Grip vs Nebula Tide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grip
Control Ableton Live remotely from your iOS device. Manage transport, recording, track settings, and clips wirelessly. Includes a built-in MIDI keyboard for on-the-go note input.
- Wireless Ableton Live control
- Voice control for transport and recording
- Track arming, soloing, and muting
- Clip launching and scene navigation
- Built-in MIDI keyboard
- Project saving and volume control
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Grip is the missing app for Ableton Live. This app requires Grip Desktop to be running on the same computer as Ableton Live. Download that app first at www.gripforlive.com. Stay in creative flow with Grip: Remote control Ableton from anywhere in your studio, bedroom, or battlestation—at your synth, in the vocal booth, or from the couch. Grip connects to your computer over Wi-Fi as a native Live control surface. No MIDI mapping required. Stop running from your mic to the computer, or having to play guitar near your computer. With Grip, you can literally use your voice to say "record" and play directly into Ableton Live. Keep Grip with you at whatever instrument you're playing, to play, record, undo, redo, and even save from your phone or tablet. TRANSPORT & RECORDING • Control Live with your voice • Play, stop, record, and overdub • Undo and redo • Preview and record into scenes • Quickly loop between sections of your song in arrangement • Pre-roll recording before your locators • Toggle metronome • Save your project from your phone • Change volume • Arm, solo, and mute tracks MIXER & NAVIGATION • Record & launch clips, move and copy them between tracks and scenes on the session view • Jump to locators • Launch scenes • Scrub through your arrangement with your finger • Switch between session and arrangement view • Mixer controls for volume, sends, pan, and arm/solo • Insert, duplicate, or delete tracks or scenes • Rename locators and scenes MIDI PIANO & DRUM PAD • Built-in piano for playing notes into Live • Push-like drum pad for playing notes or drum kits • Requires the Mac version of Grip. (Windows support for MIDI forthcoming.)
Nebula Tide
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An ocean of sound. A universe of calm. Nebula Tide plays endless ambient drone pads that never end and never click. Choose a preset, tap a planet to pick your key, and the room fills. REAL RECORDINGS IN ALL TWELVE KEYS Every preset is twelve separate studio recordings, one per key. Nothing is pitch-shifted, so E flat sounds as intentional as C. Most instruments stretch a single recording across the keyboard and smear its character doing it. SHIMMER The pad rises as it fades. One control takes it from a breath of air to a room with no ceiling, moving five things at once behind the scenes. It sits in the signal path rather than beside it, so what you hear is one sound growing, not two sounds stacked. BUILD YOUR OWN Twelve slots, one per key. Drop in your own recordings, name it, save it, and it appears on the stage beside ours. Share a preset as a single file and open one someone sends you. LAYERS Two stars flank the stage for effects and textures. Rain, wind, birds, crowds, claps. They keep playing across preset changes and fade out with the drone. SPACE Room, plate and hall, each tuned to its own character, with mix, size and damping when you want them. ALIVE The interface re-colours itself to match the preset you choose. Stars drift, arcs rotate, pads breathe with the sound. FOR Worship musicians who need the right key before the downbeat. Ambient and electronic producers. Film and game composers who need a bed now. Anyone who wants a beautiful sound in one tap. Your licence covers two devices and you can move a seat yourself at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Grip at Free against Nebula Tide's $14.99. On update cadence, 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
Grip is free to download; Nebula Tide costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Grip ships an update every 3 weeks, Nebula Tide every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grip | Nebula Tide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Baker | Stephen Amanor Sackey |
In-app purchases
Grip
No in-app purchases
Nebula Tide
No in-app purchases









