Comparison

Tonality Visualizer vs Fizzy Bacon

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

Head to head
About

Tonality Visualizer

Features
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Tonality Visualizer is an interactive polar-pitch map that displays musical notes on a rotating disk. You can connect a MIDI keyboard or open a MIDI file — every note appears in real time. The app helps you see harmony, motion, and chord relationships, even without formal music theory. Main Features •MIDI Input: visualize notes directly from your keyboard or MIDI device. •MIDI File Playback / Trainer Mode: play or practice chord by chord. •Live Sound Option: enable/disable the built-in synth for input playback. •Physics-based Disk Rotation: the disk moves naturally according to musical torque. •Simple UI: switch between water-fixed / disk-fixed anchors, toggle UI visibility, bilingual JP/EN. Perfect for music learners, creators, and anyone who wants to “see” sound. Privacy No data collection. All processing happens locally on your device. License Open-source under the MIT License. Source code available on GitHub. Supported Formats •.mid / .midi files (Format 0 / 1) •CoreMIDI device input

About

Fizzy Bacon

This app emulates the sound of analog tape saturation and compression, adding warmth and character to your audio. It offers intuitive controls for adjusting tape 'dirt,' 'age,' and 'noise,' along with dynamic compression and modulation effects. Achieve a polished, finished sound for individual tracks or your entire mix.

Highlights
  • Tape saturation emulation
  • Analog compressor
  • Adjustable 'Dirt' and 'Age' controls
  • Built-in noise and wow/flutter
  • Real flanging effect
  • Four compression ratios plus All-buttons mode
  • 51 presets
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Some tracks are perfect and still sound like a computer. Fizzy Bacon is the box that fixes that. A tape deck and its compressor, together, on your channel strip. Turn up Dirt. Keep going. You'll know when. PUT IT ON THE DRUM BUS Drive it until the kit stops being a grid and starts being a room. The compressor catches the whole thing on the way past, and the low end arrives on its own, without you touching an EQ. PUT IT ON A VOCAL A little Dirt for body, a little Age to take the glare off a bright mic, and the loud words sit down without you drawing a single automation line. PUT IT ON THE MIX Ease it in and everything moves a little closer together. Nothing sounds processed. It just sounds finished. PUT IT ON EVERYTHING Full wet, slow tape, wow and flutter up — and now you're listening to a cassette that's been in somebody's glovebox since 1982. FIVE KNOBS AND NO HOMEWORK Dirt is how hard you're hitting the tape. Age is how many miles are on the machine. Noise is the hiss and the hum, and it only shows up while the music does. Wow and Flutter are the drift and the shimmer — let them wander, or sync their rates to your tempo. Synced Wow lands on the beat; Flutter remains random. And Mix is hiding a flanger you didn't pay for: pull it back with the wobble running and the two sides sweep past each other. Real flanging, the two-tape-machines kind, free. A COMPRESSOR WITH NOTHING TO HUNT FOR No threshold to find. You just drive it harder until it's doing what you want. Four ratios, plus an All-buttons setting for when the whole track should be breathing rather than politely controlled. Two VU meters swing the way meters should — flip them to watch the gain reduction, or to check your width survives a mono fold-down. 51 PRESETS, ALL AT THE SAME LEVEL From a barely-there print to a completely melted reel, plus mastering and mixing banks. They all sit within a decibel of each other, so you can walk the whole bank without riding the fader and hear the difference instead of the volume. Save your own and they follow you to your other devices. NOTHING TO WATCH OUT FOR Latency never changes, your DAW compensates, bypass vanishes completely. Any hardware knob drives any control. Everything automates. An AUv3 plug-in in your DAW, or a standalone app on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Same engine either way. There's a full manual inside the window, if you're the type. Most people just turn Dirt up.

Screenshots

Tonality Visualizer3 screens
Fizzy Bacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tonality Visualizer at Free against Fizzy Bacon's $19.99. Fizzy Bacon's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Tonality Visualizer is free to download; Fizzy Bacon costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Tonality Visualizer versus Fizzy Bacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTonality VisualizerFizzy Bacon
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuke YoshidaChristian Thompson

In-app purchases

None

Tonality Visualizer

No in-app purchases

None

Fizzy Bacon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tonality Visualizer free?
Tonality Visualizer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fizzy Bacon free?
Fizzy Bacon costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tonality Visualizer or Fizzy Bacon have ads?
Neither Tonality Visualizer nor Fizzy Bacon shows ads.

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