Rivet 01 vs Synesthesia Synth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rivet 01
This audio effect plugin adds saturation and drive to your music, perfect for techno and industrial genres. It can be used on drum, synth, or mix buses to enhance weight and grit, offering subtle warmth to aggressive crunch. It functions as both a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin.
- Console-style saturation and drive
- AUv3 plugin compatibility
- Standalone app functionality
- Oversampling for clean high-drive
- High pass filtering
- Pedal-style character
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Rivet 01 - Console is a console-style saturation and drive AUv3 built for techno and industrial. Put it on a drum bus, synth bus, or mix bus to add weight, grit, and “glue”, from subtle warmth to aggressive crunch. Console works both as a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin. Console combines a fast, punchy drive stage with a console EQ + saturation circuit, plus oversampling for cleaner high-drive tones when you need it. KEY FEATURES • Pedal-style drive and character • Console-style overdrive and EQ • High pass filtering, pre and post EQs RIVET SERIES / OPEN SOURCE • Console is part of my Rivet series of AUv3 effects plugins targeting techno and industrial genres. Rivet plugins are based on the amazing open-source Airwindows DSP code and are made available free. AUv3 Effect • Works in AUv3 hosts such as AUM, Drambo, Logic, and Cubasis IN-APP PURCHASE Console includes In-App Purchases for optional tipping. Tipping does not unlock any additional features as all features are already available.
Synesthesia Synth
An experimental audio-visual instrument that allows users to sculpt evolving spatial audio by manipulating floating capsules. Position, rotation, and pulse changes affect tone, texture, and synchronized particle generation. It's a visual synthesizer, not a game.
- Experimental audio-visual instrument
- Sculpt evolving spatial audio
- Manipulate floating capsules
- Control tone, texture, and particles
- Visual synthesizer
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Synthaestesia is a free experimental audio-visual instrument. Three capsules float in space. Every contraction produces sound. Move them, rotate them, reshape their pulse — and sculpt evolving spatial audio. Position changes tone. Rotation alters texture. Delay generates synchronized particles. This is not a game. It’s a spatial synth you can see.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Synesthesia Synth at none against Rivet 01's 3. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Rivet 01 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Synesthesia Synth asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rivet 01 against 5.0 for Synesthesia Synth. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rivet 01 | Synesthesia Synth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joe Topjian | MICHELE ZACCAGNINI |
In-app purchases
Rivet 01
- Tip - Small$0.99
- Tip - Medium$1.99
- Tip - Large$3.99
Synesthesia Synth
No in-app purchases









