Comparison

OUTSIDIFY vs Booth Assist

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

Booth Assist

Features
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Built by a DJ for DJs: a number you can trust on one dark screen, related tempos ready for half-time, double-time, and polyrhythmic blends, and a sound level meter riding alongside. Nothing in the way. Most BPM apps are built to be downloaded, not used: free with ads, upsells standing between you and the number you came for, and readings that wander every time the kick drops out. Booth Assist is the opposite. Pay once and it is yours: no subscriptions, no ads, and every update free. No account and no data collection: audio is analyzed live on the device and never recorded. MADE BY A DJ, MEASURED LIKE IT MATTERS The detector was built and tuned by a working DJ against their own library, then scored against professionally analyzed two-decimal BPMs on a ~300-track test set spanning house, minimal, techno, DnB, and more. The results: 86% of the full set reads within 1 BPM of truth, 92% on club genres, and the median error on correct locks is 0.01 BPM. The same numbers hold under simulated booth conditions like echo, crowd noise, and muffled highs. Core techniques are adapted from published beat-tracking research and re-tested on real music before anything ships. WHO IT IS FOR Vinyl DJs who want a live tempo readout without touching a laptop. Hybrid DJs bridging turntables and CDJs mid-set. Digital DJs playing B2B with vinyl friends: read the record's tempo in seconds and dial it into your deck. Promoters, production staff, and sound engineers who want a quick secondary level check, inside the venue and out. BUILT FOR THE BOOTH Night mode is minimal, dim, and red: legible to dark-adapted eyes and discreet enough not to light up the booth. Day mode flips to bright white with heavier type for daylight sets and outdoor stages. Either way, the number is designed to be read across a room. MORE THAN ONE NUMBER Related tempos: live 2:1 and 1:2 readouts for double-time and half-time blends, plus 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, and 2:3 for polyrhythmic mixing. Pin a tempo with a long-press so the detector cannot override it, or tap it in yourself. Sound level meter: an estimated A-weighted reading with peak hold and a calibration slider to match a meter you trust. Your display, your rules: hide either readout to go full screen with the other, and show whole numbers, tenths, or hundredths. Locks in about ten seconds, refines to two decimals the longer it listens, and never fakes certainty: no readable tempo means the display says so. ABOUT THE dB METER iPhone microphones saturate around 100 dB, so above that Booth Assist shows an honest floor like "97+" instead of a made-up number. It is not a replacement for a calibrated booth meter and not a tool for sound-ordinance compliance. Use it to check levels around and outside the venue, next door, or in the booth when the reading sits confidently below 100 dB.

Screenshots

OUTSIDIFY4 screens
Booth Assist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Booth Assist at $2.99 against OUTSIDIFY's $5.99. 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

OUTSIDIFY costs $5.99 and Booth Assist $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
OUTSIDIFY versus Booth Assist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOUTSIDIFYBooth Assist
Price$5.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.9 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.2 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBASTL INSTRUMENTSSpencer Russell

In-app purchases

None

OUTSIDIFY

No in-app purchases

None

Booth Assist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OUTSIDIFY free?
OUTSIDIFY costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Booth Assist free?
Booth Assist costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do OUTSIDIFY or Booth Assist have ads?
Neither OUTSIDIFY nor Booth Assist shows ads.

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