OR vs Tako Kick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OR
This application acts as a generative MIDI Note-FX, controlling external synths, samplers, and drum machines. It offers advanced features like Euclidean and polyrhythmic sequencing, stochastic drift, and scale quantization with chord lock. Designed for musicians to create complex MIDI patterns without generating sound itself.
- Euclidean sequencing
- Polyrhythm generation
- Stochastic drift
- Modulators
- Scale quantizer with chord lock
- Tempo and random performance controls
- MIDI Learn
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OR-1 makes no sound on its own. It's a generative MIDI Note-FX — the brain, not the sound source — that plays your own synths, samplers, and drum machines for you… - Euclidean - Polyrhythm - Stochastic drift - Modulators - Scale quantizer with chord lock - Temp and random for performance - MIDI Learn
Tako Kick
This app is an eight-voice generative drum machine that creates complex polyrhythms. Users can independently shape each voice's rhythm and sound, build evolving grooves, and explore synthesized kits. It offers performance controls and the ability to save and share presets.
- Eight-voice generative drum machine
- Independent voice shaping
- Synthesized drum kits
- Evolving groove creation
- Performance and mixing controls
- Preset saving and sharing
- AUv3 instrument support
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What if an octopus could play drums? Tako Kick is an eight-voice generative drum machine excelling in musical polyrhythms. Shape each voice independently, tuning its rhythm and sound across a range of synthesized kits. Build evolving grooves with pattern, density, pitch, accents, and feel controls. Explore each kit’s timbre, and add movement with built-in modulation sources. Keep rhythm and sound independent in each voice's left and right columns - change the timbre without affecting the beat, or change both at once. Performance controls allow interactive mixing/soloing/muting, and global control over drum assignments and pitch. Save and share complete presets to recall your rhythm, tuning, modulation, kit, and mix settings. Presets can be dynamically loaded for another element of in-time performance. Play Tako Kick standalone on iPhone and iPad, or load it as an AUv3 instrument in AUM and other compatible hosts. Sync to the host and use it with MIDI. Tako Kick is a tactile rhythm instrument for finding grooves. Use it to practice drums, get ideas, make beats, or just to have fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tako Kick at daily against OR's every 6 weeks. OR's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. 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 OR against 5.0 for Tako Kick. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OR has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
OR ships an update every 6 weeks, Tako Kick daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OR | Tako Kick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jori Eero Larres | Radii Research |
Customer experience
OR
Tako Kick
In-app purchases
OR
No in-app purchases
Tako Kick
No in-app purchases









