Violibration vs KAGARIBI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Violibration
Explore a variety of responsive haptic surfaces by dragging your finger across the screen. Adjust intensity and sensitivity to customize your tactile experience. Unlock additional surface families or the full library with a single purchase.
- Responsive haptic surfaces
- Five surface families
- Adjustable intensity and sensitivity
- Visual mode for non-haptic devices
- Unlockable surface library
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Violibration turns touch into tactile exploration. Drag across the screen to feel responsive haptic surfaces such as velvet, sand, water, vinyl and static. Browse five surface families: Soft, Granular, Fluid, Mechanical and Magnetic. Tune intensity and sensitivity while each texture reacts to speed, curves and reversals. Try locked surfaces with quick previews, unlock a favourite family, or unlock the full tactile library with one purchase. Designed for iPhone haptics, with a visual mode for devices where live haptics are unavailable.
KAGARIBI
This music creation tool allows users to shape and understand sound with a powerful synthesizer and an integrated sound anatomy feature. It offers extensive sound design capabilities, MIDI support, and advanced tuning options for both standalone use and as an AUv3 instrument.
- Dual oscillators with analog waveforms and wavetables
- Extensive modulation matrix and effects suite
- Integrated Sound Anatomy for sound explanation
- Support for MPE and MIDI 2.0
- Advanced tuning systems beyond 12-TET
- Offline WAV export
- Live Safe mode for reduced audio dropouts
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Play a sound. Shape it. Understand why it sounds that way. KAGARIBI is a free synthesizer for iPhone and iPad with no ads, tracking, account, or network connection required. Play it standalone or load it as an AUv3 instrument. CREATE YOUR SOUND • Two oscillators with analog waveforms and six wavetable families • Up to seven-voice unison, FM, ring modulation, and hard sync • Six filter types, three envelopes, two LFOs, and an eight-slot modulation matrix • Drive, phaser, chorus, delay, reverb, compressor, and limiter • Arpeggiator and four performance macros UNDERSTAND IT — SOUND ANATOMY Sound Anatomy reads the patch you are playing and explains why it sounds the way it does. Connect what you hear to unison, filters, envelopes, LFOs, effects, and more—without leaving the instrument. PLAY AND PRODUCE • 30 factory presets • Multitouch keyboard, Hold, and Arpeggiator • MPE and MIDI 2.0, plus USB and Bluetooth MIDI input • AUv3 host automation for 95 parameters • One preset library shared between the app and AUv3 • A/B comparison, search, favorites, and a recoverable trash • Offline 48 kHz / 24-bit WAV export BEYOND 12-TET Explore 16 included tunings—from just intonation and Pythagorean to Japanese scales, 19/24/31-EDO, and Bohlen–Pierce. Import Scala .scl and .kbm files and set reference pitch from A=415 to 466 Hz. READY FOR LIVE PLAY Live Safe watches real-time processing headroom and adjusts the voice limit when needed to reduce the risk of audio dropouts. Choose Studio or Offline HQ when the session calls for more detail. Your data stays on your device. KAGARIBI includes no third-party ad SDKs, tracking, or network transmission.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Violibration at 5.0 against KAGARIBI's 4.5. Violibration also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). KAGARIBI's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. Violibration sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. KAGARIBI asks for nothing beyond the download.
Violibration holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Violibration ships an update monthly, KAGARIBI every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Violibration | KAGARIBI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Richardson | Code and DESIGN inc. |
Customer experience
Violibration
KAGARIBI
In-app purchases
Violibration
- Soft Surfaces$0.99
- Magnetic Surfaces$0.99
- Fluid Surfaces$0.99
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- Granular Surfaces$0.99
- Mechanical Surfaces$0.99
- Unlock All Surfaces$3.99
KAGARIBI
No in-app purchases









