Comparison

OR vs Tako Kick

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Euclidean sequencing
  • Polyrhythm generation
  • Stochastic drift
  • Modulators
  • Scale quantizer with chord lock
  • Tempo and random performance controls
  • MIDI Learn
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Tako Kick4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 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 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OR ships an update every 6 weeks, Tako Kick daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
OR versus Tako Kick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterORTako Kick
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJori Eero LarresRadii Research

Customer experience

OR

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tako Kick

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

In-app purchases

None

OR

No in-app purchases

None

Tako Kick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OR free?
OR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tako Kick free?
Tako Kick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, OR or Tako Kick?
OR and Tako Kick are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do OR or Tako Kick have ads?
Neither OR nor Tako Kick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OR or Tako Kick?
OR ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tako Kick daily. Most recently, OR was updated on October 14, 2026 and Tako Kick on October 19, 2026.

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