Elevate Audioworks vs Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elevate Audioworks
This app offers immersive audio experiences designed to enhance focus, relaxation, sleep, and meditation. It utilizes high-quality WAV audio and precision-engineered frequencies, including binaural and isochronic patterns, to help users intentionally shape their mental state.
- Immersive frequency audio sessions
- High-quality uncompressed WAV audio
- Supports focus, relaxation, and sleep
- Binaural and isochronic entrainment patterns
- Customizable audio with music
- Background playback
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Elevate Audioworks is a premium frequency audio platform designed to support focus, relaxation, sleep, meditation, and expanded states of awareness through immersive sound. Built around lossless WAV audio and precision-engineered frequency experiences, Elevate blends modern audio engineering, tonal harmony, and consciousness-focused sound design into a deeply immersive listening environment for the human mind. This is more than background audio. Elevate Audioworks is designed to help you intentionally shape your mental state through sound — whether you're studying, working, meditating, visualizing, recovering from stress, or preparing for sleep. Inside the app, you’ll find carefully crafted frequency sessions designed to support: • Deep focus and flow states • Relaxation and emotional grounding • Expanded states of awareness • Sleep and mental decompression • Meditation and mindfulness • Creativity and visualization • Calm presence and clarity Sessions feature layered binaural-style and isochronic-style entrainment patterns optimized for immersive stereo listening. Many experiences within Elevate Audioworks also incorporate carefully selected carrier frequencies inspired by concepts commonly explored within sound-based wellness communities, including Solfeggio tones and the Schumann Resonance. These tones are often associated with grounding, balance, meditation, creativity, and inner awareness. From deep alpha focus sessions to theta meditation experiences and grounding frequencies inspired by the Earth's natural resonances, Elevate Audioworks is built for intentional listening and conscious exploration. Unlike most audio platforms, Elevate delivers frequency sessions using high-quality uncompressed WAV audio to preserve the full depth, precision, and spatial detail of each experience. The result is a cleaner, richer, and more immersive listening environment designed for long-form headphone listening. Elevate Audioworks gives you the freedom to listen your way. Choose between pure frequency playback or combine frequency-based WAV audio with music for a customized listening experience. Background playback also allows sessions to continue while using other apps or while your device is locked. The app is intentionally minimal, calm, and distraction-free. No clutter. No overstimulation. Just immersive sound designed to help you reconnect with focus, awareness, creativity, and presence. Whether you're completely new to frequency audio or already experienced with meditation, mindfulness, binaural beats, or consciousness exploration, Elevate Audioworks provides a grounded and accessible platform for personal exploration through sound. Future updates will continue expanding the Elevate experience with new frequency libraries, immersive audio experiences, personalization tools, wellness categories, and community-requested features. We actively build alongside our community and greatly value your feedback and support. Welcome to Elevate Audioworks. Elevating the Human Mind. *This app does not claim to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and is intended for wellness, mindfulness, relaxation, focus, meditation, and personal exploration purposes only. Link to EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth
Shape the overtone series directly to create unique sounds. This additive synthesizer allows real-time manipulation of harmonics, LFOs, and envelopes. Explore sound design and synthesis on your device.
- Additive synthesis engine
- Overtone series shaping
- Live waveform and spectrum response
- Modulation matrix with LFOs and envelopes
- AUv3 support
- On-device processing
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BKS Harmonic is an additive synthesizer that builds sound from individual overtones, then gives you tools to shape, scan and filter them by harmony. Load it as an Audio Unit v3 inside AUM, GarageBand, Cubasis, Loopy Pro or any AUv3 host, or run it standalone. A TUNER THAT KNOWS ABOUT STRETCH Tune mode turns the scope into a tuner: it names the note it hears and shows how far sharp or flat it is in cents, with a ring that closes as you land on the pitch. It tunes against the stretch curve rather than equal temperament, so it follows a real instrument. Stretch shapes the overtones inside a note; Key Stretch makes the keyboard follow it, so octaves widen the way a piano's do. FOURTEEN TUNING SYSTEMS, AND A TEMPERAMENT EDITOR Equal and Just, five historical temperaments, and six from outside the European tradition including Maqam Rast, Turkish Rast, Slendro, Pelog and the Harmonic Series. The Temperament slider is a morph, not a switch: fully left is Just, fully right is whichever you chose. Twelve bars show any system as cents away from equal; drag one to make the tuning yours, then copy it out as plain text. Tunings save with the preset. FIVE HUNDRED SCALES Searchable by alternate name: malkauns, nikriz, bhupali and freygish find the right set. THE PARTIALS ARE THE INSTRUMENT The partials display shows every overtone in your sound, and four tools work on it directly. FOLD sweeps upper partials below the fundamental, redistributing energy across harmonic layers — not a filter. The OVERTONE SCAN steps a spotlight through individual partials with triangle, saw or random patterns, and can visit only partials in the active scale. The HARMONIC GATE reinforces partials whose pitch class matches your chord and suppresses the rest: capture a chord, follow MIDI, split the keyboard, or pick the notes on the gate's own keys. SCULPT draws the level and pan of every partial, slides the curve up the grid as a formant, and locks partials in place while the rest moves. THE HARMONIC VOCODER Pass live input or a sample through the synth as an effect. Your sound travels through a bank of tuned peaking bells rather than being replaced by filtered noise: open the Air and the source stays dry, tighten it and the bands resonate into it. Key Track is the mode switch: on it plays as an instrument, off it is a fixed filter you can sweep. Aimed at a sample, the bands track that sample's spectrum as it evolves. One level-matched Blend control crossfades it against the oscillators. PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION Set the core to a saw and Source 2 to a saw: the two ramps subtract, which is what a pulse wave is, and the phase between them sets the duty cycle. Modulate it and you have PWM. A preset in the Utility folder is ready to play. MODULATION A cog on almost every control, so the synth's own engine can drive nearly anything in the interface, including the display. Sources include velocity, envelopes, LFOs, how many notes you hold, how many oscillators sound, the synth's own output level, and Atmo, a shape driven by 84 years of barometric weather data from the Beat Kitchen Weather Sonification Project. Rates run from audio rate down to cycles that span years. THE SCOPE A stereoscope, oscilloscope, spectrum and a live per-partial display. Glow takes the trace from a hard line to a diffuse bloom, Colour sets the hue, Trace Speed and Dot set how it draws — and every one is a modulation target. Route velocity to Colour and the trace shifts as you play. LIVE INPUT A headphone button passes the side-chain straight to the output, so you can hear and see your input with nothing held: green when signal arrives, amber when a bus is connected but silent, red when nothing is. Resynth Speed locks a sample's playback speed to pitch, tape-style, or keeps them independent. Every control has a tooltip, presets work offline, and a harmony wheel follows what you play. One purchase, every update. Made by Beat Kitchen, a music production and teaching community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth at 100% against Elevate Audioworks's 0%. Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Elevate Audioworks's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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
Both are free to download. Elevate Audioworks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Elevate Audioworks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth's.
Elevate Audioworks ships an update weekly, Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Elevate Audioworks | Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elevate Audioworks LLC | Beat Kitchen LLC |
Customer experience
Elevate Audioworks
Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth
In-app purchases
Elevate Audioworks
- Elevate Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Elevate Yearly Premium$49.991 Year
Beat Kitchen Harmonic Synth
- Full Unlock$14.99
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