Comparison

CARBONcontrol vs Granula

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

Head to head
About

CARBONcontrol

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They will be able to adjust and customize each channel, choose the mode of use, adjust the curve with the parametric equalizer, adjust the delay and of course save all these parameters in scenes.

About

Granula

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Granula is a granular synthesizer for the phone. It takes a sound from demo samples (like guitar, calimba, tongue drum, etc.) or thirty seconds you record on the spot and scatters it into hundreds of tiny overlapping grains. A slow, shifting texture comes back to your space: ambient pads, drones, atmospheres that keep evolving as long as you keep listening. Everything is played with your hands. The whole screen is a morph pad: move a finger across it and the sound moves with you, while a field of glyphs lights up under your touch and churns in time with what you hear. FOUR CHARACTERS • Reverse: short grains, played mostly backwards, with octave and fifth sparkles on top • Gater: a denser cloud chopped on a grid, from halves down to sixteenths • Chorus: long, slow, detuned grains with the read position drifting like a tide • Scatter: harmonic intervals thrown at random and sprayed wide FOUR KNOBS • Grain size, from 15 ms clicks to 1 second • Position: where in the sample the grains are lifted from • Density: from sparse drips to a solid wash • Dry/Wet: a six-second convolution reverb, plus the amount of reversed grains RECORD THE WORLD AROUND Hold the record button and capture up to thirty seconds of anything: your voice, a room, rain on a window, a string you plucked once. The take is granulated immediately and kept in your library under a name of its own. You can also import your own MP3 or WAV files. MADE FOR A PHONE • Keeps playing with the screen locked and in the background • Survives calls, headphone unplugs and output switches without losing your session • Any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard plays it - plug in and go, nothing to pair inside the app GRANULA PRO Every built-in sound is free and stays free. A free account also brings in one sound of your own - recorded or imported. Granula Pro lifts that limit: record and import as much as you like, and everything syncs to your account so a new phone picks up where the last one left off. No ads. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CARBONcontrol4 screens
Granula4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CARBONcontrol at none against Granula's 1. CARBONcontrol also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Granula's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Granula sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. CARBONcontrol asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CARBONcontrol ships an update every 2 months, Granula every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
CARBONcontrol versus Granula: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCARBONcontrolGranula
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHIT MusicSergey Duzhev

In-app purchases

None

CARBONcontrol

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Granula

Subscriptions1
  • Granula Pro$2.991 Month

Questions

Is CARBONcontrol free?
CARBONcontrol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Granula free?
Granula is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CARBONcontrol or Granula have ads?
Neither CARBONcontrol nor Granula shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CARBONcontrol or Granula?
CARBONcontrol ships an update every 2 months, and Granula every 5 days. Most recently, CARBONcontrol was updated on November 4, 2026 and Granula on November 6, 2026.

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