Comparison

Augmatic GRE Lite vs Grainfold

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

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About

Augmatic GRE Lite

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Augmatic GRE Lite lets you quickly generate inspiring drum patterns and blend controlled randomness with perfectly locked drum loops. Two generative sequencers, Linear Drumming and Velocity Bender allow Augmatic GRE to play rhythms that sound natural, as if they were performed by a real drummer. What would take lots of manual sequencing can be done live, with a single sweep of a knob. MAIN FEATURES: - 3 GENERATIVE CHANNELS - Bass drum, snare and hi-hat. Each channel can generate its own rhythmic voice for rich, layered drum patterns. - TOPOGRAPHIC ENGINE - Morphs drum patterns on a XY MAP. Based on the Mutable Instruments Grids Eurorack module. - EUCLIDEAN ENGINE - Generates evenly distributed drum patterns up to 32 steps. - BLEND - Crossfades between TOPOGRAPHIC and EUCLIDEAN engines to create variations while preserving the core character of your groove. - LINEAR DRUMMING - Controls which drums play together or play alone, creating clean, breathing patterns. - VELOCITY BENDER - Shapes velocity for a more dynamic pulse. Creates ghost notes and rhythmic accents that bring patterns to life. - SWING, SHIFT, HUMANIZATION and CLOCK DIVIDER - Fine-tune the feel of your patterns from tight and mechanical to loose and human.

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Grainfold

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Grainfold is a granular synth that turns any sound into an instrument. Record your voice, a glass or the street outside, or import a file, and shape it into loops, playable chords, melodies and evolving clouds of grains. A GRANULAR SYNTH YOU CAN PLAY Granular synthesis cuts a sound into tiny grains and plays them back in new ways. Grainfold makes it hands-on: set how long each grain lasts, how often grains spawn, where they come from and how far they scatter. Reverse them, spread them across the stereo field, give them a shape from smooth to plucked, and play them from the keyboard, MIDI or your fingertips. FOUR REGIONS, LOOP OR GRAIN Mark up to four parts of a sound, each with its own mode, pitch, envelopes, filter and modulation. LOOP repeats a region with fades and crossfade; GRAIN turns it into textures, pulses and harmonies. MELODIES WITHOUT A KEYBOARD The step sequencer plays sixteen steps of any scale in time with the tempo. Or let every grain choose its note: random notes of a scale, a wandering line, a melody that comes home to the key, or a slowly evolving motif. SHAKE TO PLAY In SHAKE mode, balls bounce around the sound as you shake and tip your phone, like a pong ball off the edges of the screen, and the grains follow them. HARDWARE LOOK, CRT SCREEN A silver metal body that catches the light as you tilt your phone, solid keys, big knobs and a waveform on a glowing CRT screen, with bloom and scanlines. Each grain is a spark, as big as it is long. A small spectrogram, an oscilloscope and a 3D spectrogram show what you hear. LOCKED TO THE BEAT Type or tap a BPM. Spawn grains on the beat, set their length, the scan, the LFOs and the delay in note values, and see where every beat falls. A metronome keeps time in any meter. In an Audio Unit host, Grainfold follows the host tempo. MOVEMENT AND EFFECTS Two LFOs per region, ADSR envelopes for notes and the filter, PITCH that keeps timing, SPEED that keeps pitch. Filters, harmonic LAYERS, drive, chorus, DIFFUSE, delay and reverb. PLAY WITH TOUCH OR MIDI In PERFORM, each finger plays a region and moves two parameters; LATCH holds sounds and MOTION loops your gestures. Chords of up to twelve notes from the on-screen keyboard or MIDI, with velocity, sustain, pitch bend and MIDI Learn. RECORD, EXPORT, AUV3 Record your performance as a 32-bit float WAV straight into your DAW's folder. Play Grainfold as an AUv3 instrument in GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad, AUM or Cubasis; Grainfold Capture records takes from any track. 40 PRESETS AND 20 STARTER PROJECTS Factory presets in seven categories, your own presets, and starter projects that each bring their own recording, root note and tempo. Share projects as .grainfold files. FREE, AND PRIVATE Every feature is free. No account, ads or tracking: Grainfold collects no data, and your recordings stay on your device.

Screenshots

Augmatic GRE Lite4 screens
Grainfold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Augmatic GRE Lite at 15.0 against Grainfold's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. 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 Augmatic GRE Lite against 5.0 for Grainfold. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Augmatic GRE Lite versus Grainfold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAugmatic GRE LiteGrainfold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperARTUR ANTONI NOWAKMarcin Sewastianowicz

In-app purchases

None

Augmatic GRE Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Grainfold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Augmatic GRE Lite free?
Augmatic GRE Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grainfold free?
Grainfold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Augmatic GRE Lite or Grainfold?
Augmatic GRE Lite and Grainfold are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Augmatic GRE Lite or Grainfold have ads?
Neither Augmatic GRE Lite nor Grainfold shows ads.

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