Comparison

Riffler Flow vs Strum

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

Head to head
About

Riffler Flow

Instantly generate clean, arpeggio-based guitar riffs for various music genres. Explore preset styles or customize your own unique sounds with realistic tones and extensive chord options. Ideal for producers, songwriters, and musicians seeking creative inspiration.

Highlights
  • Instant arpeggio-based riff generation
  • Preset styles for Hip-Hop, Pop, EDM, Rock
  • Customizable settings for personalization
  • AUv3 plugin integration
  • Realistic guitar and synth tones
  • Chord and progression generator
  • Tablature output
Features
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Introducing Riffler Flow – Create instant clean guitar riffs. The original Riffler was perfect for instantly making heavy, distorted, scale based riffs. Riffler Flow is a brand new app that instantly generates softer, clean, arpeggio based riffs at the press of a button. Unleash a torrent of clean guitar arpeggios with Riffler Flow, the go-to app for crafting catchy and copyright-free riffs tailored for modern genres. Simply tap "Create" and let the magic of arpeggios elevate your music production to new heights. PRESETS Dive into the world of Riffler Flow by selecting from a diverse range of preset styles specifically curated for Hip-Hop, Pop, EDM and Rock. Tap "Create" and watch as unique arpeggio-driven riffs come to life. Each riff is presented in intuitive tablature format, allowing you to both listen and save your musical creations. CUSTOMIZATION For those seeking a deeper level of control, Riffler Flow offers an extensive array of customizable settings. Fine-tune and personalize your riffs to you to create your signature sound. WHO WOULD USE RIFFLER FLOW? • Music producers and beatmakers exploring fresh, clean guitar elements for their tracks. • Songwriters looking for a burst of inspiration to infuse their compositions with captivating arpeggios. • Artists and musicians in search of a virtual guitarist to elevate their sound in limitless jam sessions. • Producers aiming to distinguish themselves by building a library of distinctive arpeggio riffs, setting their work apart from the crowd. • Ultimately, Riffler Flow is great fun – ideal for anyone eager to experiment and craft their own musical masterpieces! AUv3 PLUGIN Riffler Flow stands as both a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin, seamlessly integrating into host music applications. Sync it within your preferred host app, sending audio and MIDI to other effects, synths, samplers, and virtual instruments. REALISTIC TONES Riffler Flow's cutting-edge audio engine ensures breathtakingly realistic guitar tones, delivering a clean and vibrant sonic palette for your arpeggio explorations. There are various guitar tones featuring different effects along with an atmospheric reversed guitar sound and various different synth tones. There are additional delay and reverb controls for each sound. CHORDS AND PROGRESSION GENERATOR Riffler Flow features 28 different chord types ranging from basic major and minor chords to advanced jazz voicings. Chords can be entered manually or entire progression can be generated automatically by Riffler Flow. The generated progressions can be fined tuned using the "Character", "Complexity" and "Changes" controls.

About

Strum

Features
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Strum is a clean, focused tablature editor for ukulele, guitar, and electric guitar. Write a song, drop in chords, set a strum pattern, and hear it back on a real recorded instrument, all on one screen, laid out the way fretted-instrument players think about a song. » Tab-first editing › Choose what you see: standard staff, tablature, beat counters, chord boxes, chord names, strum directions, and lyrics. › Tap a beat to add a chord or frets, then step on to the next without closing. Copy a measure and paste it anywhere, or duplicate whole sections. › Section labels, repeat barlines, and per-section time signatures: a 5/4 bridge inside a 4/4 song is a two-tap change. » Capo, written the way songbooks write it › Set a capo on any song and playback moves to the real sounding pitch, while the tab keeps showing the frets you actually hold. › Chord names do not change (a C shape is still "C"), and a "Capo 3" badge sits on the song and on exported PDFs. › Standard notation follows the capo, because notation shows what you hear. › The tuner knows too: tune the open strings, then check the capoed pitches. » Real instruments, not a synth › In Instrument mode nothing you hear is synthesised. The ukulele was recorded note by note for this app, so chords ring and fade like the real thing, body taps and chucks included. › Guitar and electric guitar are sampled from real instruments too. If you would rather have the lighter built-in synth, it is one switch in Settings, set per device. » Pay once, play forever › No subscriptions, no accounts, no ads. Buy Strum once, and it's yours. » Every tuning, and a tuner that knows them › Ukulele: high-G, low-G, Baritone. Guitar and electric guitar: Standard, E-flat Standard, Drop D, Drop C, each with its own full chord library. › Build a custom tuning at any open-string pitch, or hide the ones you never use. Copy a song into another tuning with the same chord shapes. › The built-in tuner handles all of them, custom ones included, and can set a custom tuning by ear from a plucked string. › An adaptive noise gate learns your room's background noise, so the needle stays steady. › Concert pitch from 415 Hz to 446 Hz: an ensemble at 442 or a baroque group at 415 is one tap away. » Practice › Follow tab highlights the current beat and chord as it plays, auto-scrolling your tab hands-free. › The in-song metronome locks to your sheet music's time signature and subdivision, so it never drifts out of phase. › Rhythm Training builds speed with automated tempo ramps and a live progress dashboard. › Drop-Out Training mutes the click after a few measures, to test whether you drift. » Chords and strum patterns › A library of common ukulele and guitar shapes ready to drop into a beat, plus your own built in the multi-fret finger editor. › Change a fingering globally, or long-press a chord in the beat editor to override it for one song. › Build strum patterns from up and down strokes, arpeggios, fingerstyle, chucks, mutes, and rests. Save them, browse the built-in library by time signature, or set per-song and per-section overrides. » iPhone, iPad, and Mac › Strum scales from a quick lookup on your phone to a full editing surface on iPad or Mac. Your library syncs through your private iCloud account, so a song you wrote on the couch is waiting on your iPad at practice. › Sort each folder by title, artist or last edit, or drag songs into your own order, such as a setlist. » PDF export and sharing › Export any song as a clean PDF or image to print and share, or send the native .strum file to other players. It opens straight from Mail, Messages, AirDrop or Files. » Private by default › Songs, folders, sections, custom chords, tunings, patterns, and preferences sync through your private Apple CloudKit database. › The microphone is used only for tuning. Audio is processed on-device and never recorded or sent anywhere. › No analytics, no third-party servers. Your songs never leave Apple's infrastructure.

Screenshots

Riffler Flow4 screens
Strum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Strum at $3.99 against Riffler Flow's $14.99. Riffler Flow's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Riffler Flow costs $14.99 and Strum $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Riffler Flow ships an update weekly, Strum every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Riffler Flow versus Strum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiffler FlowStrum
Price$14.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.1 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size780 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan BellMateusz Dabrowski

In-app purchases

None

Riffler Flow

No in-app purchases

None

Strum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Riffler Flow free?
Riffler Flow costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strum free?
Strum costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Riffler Flow or Strum have ads?
Neither Riffler Flow nor Strum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Riffler Flow or Strum?
Riffler Flow ships an update weekly, and Strum every 5 days. Most recently, Riffler Flow was updated on November 4, 2026 and Strum on October 31, 2026.

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