Swarm II vs HeatonCA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swarm II
Enhance your gaming audio experience with advanced customization. This app allows you to update headset firmware, fine-tune audio and microphone settings, and create personalized equalizers for superior sound.
- Firmware updates
- Audio settings customization
- Microphone settings customization
- Custom EQ design
- Premium audio quality enhancement
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The Turtle Beach Swarm II app is designed for the latest generation of our award winning gaming headsets which bring premium audio quality, exceptional chat clarity and unmatched comfort to your gaming multiverse. Swarm II keeps you up-to-date with the latest product firmware and allows you to customize audio & microphone settings, design custom EQs, and more.
HeatonCA
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Evolve colorful cellular automata rulesets and view existing ones. A gallery of known cellular automata is built into this application, additionally you can evolve your own new rules. This application implements the algorithm described in the paper: Evolving continuous cellular automata for aesthetic objectives in Genetic Programming Evolvable Machines, Heaton, J. March (2018). You can try out three different rulesets provided by this program. For more details of the algorithm refer to the cited paper.
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Verdict
Swarm II and HeatonCA are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Swarm II | HeatonCA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (14K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turtle Beach, Inc. | Jeffrey Heaton |
Bugs and requests
Swarm II
Reported bugs
4 issues- Firmware update issues
- Headset disconnects randomly
- Volume controls not working
- Microphone not functioning properly
Requested features
4 requests- Landscape mode support
- Numerical EQ settings
- Persistent settings
- Improved mic monitoring controls
HeatonCA
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Swarm II
No in-app purchases
HeatonCA
No in-app purchases
