Patatap vs tardigrain
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!
tardigrain
Create unique sounds by breaking down samples into small fragments and playing them back non-linearly. Explore granular synthesis with adjustable grain size, direction, and step size. Enhance your audio with built-in effects, filters, and modulation options.
- Granular synthesis engine
- Adjustable grain parameters
- Built-in effects (reverb, wave shaper, crush)
- Resonant filter
- MIDI and MPE modulation
- Sequencer/arpeggiator
- LFO modulation
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Tardigrain is a granular synthesiser for iOS that runs standalone or as an AU plugin. Sounds are created by taking smaller fragments of a sample and playing them back in a non linear fashion, with settings for grain size, direction, step size and more. Process the sound further through effects like reverb, wave shaper and sample crush. Tardigrain supports connections with AudioCopy, AudioBus, Inter App Audio and AUv3. Plus all audio parameters can be modulated by MIDI, as AU parameters and by aftertouch on the build in keyboard. Now also a selected set of parameters can be modulated by LFOs och notes triggered by a new sequencer/arpeggiator. +++ Record your own samples or import using AudioCopy/drag'n drop +++ Chromatic granualar playpack +++ Effects (Wave shaper, Reverb, Sample crusher, Pitch and stereo spread) +++ Resonant filter (low, band and high pass) +++ Keyboard and MPE modulation of any audio parameters +++ Note trigger sequencer/arpeggiator +++ 4 LFO sources for modulating a selected set of parameters +++ Multiple factory presets to get you started +++ Save and load your own settings and samples +++ Inter App Audio, AudioBus and AUv3 +++ Core MIDI, Inter App Audio MIDI and AUv3 MIDI
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: tardigrain at every 2 months against Patatap's every 36 months. tardigrain also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 66%) and ratings volume (99 vs 22). Patatap's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and price ($1.99 vs $5.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Patatap costs $1.99 and tardigrain $5.99 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 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 99 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Patatap's written reviews are positive against 76% of tardigrain'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, tardigrain every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Patatap | tardigrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better | 4.6 (99 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 75.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jono LLC | Erik Sigth |
Customer experience
Patatap
tardigrain
Bugs and requests
Patatap
Reported bugs
6 issues- No audio on various iPhone models (SE, XR, 6, 5S, 4)
- No sound on iPad mini 2
- Sound stopped working after initial use
- No sound unless wearing headphones (hit or miss)
- Screen ratio is off for newer phones
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- Particle mode disappeared
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to record creations
- Expanded functionality for music creation
- Audiobus support for recording into other apps
- Ability to save images
- Simon Says type game integration
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- Option to select themes
- More sounds available
- Inter-app audio support
tardigrain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Patatap
No in-app purchases
tardigrain
No in-app purchases
