Comparison

Tako Kick vs SL Radio Mini

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

Head to head
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.

About

SL Radio Mini

This audio effect plugin transforms vocals, drums, and loops into a radio-style sound. It features a touch-draggable FM tuner and local AI for realistic radio character, offering control over interference and signal mix. It functions as both a standalone app and an AUv3 audio effect for music production.

Highlights
  • Touch-draggable FM tuner
  • Local AI radio character
  • Signal and Mix controls
  • Animated tuner glitches
  • Standalone app and AUv3 effect
  • Runs fully on device
Features
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SL Radio Mini is an AUv3 audio effect for music-making apps, not an internet radio player. Insert it on an audio track in a compatible AUv3 host to give vocals, drums and loops a radio-style tone. Drag across 88-108 MHz to move between cleaner station lock, narrow radio tone, flutter and interference. Signal controls reception character. Mix blends the result with the original sound. Radio Match v2 is a compact trained neural model embedded in the app. It runs entirely on your device. Audio is not sent to a server, and no processing account is required. Features: - Touch-draggable FM tuner - Local AI radio character - Signal and Mix controls - Animated tuner glitches and grille smoke - Standalone app and AUv3 audio effect - Runs fully on device The standalone app does not automatically monitor the built-in microphone through the speaker. Use AUv3 inside a compatible host for live audio processing.

Screenshots

Tako Kick4 screens
SL Radio Mini2 screens

Verdict

The call

Tako Kick and SL Radio Mini both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tako Kick's written reviews are positive against 0% of SL Radio Mini's. SL Radio Mini's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Tako Kick against 5.0 for SL Radio Mini. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Tako Kick's written reviews are positive against 0% of SL Radio Mini's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tako Kick ships an update monthly, SL Radio Mini fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tako Kick versus SL Radio Mini: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTako KickSL Radio Mini
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRadii ResearchVIACHESLAV ZHILTSOV

Customer experience

Tako Kick

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SL Radio Mini

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tako Kick

No in-app purchases

None

SL Radio Mini

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tako Kick free?
Tako Kick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SL Radio Mini free?
SL Radio Mini is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tako Kick or SL Radio Mini?
Tako Kick and SL Radio Mini are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Tako Kick or SL Radio Mini have ads?
Neither Tako Kick nor SL Radio Mini shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tako Kick or SL Radio Mini?
Tako Kick ships an update monthly, and SL Radio Mini fortnightly. Most recently, Tako Kick was updated on October 31, 2026 and SL Radio Mini on October 31, 2026.

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