Orbita vs Braindance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orbita
Create evolving, interlocking grooves with a circular sequencer. Distribute beats across eight sample tracks to explore polyrhythms and shifting accents. Shape sounds, load custom samples, and generate hypnotic, organic rhythms.
- Circular sequencer
- Eight sample tracks
- Polyrythm exploration
- Accent and offset shifting
- Custom sample loading
- Sound shaping controls
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Orbita is a Euclidean Rhythm Drum Machine plugin designed for creating evolving, interlocking grooves with ease. Built around a circular sequencer, it lets you distribute beats across eight sample tracks and instantly explore polyrhythms, shifting accents, offsets, swing, etc. Shape each sound with flexible controls, load your own samples, and transform simple pulses into organic, hypnotic rhythms that keep moving in unexpected ways.
Braindance
This app allows real-time audio manipulation with buffer-glitch effects. Create complex rhythmic patterns, apply various audio transformations, and perform live with intuitive controls. It can be used as a standalone application or as an Audio Unit within other hosts.
- Real-time buffer-glitch audio manipulation
- Step sequencer with Euclidean patterns
- Multiple audio effects (bitcrush, flanger, delay, reverb)
- Master filter with various modes
- Live performance controls (XY pad, macros)
- AUv3 and MIDI support
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Braindance is a buffer-glitch effect for iOS. Feed it audio and cut, stutter, repitch and mangle it in real time. SEQUENCE Build glitch patterns on a step sequencer with gate, repeat, reverse and pan lanes. Fill rhythms with Euclidean patterns, set step size and length, and capture what you just played onto the history tape. EFFECTS Shape the result with bitcrush, flanger, delay and reverb, then a master filter with switchable SVF, ladder, comb and resonator modes. Automate any parameter with per-slot shapes and depth over a chosen number of bars. PERFORM Play the effect live. Morph between settings on an XY pad, hold macros like Fire, History, Forget and Freeze, and fire launch pads including Trance Gate, Half-Time, Tresillo, IDM Chop, Stutter, Machine Gun, Glitch Walk, Reverse Rain, Ping Pong, Repitch, Dub Siren and Clicks + Cuts. AUv3 Run Braindance as an Audio Unit inside your host to process tracks in place, or play it standalone. A MIDI variant is included for triggering glitches from a keyboard or sequencer. Three themes: Ark, Candy and Clarity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Braindance at $4.99 against Orbita's $19.99. Braindance also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 40%) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Orbita costs $19.99 and Braindance $4.99 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 Orbita against 5.0 for Braindance. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of Orbita's written reviews are positive against 83% of Braindance's.
Orbita ships an update monthly, Braindance weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Orbita | Braindance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #195 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AudioThing Ltd. | fourtrack.fm LLC |
Customer experience
Orbita
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In-app purchases
Orbita
No in-app purchases
Braindance
No in-app purchases








