ULang vs jAmp Bleep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ULang
Create digital soundscapes with a visual instrument designed for touch devices. It simplifies musical concepts with a limited grammar and input methods, offering a unique gestural interface for rhythm and time.
- Visual sound instrument
- Digital soundscape creation
- Touch-based interface
- Simplified musical grammar
- Unique gestural interface
- Rhythm and time interaction
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U-Lang is a visual sound instrument that can be used to create digital sound scapes on touch based devices. Its important aspects are the reduced set of grammar, a limited set of input methods. The goal is to create complex processes using very simple, yet very precisely controllable operations. The purpose of the application is to make the nature of sounds, scales and melodies accessible to both novices and experts in a unique way. Apart from musical concepts, U-Lang has a unique gestural interface that changes the way we interact with time & rhythm.
jAmp Bleep
This app is an AUv3 audio plugin that recreates the Bleep Bloop Machine. It offers MIDI control for its knobs, allowing users to manipulate sound and create music.
- AUv3 plugin
- Bleep Bloop Machine remake
- MIDI knob control
- Sound manipulation
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Remake as AUv3 plugin of Mike Moreno's Bleep Bloop Machine. The knobs can be controlled with MIDI. Turn the knobs and enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: jAmp Bleep at 4.7 against ULang's 3.8. jAmp Bleep also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 71%) and ratings volume (30 vs 4). ULang's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
jAmp Bleep holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: jAmp Bleep has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of ULang's written reviews are positive against 89% of jAmp Bleep's.
| Parameter | ULang | jAmp Bleep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Agoston Nagy | Jan Maes |
Customer experience
ULang
jAmp Bleep
In-app purchases
ULang
No in-app purchases
jAmp Bleep
No in-app purchases
