Comparison

Drift Audio vs iDoctor Live Stems

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

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About

Drift Audio

Record sounds and transform them into interactive landscapes. Play back your recordings by touching a dynamic terrain that responds to your gestures, creating unique sonic experiences. Explore multi-finger playback for layered sounds.

Highlights
  • Record up to 10 seconds of sound
  • Interactive touch-based playback
  • Multi-finger sound layering
  • Terrain visualization of recordings
  • Dynamic, breathing sound surface
  • Automatic sound naming
  • Built-in reverb and delay
Features
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Record any sound, then play it back by dragging across a living terrain. Your recording becomes the landscape — loud moments rise into ridges, quiet moments stay flat. Touch the surface and it transforms your sound into something new. HOW IT WORKS Record from the microphone — voice, instruments, ambient noise, anything up to 10 seconds. Drift listens and names your recording automatically. Each sample appears with a miniature terrain preview showing its unique shape. Tap a recording to enter the canvas: a reactive surface that deforms under your touch. Drag horizontally to move through your sample. Drag vertically to shift pitch — high at the top, slow and deep at the bottom. Press harder for a thick, layered wash. Press lighter for delicate, scattered fragments. The surface responds like a physical material. Your finger pushes into it, surrounding lines ripple outward and spring back. A trail follows your gesture and fades. When you're not playing, the terrain breathes — peaks sway, flat areas drift — so it always feels alive. Put down a second finger and a second voice appears. Hold a sustained tone with one hand while exploring with the other. Each finger has its own position, pitch, and intensity. FEATURES · Record up to 10 seconds from the microphone · Play back by touch — position, pitch, and intensity all respond to your finger · Two fingers, two independent voices · Terrain shaped by your recording — every sample looks different · The surface ripples, breathes, and springs back · Automatic naming using on-device sound recognition · Built-in reverb and delay · No account, no internet, everything stays on your device

About

iDoctor Live Stems

Features
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iDoctor Live Stems turns your iPad or iPhone into a stage-ready multitrack player. Load up to 6 stems per song, hit PLAY and every track starts sample-locked. Each track has its own fader, mute, solo, pan, meter, waveform, color and an independent physical output to your USB-C multichannel interface: click and cues to the band's in-ears, the mix to the PA. BUILT FOR THE STAGE • Host-clock synchronized start: no drift between tracks, not even when seeking or looping. • Console-style mixer with long faders, live VU meters, protected gain and per-track lock. • Timeline with waveforms, draggable playhead, section markers (create, edit and jump with GO TO) and per-section track automation. • Seamless A-B loop/vamp to stretch a section until the band is ready. • Full-width on-screen lyrics with autoscroll, manual scroll and pinch zoom. • Real-time pitch ±12 semitones and tempo 50–150%, remembered per song. • Count-in, setlist auto-advance and chained medleys with crossfade. YOUR OWN RECORDED CUE TRACK • Add a recording track, arm the mic and record your spoken cues in sync with the song, watching the waveform draw live. • Record in one pass or in parts, with automatic latency compensation, take undo/redo and full editing in a full-screen audio editor: silence, crop, gain, fades, shift and export to WAV or M4A. • Route it only to the in-ears: the audience never hears it. • Built-in automatic latency calibration and precision test: your takes land exactly where you sang them. TRUE MULTICHANNEL ROUTING • Global or per-song output matrix: each track to its stereo pair or mono to a specific physical channel, with a test tone per output. • Works with class-compliant USB-C interfaces (iConnectivity, Zoom, Universal Audio…). Without an interface, it plays in stereo over the speaker or AirPods. YOUR LIBRARY, SAFE • Automatic file verification and repair: SHA-256 integrity and restore from iCloud when a local file goes missing. • Rotating ZIP backups (plus weekly automatic), visible in the Files app. • Automatic sample-rate conversion on import, drag & drop from Files or Finder, and stereo mix export to WAV. GIG-READY • Setlists with their own order, notes, per-setlist chained medleys and one-tap start. • Preflight: checks stems, integrity, channels, battery and temperature before you go on. • Concert mode (screen stays on), resume after a crash, persistent show log and interruption handling. • MIDI pedalboard (Bluetooth or USB): play, stop, sections, vamp and panic with your foot. • Remote control from a second iPad/iPhone, Apple Watch support and a backup iPad with hot takeover. • Optional iCloud sync (complete songs, audio included) and backup to your own cloud via Files. AirDrop complete songs between devices. • Built-in manual, available in English, Spanish, German and French. • Also on your Apple Silicon Mac (Designed for iPad), with drag & drop from Finder. iDoctor Live Stems is a musical performance tool, part of the iDoctor Music Tools ecosystem. It is not a medical app. No accounts, no ads, no data collection.

Screenshots

Drift Audio2 screens
iDoctor Live Stems4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drift Audio at Free against iDoctor Live Stems's $3.99. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Drift Audio is free to download; iDoctor Live Stems costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Drift Audio versus iDoctor Live Stems: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrift AudioiDoctor Live Stems
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConsumer TherapyJuan Gomez Company

In-app purchases

None

Drift Audio

No in-app purchases

None

iDoctor Live Stems

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drift Audio free?
Drift Audio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iDoctor Live Stems free?
iDoctor Live Stems costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drift Audio or iDoctor Live Stems have ads?
Neither Drift Audio nor iDoctor Live Stems shows ads.

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