Comparison

Delay Line vs Harmonitron

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • High-quality digital delay
  • Smooth parameter interpolation
  • Feedback control
  • Musical echoes
  • Linear interpolation for delay time
  • Comprehensive parameter smoothing
Features
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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.

About

Harmonitron

This app creates a rich, swirling harmonic tremolo effect, distinct from standard volume pulsing. It splits sound into low and high bands, modulating them in opposite phases for a lush, phaser-like character. Apply it to various instruments or full mixes as a standalone app or AUv3 effect.

Highlights
  • True harmonic tremolo with anti-phase modulation
  • Voice control for morphing between classic and harmonic tremolo
  • Split & Tilt for band crossover and balance
  • Tube Drive and tone shaping
  • Adjustable Rate and LFO Shapes
  • Tempo Sync with musical note divisions
  • Stereo Spread for auto-pan and width
Features
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Harmonitron is a harmonic tremolo. The rich, swirling amp "vibrato" made famous by early-1960s brownface amplifiers. A normal tremolo just pulses your volume up and down. A harmonic tremolo goes deeper: it splits your sound into a low band and a high band, then sweeps them in OPPOSITE phase. As the lows swell, the highs dip and back again. That contrary motion is what gives Harmonitron its lush, watery, almost phaser-like character that an ordinary tremolo can't reach. Turn the Voice control and the effect morphs smoothly from a classic in-phase tremolo all the way to a full harmonic swirl. Drop it on guitars, keys, synths, pads, drums, or a whole mix. Standalone, or as an Audio Unit (AUv3) effect inside GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and other hosts. THE SOUND • True harmonic tremolo: anti-phase modulation of a low and high band • Voice: morph continuously from classic tremolo to full harmonic swirl • Split & Tilt: place the crossover and balance the two bands • Tube Drive and tone shaping for warmth and grit MOVEMENT • Rate from a slow tide to a fast flutter, shown in BPM • LFO Shape: sine, triangle, square, and ramp with adjustable edge Slope • Tempo Sync that locks to your project and lands on the beat, with musical note divisions from 1/1 to 1/32 (dotted and triplet) • Stereo Spread for auto-pan and rotary-style width HANDS-ON • A living hero orb whose two halves breathe in opposite phase — drag it to set Depth, tap to bypass • Grouped, color-coded controls: Motion, Sync, Harmonic, Stereo, Drive, Output • Factory presets: Brownface, Rotary Swirl, Slow Tide, Sync Chop, Wide Harmonic and more — plus your own saved presets PLUGIN & STANDALONE • Full AUv3 audio-effect support with host presets and parameter automation • Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Standalone mode with a built-in demo pad, live microphone input, or import a song and export the processed result

Screenshots

Delay Line4 screens
Harmonitron2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Delay Line at $1.99 against Harmonitron's $2.99. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Delay Line costs $1.99 and Harmonitron $2.99 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 Delay Line against 5.0 for Harmonitron. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Delay Line versus Harmonitron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelay LineHarmonitron
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCallback Audio, LLCKonstantin Torsten Schutz

Customer experience

Delay Line

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Harmonitron

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Delay Line

No in-app purchases

None

Harmonitron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delay Line free?
Delay Line costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Harmonitron free?
Harmonitron costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Delay Line or Harmonitron?
Delay Line and Harmonitron are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Delay Line or Harmonitron have ads?
Neither Delay Line nor Harmonitron shows ads.

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