropper to sample any color directly from the screen. Pairs visually with COMPOSITE in the chain — the signal knows where it's going. COMPOSITE — Layer the processed chain behind a clean camera cut using luma and chroma mattes simultaneously. COLOR MATRIX — Rotate, invert, and cross-channel the RGB color space. Strange colors guaranteed. HUE LFO — Oscillate the hue channel at tempo-synced rates. Psychedelic pulsing locked to the beat. PHOSPHOR DECAY — Emulate CRT phosphor persistence. Past frames linger like burned afterimages. BURN ECHO — Additive frame echo that saturates toward white. Motion leaves a scorched trail. DV TAPE — Analog dropout and compression artifacts from the era of consumer DV camcorders. HALATION — Film halation glow on bright areas. Warm blooming on highlights. CHROMA SMEAR — Horizontal chroma bleed and compression fringing. SCAN DISPLACE — Rutt/Etra-inspired raster displacement. Each scanline shifts horizontally by audio frequency content mapped to vertical position — bass warps the bottom, treble the top. The entire frame becomes a spectrum warp field. EDGE OUTLINE — Sobel edge detection with colored glow, inspired by Stephen Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer. Flat areas go dark; edges light up in the chosen hue and bloom outward. COLORMAP — Remap luminance to color. Five palettes: Thermal (heat vision), Psychedelic (full hue rotation, classic Siegel PCS), Phosphor (P1 green CRT), Ice, and Neon. Every pixel's brightness becomes a new color. RASTER BEND — Distort the scan lines. Warp the geometry of the image itself. MIRROR — Fold, flip, and tile the frame into kaleidoscopic symmetry. TILE — Repeat, scale, and rearrange the frame in a grid. POSTERIZE — Reduce color depth. Hard edges, flat planes, screen-print aesthetics. TRANSFORM — Rotate, scale, and reposition with full affine control. CHANNEL MIX — Blend and cross-route RGB channels independently. ENCODER — NTSC-style composite encoding. Color bleeding and luminance separation. ——— AUDIO REACTOR ——— Every knob can be wired to the live audio signal. A»iD listens constantly and extracts amplitude, bass, mid and treble bands, beat phase, BPM, onset triggers, and spectral centroid. Seven LFOs run at BPM subdivisions. Open the Patch Bay to wire any source to any parameter in any module. Stack multiple sources on one knob. Set amount and polarity per patch. ——— RANDOMIZE ——— Shake the device (or hit the die) to randomize the whole chain. Palette Lock freezes hue and saturation through dice rolls. Sleeper Mode locks each module's bypass state — sleeping modules stay asleep, active modules stay awake. Everything re-rolls around your intention. ——— SYNC & CONTROL ——— ABLETON LINK — Lock BPM and beat phase with Ableton Live, AUM, Loopy, and any Link-compatible app on your network. MIDI — Auto-learns CC from any wired or Bluetooth MIDI controller. Long-press any knob to assign. OSC — Receive /aid/ messages from TouchOSC or Max/MSP over Wi-Fi.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: A«iD at Free against Beatsogram!'s $3.99. A«iD also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
A«iD is free to download; Beatsogram! costs $3.99 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 — 5.0 for Beatsogram! against 5.0 for A«iD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A«iD has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Beatsogram! ships an update every 2 months, A«iD every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beatsogram! | A«iD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Juan Maguid | JOEL CHRISTOPHER RAKOWSKI |
Customer experience
Beatsogram!
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In-app purchases
Beatsogram!
No in-app purchases
A«iD
No in-app purchases









