Liquid Record vs TONAUT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liquid Record
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Your recording console. Wherever inspiration strikes. Liquid Record brings a tactile recording workspace to iPhone and iPad. Capture interviews, voice notes, field recordings, and podcast episodes, then organize and review your audio in one place. ONE RECORDING FREE Make one microphone recording, pause and resume the same take, and play it back. Basic input gain, audio route controls, appearance settings, and privacy information remain available without a purchase. Deleting the recording does not reset the free allowance. FULL ACCESS — ONE PURCHASE A one-time non-consumable in-app purchase unlocks additional recordings and production tools: audio import and export through Apple Files, project naming and duplication, markers and time-coded notes, trim and fades, edited WAV exports, headphone monitoring effects, podcast organization, chapters, transcription, and optional AI summaries. There is no subscription or recurring charge. The localized price is displayed in the app and Apple's purchase confirmation. Restore Purchase restores an eligible purchase using the same Apple Account. RECORD WITH CONTROL • Capture audio in PCM WAV. • Choose device-native, 44.1 kHz, or 48 kHz recording formats. • Select mono or stereo recording. • Pause and resume the same recording. • Adjust input gain and watch live levels, peak indicators, and clipping warnings. • Select available microphone inputs, including compatible USB microphones. LISTEN AND REFINE • Play recordings and scrub through the waveform. • Add markers and timed notes to find important moments. • Monitor through compatible headphones. • Shape headphone monitoring with low-cut filtering, tone controls, and ambience while keeping the original recording dry. KEEP YOUR WORK ORGANIZED • Rename, duplicate, and manage recordings. • Import audio through Apple Files. • Export and share recordings. • Plan and review episodes in the podcast overview. TURN SPEECH INTO TEXT • Transcribe recordings on device using Apple speech technology. • Generate summaries on supported devices with Apple Intelligence. DESIGNED FOR YOUR WORKFLOW • Portrait and landscape console layouts. • Made for iPhone Duo: tools beside the status bar when folded, a side panel when unfolded. • Light, dark, and system appearance options. • Native Liquid Glass controls on supported system versions. • Direct access to audio, recording, and project settings. TRANSCRIBE ON DEVICE Transcription uses Apple's on-device speech technologies and depends on supported device languages and available speech models. Models may need a download before use. Optional AI summaries require iOS/iPadOS 26 or later, an eligible device with Apple Intelligence enabled, and a ready model. Speech recognition and generated summaries may contain errors; review them before publishing. PODCAST WORKSPACE Organize episode notes and project details, import public episode metadata from a podcast RSS feed, and link Spotify show and episode pages. To publish to Spotify for Creators, export a WAV and upload it on the Spotify for Creators website. Liquid Record does not automatically upload episodes or ask for your Spotify password. PRIVATE APP STORAGE Recordings, transcripts, and project information are processed in the app on your device. Liquid Record does not upload them to an H3P server. Files leave the device only via sharing you choose, opt-in iCloud Drive copies, or your device backups. Optional RSS requests contact the selected feed provider. No H3P account is required. TRY IT FREE Create and play one recording at no cost. Unlock additional recordings and the full production toolkit with a single in-app purchase. No subscription or recurring fee. Support: https://apps-h3p.com/support/support-and-feedback Privacy Policy: https://apps-h3p.com/policies/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://apps-h3p.com/policies/terms-of-service Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TONAUT
This music creation tool combines a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer, and eight-track tape recorder into a single, hardware-like interface. It allows for live performance and can be used as an AUv3 plugin within other music apps, also hosting other AUv3 plugins.
- Twelve distinct synth engines
- 55 drum kits with four engines
- Eight-track tape recorder
- AUv3 plugin and host capabilities
- Live performance features
- Key and scale locking
- Chord pads and arpeggiator
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Tonaut is a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape recorder in one instrument, made to be played rather than programmed. Pick a sound, tap out a pattern and record it to tape, all on one panel that feels more like hardware than an app. It also plays inside your other music apps as an AUv3 plug-in, and now hosts AUv3 plug-ins too. SOUNDS • Twelve synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly, a sampler, phase distortion, a vocoder and lo-fi digital • Every engine has a 3D screen that moves as you play, or a classic view • Over 650 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments. Edit any of them, save your own and star favorites • Load DX7-style SysEx banks into the FM engine • Four effects on every sound from seventeen types, a master effect, and an EQ on every lane and the master DRUMS • 55 kits on four drum engines: recorded kits, synthesized kits where every pad is its own drum, lo-fi kits and slice kits • Knock, Cinder and Grit kits drawn in 3D • A groove player: hold a pad and the kit plays one of sixteen grooves • Make kits from your own recordings or audio files AUv3 PLUG-IN AND HOST • Play Tonaut inside AUM, Loopy Pro, GarageBand and other AUv3 hosts • The full panel in a big window, or a compact card with all eight lanes, the tape and a keyboard • Tonaut FX, for effect slots: record another app's audio onto Tonaut's tape • In the app: your AUv3 synths and drum machines on any lane, AUv3 effects in the FX slots and on the master, saved with each project SEQUENCER AND SONG MODE • Eight lanes, each with its own sound and sixteen patterns of up to 128 steps • Write step by step or record live, with chords, slides, ratchets and chance; STEP REC from the screen or MIDI • Song Mode: sixteen scenes, each with a pattern for every lane, chained into a song with repeats • Switch patterns or scenes live; copy, swap and transpose patterns • An arpeggiator on every synth lane IPHONE DUO • Folded, one octave on the outer screen. Half folded, the screens above the keys. Open, the whole instrument. Folding never stops the music KEYS AND CHORDS • Pick a key and scale and its keys light up; LOCK keeps notes in key • CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, with the arpeggiator and the sequencer • Chord pad: seven chords from your key and a stick that turns each into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more PLAY IT LIVE • A Perform page with TONE and SPACE for every lane • An X/Y pad that bends pitch and moves the sound under one finger • One-tap mutes, tap tempo, click and count-in TAPE • Eight tracks of 20 minutes each, or six of 30 minutes • Record every lane to its own track, or several onto one • Loop, reverse, stutter, brake and catch the last 30 seconds you played • Start a take the moment the sound does SAMPLING • Sample with the microphone, a USB interface, or Tonaut itself • Tap a file in your sample folders to hear it, then load it onto a pad or the sampler MIDI • Play from USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboards, on one lane or each lane on its own channel • MIDI learn: touch a control, turn a knob, and it's mapped • Send any lane to your own synths and drum machines, with clock, or follow your drum machine's clock • Ableton Link: in time with other Link apps on your Wi-Fi SHARE AND EXPORT • Share a loop from the tape as a vertical video or as audio • Send a whole song, samples and all, as one file a friend opens in Tonaut • Export a stereo mix, WAV stems or MIDI files of every lane, with optional iCloud sync One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, each with its own layout, in six looks. No subscription, no account, and Tonaut collects no data. Your music stays yours. REQUIREMENTS • iPhone XS, XR or newer with iOS 17 or later. Not the iPhone SE (its screen is too small) • iPad (6th generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Pro (2017) or newer, iPadOS 17 or later
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Liquid Record at Free against TONAUT's $19.99. TONAUT's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#169 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
Liquid Record is free to download; TONAUT costs $19.99 up front. Liquid Record sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TONAUT asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Liquid Record | TONAUT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #169 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hilthart Pedersen | Richard Rogers |
In-app purchases
Liquid Record
- Liquid Record Full Access$8.99
TONAUT
No in-app purchases









