Comparison

Sungalizer vs 055U4RY

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

Head to head
About

Sungalizer

Transform sound into dynamic visuals with this live audio visualizer. Choose from multiple display modes like Spectrum, Depth, and Scope to create real-time motion from your microphone or audio source. It's a visual instrument designed for artists and musicians.

Highlights
  • Live audio-reactive display
  • Multiple visual modes (Spectrum, Depth, Trace, Scope, Quad)
  • Input source selection
  • Retro-inspired interface
  • Visual companion for music and audio gear
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Sungalizer is a live audio visualizer inspired by classic scopes, studio displays, and retro signal screens. Use it standalone with your microphone or a compatible connected audio source, or load it as an AUv3 audio effect in a compatible iOS or iPadOS music host. Incoming sound drives five real-time visual modes: Spectrum for frequency motion, Depth for dimensional landscapes, Trace for scrolling spectral memory, Scope for waveform display, and Quad for a combined view. Three preset slots let you save and recall visual setups. Adjust the controls, select slot A, B, or C, then tap Save. To restore a setup, select its slot and tap Load. The control rack keeps input and display settings close at hand. Double-tap the visual display to hide the right-hand rack for a full-screen view, then double-tap again to show the controls. Built for artists, musicians, and performers, Sungalizer turns synths, mixers, audio interfaces, live sets, voices, and routed tracks into expressive motion.

About

055U4RY

This app is a unique polyphonic synthesizer designed to evoke horror-themed soundscapes. It features a distinctive visual interface resembling a haunted DOS terminal with a skull motif, offering a variety of synthesis engines and effects for creating unsettling audio.

Highlights
  • 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer
  • 15 synthesis engines
  • Twin chaotic LFOs
  • Shepard-Risset layer
  • State-variable filter
  • Sample-rate reducer and bit-depth crusher
  • Real-time stutter buffer (GLTCH)
Features
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055U4RY (say it: "ossuary") is an 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer sealed inside a haunted DOS terminal — and, since 1.30, a second plug-in that turns the same machine loose on any audio you feed it. A photographic ASCII skull is the front panel: its jaw hinges open with the amplitude envelope, its eye sockets ignite with the output level, and the whole interface tears, melts and reassembles itself while you play. THE VOICE - 15 synthesis engines: detuned saw/square/triangle unison stacks, sine and sub-oscillators one and two octaves down, two-operator FM, ring modulation and inharmonic partials. Every factory preset is a different engine. - Twin chaotic LFOs that cross-modulate each other's RATE, so pitch and filter drift never repeats. Held notes stay alive and slightly wrong. - A Shepard-Risset layer tuned beneath every note: five windowed partials in an endless downward glissando - the bottomless-pit illusion of classic horror scoring, fused into the oscillator core. - A 19 Hz infrasonic tremolo at the edge of perception. On headphones it is a shiver; on a big system it is pressure. THE CHAIN - State-variable filter, low-pass or band-pass per engine, with resonance that will scream - Sample-rate reducer and bit-depth crusher for terminal-grade lo-fi - Saturating drive stage - GLTCH: a real-time stutter buffer that seizes and re-loops your signal - CRYPT: a damped, pitch-black comb/allpass reverb - GLIDE: exponential portamento up to 1.5 seconds - DOOM: one macro that leans the chaos, the descent and the tremor deeper into the signal PERFORM - 14 knobs, all ASCII, every one audible on every preset - 15 factory presets with per-preset patch memory: your tweaks persist for each preset, and [RESET] restores the factory sound - Two-octave on-screen keyboard with octave transpose and note names - Hardware MIDI in (all sources auto-connect), built-in Bluetooth MIDI pairing, pitch bend, MIDI 2.0 aware - The skull is your meter: jaw = envelope, eyes = level, decay = how hard you push GLTCH 055U4RY FX - THE EFFECT The same app installs a second, separate plug-in. Put it on a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal or a whole mix and run it through the machine: - The full destruction chain as an insert - drive, bit crusher, sample-rate reducer, stutter, filter and the CRYPT reverb - in true stereo - HAUNT: a cross-fed delay whose repeats rot as they decay, with MURK controlling how fast they turn to mud - SYNC: stutters and echoes locked to your host's tempo, 1/16 through 1/1, or free-running - DOOM as an injector: the endless Risset descent and the 19 Hz tremor printed underneath your audio, so anything you feed it gains a bottomless falling drone that was never in the source - Fifteen presets sharing the instrument's names, each a different topology - Wet/dry MIX, output trim, and a skull that reacts to whatever passes through AUv3 + STANDALONE The synth runs standalone with zero setup. Both plug-ins install into your host: AUM, Logic Pro, GarageBand, apeMatrix, WBTRK and any AUv3-compatible DAW, with full parameter automation - "hejluxom: 055U4RY" under instruments, "hejluxom: 055U4RY FX" under effects. One purchase, every platform: iPhone, iPad and Mac. No accounts, no ads, no data collected - your patches never leave the device.

Screenshots

Sungalizer4 screens
055U4RY3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 055U4RY at 4.9 against Sungalizer's 4.3. 055U4RY also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (13 vs 4). Sungalizer's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $6.99) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sungalizer costs $3.99 and 055U4RY $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

055U4RY holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sungalizer ships an update every 6 weeks, 055U4RY every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sungalizer versus 055U4RY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSungalizer055U4RY
Price$3.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.3 (4 ratings)4.9 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings413 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGeoffrey GravenLASZLO DOBROVOLSZKI

Customer experience

Sungalizer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

055U4RY

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sungalizer

No in-app purchases

None

055U4RY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sungalizer free?
Sungalizer costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 055U4RY free?
055U4RY costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sungalizer or 055U4RY?
055U4RY is rated higher. Sungalizer averages 4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while 055U4RY averages 4.9 from 13 ratings.
Do Sungalizer or 055U4RY have ads?
Neither Sungalizer nor 055U4RY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sungalizer or 055U4RY?
Sungalizer ships an update every 6 weeks, and 055U4RY every 5 days. Most recently, Sungalizer was updated on October 22, 2026 and 055U4RY on October 14, 2026.

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