Comparison

Punchline Drum Machine vs Fauve

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

Head to head
About

Punchline Drum Machine

Create beats with a powerful yet intuitive iOS drum machine. Record live tweaks, automate effects, and integrate with your DAW using AUv3 plugins. Import custom sounds and export your creations.

Highlights
  • 16-step sequencer with live recording
  • 16 drum sounds with adjustable parameters
  • 16 punch-in effects with tweakable parameters
  • Real-time automation of knobs and effects
  • Import WAV files for custom kits
  • Export patterns and chains as WAVs
  • AUv3 plugin integration for DAWs
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The drum machine that punches above its weight. Punchline is a playful iOS drum machine and sequencer packed with power. Create beats, record live tweaks, and automate effects. Use AUv3 plugins for integrated drum patterns, or transform live audio with rhythmic gates and punch-in effects. Features • 16-step sequencer with live recording, retrigs, probability, and pattern chaining • 16 drum sounds with pitch, length, filter, and level controls • 16 punch-in effects: reverb, delay, distortion, filters, modulation, and more, each with their own tweakable parameters • Real-time automation of knobs and effects • Import WAV files to build our your custom kit library • Export your patterns or your whole chain as WAVs for use in your favorite DAW • Additional free kits at charles.pizza/apps/punchline/kits Audio Unit Integration Use Punchline in your DAW with full AUv3 plugins: • Punchline Player: Full drum machine and sequencer • Punchline FX: Step-based rhythmic gate and effects processor for live audio • Full MIDI implementations for controlling steps, parameters and triggering effects Why Punchline? From quick sketches to full performances, Punchline makes advanced tools intuitive. Fast, musical, and always fun. Headphones recommended.

About

Fauve

This audio processor captures and reinterprets sonic fragments, introducing intentional glitches, distortions, and variations. It allows users to reshape sounds, creating unique soundscapes that blend memory and reality.

Highlights
  • Records and breaks down incoming audio into fragments
  • Introduces intentional glitches, distortions, and memory errors
  • Allows shaping playback with sampling/slicing parameters
  • Sculpts amplitude through 'Absence' parameter
  • Blurs reality with 'Mirage' parameter for dream-like effects
  • Lock parameters to preserve settings while browsing presets
  • In-GUI information for parameter details
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Fauve is an audio processor that collects sonic fragments and replays them, not always faithfully. It forgets, distorts, and glitches into new meanings.  Like the hallucination of a broken machine. A fractured memory, yours to reshape. "Fauve is a perfect cure for sound-alike effects. It really is distinct from other buffer/glitch and granular tools. And it strikes an ideal balance between predictability and weirdness, between polished controls you can learn and master and unexpected combinations that surprise you." Peter Kirn – CDM By continuously recording incoming audio, Fauve analyzes and breaks sound into small units we call collections. When playing them back, it sometimes fails, opening space for the user to edit and shape the material according to their own sonic vision. Fauve can be a harsh distortion, a gentle shadow, a paroxysmal dance between reality and dream, and much more. It can slightly scramble your sound, completely strip it of its original meaning, or introduce subtle, almost imperceptible variations to make it richer, yet always organic. Fauve disrupts, but never destroys. REMEMBER / FORGET Fauve listens and remembers — but it may forget to capture the present, getting stuck in the past. It blends memory and reality, shaping a soundscape as if it were truly what it just heard. BEHOLD THE HALLUCINATION Beyond the native errors of its faulty replicatory nature, Fauve opens space for your design: you can shape the playback of fragments using classic sampling/slicing parameters like Disorder, Repeat, Freeze, and playhead rate. SHAPING THROUGH ABSENCE Sculpts amplitude in two distinct ways through Absence: turn left to assign a random value to each fragment for more organic results, or turn right to introduce audio drops, adding uncertainty, or even reaching distortion wilderness on shorter fragments. BEYOND BALANCE: ENTER THE MIRAGE Let Fauve blur reality with its dream using the Mirage parameter. Shape the balance, focus it across the stereo field, and control amplitude for both source and processed sound. LOCK PARAMETERS Enable lock toggle to preserve key parameters values while browsing presets. IN-GUI INFOS Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter. Fauve is a totem/series plugin, and like all totems, it follows its own logic. Timing in Fauve doesn’t rely on beats or note values — it’s driven by the material itself. Every operation is triggered by zero crossings, making the outcome deeply dependent on the source. Same settings, radically different results.

Screenshots

Punchline Drum Machine4 screens
Fauve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Punchline Drum Machine at 100% against Fauve's 75%. Punchline Drum Machine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Fauve's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 17.5). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Punchline Drum Machine costs $4.99 and Fauve $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Punchline Drum Machine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Punchline Drum Machine's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fauve's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Punchline Drum Machine versus Fauve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPunchline Drum MachineFauve
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better4.7 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings919 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.59.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCharles VestalK-Devices

Customer experience

Punchline Drum Machine

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fauve

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Punchline Drum Machine

No in-app purchases

None

Fauve

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Punchline Drum Machine free?
Punchline Drum Machine costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fauve free?
Fauve costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Punchline Drum Machine or Fauve?
Punchline Drum Machine is rated higher. Punchline Drum Machine averages 5.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Fauve averages 4.7 from 19 ratings.
Do Punchline Drum Machine or Fauve have ads?
Neither Punchline Drum Machine nor Fauve shows ads.

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