Comparison

ClockTear vs 055U4RY

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

Head to head
About

ClockTear

This audio processor simulates digital signal degradation through various clock failure modes. It offers granular control over timing instability, dropouts, and signal fracturing for unique sound design.

Highlights
  • Clock-based sample hold and timing damage
  • Four clock failure modes: Slip, Stutter, Tear, Collapse
  • Drift and jitter-driven clock wobble
  • Dropouts, stutters, folding, and digital interruption
  • Adjustable tone shaping and saturation
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Clock Tear is a digital instability processor built around failing clock behavior. Instead of simple bit crushing, Clock Tear holds, slips, stutters, folds, drops, and damages the signal based on input activity, drift, jitter, and the selected clock mode. Four modes move from subtle timing instability to heavier fractured playback and collapse-style digital failure. Features • Clock-based sample hold and timing damage • Four clock failure modes: Slip, Stutter, Tear, and Collapse • Drift and jitter-driven clock wobble • Dropouts, stutters, folding, and digital interruption Modes Slip – Sample-hold clock slipping with the shortest failure range. Stutter – Adds repeating stutter behavior to the clock damage. Tear – Adds stronger clock tearing with drive and foldback-style damage. Collapse – Combines the widest clock failure range with stronger stutter, folding, and drop behavior. Controls Tear – Sets the main clock damage and drive intensity. Mode – Selects Slip, Stutter, Tear, or Collapse behavior. Tone – Shapes the artifacts from darker to brighter. Drift – Adds slow clock movement and stereo wobble. Jitter – Adds faster random clock instability. Drop – Introduces intermittent dropouts and level collapses. Glue – Adds saturation and makeup cohesion after the damage. Mix – Blends dry and processed signal.

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

ClockTear1 screens
055U4RY3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: 055U4RY at 13 against ClockTear's 2. ClockTear's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

ClockTear costs $2.99 and 055U4RY $4.99 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 ClockTear against 4.9 for 055U4RY. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 055U4RY has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ClockTear versus 055U4RY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClockTear055U4RY
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings213 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJeremy PhillipsLASZLO DOBROVOLSZKI

Customer experience

ClockTear

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
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

ClockTear

No in-app purchases

None

055U4RY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClockTear free?
ClockTear costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 055U4RY free?
055U4RY costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ClockTear or 055U4RY?
ClockTear is rated higher. ClockTear averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while 055U4RY averages 4.9 from 13 ratings.
Do ClockTear or 055U4RY have ads?
Neither ClockTear nor 055U4RY shows ads.

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