Celestine Granular FX vs FALSE MEMORY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Celestine Granular FX | FALSE MEMORY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ian johnston | Stephan Bolch |
Customer experience
Celestine Granular FX
FALSE MEMORY
In-app purchases
Celestine Granular FX
No in-app purchases
FALSE MEMORY
No in-app purchases
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