Comparison

PatchMap vs Ghosts

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

Head to head
About

PatchMap

Features
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PatchMap is the fast, structured way for Eurorack players to document, search, and recreate their patches. Stop relying on blurry phone photos and scattered notes — capture every connection in seconds and find any patch later. Fast Patch Recording Pick a module, mark an output and an input, and save the connection. Logging a full patch takes seconds, not minutes, so you can document a great sound before it slips away. Your Module Library Build a library of your rack's modules once and reuse it for every patch. Add modules with their HP, type, and I/O so your records stay accurate and consistent. Powerful Search Search your entire patch history by module name, tag, or date. The good patch you made last month is always one tap away. Signal Flow Visualization See each patch as a clean connection diagram — modules laid out with color-coded cables — so you can understand the routing at a glance and recreate it exactly. Tags & Notes Organize patches with tags like ambient, percussion, or drone, and add text notes to capture settings, knob positions, and ideas. Shareable Patch Cards Generate a clean patch card image and share it to Instagram, Reddit, or with friends in one tap. Privacy First PatchMap works completely offline. No account, no cloud, no data collection. Everything stays on your device. Built for modular synth players with mid-to-large systems who patch often and want to remember every great sound.

About

Ghosts

Features
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Ghosts is a haunted radio: an instrument that plays the world's airwaves and lets you keep the moments worth keeping. Tune a live station. There are thousands of real broadcasters from every corner of the planet, and you can step through them, search for them, or land on one at random. The signal plate is always listening to the last 30 seconds of the air. When something good happens, press CATCH and it becomes a ghost: a loop that plays forever, layered under the radio, ready to be shaped. A phrase, a chord, a voice, a burst of static. If you heard it, you can keep it. WHY YOU'LL KEEP COMING BACK • A dial with thousands of stations: community radio, college radio, shortwave-style oddities, dead air and all. Step, search the directory, or hit RND and see where you land. • Catch with one press, or frame an exact slice of the air: anything from a single syllable to twenty seconds. • Up to 24 ghosts loop at once, each with its own strip on the mix console: fader, mute, solo. • Shape every ghost in the editor. Pitch it down to a moan, trim the loop to a single syllable, reverse it, wear it down with tape damage, crush, wow and flutter. • A master chain tuned for the aesthetic: space, warble, a valve limiter. The whole mix comes out sounding like a broadcast from somewhere that doesn't exist. • Record takes of your full mix and share them anywhere. Save sessions and return to a roster of ghosts exactly as you left it. • Lock-screen controls and background playback. It's a radio, so it behaves like one. NO STRINGS No account. No analytics. No ads. Nothing collected. Your ghosts, sessions, and recordings live on your device and nowhere else. The radio comes from the community-run radio-browser.info directory; recording requires your own material in the mix, because Ghosts is an instrument, not a stream ripper. Somewhere on the dial, right now, something is happening that will never happen again. Catch it.

Screenshots

PatchMap4 screens
Ghosts4 screens

Verdict

The call

PatchMap and Ghosts are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PatchMap versus Ghosts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatchMapGhosts
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerꙓ 郭Colton Harker

In-app purchases

None

PatchMap

No in-app purchases

None

Ghosts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PatchMap free?
PatchMap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghosts free?
Ghosts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PatchMap or Ghosts have ads?
Neither PatchMap nor Ghosts shows ads.

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