PhaseRings vs Dahlia Delay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhaseRings
Create expressive music with intuitive touch gestures. Explore various sound schemes and generative composition tools to craft unique musical pieces. Supports MIDI and Audiobus for advanced integration.
- Expressive touch gesture music creation
- Seven unique sound schemes
- Generative composition engine
- Customizable pitch compositions
- Core MIDI support
- AudioBus and Inter-App Audio support
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PhaseRings is a musical instrument for performing expressive music with touch gestures. Anyone can create a beautiful piece of music with our sound schemes and generative composition engine! Each ring on the screen represents a different pitch, and you can tap and swirl on each ring to create combinations of long and short notes. The angle and size of your tap will change the timbre of the notes you create! New in version 3.0, PhaseRings is also an AUv3 Audio Unit plugin. Load it as an instrument in hosts like AUM, GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad, and Cubasis — play the rings inside your host, run several instances at once, drive it from MIDI tracks, and record it through your host's effects. PhaseRings includes seven expressive "sound schemes" featuring percussive sounds like marimba and singing bowls as well as pure synth sounds like phase and string synthesis. Four "compositions" of pitches are included in the app, but you can also create your own custom composition by choosing three base notes and scales. PhaseRings will do the rest, generating a series of great setups from the harmony you choose! Features: - AUv3 Audio Unit instrument for AUM, GarageBand, Logic Pro, Cubasis, and other hosts - 7 sound schemes - 4 built-in compositions - Custom generative composition - 11 scales and modes - Core MIDI in and out for iOS MIDI accessories and MIDI-enabled apps - VoiceOver support and light/dark appearance
Dahlia Delay
This audio effect app provides a tape-style echo with adjustable feedback and warble. It's designed to be lightweight and integrate with other music production apps via Inter-App Audio and Audiobus.
- Tape style delay effect
- Filtered feedback control
- Warble amount control
- Lightweight audio processing
- Inter-App Audio support
- Audiobus support
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Dahlia Delay is a tape style delay effect with filtered feedback and warble amount controls. Built upon the tenet of simplicity, the flora project presents great sounding, lightweight audio effects using Inter-App Audio and Audiobus technologies to allow you to get the sound you want, without sacrificing processing power. More information about the flora project can be found at http://timothy-j.com/flora NB: Dahlia Delay requires either Audiobus or Inter-App Audio capable applications in order to operate. See http://audiob.us for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PhaseRings at Free against Dahlia Delay's $1.99. Dahlia Delay's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
PhaseRings is free to download; Dahlia Delay costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for PhaseRings against 4.3 for Dahlia Delay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of PhaseRings's written reviews are positive against 88% of Dahlia Delay's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhaseRings | Dahlia Delay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charles Martin | Flora Creative Ltd. |
Customer experience
PhaseRings
Dahlia Delay
In-app purchases
PhaseRings
No in-app purchases
Dahlia Delay
No in-app purchases
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