Comparison

Drift vs Choral Lab

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

Head to head
About

Drift

This audio plugin offers dynamic saturation with a continuously shifting distortion curve. Achieve warm, musical tones or gritty, unpredictable textures. It's designed for musicians and producers seeking unique sonic character.

Highlights
  • Dynamic saturation with shifting distortion
  • Adjustable drive for warmth to clipping
  • Drift parameter for continuous curve changes
  • Depth and Spread for stereo variation
  • React for transient-following distortion
  • Post-saturation tone shaping
  • AUv3 plugin support
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DRIFT is a saturation plugin with a wandering soul. The distortion curve doesn't sit still — it shifts continuously, driven by the Drift parameter, so your signal is never processed the same way twice. Warm and musical at low settings. Gritty and unpredictable pushed hard. Everything in between. — DRIVE — Pushes the signal into saturation. From gentle warmth to hard clipping. — DRIFT — The wandering parameter. Steers the saturation curve continuously over time — the higher it goes, the more the character shifts. — DEPTH — Controls how far the curve travels from its center position. More depth, more variation. — SPREAD — Widens the drift behavior between left and right channels for stereo movement. — REACT — How quickly the curve responds to transients. Low React for smooth, gradual drift. High React for transient-following distortion. — TONE — Post-saturation tonal shaping. Roll off highs or open up the top end after the drive. — MIX — Dry/wet blend for parallel saturation. — OUTPUT — Final output level after saturation and tone shaping. — AUv3 PLUGIN — Run DRIFT inside AUM, ApeMatrix, Audiobus, or any AUv3 host. Multiple instances, each with independent settings. — WORKS ON — iPhone and iPad, all modern screen sizes.

About

Choral Lab

Compose and study Bach-style four-part chorales. Harmonize melodies with automatic voice generation, explore a library of 410 Bach chorales, and analyze chords in real-time. Offers both score and piano roll views for detailed study.

Highlights
  • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style
  • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales
  • Interactive soprano piano roll
  • Real-time chord analysis
  • Score and piano roll views
  • MIDI export
Features
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Choral Lab brings the art of four-part Bach chorale writing to your iPhone. Whether you're a composer, music student, or theory enthusiast, explore one of the most refined harmonic styles in Western music. Harmonize your melodies. Draw a soprano line on the interactive piano roll and watch Choral Lab instantly generate alto, tenor, and bass voices following authentic Bach voice-leading rules — avoiding parallel fifths and octaves, resolving leading tones, and building natural cadences. Browse 410 Bach chorales. Explore the complete corpus of J.S. Bach's four-part chorales with full score display, real-time chord analysis, and playback with rich choir sounds. Two ways to read the music. Switch between a traditional four-part score view with proper notation and clefs, or a piano roll view to see the voice leading clearly laid out across time. Mute individual voices to focus on any single part or study how voices interact. Generate original chorales. Let the app create complete chorales from scratch in any key — major or minor — with realistic harmonic progressions, passing tones, and Picardy thirds. Study chord analysis. Follow along with real-time Roman numeral chord labels as the music plays. Features: • Interactive soprano piano roll with tie support • Automatic SATB harmonization in Bach style • Library of 410 J.S. Bach chorales • Score view with Bravura music engraving font • Piano roll view with per-voice muting • Real-time chord analysis • Choir, piano, and organ sounds • MIDI export • AUv3 plugin — works in GarageBand, AUM and other hosts • One-tap host tempo sync in plugin mode • MIDI output per voice (soprano, alto, tenor, bass on channels 1–4)

Screenshots

Drift4 screens
Choral Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Drift at daily against Choral Lab's every 6 weeks. Drift also leads on price ($1.99 vs $6.99) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On rating, 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

Drift costs $1.99 and Choral Lab $6.99 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 Drift against 5.0 for Choral Lab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drift has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drift ships an update daily, Choral Lab every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drift versus Choral Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftChoral Lab
Price$1.99 — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStephan BolchMartin Adler

Customer experience

Drift

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Choral Lab

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drift

No in-app purchases

None

Choral Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drift free?
Drift costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Choral Lab free?
Choral Lab costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drift or Choral Lab?
Drift and Choral Lab are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Drift or Choral Lab have ads?
Neither Drift nor Choral Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drift or Choral Lab?
Drift ships an update daily, and Choral Lab every 6 weeks. Most recently, Drift was updated on October 24, 2026 and Choral Lab on October 13, 2026.

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