Comparison

Split Chaos by folina vs Tonic FX

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

Head to head
About

Split Chaos by folina

This app creates two distinct audio paths from your sound, allowing them to evolve independently through timing, pitch, and tone differences before merging. It offers controlled disagreement for unique sonic textures, width, and depth, transforming ordinary sounds into dynamic performances.

Highlights
  • Dual-path audio processing
  • Organic evolving motion
  • Timing, pitch, and tonal disagreement
  • Wide stereo textures
  • Intuitive six-control interface
  • AUv3 support for iOS and Mac
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Split Chaos creates two alternate realities of your sound. Your audio is duplicated into two identical paths. From there, each path gradually disagrees with the other through timing, pitch, tone, saturation, and continuously evolving movement before they collide back together into a single output. Instead of traditional chorus, delay, or modulation, Split Chaos focuses on controlled disagreement. Small differences create width, depth, and movement. Larger differences produce fractured doubles, unstable textures, warped stereo images, and beautifully imperfect parallel worlds. Every control shapes how the two realities drift apart: • Offset introduces timing disagreement between the paths. • Bend creates subtle pitch disagreement through delay modulation. • Color gives each path a different spectral character. • Friction applies different saturation characteristics to each path. • Drift continuously evolves every disagreement with slow organic motion. • Mix blends the processed signal with your original audio. From subtle widening and analog-style instability to surreal layered textures, Split Chaos transforms ordinary sounds into evolving, living performances that never stand completely still. Perfect for guitars, synths, vocals, drums, pads, percussion, and creative sound design. Features • Unique dual-path processing architecture • Organic evolving motion without obvious LFO modulation • Timing, pitch, tonal and saturation disagreement • Wide stereo textures and animated depth • Character-first interface with six intuitive controls • AUv3 support for iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Works in GarageBand, Logic Pro, Cubasis, AUM, Audiobus, and other compatible AUv3 hosts Split the signal. Create two realities. Choose how much they disagree.

About

Tonic FX

Create custom audio effect chains for your music. This app allows you to build and reorder a variety of effects, from distortion and modulation to time-based and dynamic processors, for use in standalone mode or with compatible music production hosts.

Highlights
  • Customizable effect rack
  • Reorderable effect chain
  • 24 built-in effects
  • Standalone app and AUv3 plugin
  • MIDI Learn for hardware control
  • Tempo sync for time-based effects
  • Preset library
Features
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Thirty-four effects. One tap to add each one — and the order of the chain is yours. Tonic FX is the Tonic effects rack in an app of its own, focused and affordable — an Audio Unit (AU and AUv3) effect in GarageBand, Logic, AUM, Cubasis, Drambo and any host, and a standalone app that processes your microphone or line input. A RACK YOU BUILD — AND REORDER Every effect has its own on/off, grouped by category: add one with a tap, then drag the cards to rearrange the chain. The order is saved with the preset. THIRTY-FOUR EFFECTS • Drive — Overdrive, Distortion (hard, asymmetric and fuzz), Amp Sim with 6 models and cabinet, Wavefolder/Fuzz, Bitcrush, Ring Modulator and Lo-Fi/Vinyl. • Modulation — an 8-mode Chorus (vintage through string ensemble), a Phaser with four voicings, from the gentle 4-stage pedal to a slow 10-stage pad sweep, Flanger, Vibrato, Detune, Pitch Shifter/Harmonizer, Throb (the pulsing vibrato of the sixties) and Frequency Shifter. • Motion — a two-rotor Rotary cabinet, Auto-Pan, Tremolo, a Stereo Widener with a mono maker that keeps the bass centred, a Pedal Wah you can put under an expression pedal, and the Trance Gate, with a draw-your-own-rhythm mode. • Time — a tempo-syncable ping-pong Delay, with Wow and Sat for tape character; a Reverb with nine spaces: room, hall, cathedral, plate, spring, shimmer, cloud, gated and swell — plus Freeze, to hold a chord and play over it; Reverse, which plays back what you just played backwards; and Call & Response, which listens to your phrase and answers in the gap. • Dynamics & EQ — Compressor, Limiter, Noise Gate, De-esser, a musical 5-band EQ and a 12-band graphic EQ, each with eight one-tap starting points you can overwrite with your own. Compressor, gate, de-esser and limiter show how much they are holding, in dB. • Vocal — Voice, a whole vocal channel behind one knob: low cut, gate, de-esser, compressor and sheen, all in the right measure; and the Doubler, which simulates two or four voices singing along. • Filter — an Auto-Wah that breathes with your playing, always first in the chain. BUILT FOR PLAYING Full MIDI Learn maps any hardware knob to any control, including the from–to range for an expression pedal. Tempo sync from your host keeps delay and modulation in time. Colour-coded scenes A–F, a preset library with favourites, and factory presets to get started fast. A tactile "pro hardware" interface, native on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Thanks for playing with RSJB — made by musicians, for musicians! Follow what's new at www.rsjb.com.br

Screenshots

Split Chaos by folina1 screens
Tonic FX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Split Chaos by folina at $2.99 against Tonic FX's $9.99. Split Chaos by folina also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Tonic FX's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Split Chaos by folina costs $2.99 and Tonic FX $9.99 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 Split Chaos by folina against 5.0 for Tonic FX. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Split Chaos by folina versus Tonic FX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplit Chaos by folinaTonic FX
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy PhillipsRubens Felicio

Customer experience

Split Chaos by folina

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tonic FX

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Split Chaos by folina

No in-app purchases

None

Tonic FX

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Split Chaos by folina free?
Split Chaos by folina costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tonic FX free?
Tonic FX costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Split Chaos by folina or Tonic FX?
Split Chaos by folina and Tonic FX are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Split Chaos by folina or Tonic FX have ads?
Neither Split Chaos by folina nor Tonic FX shows ads.

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