OUTSIDIFY vs Tone Chroma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OUTSIDIFY
Explore and manipulate ambient sounds using your smartphone's microphone and speaker. Create unique audio effects, capture environmental resonances, and experiment with sound in real-world spaces. Unleash your creativity and discover new sonic possibilities.
- Create feedback loops
- Manipulate external sounds
- Use phone as resonant filter
- Capture impulse responses
- Explore real-world acoustics
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Outsidify allows you to manipulate and explore the sounds happening around your smartphone. The microphone and speaker of your phone are hiding exciting potential: create feedback, manipulate resonances, use your mouth as a resonant filter, capture the impulse responses of your coffee cup or the pipe at the construction site you're accidentally passing by. Just have fun. Your imagination is the only limit. Early electronic music was full of exploration of what you can do with just a microphone and speaker. Now it's your time to explore! Go outside and make sounds outside of your phone. What would you Outsidify? Features - create feedbacks from your phone´s microphone and speaker - play sounds from the speaker and influence them with outside conditions - the world is your resonator - capture impulse responses of any space you can fit your phone into - anytime!
Tone Chroma
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Tone Chroma is an interactive microtonal matrix for iOS, crafted for 21st century musicians. Both musical instrument and visualizer, Tone Chroma's interface breaks through the black-and-white mould of equal temperament and expands harmonic potential into a new universe of color. Features: - Play in real time on the color-coded microtonal tuning matrix with pure harmonic ratios - Seven visualizers — Lissajous curves, concurrent and countercurrent harmonograph, harmonic series, chromatic ring, tonal lattice, cymatics — each rendering sound as living color and form - Explore microtonal scales, ragas, and modal systems beyond 12-tone equal temperament with presets - MIDI input/output for use with external controllers and DAWs - Real-time microtonal note, frequency and interval information - Customizable tuning and chord banks Enter new harmonic horizons with Tone Chroma by exploring pure frequency relationships and synesthetic displays which allow you to hear and see universal vibrational patterns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OUTSIDIFY at $5.99 against Tone Chroma's $14.99. OUTSIDIFY also leads on chart position (#174 vs unranked). 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
OUTSIDIFY costs $5.99 and Tone Chroma $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | OUTSIDIFY | Tone Chroma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #174 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BASTL INSTRUMENTS | William Franke |
In-app purchases
OUTSIDIFY
No in-app purchases
Tone Chroma
No in-app purchases









