Braindance vs Phase Garden
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Braindance
This app allows real-time audio manipulation with buffer-glitch effects. Create complex rhythmic patterns, apply various audio transformations, and perform live with intuitive controls. It can be used as a standalone application or as an Audio Unit within other hosts.
- Real-time buffer-glitch audio manipulation
- Step sequencer with Euclidean patterns
- Multiple audio effects (bitcrush, flanger, delay, reverb)
- Master filter with various modes
- Live performance controls (XY pad, macros)
- AUv3 and MIDI support
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Braindance is a buffer-glitch effect for iOS. Feed it audio and cut, stutter, repitch and mangle it in real time. SEQUENCE Build glitch patterns on a step sequencer with gate, repeat, reverse and pan lanes. Fill rhythms with Euclidean patterns, set step size and length, and capture what you just played onto the history tape. EFFECTS Shape the result with bitcrush, flanger, delay and reverb, then a master filter with switchable SVF, ladder, comb and resonator modes. Automate any parameter with per-slot shapes and depth over a chosen number of bars. PERFORM Play the effect live. Morph between settings on an XY pad, hold macros like Fire, History, Forget and Freeze, and fire launch pads including Trance Gate, Half-Time, Tresillo, IDM Chop, Stutter, Machine Gun, Glitch Walk, Reverse Rain, Ping Pong, Repitch, Dub Siren and Clicks + Cuts. AUv3 Run Braindance as an Audio Unit inside your host to process tracks in place, or play it standalone. A MIDI variant is included for triggering glitches from a keyboard or sequencer. Three themes: Ark, Candy and Clarity.
Phase Garden
This app offers a unique multi-phaser effect with three independent voices for dynamic and evolving audio modulation. It allows for subtle, spacious, or complex phase textures on various instruments and mixes.
- Three independent phaser voices
- Evolving multi-phaser architecture
- Organic modulation drift
- Controlled unpredictable behavior
- Adjustable voice separation
- Integrated stereo movement
- Resonant feedback control
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Phase Garden takes the familiar sound of a phaser and lets it grow wild. Instead of relying on a single repeating sweep, Phase Garden uses three independent phaser voices moving together as a constantly evolving network. Each voice has its own modulation relationship, sweep behavior, feedback character, and stereo position. At restrained settings, Phase Garden creates smooth, dimensional movement that can add life to synths, guitars, pads, drums, vocals, and complete mixes. Increase Spread and the voices begin separating into a wider, more complex field. Add Drift and their relationships slowly evolve over time. Then there’s Wild. Wild introduces occasional controlled disturbances into the garden. A voice may change pace, alter its sweep, become more prominent, or temporarily move away from the others before settling back into the larger pattern. The result is phasing that doesn't feel locked to a perfectly repeating modulation cycle. Phase Garden can be subtle, spacious, liquid, hollow, tangled, resonant, unstable, or gloriously overgrown—but it always remains recognizably a phaser. Three phasers grow from the same source. None of them behave exactly alike. Plant a phase. Let it wander. Features Three independent phaser voices Evolving multi-phaser architecture Smooth organic modulation drift Controlled unpredictable behavior Adjustable separation between phaser voices Integrated stereo movement Resonant feedback from subtle to aggressive Wide range from gentle movement to tangled phase textures Factory presets ranging from restrained to overgrown
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Braindance at #104 against Phase Garden's unranked. Braindance also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Phase Garden's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Braindance costs $4.99 and Phase Garden $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Braindance against 5.0 for Phase Garden. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Braindance has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Braindance | Phase Garden |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #104 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fourtrack.fm LLC | Jeremy Phillips |
In-app purchases
Braindance
No in-app purchases
Phase Garden
No in-app purchases









