Comparison

NoiseFace vs ABDCTN

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

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About

NoiseFace

Discover, mix, and visualize various noise colors with an adorable animated character. Adjust individual noise levels, save custom mixes, and enjoy a unique visual representation of sound. Perfect for focus, sleep, and relaxation.

Highlights
  • 12 Noise Colors
  • Visual Waveforms
  • Individual Control
  • Save Presets
  • Adorable Character
  • Drag to Delete Presets
  • Modulation Mode
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Meet NoiseFace - the cutest way to discover, mix, and visualize noise! NoiseFace brings noise generation to life with an adorable animated character whose mouth moves to show you exactly what each noise sounds like. Watch as different waveforms dance across the screen while you create your perfect sound environment. KEY FEATURES: 12 Noise Colors Mix and match from white, pink, brown, blue, violet, gray, black, green, orange, yellow, turquoise, and red noise - each with its own unique sound character and visual waveform. Visual Waveforms See your sounds! The character's expressive mouth displays real-time animated waveforms so you can actually see the difference between each noise type. Individual Control Adjust the brightness (filter frequency) of each noise independently, or control them all together. Fine-tune your perfect sound mix. Save Presets Found the perfect combination? Save it as a preset! Store up to 12 different mixes and switch between them instantly. Adorable Character Your noise companion blinks, shows emotions, and even falls asleep after extended play sessions. Tap the face to clear sounds or toggle between your presets. Drag to Delete Long-press any preset to drag it to the trash. Simple, intuitive preset management. Universal App Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad with optimized layouts for each device. Modulate Hold the small white button above the slider and activate modulation mode where the slider moves on its own and controls all sounds. PERFECT FOR: • Focus and concentration • Sleep and relaxation • Meditation • Blocking distractions • Studying • Creative work • Sound therapy • Tinnitus relief Each noise color has unique properties: - White Noise: Equal intensity across all frequencies - Pink Noise: Balanced, natural sound (rain-like) - Brown Noise: Deep, rumbling bass tones - Blue Noise: Higher frequencies, crisp and bright - Violet Noise: Even higher frequencies - Gray Noise: Psychoacoustically flat - And more specialty colors for every preference! Download NoiseFace today and discover your perfect sound mix with the cutest noise generator ever created!

About

ABDCTN

This app generates classic sci-fi synthesizer sounds live from oscillators, filters, and envelopes. Interact with a visual farm interface where elements control sound parameters. Create unique sounds by bending, stretching, and rebuilding them.

Highlights
  • Live sound generation
  • Visual instrument interface
  • Interactive sound manipulation
  • Customizable oscillators and filters
  • Automated sound sequencing
  • AUv3 instrument support
Features
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Every science-fiction film had a sound department, and somewhere in it stood a synthesizer. ABDCTN is that synthesizer, rebuilt for your phone and your iPad: not a collection of recordings of those sounds, but the machine that makes them. Theremins, saucers, tractor beams, alarms, talking computers, and everything in between, generated live from oscillators, filters and envelopes. Each sound is a starting point, yours to bend, stretch and rebuild until it is one nobody has heard before. THE PICTURE IS THE INSTRUMENT There are no knobs, no sliders, no menus. The whole screen is a farm at night, and everything on it is a control. The fence is the keyboard: planks are white keys, flower pots are black keys. The alien on the left is the envelope: pull its body for attack, stretch its neck for decay, lift and reach its hands for sustain and release. The alien on the right is the filter. Lift the cow's tail to detune, lift the whole cow into the beam and the reverb grows. Slide the barn door for volume. Raise the chimney for drive. Tap the hayloft window to crush the bits. The clouds are the LFO: how much, how fast, what shape. Drag the saucer higher and the echo follows. Tap a light on the saucer to choose a sound, tap the moon to change the bank. THE RAY GUN A ray gun hangs next to the moon, and it makes the farm play itself. Tap the gun to choose the ray's speed. Light blue sweeps every second, cyan every three seconds and pink every ten. Tap once more for static, which erases. Hold the gun and it comes off its hook. Point its tip at anything on the farm, and whatever lights up yellow can be hit: an alien's legs, neck or either hand, the cow or her tail, the saucer's dome, the barn door, the chimney, the hayloft window or a cloud. Let go and that part turns the ray's colour. It then sweeps from one end of its range to the other on its own, in time with the sound. The filter opens and closes, the cow floats up into the reverb and sinks back, the window flickers the crusher on and off, and the third cloud steps through the LFO shapes. Shoot as many parts as you like, each at its own speed. Touch a swept part and it holds still under your finger. Shoot a part with static to stop its ray, or double-tap the gun to clear every ray on the sound. Rays are saved with each sound and in your presets. In a host, every ray is an automatable parameter. Every edit is remembered per sound. Hold a light to take a sound back to the factory. A REAL SYNTHESIZER Two oscillators with band-limited saw and pulse, an endless Shepard stack for lifts that never stop rising, noise and ring modulation. A state-variable filter that sweeps from low-pass through band-pass to high-pass, with envelope, key tracking and LFO. Real stereo: the oscillators spread across the field, voices sit where their keys are, a ping-pong tape echo bounces between the speakers, a spring-like reverb on each side. IN THE STUDIO Works as an AUv3 instrument in AUM, Drambo, Logic Pro, GarageBand and other hosts, with the same picture inside the host and every control exposed as an automatable parameter. MIDI 2.0 with full MPE: per-note pitch bend, pressure and timbre, so expressive controllers play it the way they were meant to. A hold latch keeps chords sounding with no fingers on the screen, and the instrument keeps playing in the background from a MIDI keyboard. Save and load your own presets from the transmission log. Pay once, own it. No subscription, no ads, no account, no tracking, nothing leaves your device. Somewhere a cow is rising slowly into the light. She sounds wonderful.

Screenshots

NoiseFace4 screens
ABDCTN1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ABDCTN at 5.0 against NoiseFace's 4.6. NoiseFace's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

NoiseFace costs $4.99 and ABDCTN $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ABDCTN holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NoiseFace versus ABDCTN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoiseFaceABDCTN
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating4.6 (9 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better2
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJohanna QuicenoLASZLO DOBROVOLSZKI

Customer experience

NoiseFace

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

ABDCTN

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NoiseFace

No in-app purchases

None

ABDCTN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NoiseFace free?
NoiseFace costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ABDCTN free?
ABDCTN costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NoiseFace or ABDCTN?
ABDCTN is rated higher. NoiseFace averages 4.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while ABDCTN averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do NoiseFace or ABDCTN have ads?
Neither NoiseFace nor ABDCTN shows ads.

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