Comparison

CID RIM vs PolyDelay

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

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About

CID RIM

Enhance your meals with a virtual fried egg topping. Perfect for quick meal additions or adding a fun element to your dishes. It's a simple, bold way to make any plate more appealing.

Highlights
  • Virtual fried egg topping
  • Enhances meal presentation
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Adds a fun element to food
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CID RIM’s The Egg: The Game-Changer for Every Dish. Lunch feels a little bland? Guests dropping by in 5? Just smashed your workout and need protein on that avocado-quinoa masterpiece? Add The Egg! The ultimate classic. The king of toppings. The perfect fried egg—simple, bold, and always the star of the plate. Because everything tastes better with an egg on top.

About

PolyDelay

This audio effect plugin creates unique polyrhythmic delays and familiar delay patterns. It syncs to host tempo and offers advanced tone-shaping options like filters and modulation.

Highlights
  • Polyrhythmic delay calculations
  • Host tempo sync
  • Dual delay lines
  • Stereo width control
  • High and low pass filters
  • Stereo modulation
  • Internal limiting
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PolyDelay Polyrhythmic Delay Plugin (AUv3) PolyDelay is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic Pro or GarageBand. Overview PolyDelay is a dual delay line / stereo effect with optional host tempo sync. While PolyDelay can be used to create interesting stereo polyrhythmic delays, it can also produce more familiar delay patterns such as dotted eighth and quarter note triplets. Polyrhythms, Divisions and Beats PolyDelay calculates delay times based on a BPM (beats per minute) tempo, and the polyrhythmic notation of D:B, where D = divisions and B = beats. For example, 3:2 would mean that the time for 2 beats should be divided by 3. If you're more use to the idea of note lengths and delay times, such as quarter notes and dotted eighths, etc., this might be confusing at first, but hopefully this guide will help. Firstly, everything starts with the beat! So, for 120BPM, each beat (or quarter note) will be half a second, or 500ms. So if you want a quarter note delay, you want 1 division within one beat, so you would set Divs and Beats to 1. Here are some typical note values, lengths (120BPM) and their D:B values: 1/4 = 500ms = 1:1 (take the length of one beat, and divide that by one) 1/8 = 250ms = 2:1 (take the length of one beat, and divide that by two) 1/16 = 125ms = 4:1 (etc.) 1/32 = 63ms = 8:1 (etc.) See how the divisions are doubled-up for each note? And here are some dotted and triplet note examples - see how the D:B numbers start to get interesting! 1/4D = 750ms = 2:3 1/4T = 333ms = 3:2 1/8D = 375ms = 4:3 1/8T = 167ms = 3:1 A classic stereo delay would be 1:1 (1/4) left, and 4:3 (1/8D) right with Width set to max. If you want a really long delay, a 1:8 setting would give you 4 seconds at 120BPM with Multiply set to Normal, or 8 seconds set to Half. The Presets also include some typical (and not so typical!) examples to get you started. The fun really starts when you start mixing "unusual" (typically odd numbers) divisions and beats, such as 5:4 or 2:7. These sorts of relationships are what we typically refer to as polyrhythms. Try experimenting with PolyDelay on simple sequences and drum parts / patterns and you may start to hear all sorts of interesting rhythmic interplay as your brain tries to figure out what's going on! For additional tone-shaping, PolyDelay includes variable stereo width, a high and low pass filter, stereo modulation and internal limiting to keep audio levels in check. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson

Screenshots

CID RIM3 screens
PolyDelay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PolyDelay at 100% against CID RIM's 0%. PolyDelay also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8). CID RIM's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On ratings volume, 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

CID RIM is free to download; PolyDelay costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PolyDelay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of CID RIM's written reviews are positive against 100% of PolyDelay's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CID RIM versus PolyDelay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCID RIMPolyDelay
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating3.8 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequency—Every 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGustav ScholdaRob Jackson

Customer experience

CID RIM

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

PolyDelay

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CID RIM

No in-app purchases

None

PolyDelay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CID RIM free?
CID RIM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PolyDelay free?
PolyDelay costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CID RIM or PolyDelay?
PolyDelay is rated higher. CID RIM averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while PolyDelay averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CID RIM or PolyDelay have ads?
Neither CID RIM nor PolyDelay shows ads.

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