plugdata vs Jamful Looper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
plugdata
This app provides a visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping, and education. It allows users to create and run audio patches on their mobile devices, enabling creative sound design on the go.
- Visual programming environment
- Audio experimentation
- Prototyping
- Educational tool
- Standalone application
- Audio plugins
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plugdata is visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping and education. With plugdata for iOS, you can bring your plugdata patches with you everywhere you go. This app ships with a standalone application and audio plugins.
Jamful Looper
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Jamful is a looper app for musicians. Record a loop, overdub layers on top. • Each layer draws as a colored ring, filling live as you play • See your whole arrangement as color-coded rings, one per layer • Trim layers for a tighter loop • Everything autosaves to the library • Share a mixdown as an audio file
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jamful Looper at 5.0 against plugdata's 4.3. plugdata's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jamful Looper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: plugdata has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | plugdata | Jamful Looper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timothy Schoen | Alexander Pogosyan |
In-app purchases
plugdata
No in-app purchases
Jamful Looper
No in-app purchases
