Comparison

HEXBEAT vs LogSynth

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

Head to head
About

HEXBEAT

Features
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Make music like a pro โ€” right from your iPhone or iPad. HEXBEAT is a fully-featured iOS synthesizer and beat machine for musicians, producers, and beatmakers who want studio-quality sound in their pocket. No samples, no imports โ€” every sound is generated in real time using advanced audio synthesis. STEP SEQUENCER Build rhythmic patterns with a 16-step grid sequencer and 8 programmable drum tracks including kick, snare, hi-hat, clap, 808 bass, tom, and cymbal. Fine-tune your groove with BPM control from 60โ€“200 and swing up to 100%. Save up to 64 patterns across 8 banks and 8 slots each. SYNTH PAD Play melodies with a responsive XY touch pad. Choose from 8 musical scales including Major, Minor, Dorian, Pentatonic, and more. Slide your finger to control filter brightness and pitch simultaneously โ€” up to 5 simultaneous notes for expressive, real-time performance. POWERFUL SOUND SYNTHESIS Shape your sound with 6 oscillator types (Sine, Square, Sawtooth, Triangle, Noise, Super Saw), full ADSR envelopes for amplitude and filter, a resonant low-pass biquad filter, and a 4-waveform LFO with destinations including pitch, cutoff, volume, pan, and PWM. 8-CHANNEL MIXER Mix your tracks withper-channel volume faders, pan control, mute/solo buttons, reverb and delay sends, and real-time peak meters. A master channel with limiter keeps your mix clean and loud. BUILT-IN FX RACK Add depth and character with Reverb (5 room presets from Small Room to Cathedral), Delay with tempo sync, multi-preset Distortion, and a 10-band parametric EQ. BUILT FOR LOW LATENCY HEXBEAT runs at 44.1kHz with 32-bit internal processing and configurable buffer sizes down to 128 samples โ€” delivering under 10ms latency for live performance feel. Whether you're sketching beats on the subway, performing live on stage, or producing tracks at home, HEXBEAT gives you the tools to create. Compatible with iPhone and iPad.

About

LogSynth

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LogSynth is a polyphonic virtual-analog synthesizer built for people who care what's actually happening in the signal path, not just what the preset browser looks like. Every voice runs five anti-aliased oscillators (sine, triangle, saw, pulse with PWM, and a band-limited impulse train) plus a dedicated sub-oscillator and noise source, mixed per-voice with independent amp envelopes. Chunky oscillators, crisp effects and a zero-delay-feedback state-variable filter โ€” switchable low/high/bandpass. The drive effect is powered by a physically modeled diode circuit, numerically integrated rather than a lookup-table approximation, so pushing it into saturation behaves the way an actual analog drive would. FEATURES - 8-voice polyphony, 5 oscillators + sub + noise per voice - Zero-delay-feedback state-variable filter with resonant feedback and diode drive saturation - 5 independent oscillator envelopes plus a dedicated filter envelope - 2 assignable LFOs and an 8-slot modulation matrix - Built-in chorus, delay, FDN reverb, and 4-mode distortion - 41 factory presets across Bass, Lead, Pluck, and Effects - One-tap patch randomizer with adjustable intensity - Real-time oscilloscope, on-screen keyboard, and CoreMIDI input - Runs standalone or as an AUv3 instrument inside AU hosts Whether you're sound designing from scratch or dropping it into a DAW as a plugin, Logsynth gives you the same engine everywhere โ€” no watered-down mobile version, no feature gating between standalone and plugin modes.

Screenshots

HEXBEAT4 screens
LogSynth3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HEXBEAT at Free against LogSynth's $9.99. LogSynth's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

HEXBEAT is free to download; LogSynth costs $9.99 up front. HEXBEAT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LogSynth asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HEXBEAT ships an update every 8 months, LogSynth every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
HEXBEAT versus LogSynth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHEXBEATLogSynth
PriceFree โ€” better$9.99
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size19 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGregory HoganSEAN IAN HALENWOOD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HEXBEAT

One-time1
  • HEXBEATOTP$7.99
None

LogSynth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HEXBEAT free?
HEXBEAT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LogSynth free?
LogSynth costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do HEXBEAT or LogSynth have ads?
Neither HEXBEAT nor LogSynth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HEXBEAT or LogSynth?
HEXBEAT ships an update every 8 months, and LogSynth every 2 weeks. Most recently, HEXBEAT was updated on October 31, 2026 and LogSynth on October 30, 2026.

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