Ephemeral vs Things
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ephemeral
Explore a collection of digital musical instruments playable in augmented reality. Unleash your creativity anytime and anywhere with immersive sound experiences.
- Augmented Reality instruments
- Digital music creation
- Playable anywhere
- Creative sound experiences
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Ephemeral is a playful music maker for iPhone and iPad. Tap out a beat, record your own samples, build a melody, and turn a small idea into a song!
Things
This audio effect plugin allows users to creatively combine and manipulate two audio signals. It can be used for subtle sound morphing, rhythmic gating, adding vibrato, or extreme modulation effects.
- Side-chaining signal combination
- Volume and spatial position modulation
- Vibrato effect
- Extreme modulation speeds
- Sound morphing
- Rhythmic gating
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Motor is a plugin effect that uses side-chaining to combine signals in new and interesting ways: put in any two signals and they will dance around each other like courting birds drunk on fermented cherries. Use it to gently morph between sounds or rhythmically cut them up, affecting both volume and spatial position. Add life to the plainest signals with vibrato, or destroy them in interesting ways with extreme modulation speeds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Things at 100% against Ephemeral's 50%. Things also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). Ephemeral's advantage is price (Free vs $6.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 24 months). On 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
Ephemeral is free to download; Things costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Things holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Ephemeral's written reviews are positive against 100% of Things's.
Ephemeral ships an update every 5 days, Things every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ephemeral | Things |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | phelgo | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
Ephemeral
Things
In-app purchases
Ephemeral
No in-app purchases
Things
No in-app purchases
