RoastOS vs Blurt Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoastOS
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Your iPhone/iPad/Watch has opinions. RoastOS is a short break: open the app for a fresh roast, or leave the native desktop widget where you can see it. Dry English humor, no productivity pitch. There are no subscriptions, no ads, no account, and no paid features. Optional tips only support development. They never unlock content or functions. WHAT YOU GET • Roast or Normal — sharper sarcasm or drier asides • Native Small, Medium, and Large desktop widgets • A target cadence; WidgetKit decides when the widget actually refreshes • Roast, Settings, and Share on Medium and Large widgets (Small is the joke only) • Optional local UTF-8 TXT pack — one line, one roast, stays on the Mac • Share as text or a generated image LOCAL No account. No tracking. No remote roast service. Custom files never leave the device. Your Mac has opinions. Roast it.
Blurt Board
Create and customize your own soundboards with custom audio clips and effects. Trigger sounds instantly with various playback modes and apply live audio shaping.
- Import custom audio (MP3, WAV, etc.)
- Record your own sounds
- Live audio effects (EQ, reverb, echo)
- Pitch and speed manipulation
- Multiple playback modes (hold-to-play, loop)
- Cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch)
- Home Screen and Control Center integration
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Blurt is a soundboard. It comes with a handful of sounds so there is something to press straight away, but the point is the ones you add yourself. Bring in audio you already have — mp3, m4a, wav, aiff, anything your Mac or phone can open, including the audio from a video. Or hold the record button and make the sound yourself. SHAPE IT Every pad has its own chain: a five band equaliser you edit by dragging the curve, a compressor, reverb, echo, chorus and flanger, a noise gate for room recordings, pitch and speed, and reverse. Fourteen presets — robot, chipmunk, cathedral, telephone and more — set the whole thing in one tap if you would rather not fiddle. Everything is live — move a slider while a pad is sounding and you hear it change. HIT IT Pads fire the instant you touch them. Set one to hold-to-play, another to loop, put two in a choke group so they cut each other off. On a Mac, the number row and QWERTY play the board like a sampler, and a menu bar item fires a pad without bringing the window forward. EVERYWHERE The same boards on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, each laid out for the screen it is on rather than scaled to fit. Put your favourites on your wrist, on the Home Screen, in Control Centre, or on a watch face complication. Sync over iCloud if you want them on every device. No ads. No account. Nothing collected about you — there is no network code in the app at all. Three optional tips in Settings if you feel like it, and nothing locked behind them.
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Verdict
RoastOS and Blurt Board are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. RoastOS sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Blurt Board sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | RoastOS | Blurt Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrzej Borowicz | Shadi Alzahrani |
In-app purchases
RoastOS
- One More Coffee$0.99
- Keep the Code Running$2.99
- Recharge the Developer$4.99
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- Extra Support$14.99
Blurt Board
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- Buy me lunch$2.99
- Buy me dinner$4.99





