Comparison

Celestine Granular FX vs FALSE MEMORY

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

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About

Celestine Granular FX

Transform any audio input into evolving soundscapes, from shimmering clouds to rhythmic fragments. This app offers real-time granular processing with eight distinct engines and built-in effects for creative sound design and musical performance.

Highlights
  • Live-buffer granular processing
  • Eight distinct granular engines
  • Real-time audio transformation
  • Built-in wavefolding, bitcrush, and reverb effects
  • Tempo-synced rhythmic patterns
  • AUv3 compatible
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Feed it vocals, guitar, synths, piano, drums, field recordings, or full mixes, and Celestine transforms the incoming sound into shimmering clouds, drifting harmonics, orbiting textures, rhythmic fragments, and evolving ambient beds. No samples to load. Celestine listens continuously through a rolling live buffer. Whatever you play becomes the source material. Incoming audio is broken into swarms of micro-grains that can be pitched, reversed, widened, scattered, synchronized, softened, distorted, and animated in real time. Insert it on a track, blend dry and wet, send multiple sounds into it, or perform it like an instrument. From delicate halos to chaotic scatter, Celestine is built to feel organic, musical, and expressive. Eight granular engines: Grain: classic granular textures Mosaic: pitch-shifted harmonic clusters Glide: bending, sliding grains Reverie: dreamy reverse washes Bloom: ghost-echo reflections Tide: amplitude wave undulations Stars: rhythmic anchor patterns Orbit: circular spatial movement Shape time, pitch, density, motion, tone, and space. Scrub through the live buffer by hand, or lock grain triggering to the host tempo for evolving patterns and rhythmic clouds. Built-in effects: Wavefolding distortion for rich harmonic color Bitcrush for subtle grit or digital destruction Lush reverb for spacious depth Magic multi-FX with seven tone-shaping algorithms Dry/wet blending for subtle enhancement or full transformation Celestine turns melodies into glowing pads, vocals into spectral choirs, guitars into frozen halos, drums into glittering glitches, and simple loops into evolving celestial motion. Ideal for ambient, cinematic, IDM, and sound design. Under the hood: Real-time live-buffer granular processing 8 distinct granular engines Up to 30 simultaneous grain voices Tempo-synced, bar-locked grain triggering Pitch, reverse, width, scatter, motion, and timing controls Wavefold, bitcrush, reverb, and Magic multi-FX Smooth, click-free DSP Celestine is an AUv3 audio effect and requires an AUv3-compatible host app. Made by ijo audio.

About

FALSE MEMORY

This app transforms any sound into a decaying audio effect, simulating tape degradation or digital corruption. Explore various destruction parameters to create unique sonic textures and atmospheres. It can also evolve the sound automatically over time.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio disintegration
  • Analog/Digital destruction engine
  • Pitch and timing destabilization
  • Frequency spectrum smearing
  • Past audio bleed-through
  • Automatic evolution over time
  • Randomize parameters
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FALSE MEMORY is a real-time audio disintegration effect. Feed it any sound and watch it decay. A tape left in the sun. A corrupted file half-recovered from a dead drive. A memory dissolving as you try to hold onto it. Turn up MEMORY and the destruction begins. Everything else shapes how the sound falls apart. DESTRUCTION ENGINE The Analog / Digital slider is the soul of the effect. Slide left for warm, organic decay: Cassette wobble, Reel-to-reel saturation, VHS tracking errors. Slide right for cold, precise corruption: Lo-fi aliasing, Circuit-bent glitches, Data-mosh block artifacts. Drift destabilizes pitch and timing. At low settings it breathes. Cranked up, the signal loses its grip on reality. Damage controls how aggressively the signal gets torn apart. ATMOSPHERE Fog smears the frequency spectrum into clouds. Three modes: Tonal keeps harmonic structure intact, Inharmonic scatters it, Evolving slowly morphs between the two. Ghosts lets past audio bleed through the current signal. Echoes repeat rhythmically. Imprints leave residual traces. Granular scatters fragments across time. TEXTURE Hiss adds tape noise, from subtle warmth to a roaring floor. Crackle introduces vinyl pops and surface damage. SET IT AND FORGET IT Evolve lets the destruction deepen automatically over time. Pick a duration from 1 to 64 minutes. Walk away. Come back to something completely different. The Randomize button rerolls all destruction parameters instantly. Hit it until something clicks. AUv3 plugin for iOS. Runs in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, and any AUv3 host. Standalone app for iPhone and iPad. From All The Machines.

Screenshots

Celestine Granular FX3 screens
FALSE MEMORY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FALSE MEMORY at $3.99 against Celestine Granular FX's $9.99. FALSE MEMORY also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Celestine Granular FX costs $9.99 and FALSE MEMORY $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Celestine Granular FX against 5.0 for FALSE MEMORY. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Celestine Granular FX ships an update every 2 days, FALSE MEMORY daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Celestine Granular FX versus FALSE MEMORY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCelestine Granular FXFALSE MEMORY
Price$9.99$3.99 — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerian johnstonStephan Bolch

Customer experience

Celestine Granular FX

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FALSE MEMORY

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Celestine Granular FX

No in-app purchases

None

FALSE MEMORY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Celestine Granular FX free?
Celestine Granular FX costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FALSE MEMORY free?
FALSE MEMORY costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Celestine Granular FX or FALSE MEMORY?
Celestine Granular FX and FALSE MEMORY are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Celestine Granular FX or FALSE MEMORY have ads?
Neither Celestine Granular FX nor FALSE MEMORY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Celestine Granular FX or FALSE MEMORY?
Celestine Granular FX ships an update every 2 days, and FALSE MEMORY daily. Most recently, Celestine Granular FX was updated on October 16, 2026 and FALSE MEMORY on October 11, 2026.

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