Comparison

Leaf Light vs Tessera Sequenced Resonator

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

Head to head
About

Leaf Light

This app offers a unique audio experience, simulating a lightfield lenticular ambiance machine with flanger, delay, and reverb effects. Control sound parameters through a simulated tree canopy, blending natural sights and sounds for relaxation or musical creativity.

Highlights
  • Lightfield lenticular ambiance machine
  • Flanger, delay, and reverb effects
  • Simulated tree canopy control
  • Time of Day, Brightness, Wind parameters
  • Camera Distance, Aperture Focus, Light Trails effects
  • Standalone or AUv3 host compatibility
Features
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Are you looking for a beautiful white noise machine to match your aesthetic and soothe your soul? Are you looking for a truly unique instrument effect for your music? What if we thought of your incoming instrument signal as the sun, split it through a tree canopy into dozens of copies, and then shifted the timing of those signals as the tree moved? Relax and invigorate with the natural sights and sounds of Leaf Light - the world's first lightfield lenticular ambiance machine and flanger/delay/reverb. With all parameters controlled by a simulated tree canopy, you'll be able to dial in the perfect sound with both your eyes and ears. Tune in the: - Time of Day (sound color) - Brightness (rays of sound, hi-freq) - Wind (motion of sounds) And for effect modes: - Camera Distance (Delay time and spread) - Aperture Focus (Lo-pass filter on repeats) - Light Trails (Delay feedback) Leaf Light is a new way to see and hear nature in unnatural environments. Enjoy the app in standalone or with AUv3 hosts. Headphones are recommended :)

About

Tessera Sequenced Resonator

Transform any sound into lush, evolving musical textures with twelve tuned voices. Choose from various resonator models and motion engines to create unique sonic landscapes. Lock to host tempo for rhythmic precision.

Highlights
  • Twelve parallel tuned resonators
  • Selectable scales and chords
  • Eleven resonator models
  • Five motion engines (Contour, SEQ, Strum, Arp, Swarm)
  • Host tempo synchronization
  • MIDI and gate input
  • Standalone and AUv3 plugin support
Features
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Tessera is a tuned resonator. Play a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal, or a field recording into it, and it blooms that sound into twelve pitched voices that ring, shimmer, and decay in tune. At its core are twelve parallel resonators, each locked to a note of a chord or scale you choose. Whatever you feed them excites those voices, so a single hit becomes a lush chord, a sustained pad, or a slowly evolving cloud. Pick a root and a scale, from majors and minors through ninths, elevenths, whole tone, and chromatic, and the whole instrument retunes at once. Choose from eleven resonator models: plucked strings, struck bells, singing bowls, glass, membranes, tuned bars, plates, and hollow tubes. Shape each one with decay, damping, brightness, and stereo spread, moving from tight and percussive to vast and cathedral-like. Five motion engines decide how the voices arrive: Contour spreads them into shimmering, arpeggiated waves. SEQ steps each voice through its own rhythmic pattern. Strum rakes across the chord like fingers on strings. Arp cycles the voices one note at a time. Swarm lets them weave and drift around a moving center. Any of it can lock to your host tempo, so rhythmic patches stay in time. Play Tessera three ways: leave MIDI off and let the resonators sound on their own tuning, key them live from a keyboard, or gate them with held chords. Balance the effect with the dry and wet mix, blur the tails with the diffusion stage, and add motion with the built-in vibrato LFO. Microtonal tunings are supported for the pitch-obsessed. One hundred factory presets get you going, from plucks and drones to bells, rhythmic sequences, strummed chords, arpeggios, and dark cinematic textures. Tessera runs as an AUv3 plug-in inside your favorite host, and as a standalone app.

Screenshots

Leaf Light4 screens
Tessera Sequenced Resonator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Leaf Light at Free against Tessera Sequenced Resonator's $7.99. Tessera Sequenced Resonator's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Leaf Light is free to download; Tessera Sequenced Resonator costs $7.99 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 Leaf Light against 4.9 for Tessera Sequenced Resonator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tessera Sequenced Resonator has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Leaf Light versus Tessera Sequenced Resonator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeaf LightTessera Sequenced Resonator
PriceFree — better$7.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRadii ResearchAudio Damage, Inc.

Customer experience

Leaf Light

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tessera Sequenced Resonator

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Leaf Light

No in-app purchases

None

Tessera Sequenced Resonator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Leaf Light free?
Leaf Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tessera Sequenced Resonator free?
Tessera Sequenced Resonator costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Leaf Light or Tessera Sequenced Resonator?
Leaf Light is rated higher. Leaf Light averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Tessera Sequenced Resonator averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Leaf Light or Tessera Sequenced Resonator have ads?
Neither Leaf Light nor Tessera Sequenced Resonator shows ads.

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