Comparison

Split Chaos by folina vs Chip's Jack Machine

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

Chip's Jack Machine

Features
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Chip's Jack Machine is a pocket-sized classic house drum machine — 16 voices, a 16/32-step sequencer, and the hands-on knob-per-function workflow of the original hardware, with no menus to dig through. Most of the kit is synthesized live rather than played back from a sample library, so every knob genuinely reshapes the sound instead of filtering a recording. A few voices are built from recordings where a real one simply sounded better. FEATURES • 16 voices — bass drum, snare, low/mid/hi tom, clap, closed and open hat, cowbell, rim shot, maracas, low/mid/high conga, claves, and cymbal. • Per-voice TUNE, DECAY, TONE, SNAPPY, LEVEL, PAN and VERB — every one of them live. • 4 scenes (A/B/C/D) with instant switching, copy and paste. Each scene keeps its own pattern, bar length, mute/solo state and knob settings. • 8, 16 or 32-step patterns with swing. • Step recording — arm RECORD and play the pads in. • Load your own audio into any voice with SAMPLE. • Low-latency audio engine built for playing, not just playback. • Export a pattern as WAV, or export every voice separately as stems. • Save and load projects as .house files and move them between your devices — the same format the whole Architect Series uses. Runs on iPhone and iPad. Buy it once and it's yours. No subscription, no account, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no network connection — the app works entirely offline, forever. Part of the Time2Jack Architect Series.

Screenshots

Split Chaos by folina1 screens
Chip's Jack Machine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Split Chaos by folina at $2.99 against Chip's Jack Machine's $4.99. Split Chaos by folina also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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

Split Chaos by folina costs $2.99 and Chip's Jack Machine $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 Split Chaos by folina against 5.0 for Chip's Jack Machine. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Split Chaos by folina versus Chip's Jack Machine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplit Chaos by folinaChip's Jack Machine
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy PhillipsIrwin Eberhart

In-app purchases

None

Split Chaos by folina

No in-app purchases

None

Chip's Jack Machine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Split Chaos by folina free?
Split Chaos by folina costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chip's Jack Machine free?
Chip's Jack Machine costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Split Chaos by folina or Chip's Jack Machine?
Split Chaos by folina and Chip's Jack Machine are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Split Chaos by folina or Chip's Jack Machine have ads?
Neither Split Chaos by folina nor Chip's Jack Machine shows ads.

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