Riffpad vs Delay Line
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riffpad
Create melodies quickly on your iPhone or iPad with this MIDI sketchpad. Draw notes, loop ideas, and use it standalone or within other music apps. It offers touch-first gestures for easy note manipulation and MIDI export options.
- Thumb-first MIDI piano roll
- Draw, loop, and sketch melodies
- AUv3 MIDI Processor integration
- Touch-first gesture controls
- MIDI export and audio previews
- Scale highlighting and quantize
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Riffpad is a thumb-first MIDI piano roll for sketching melodies fast on iPhone and iPad. Draw notes on the grid, loop ideas, and run patterns standalone or as an AUv3 MIDI Processor inside compatible iOS music host apps. Built for quick musical capture: - Place, move, resize, copy, paste, and delete notes with touch-first gestures - Load starter patterns for hooks, basslines, arps, and blank ideas - Keep melodies in key with scale highlighting, snap, and quantize controls - Loop short ideas, adjust tempo, and record simple live input - Send MIDI to external gear, other apps, or AUv3 instruments - Use the included AUv3 MIDI Processor in compatible host workflows - Export MIDI files and audio previews through the iOS share sheet - Import MIDI sketches when you want to keep developing an idea Riffpad keeps your patterns local. There are no accounts, feeds, ads, tracking SDKs, or cloud sync.
Delay Line
This audio effect app offers a high-quality digital delay with smooth parameter control for musical echoes. It's designed to add depth and space to your sound without unwanted noise.
- High-quality digital delay
- Smooth parameter interpolation
- Feedback control
- Musical echoes
- Linear interpolation for delay time
- Comprehensive parameter smoothing
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A high-quality digital delay effect with smooth parameter interpolation and feedback control. This delay provides clean, musical echoes perfect for adding depth and space to your audio. The delay uses linear interpolation for smooth delay time changes and includes comprehensive parameter smoothing to eliminate zipper noise during real-time parameter adjustments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Delay Line at $1.99 against Riffpad's $5.99. 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
Riffpad costs $5.99 and Delay Line $1.99 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 Riffpad against 5.0 for Delay Line. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Riffpad | Delay Line |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PAUL GLENN VERNON | Callback Audio, LLC |
Customer experience
Riffpad
Delay Line
In-app purchases
Riffpad
No in-app purchases
Delay Line
No in-app purchases
