Patatap vs Format 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patatap
Create music and animations with a touch. This app offers a portable sound and animation kit, allowing users to generate melodies accompanied by dynamic visual shapes. It's an offline version of a popular web-based tool.
- Portable animation and sound kit
- Create melodies with moving shapes
- Touch-based interaction
- Offline functionality
- Visualizer
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Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images. This is the official offline port of the popular website http://www.patatap.com/ —————————— By buying this app you're supporting the makers who publish and host this website to millions of people to enjoy for free. Thank you for your support and happy music making!
Format 3
Experience art through augmented reality, blending physical installations with virtual elements and sound. This app allows you to engage with immersive audio-visual art wherever its visuals are present.
- Interactive augmented reality
- Combines physical artwork with virtual objects
- Immersive audio-visual experience
- Works with Format 3 visuals
- Sound integration
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Format 3 is an interactive augmented reality experience by Foo/Skou that combines physical artwork with virtual objects and sound. Use this app to interact with the immersive audio visual experience anywhere Format 3 visuals are on display.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Format 3 at Free against Patatap's $1.99. Format 3 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 36 months). Patatap's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and ratings volume (22 vs 3). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Format 3 is free to download; Patatap costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Patatap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patatap has 22 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Patatap's written reviews are positive against 100% of Format 3's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Patatap ships an update every 36 months, Format 3 every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patatap | Format 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jono LLC | Aaron Sutula |
Customer experience
Patatap
Format 3
In-app purchases
Patatap
No in-app purchases
Format 3
No in-app purchases
