Comparison

AUFX vs BLEASS Tides

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

Head to head
About

AUFX

This app offers a versatile stereo delay audio effect with extensive customization options. It can produce a wide range of sounds, from clean digital delays to gritty dub echoes and flangers. The app supports processing external audio and other applications, with features for saving and sharing presets.

Highlights
  • High quality 32-bit DSP engine
  • Tape simulation (noise and warble)
  • Filters in the delay loop
  • Stereo delay, detune, and ping-pong
  • Dual LFO for modulation
  • Inter-App Audio and Audiobus support
  • Save, load, and share presets
Features
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A highly tweakable stereo delay audio effect, suitable for everything from clean digital delays to filthy dub echoes, flangers and broken cassette tapes. This app is part of the AUFX series, a collection of simple and powerful audio effect apps. • High quality 32-bit DSP engine. • A multitude of parameters to tweak to get a wide range of sounds. • Tape simulation (noise and warble). • Filters in the delay loop for typical dub sound. • Stereo delay, stereo detune, ping-pong delay. • Sinewave and random dual LFO for flangers and other modulations. • Process hardware input/output. • Process other apps through Inter-App Audio or Audiobus (input/filter/output slots supported). • Save, load and share user presets. • Supports Audiobus2 state saving • Comes with several bundled presets. • Fully MIDI controllable, including Virtual MIDI. • Background Audio. • Built-in lookahead limiter to prevent clipping. • Record the result directly in app. • Email recordings or export to AudioShare audio document manager app. • Access user presets and recordings through iTunes File Sharing.

About

BLEASS Tides

This music app offers a unique delay processing experience with fluid delay times and advanced modulation. Shape your echoes with input filters and a flexible feedback path featuring multiple effect processors. Its intuitive interface is designed for both touch and mouse interaction.

Highlights
  • Fluid delay time alteration
  • Enhanced modulation system (LFOs, envelope followers)
  • Input filter with resonant bands
  • Feedback path with 11 insertable effect processors
  • Interactive delay visualizer
  • Momentary Freeze and Kill buttons
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BLEASS Tides washes away the dry, uninspiring echoes of conventional delay processors with wave after wave of richly characterful reflections. The plugin's fluid approach to delay processing means delay times can be altered without the unpleasant warping results produced by other delay processors, with the option of a controlled tape-like timing shift, or a simple crossfade between differently timed delays. Better still, with an enhanced modulation system provided by BLEASS' latest plugin technology, you can take full advantage of this delay time fluidity with stereo LFOs, envelope followers and macro controllers that allow you to explore new horizons of exciting delay effects. There's more to creating unique and enthralling delay lines than timing alone, and so BLEASS Tides provides many different ways of shaping and adding character to its repeats. An input filter combining low- and high-pass resonant bands allows you to easily mould the incoming signal and thereby sculpt the resulting echoes. Then, for even deeper and more exhilarating shaping, Tides' feedback path features five insert points into which any of 11 different effect processors can be loaded. These include distortions, filters, pitch and frequency shifting, ring modulation, and even an additional delay processor, all of which can be brought to life with the plugin's stereo modulators. Tides is the first plugin to use BLEASS' v2 plugin engine, its reimagined interface design giving a crisp and clean look to the plugin whilst retaining the familiar and welcoming look and feel of previous BLEASS plugins. The new interface is as easy to use with touchscreens as it is with a mouse, and includes innovative interactive elements such as Tides' delay visualiser that, when clicked with the mouse or touched with a finger, produces fascinating interactive frequency shifting effects. Further realtime interaction comes in the form of momentary Freeze and Kill buttons that are perfect for creating spontaneous, organic effects, whether on stage, on the go, or in the studio. BLEASS Tides' unique approach brings delay processing to new shores with never before heard stereo effects and modulations, extensive tonal shaping, and a user interface that's both easy on the eye and easy to use. More information on https://www.bleass.com/tides

Screenshots

AUFX4 screens
BLEASS Tides4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AUFX at $4.99 against BLEASS Tides's $14.99. AUFX also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). BLEASS Tides's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

AUFX costs $4.99 and BLEASS Tides $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BLEASS Tides holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of AUFX's written reviews are positive against 75% of BLEASS Tides's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AUFX ships an update every 2 months, BLEASS Tides every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
AUFX versus BLEASS Tides: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAUFXBLEASS Tides
Price$4.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.6 (33 ratings)4.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.7% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB28 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperKymatica ABBLEASS

Customer experience

AUFX

All ratings33 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral1.5%
Negative8.8%

BLEASS Tides

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

AUFX

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when loading presets
  • Loading presets causes crash
  • Will NOT launch in AUM
  • Workarounds don't work

Requested features

10 requests
  • AUv3 support
  • Add creativity, functions, magic
  • AUv3 would solve the only problem
  • AUv3 compliance
  • Add AU3
Show 5 more
  • AUFX 5 release date
  • AU3 support needed
  • Morphing time function
  • Update ASAP
  • Fix preset loading crash

BLEASS Tides

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

AUFX

No in-app purchases

None

BLEASS Tides

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AUFX free?
AUFX costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BLEASS Tides free?
BLEASS Tides costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AUFX or BLEASS Tides?
BLEASS Tides is rated higher. AUFX averages 4.6 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while BLEASS Tides averages 4.9 from 8 ratings.
Do AUFX or BLEASS Tides have ads?
Neither AUFX nor BLEASS Tides shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AUFX or BLEASS Tides?
AUFX ships an update every 2 months, and BLEASS Tides every 5 months. Most recently, AUFX was updated on October 21, 2026 and BLEASS Tides on October 16, 2026.

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