Comparison

GlitchShredder vs CRATE

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

Head to head
About

GlitchShredder

This app creates glitch and stutter audio effects for music production. It captures, repeats, reverses, and recombines audio fragments in real-time, offering extensive control over rhythmic subdivisions and chaotic textures. It functions as a standalone app or an AUv3 plugin for compatible hosts.

Highlights
  • Independent stereo chopper with 16 segment slots per channel
  • Adjustable chaos and glitch probability
  • Stutter sync to host tempo with rhythmic subdivisions
  • Bit crusher and sample rate reduction
  • Real-time oscilloscope visualization
  • MIDI control for freezing and slot jumping
  • Preset management system
Features
Currently charting
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GlitchShredder is a glitch and stutter effect for iPhone and iPad, available as a standalone app and as an AUv3 plugin for GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, Logic Pro for iPad and other compatible hosts. At its core is the Chopper: it captures fragments of the incoming audio, repeats, reverses and recombines them in real time, turning any source — vocals, drums, synths, guitar — into unpredictable glitch textures or tightly synced stutter rhythms. KEY FEATURES • Independent stereo chopper: L/R channels with 16 segment slots each, for natural glitch divergence and organic stereo width. • Chaos and Glitch Probability: from predictable behavior to total chaos, with spontaneous segment jumps adjustable in probability and rate. • Reverse Probability and ZC Reverse: random segment reversal, or ping-pong mode that flips direction at the end of every segment. • Stutter Sync: automatic sync to the host tempo (AudioPlayHead) with manual BPM fallback and built-in Tap Tempo. 9 rhythmic subdivisions, from 1/4 to 1/64 plus triplets and dotted values. • Quantized Jumps: locks spontaneous glitch jumps to the beat grid for chaos that stays in time. • Transient Snap: detects transients in the input signal and forces a new segment on every hit, with adjustable sensitivity threshold. • Segment Leveler: per-segment RMS normalization to smooth out level jumps between loud and quiet fragments. • Bit Crusher and Sample Rate Reduction: post-chopper digital degradation for lo-fi textures, from subtle to destroyed. • Drive: output soft clipper with a tanh curve, for progressive, controlled saturation without hard clipping. • Equal-power Dry/Wet and independent Input Gain control. • Single Win mode: a single capture slot for a continuous loop, freeze/looper style. • MIDI: any Note On triggers freeze; notes C3–D#4 jump directly to slots 1–16. • Real-time visualization: oscilloscope with dry/wet overlay colored by active slot, plus a 2×16 segment grid with waveform preview. PRESETS AND INTERFACE GlitchShredder ships with a ready-to-use factory preset library, managed through the 34AudioLibrary system (.a34 format): folder organization, quick search, and the ability to save your own settings. Presets are compatible with the desktop version of the plugin. The touch-first interface offers knobs with vertical drag for coarse adjustment, horizontal drag for fine adjustment, double-tap to reset to default, and long-press for manual value entry. The panel supports pinch-to-zoom up to 2.5x, while the preset bar and controls stay accessible at all times. A live help pop-up on the knob or a bottom info bar (your choice) shows the description of each parameter. WHO IT'S FOR GlitchShredder is built for producers, DJs, sound designers and musicians who want to add glitch, stutter, granular or lo-fi elements to their productions directly from iPhone or iPad — in the studio or on the go, standalone or integrated into your favorite AUv3 setup. No account required, no connection needed to use the plugin.

About

CRATE

Describe a musical vibe, and this app generates a beat with drums, samples, and bass in seconds. You can then easily modify it using simple text commands or intuitive pad gestures, and even sample from your microphone or imported songs.

Highlights
  • Generate beats from text descriptions
  • Modify beats with plain language commands
  • Intuitive pad-based editing
  • Live recording and step sequencing
  • Punch-in effects
  • Sample from microphone or imported audio
  • Auto-chop and re-sequence samples
  • Song arrangement and export
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CRATE is a sampler you talk to. Type or say a vibe — "dusty boom bap with rhodes", "NewJeans type beat", "dark plugg with bells" — and in a second the pads fill with drums, a chopped sample and a bass line, already playing. Then shape it the way producers do on an MPC or an SP-404, just faster. MAKE A BEAT IN SECONDS • Describe a beat and CRATE builds it from its sound library: drums, chops and bass in key. • Ask for changes in plain words — "add a sax line", "more hats", "punchier snare", "clear the bank". Only that part changes. • Drag a pad down and say what you want there. Swipe a pad left or right for another sound, up to remove it. PLAY IT LIKE A SAMPLER • 16 pads in four banks, a step sequencer and live recording that lands on the beat. • KEEP JAM saves what you just played over the loop. • Punch-in effects: hold FX and an effect pad, higher = more. • Sample from the mic straight onto a pad, or import a song and chop it into 16 pads. CHOP AND FLIP • Auto-chops land on real attacks, on the grid. • FLIP re-sequences the chops into something new while the drums keep playing. • Per-pad level, filter, attack, release, reverse, key shift and time stretch. FINISH THE SONG • Arrange intro, verse, hook and outro from your patterns, or let ARRANGE do it in one tap. • Change tempo, swing and key; export the song as audio to share. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • On iPhone Duo the hinge is an effect: fold to build tension, snap open for the drop. The outer screen keeps the beat in view when it's folded. • Works great on iPhone and iPad too.

Screenshots

GlitchShredder1 screens
CRATE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CRATE at Free against GlitchShredder's $4.99. GlitchShredder's advantage is chart position (#144 vs unranked) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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

CRATE is free to download; GlitchShredder costs $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 GlitchShredder against 5.0 for CRATE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GlitchShredder has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
GlitchShredder versus CRATE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlitchShredderCRATE
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#144 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiego Capoccitti书晗 张

In-app purchases

None

GlitchShredder

No in-app purchases

None

CRATE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GlitchShredder free?
GlitchShredder costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CRATE free?
CRATE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GlitchShredder or CRATE?
GlitchShredder and CRATE are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do GlitchShredder or CRATE have ads?
Neither GlitchShredder nor CRATE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GlitchShredder or CRATE?
GlitchShredder ships an update daily, and CRATE daily. Most recently, GlitchShredder was updated on November 10, 2026 and CRATE on October 31, 2026.

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