Leaf Light vs Ringo Beats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 :)
Ringo Beats
This app generates unique drum patterns using chaotic systems and a learning policy. It offers a variety of sampled and synthesized drum kits, deep control over parameters, and the ability to export MIDI or send MIDI to other apps. Every session provides a new, unpredictable beat.
- Chaotic system-driven beat generation
- AI policy learns and grooves
- 10 diverse drum kits
- Live policy grid for control
- Real-time chaos scope visualization
- MIDI export and inter-app MIDI sending
- AUv3 instrument and MIDI processor
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Ringo Beats writes its own drum parts. Three chaotic systems propose hits — a Lorenz attractor drives kick, snare and clap, a Hénon map flickers the hi-hats, a logistic map detonates fills. A per-voice Markov policy then decides what actually plays, learning from its own output and rewarding patterns that groove. Chaos proposes, the policy disposes. Slide BLEND to choose who wins. No pre-made patterns and nothing loops. Every run is new. WHAT YOU GET • 10 kits — two sampled, a vintage CR-78 and a real rock kit with velocity layers and round robins, and eight synthesised: Neon 808, Dust & Wood, Glitch Lab, Techno Bunker, Trap Haze, Boom Bap, Industrial, Bit Arcade • 8 voices: kick, snare, clap, closed hat, open hat, tom, ride and crash • Live policy grid — watch hit probability build across 16 steps, and tap any cell to lock it on or off • Chaos scope — the attractors driving your beat, drawn in real time • Deep control: tempo, swing, blend, heat, density, Lorenz rho, chaos R, fills, humanise, per-voice mixer • Record a take and export it as a standard MIDI file to the Files app • Sends MIDI to other apps on your device: pick Ringo Beats as a MIDI input in AUM, Cubasis or Drambo, no Audio Unit needed TWO AUDIO UNITS Ringo Beats ships as an instrument AUv3 and as a MIDI processor AUv3, so it can either play its own drums or sequence any other instrument in your host. Both follow your host's transport and tempo — hit play in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis or Zenbeats and it locks to the grid. One install registers both. PRICING The app is free and complete: every kit, every control, unlimited MIDI export. Using the Audio Units inside other apps is a single one-time purchase. Try them first — each AUv3 session plays for two minutes before it asks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Leaf Light at none against Ringo Beats's 1. Ringo Beats's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating and ads 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
Both are free to download. Ringo Beats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Leaf Light asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Leaf Light against 5.0 for Ringo Beats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
Leaf Light ships an update every 2 months, Ringo Beats every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Leaf Light | Ringo Beats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radii Research | Soft Brew Mobile |
Customer experience
Leaf Light
Ringo Beats
In-app purchases
Leaf Light
No in-app purchases
Ringo Beats
- Unlock AUV3 Instrument & Midi$2.99









