Psychodeli vs Loop Breaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Psychodeli
This app transforms music into dynamic, ever-changing visuals. It reacts to live audio input, user movement via the camera, and offers various visual styles and color palettes. Enjoy an immersive, non-repeating visual experience that syncs with your music.
- Live music visualization
- Camera-based motion and face tracking
- Dynamic kaleidoscopic and organic patterns
- Multiple color palettes
- Interactive touch controls
- Tunnel and Duplex visual modes
- Autonomous ambient mode
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Psychodeli+ turns the music around you into a living visual performance. It follows rhythm, harmony, builds, quiet passages and returning themes — not just volume. Generative art, drawn live out of chaos math: nothing pre-rendered, nothing looped. Psychodeli enjoys music. It leans into a build, settles into the quiet, opens at the drop. When the hook comes back around, so does the visual idea that met it the first time. It is also a fidget toy you can fall into. Spin your fingers to spin the visuals, with or without a song. GROOVE WITH YOUR MUSIC It can listen through the microphone, so it jams with whatever is in the room: a speaker, a laptop, a turntable, a live band. Typical for iOS, it cannot reach inside Apple Music or Spotify for their audio. Play them out loud and Psychodeli hears them like anything else. And if you give it more signals, it tries to enjoy it with you. Turn on the camera feature and nod, sway or lean and the picture answers. Up to four people can appear in the fractal at once, reflecting real smiles and head tilts. Camera frames are processed on-device and are not sent to a server. KEEP THE LOOKS YOU LOVE Explore 15 ready-to-play Pdeli Looks: six Originals and nine Animal Patterns. Tap a square preview to recall a setup. Keep favorites in Personal, or save your own with a name you can edit. Assign Looks to numbered Jukebox slots, or discover something new with Random. Your saves stay on your device; music and movement keep each setup alive. OUR MISSION IS TO HELP YOU GROOVE Everything above is free. So is all of this: • Every curated palette, plus seasonal palettes • Kaleidoscope mandalas and free-flowing organic patterns • Motion reactivity — tilt to lean into the picture, circle to set it spinning, or roll left and right for fading echoes • Compatible Govee Room Lights in full, including color that travels along a light strip • Saved Looks and personal Jukebox slots • Full-frame PNG saving and sharing • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no subscription, no nagging PSYCHODELI TOUCH — ONE PURCHASE, NEVER A SUBSCRIPTION • Perform deck — play the visuals yourself: scrub color, speed, shape and effects live • Self, Mask and Eyes — expressive forms driven by your face • Camera color — choose Color then Camera (that choice, and nothing earlier, starts it), then pan across a sunset, a record sleeve, your room, and repaint Psychodeli in its colors. Keep it and it joins your library • Seasonal hold — keep automatic color changes inside one collection: Halloween, Pride, a solstice • Live Photo — turn the current visual into a moving Lock Screen, saved to Photos for you to choose in Wallpaper settings • Keep the display awake • Room controls — hold a lighting groove, and set how strongly the room responds LET THE PALETTE LEAVE THE SCREEN Compatible Govee lights carry the picture's palette and the music's movement into the room. Each lamp takes a different color from the same palette, so the room looks composed instead of every bulb doing the same thing. On a strip that can light its LEDs separately, the colors spread along it, drift, and pulse with the beat. Psychodeli connects locally over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, with no Govee account and no cloud. Compatibility varies by model; some Wi-Fi lights require LAN Control in Govee Home. Underneath: chaotic attractors and GPU wave functions, steered by a listener built for harmony, tension, structure and groove. The math is deep. Watch it listen, nudge it with Vibe, or take the whole performance with Touch. Photosensitivity notice: Psychodeli fills the screen with motion, flashing, and rapidly changing colors and patterns. A small number of people may experience discomfort, dizziness, or—rarely—seizures when exposed to such visuals, even with no prior history. View in a well-lit room, sit back from the screen, take breaks, and stop immediately if you feel unwell.
Loop Breaker
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Loop Breaker is a gamified audio processing environment that periodically forces you to make choices about how your audio loops should change and how your compositions should unfold. This is primarily achieved through a modifier system; every few bars, a new modifier appears in a queue. You must decide which of your loops should be affected by the modifier. If you make no choice, Loop Breaker will decide for you. Change is the only constant. Modifiers include standard audio effects like reverb, delay, chorus, filters, granular delay, auto-pan, and tremolo. Each of these effects has multiple parameters that are set on the fly and include various onset times. Other modifiers effect loop playback: you can change the playback speed, reverse playback direction, time-stretch, re-pitch, move loop brackets via the parts system, and slice loops and then shuffle, arpeggiate, or repeat them. Modifiers stack. Within minutes, your loops will wander down their own paths and recombine to create something previously unimaginable. Loop Breaker also contains a robust probability system for controlling how likely it is that modifier types will appear in the queue and how likely it is that an individual loop will be targeted for modification, should you cede decision-making responsibilities to Loop Breaker. The probability system responds to MIDI CC messages, so you can dynamically change probability settings with MIDI controllers, automation lanes in your DAW, or via modulation sources. Loop Breaker also contains a preset system for saving and recalling modifier stacks. Take your explorations as far as you want, save a new preset, and then recall it later on, even between sessions. Like the pads and probability system, presets also can be controlled via MIDI. Still not enough exploratory madness for you? Record and resample the audio output and then re-apply it to a pad or process it further in your DAW. Loop Breaker works both as a standalone app and as a AUv3 plug-in. Loop Breaker knows that you have a hard drive full of 4-bar loops that you never turned into finished compositions. Loop Breaker wants to help. Loop Breaker wants to make sure you don't get stuck in a loop.
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Verdict
Psychodeli and Loop Breaker 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 · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Psychodeli | Loop Breaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kent Andrew Edmonds | GlowMachine LLC |
In-app purchases
Psychodeli
No in-app purchases
Loop Breaker
No in-app purchases
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