MetroCore vs Tape Death
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MetroCore
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- Sample-accurate metronome - Audio-thread scheduling for rock-solid timing - Clear downbeat and accent distinction - Click with your finger for adjust the tempo rate - Multiple sound types - Flexible time signatures and subdivisions - Studio, Stage, and Night visual themes - Background playback and lock screen support - Designed for musicians, not demos. Powered by Apple Audio Engine Technology, MetroCore runs all timing logic on the audio thread, stable and accurate. Designed for real-world use, MetroCore adapts to studio, stage, and night environments with carefully tuned visual times and clear accent differentiation. No gimmicks, No distractions. Just precise time at the core of your music.
Tape Death
This app is a unique four-tape looping instrument that degrades over time, creating evolving, decaying sounds. Record audio, manipulate tape characteristics like warmth and wobble, and share your sonic creations.
- Four decaying tape loops
- Record from microphone
- Overdubbing
- Forward, reverse, and ping-pong playback
- Adjustable tape wear
- Character-based sound shaping
- Global reverb and echo effects
- Export audio and save sessions
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Tape Death is a four-tape looping instrument that falls apart while you play it. Record a loop onto a cassette and it plays forever — but it never holds still. Every second it runs, the tape wears: the highs fray, dropouts bloom, the pitch begins to sag. Nothing you make will ever sound new again. That's the point. This isn't a clean, non-destructive studio — it's a machine for sounds that rot beautifully. Four tapes, each aging on its own. Layer them, warp them, drown them in space, and bottle the decaying mix to share. FOUR TAPES • Record straight from your mic — a voice, an instrument, the whole room. • Overdub to build layers onto a single loop. • Play each tape forward, in reverse, or ping-ponging back and forth. • Every tape keeps its own character and its own state of decay. DECAY IS THE INSTRUMENT • Tapes wear permanently as they play — the heart of the whole app. • Dial each tape from "eternal" to "dying," or age them all together. • Begin the disintegration again whenever you like — your settings stay. CHARACTER, NO NUMBERS Shape each tape by feel, not by figures. Every control is a drag between two words: • WARMTH — clean to melted tape saturation • DUST — quiet to snowy hiss and grit • WOBBLE — steady to seasick wow & flutter • TONE — dark to bright • SPACE — each tape's own echo and reverb (spring, hall, cathedral, shimmer, void; standard, ping-pong, and granular delays) THE ROOM A shared space every tape plays into — one reverb, one echo, one bus compressor to glue the whole mix, and a global decay to age everything at once. BOTTLE IT Capture the living, decaying mix to an audio file and share it anywhere. Save whole setups as sessions and return to them. Tape Death records everything on device. No account, no sign-in, nothing collected, and it works fully offline. It keeps playing in the background, too. Make something. Let it die.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tape Death at Free against MetroCore's $2.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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
Tape Death is free to download; MetroCore costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | MetroCore | Tape Death |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fuxing Xue | Colton Harker |
In-app purchases
MetroCore
No in-app purchases
Tape Death
No in-app purchases









