Blip Tap vs ToneShaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blip Tap
Create music with a multi-colored keyboard featuring 96 notes and unlimited polyphony. Explore five distinct waveforms and shape your sound with a configurable ADSR envelope. Slide between notes for expressive melodies.
- Multi-colored keyboard
- 96 notes
- Unlimited polyphony
- 5 handpicked waveforms
- Configurable ADSR envelope
- Note sliding
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Choose a waveform and play some sound! • Multi-colored keyboard with 96 notes and unlimited polyphony • 5 handpicked waveforms • Configurable ADSR envelope • Sliding between notes
ToneShaper
Design unique audio tones by graphically plotting frequency over time. Add points to define shapes, adjust frequency ranges and duration, and export your creations as WAV files. Explore a library of sample tone shapes to begin experimenting.
- Graphical frequency plotting
- Add and drag points to shape tones
- Adjust frequency range
- Set cycle duration
- Export audio to WAV
- Library of sample tone shapes
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Create cycles with tone shapes of smoothly varying frequency by plotting frequency at specific times. Tap the library button to pick from a selection of sample tone shapes to get started. Tap in the plot view to add points with coordinates (frequency, time). Drag to move points, but limited by the neighbors time. Alternatively, drag in the draw tab to add points, then apply them to set the points in the plot view. Adjust the frequency range slider to limit the bandwidth. Adjust the duration slider to specify the cycle period. Finally, in the export view you can save the audio to a WAV file with a chosen number of cycles. The duration of the audio is limited by the maximum duration, which therefore also limits the number of cycles in the audio file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ToneShaper at every 6 days against Blip Tap's every 90 months. Blip Tap's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blip Tap against 5.0 for ToneShaper. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Blip Tap ships an update every 90 months, ToneShaper every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blip Tap | ToneShaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 90 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Schoenenberger | Limit Point Software |
Customer experience
Blip Tap
ToneShaper
In-app purchases
Blip Tap
No in-app purchases
ToneShaper
No in-app purchases
