Comparison

SilentBonusTrack vs pitchBender

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

Head to head
About

SilentBonusTrack

Relive the nostalgic experience of listening to music on cassette tapes. This app simulates the physical characteristics of tape players, including reel movement, tape wrapping, and operational sounds. Organize your music library with cassette-style index cards and enjoy a unique way to play your albums.

Highlights
  • Cassette tape reel animation
  • Tape wrapping and end animation
  • Player with counter and auto-reverse
  • Cassette index card song list
  • Album title lettering
  • Random album selection
Features
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This is a cassette player for albums. I have reproduced experiences of listening music with a cassette tape. For example, changing rotation speed of reels based on tape amount, animation of wrapping end of the tape to reels, the player with counter and auto reversing, a sound of operation, song list like cassette index cards, lettering album title. Would you listen to albums like you did in old days? What you can do You can strain to hear before the first song starts. On skip operation, The tape may run over the position you want to set at. You can skip efficiently with referring the counter. If difference occur in counter, you have to back to top of side A and push the reset button.(*) While you see the song list, you can realize which order the current song is on its side, and connections to a previous or next song. You can switch a song experimentally by pressing the button to play the other side. If you cannot get a current song name, you can infer which song is playing from the amount of tape on each reel. You can look at the tape that seems to be about to end but doesn’t readily end. The sound of changing side makes you feel renewing and expectations of a new side. You have to push the start button again if auto reverse doesn’t work as the setting. With albums released in CD, you can bother which boundary separates it into A and B. You can verify changing speed of rotation while fwd or rev processes. You can be deep in lingering of the album with reels rounding after the last song played. The mechanical sound at end of tape makes you feel a sense of achievement and a little missing. (*)The ways that avoid time and trouble are included. How to use Select an album and play it. Features An album is divided into two sides automatically. If a result of auto dividing is not desirable, songs can be transferred by an operation. Auto reverse(none, A to B only, both ways). Index cards represent song information as cassette tapes do. You can now use handwritten fonts for the characters of index cards. Selecting an album at random If you do with “random” button. Index card colors are sourced from album artworks. Album title lettering which is like a printing sheet. Caution This app imports music included in the device as an album. Cloud sources don’t be selected. The button drawn right direction on the player is assigned playing side A. Left direction is side B. Auto dividing executes as even as possible. A result of dividing may differ from actual dividing of an album. You can’t change song order. This app plays songs with using the iPod function on iOS. Another app using it as same may courses problems. Playing time is one minute longer than displayed time.(In case of 46minutes tape, each side has 23+1=24minutes) Lengths of tapes are about 10 kinds as actual. Albums having over 120 minutes songs are added a few blank minutes. After you change song division, the length of tape change to fit time. This app uses year data set in a song. If a set year is newer and an actual year is older, it is treated as a new one. When an album you played once is selected, it is set the previous position. But you can’t know which side played last time. Sound effects like tapes(hiss noise, warm high frequency) don't be installed. About playing in background You can listen to music behind another app by two ways. 1: Close this app by pushing the home button(as you usually do) - it plays songs in the current side only. 2: Before you close this app, change to BGM mode - it plays blank time after the last song, plays machine sound at end of side, obeys setting of auto-reverse. To change to BGM mode, you tap the button(drawn browser and musical notes) in the bottom while playing a song. In case setting of auto-reverse is endless, it plays whole songs a few times. While you listen to an album with a tape, blank time is part of it. This is the concept. This app divides the album into side A and B and adds blank time on each end.

About

pitchBender

This music app allows real-time audio pitch shifting with keyboard or slider control. Explore "pitchbend" mode for instantaneous audio bending effects. It functions as an AUv3 plugin within compatible hosts.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch shifting
  • Keyboard and slider control
  • Pitchbend mode
  • AUv3 plugin compatibility
  • Two octave range
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Concept: The app is a so-called pitchshift effect (AUv3). Usage: The user can pitchshift audio source in real-time using keyboard or slider (2 octave range). In addition there is "pitchbend" mode in which the user can instantaneously "bend" audio with fun ! System Requirements: AUv3 host Usage: pitchBender contains two different algorithms. Number 0 is suitable for electronic dance music, whereas number 1 is suitable for classical.

Screenshots

SilentBonusTrack4 screens
pitchBender2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SilentBonusTrack at 5.0 against pitchBender's 4.0. SilentBonusTrack also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 15 months) and price ($2.99 vs $5.99). pitchBender's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

SilentBonusTrack costs $2.99 and pitchBender $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SilentBonusTrack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SilentBonusTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, pitchBender every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SilentBonusTrack versus pitchBender: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilentBonusTrackpitchBender
Price$2.99 — better$5.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.512.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMotonari HibiSatoshi Kajii

Customer experience

SilentBonusTrack

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

pitchBender

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SilentBonusTrack

No in-app purchases

None

pitchBender

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SilentBonusTrack free?
SilentBonusTrack costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is pitchBender free?
pitchBender costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SilentBonusTrack or pitchBender?
SilentBonusTrack is rated higher. SilentBonusTrack averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while pitchBender averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SilentBonusTrack or pitchBender have ads?
Neither SilentBonusTrack nor pitchBender shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SilentBonusTrack or pitchBender?
SilentBonusTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, and pitchBender every 15 months. Most recently, SilentBonusTrack was updated on November 1, 2026 and pitchBender on October 30, 2026.

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