Comparison

Fields vs FALSE MEMORY

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

Head to head
About

Fields

Capture, organize, and edit audio recordings on the go. This app allows for high-quality sound capture with external interfaces, imports existing files, and offers a suite of editing tools. It features automatic location tagging and flexible storage options.

Highlights
  • High-quality audio capture
  • Import audio files
  • Comprehensive editing tools
  • Automatic location tagging
  • iCloud and local storage options
  • Pre-roll buffer
Features
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Fields is a portable field recording app for capturing, organizing, and editing sounds in one place. Record sounds wherever you are, organize them with photos, notes, and locations, and edit your recordings directly in the app. Capture new material with the built in microphone or an external audio interface, import existing audio files, and keep everything organized in one place. Fields includes useful editing tools such as cut, copy, crop, reverse, fades, gain, normalize, filter, pitch, speed, trim silence, and noise reduction. A pre roll buffer helps you save sounds that happened just before you pressed Record, while automatic location tagging and the built in map make it easy to remember where each recording was captured. Your recordings belong to you. Fields requires no account, uses no tracking, and lets you choose between iCloud and Local Storage.

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

Fields4 screens
FALSE MEMORY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FALSE MEMORY at daily against Fields's every 6 weeks. FALSE MEMORY also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Fields costs $7.99 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

FALSE MEMORY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Fields's written reviews are positive against 100% of FALSE MEMORY's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fields ships an update every 6 weeks, FALSE MEMORY daily. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fields versus FALSE MEMORY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFieldsFALSE MEMORY
Price$7.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.7 (13 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudioThing Ltd.Stephan Bolch

Customer experience

Fields

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

FALSE MEMORY

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

In-app purchases

None

Fields

No in-app purchases

None

FALSE MEMORY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fields free?
Fields costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FALSE MEMORY free?
FALSE MEMORY costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fields or FALSE MEMORY?
FALSE MEMORY is rated higher. Fields averages 4.7 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while FALSE MEMORY averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Fields or FALSE MEMORY have ads?
Neither Fields nor FALSE MEMORY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fields or FALSE MEMORY?
Fields ships an update every 6 weeks, and FALSE MEMORY daily. Most recently, Fields was updated on October 1, 2026 and FALSE MEMORY on October 11, 2026.

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