Comparison

Vinyl Layer vs Sceneboard

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

Head to head
About

Vinyl Layer

Enhance your music playback with the cozy texture of a spinning record. Choose from four distinct vinyl-inspired moods and adjust crackle and texture levels to create a unique listening experience. Designed to work with other audio apps, it offers a simple, beautiful interface.

Highlights
  • Four vinyl-inspired sound layers
  • Adjustable crackle and texture controls
  • Sleep timer
  • Background audio support
  • CarPlay support
  • No account or ads required
Features
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Vinyl Layer: Record Ambience adds a warm vinyl sound layer over the music you already play. Put on your favorite album, playlist, or late-night mix, then open Vinyl Layer and add the cozy texture of a record spinning nearby. It is simple, charming, and made for people who love the little imperfections that make music feel alive. Choose from four record-inspired moods: - Warm Lo-Fi: Soft haze and gentle wobble for mellow listening. - Clean LP: A subtle layer of warmth for crisp, polished tracks. - Dusty Thrift-Store: Found-bin crackle, age, and character. - Old Jazz: Smoky, low-lit record ambience for slower nights. Vinyl Layer is designed to mix with other audio apps, so you can play your music elsewhere and layer in just the right amount of record texture. Adjust the crackle level, shape the sound with texture controls, and set a sleep timer when the night starts getting soft around the edges. Features: - Four vinyl-inspired sound layers - Crackle control - Texture controls for dust, rumble, warp, and stereo feel - Timer - Background audio support - Simple, beautiful iPhone-first design - No account required - No ads - No tracking - CarPlay support for vinyl record sounds on the road For record lovers, playlist obsessives, lo-fi people, jazz-at-midnight people, and anyone who thinks music sounds better with a little dust on the needle.

About

Sceneboard

Features
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Sceneboard is a private, custom soundboard for your own sounds. Import an audio file, pull the audio out of a video, or record straight into the app — trim it, normalize its loudness, drop it on a big colourful pad, and fire it the instant you touch it. Built for tabletop game masters running ambience and effects at the table — and just as at home in a classroom, a podcast session, or anywhere you need your own sounds on cue. YOUR SOUNDS, NOT A CATALOGUE • Import audio files, extract the audio from videos, or record with the microphone • Trim on a waveform and normalize loudness — one tap makes a quiet clip as loud as the rest • Nothing is bundled and nothing is uploaded: every sound on your board is yours INSTANT, RELIABLE PLAYBACK • Pads fire the moment you touch them — no spinner, no confirmation, no delay • The live grid never scrolls and hides no gestures, so a tap in the dark always means play • Four per-pad modes: Restart, Interrupt, Overlap, and Loop (tap again to stop) • Smooth, click-free stops and seamless loops — even for clips that weren't made to loop • Loops keep playing with the screen off or the app in the background • Stop all in one tap; the Playing tray shows everything sounding — and stops any one sound, from any page MADE FOR THE TABLE • Big, legible pads with your labels, colours and icons — readable in a dim room at arm's length • Fixed pages with names and colours, switched from a permanent strip — never by a gesture that could misfire a pad • One app for iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape; pad positions are remembered per device and orientation • Your board shows your pads — not a screen padded out with empty cells; rotate the device and the same pads are simply rearranged • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion supported throughout FAIR AND PRIVATE • Free forever: one board with 8 pads and the complete toolset — import, video extraction, recording, trim, normalize, every playback mode • A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited boards and pads, hardware keyboard shortcuts, and board export & sharing • Share a whole board — sounds included — by AirDrop or Messages; importing a shared board is free • No ads. No subscription. No account. No tracking. Your clips never leave your device. Your sounds. One tap. No ads.

Screenshots

Vinyl Layer4 screens
Sceneboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vinyl Layer at none against Sceneboard's 1. Sceneboard's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sceneboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vinyl Layer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vinyl Layer ships an update fortnightly, Sceneboard daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Vinyl Layer versus Sceneboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVinyl LayerSceneboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsaac RoseMaksym Tsaplin

In-app purchases

None

Vinyl Layer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sceneboard

One-time1
  • Everything unlock$5.99

Questions

Is Vinyl Layer free?
Vinyl Layer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sceneboard free?
Sceneboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vinyl Layer or Sceneboard have ads?
Neither Vinyl Layer nor Sceneboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vinyl Layer or Sceneboard?
Vinyl Layer ships an update fortnightly, and Sceneboard daily. Most recently, Vinyl Layer was updated on October 28, 2026 and Sceneboard on October 29, 2026.

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