Rhythm Necklace vs OUTSIDIFY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rhythm Necklace
Explore complex polyrhythms and create intricate beats using a unique geometric approach. This app allows you to manipulate shapes to generate and layer rhythms, offering a fresh perspective on music composition and improvisation. Save, export, and even integrate your creations with external Digital Audio Workstations.
- Geometric rhythm generation
- Poly-rhythm layering
- Rhythm building algorithms
- MIDI export
- Multiple sound sets
- Customizable sound parameters
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See music from a new perspective with Rhythm Necklace, the playful yet powerful tool for improvisation and composition. Tap, flip and rotate simple shapes to explore complex polyrhythms. Gestural control of beat distribution algorithms allows for the step-by-step generation of rhythmic shapes. Layer intricate beats in a matter of minutes, then save them for later or export to MIDI. - Build rhythms on up to four necklaces. - Adjust the length of each individual cycle to quickly create complex rhythmic ratios - Use a collection of rhythm building algorithms and geometric transformations to create and morph your rhythm. -Tap your tempo, use a slider for transitions, or manually type the global speed of your song - Choose from a variety of pitched sounds and percussive sample sets. - Quickly modulate between notes in four musical modes (pentatonic, major, minor, chromatic) and five octaves. - Customize the attack and panning of sounds to suit your composition - Save your sessions and export them as midi. - E-mail copies of midi sessions to yourself. These can be opened and edited on most DAWs. - Midi in/out allows you to fully customize your sounds and record your compositions in real time within an external DAW environment. The term ‘rhythm necklace’ is used in music to refer to circular representations of repeating patterns. By thinking about rhythms as shapes rather than a linear timeline, it’s easier to see geometric properties that make them enjoyable, such as evenness and symmetry. Often, even subtle changes to the visual interface can completely transform how a rhythm sounds. Rhythm Necklace is a tool for both advanced and novice musicians alike, as well as anyone who wants to think about rhythms in a new way.
OUTSIDIFY
Explore and manipulate ambient sounds using your smartphone's microphone and speaker. Create unique audio effects, capture environmental resonances, and experiment with sound in real-world spaces. Unleash your creativity and discover new sonic possibilities.
- Create feedback loops
- Manipulate external sounds
- Use phone as resonant filter
- Capture impulse responses
- Explore real-world acoustics
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Outsidify allows you to manipulate and explore the sounds happening around your smartphone. The microphone and speaker of your phone are hiding exciting potential: create feedback, manipulate resonances, use your mouth as a resonant filter, capture the impulse responses of your coffee cup or the pipe at the construction site you're accidentally passing by. Just have fun. Your imagination is the only limit. Early electronic music was full of exploration of what you can do with just a microphone and speaker. Now it's your time to explore! Go outside and make sounds outside of your phone. What would you Outsidify? Features - create feedbacks from your phone´s microphone and speaker - play sounds from the speaker and influence them with outside conditions - the world is your resonator - capture impulse responses of any space you can fit your phone into - anytime!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OUTSIDIFY at 4.9 against Rhythm Necklace's 4.6. Rhythm Necklace's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99) and ratings volume (50 vs 15). On review sentiment, update cadence, 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
Rhythm Necklace costs $2.99 and OUTSIDIFY $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OUTSIDIFY holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Rhythm Necklace's written reviews are positive against 89% of OUTSIDIFY's.
Rhythm Necklace ships an update every 2 weeks, OUTSIDIFY weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rhythm Necklace | OUTSIDIFY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (50 ratings) | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.1% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Tarakajian | BASTL INSTRUMENTS |
Customer experience
Rhythm Necklace
OUTSIDIFY
In-app purchases
Rhythm Necklace
No in-app purchases
OUTSIDIFY
No in-app purchases









