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OtherDesertCities is #28 in Music Paid in Australia and charting in 3 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAudio Damage, Inc.
CategoryMusic
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (59)
Version1.1.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
💰Price drop💰Price drop📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country✏️Description updated🆕Its developer released another app: Sandbender✏️Description updated📦Updated to version 1.1.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 1.0.16
Full timeline · 35 events
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price drop9.99 CAD → 4.99 CAD · CA
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price drop9.99 AUD → 5.99 AUD · AU
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price drop6.99 USD → 3.99 USD · US
- 📈OtherDesertCities entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · JP
- 📈OtherDesertCities charting in a new countryJapan
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· AU
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise7.99 AUD → 9.99 AUD · AU
- 🆕OtherDesertCities: its developer released another app: Sandbender
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· GB
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise4.99 GBP → 6.99 GBP · GB
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· FR
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise5.99 EUR → 7.99 EUR · FR
- 📈OtherDesertCities charting in a new countryPoland
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· DE
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise5.99 EUR → 7.99 EUR · DE
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· CA
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise6.99 CAD → 9.99 CAD · CA
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: description updated· US
- 💰OtherDesertCities: price rise4.99 USD → 6.99 USD · US
- ✏️OtherDesertCities: needs a newer iOSiOS 12.0 → iOS 16.0
- 📦OtherDesertCities updated to version 1.1.0- Tap tempo. Set Sync Source to Tap and everything synced follows the tap button instead of the host. You can also tap with a MIDI note or CC; pick which in the new settings panel.
- The AUv3 now accepts MIDI. You will see a second Other Desert Cities entry in your host's effects list; that one is the MIDI-capable version. Existing sessions keep working with the original.
- The whole panel now scrolls. The MOD button is gone; drag the panel up to reach the modulation controls.
- Your presets now appear in the host's program list, so you can switch presets without opening the plugin window.
- Updated to the latest frameworks, plus a thorough bug sweep and a large amount of dead code removed.… more - 📈OtherDesertCities entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All AppsES
- 📈OtherDesertCities entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · AE
- 📈OtherDesertCities new best rank in the overall chart: #88Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈OtherDesertCities entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈OtherDesertCities charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈OtherDesertCities entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Music · CA · Top Paid · Music · DE
- 📈OtherDesertCities charting in a new country in 2 chartsCanada · Germany
- 📈OtherDesertCities charting in a new countrySweden
- 🆕OtherDesertCities first spotted by AppInsider#22 in Top Paid · Music · Australia
- 🆕OtherDesertCities: its developer released another app: AD-202
- 📦OtherDesertCities version 1.0.16>> Fix so that the delay tanks clear when changing presets
- 🆕OtherDesertCities: its developer released another app: Tessera Sequenced Resonator
- 🆕OtherDesertCities: its developer released another app: Traverse Lo-Fi Tape Effect
- 🆕OtherDesertCities released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
59 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#28
Music PaidMeasured
OtherDesertCities on the App Store
App details
App ID
1577986447
Publisher
Audio Damage, Inc.
On the store since
Sep 2021
5 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Size
30 MB
OtherDesertCities downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where OtherDesertCities's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | MusicPaid | #28 |
 United States | MusicPaid | #187 |
 Canada | MusicPaid | #41 |
Apps near OtherDesertCities on the chart
Music Paid, around #28.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
59 ratings
Measured
Ratings
59
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
55/100
faster than 58% of Music apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about OtherDesertCities
From the 10 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app's creative sound design capabilities and value for money, describing it as a versatile tool for generating ambient and experimental textures. However, some users report technical instability, including crashes due to high DSP usage and loading failures on specific iPad configurations.
Mostly positive (90% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its design. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Design
About OtherDesertCities
Other Desert Cities, named for a famous sign on the I-10 highway leaving Los Angeles, is a workshop for creativity. As its namesake implies, there are many strange and wonderful things lurking inside. With six delay algorithms, each with its own personality, and extensive modulation, Other Desert Cities covers everything from basic stereo dual delays to never-before-heard granular pitch-shifting chaos.
ALGORITHMS
01 Desert Shores Stereo Delay. A standard dual delay, with basic EQ, saturation, crossfeed, and spread.
02 Mecca Reverse Delay. A normal dual delay, except the repeats play backwards, with smooth crossfading and an optional Reflect mode that alternates direction on each repeat.
03 Cactus Dual-Delta Delay. More like a pair of tape decks in use, with individual speed controls from zero to 2x in either direction, and pitch quantizing to octaves, fifths, or semitones.
04 Thermal Multi-Tap Delay. A dual multi-tap with sixteen taps per side, spread, crossfeed, and basic EQ.
05 Mirage Multi-Head Delay. Imagine a tape delay, but the head is the rotating head of a VCR. Experimental, strange, and wonderful.
06 Sky Valley Granular Delay. A pitch-shifting granular delay, with control over grain size and scatter, and EQ.
TEMPO
Sync to your host, or don't: set the sync source to Tap and everything synced follows the tap button instead. Tap on screen, or assign a MIDI note or CC and tap from your controller; the AUv3 accepts MIDI input directly.
MODULATION
Other Desert Cities includes a full suite of modulation. Two tempo-synced variable-waveshape LFOs and an envelope follower, sourced from the main input or a sidechain, can modulate nearly every control in the user interface.
DIFFUSOR
A built-in diffusor smears the feedback path, pushing Other Desert Cities toward reverb territory, especially with the Thermal algorithm.
LEVELS
The secret superpower is I/O control. Every aspect of the signal chain's gain structure can be controlled and modulated: ducked, panned, oscillated, and enveloped to your heart's content. Mute and Input Level feed only the delay block, not the dry signal, so you get natural tails and send-style behavior from an insert.
PRESETS
A full factory bank, plus designer presets from Matthew Lyon, Red Means Recording, and Time Rival. Presets are cross-platform (patches made on the desktop version work on iOS, and vice versa) and appear in your host's own preset list, so you can change sounds without opening the UI.
FEATURES
- AUv3 plugin and standalone app
- Delay times up to 2 seconds free, 10 seconds tempo-synced
- Tap tempo from the screen or MIDI
- Resizable, scrolling user interface
- Cross-platform XML preset manager
Also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux in CLAP, VST3, AAX, AudioUnit, and LV2 formats at audiodamage.com.
ALGORITHMS
01 Desert Shores Stereo Delay. A standard dual delay, with basic EQ, saturation, crossfeed, and spread.
02 Mecca Reverse Delay. A normal dual delay, except the repeats play backwards, with smooth crossfading and an optional Reflect mode that alternates direction on each repeat.
03 Cactus Dual-Delta Delay. More like a pair of tape decks in use, with individual speed controls from zero to 2x in either direction, and pitch quantizing to octaves, fifths, or semitones.
04 Thermal Multi-Tap Delay. A dual multi-tap with sixteen taps per side, spread, crossfeed, and basic EQ.
05 Mirage Multi-Head Delay. Imagine a tape delay, but the head is the rotating head of a VCR. Experimental, strange, and wonderful.
06 Sky Valley Granular Delay. A pitch-shifting granular delay, with control over grain size and scatter, and EQ.
TEMPO
Sync to your host, or don't: set the sync source to Tap and everything synced follows the tap button instead. Tap on screen, or assign a MIDI note or CC and tap from your controller; the AUv3 accepts MIDI input directly.
MODULATION
Other Desert Cities includes a full suite of modulation. Two tempo-synced variable-waveshape LFOs and an envelope follower, sourced from the main input or a sidechain, can modulate nearly every control in the user interface.
DIFFUSOR
A built-in diffusor smears the feedback path, pushing Other Desert Cities toward reverb territory, especially with the Thermal algorithm.
LEVELS
The secret superpower is I/O control. Every aspect of the signal chain's gain structure can be controlled and modulated: ducked, panned, oscillated, and enveloped to your heart's content. Mute and Input Level feed only the delay block, not the dry signal, so you get natural tails and send-style behavior from an insert.
PRESETS
A full factory bank, plus designer presets from Matthew Lyon, Red Means Recording, and Time Rival. Presets are cross-platform (patches made on the desktop version work on iOS, and vice versa) and appear in your host's own preset list, so you can change sounds without opening the UI.
FEATURES
- AUv3 plugin and standalone app
- Delay times up to 2 seconds free, 10 seconds tempo-synced
- Tap tempo from the screen or MIDI
- Resizable, scrolling user interface
- Cross-platform XML preset manager
Also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux in CLAP, VST3, AAX, AudioUnit, and LV2 formats at audiodamage.com.
Latest updates
1.1.0
- Tap tempo. Set Sync Source to Tap and everything synced follows the tap button instead of the host. You can also tap with a MIDI note or CC; pick which in the new settings panel.
- The AUv3 now accepts MIDI. You will see a second Other Desert Cities entry in your host's effects list; that one is the MIDI-capable version. Existing sessions keep working with the original.
- The whole panel now scrolls. The MOD button is gone; drag the panel up to reach the modulation controls.
- Your presets now appear in the host's program list, so you can switch presets without opening the plugin window.
- Updated to the latest frameworks, plus a thorough bug sweep and a large amount of dead code removed.
1.0.16
>> Fix so that the delay tanks clear when changing presets
Store changes
What OtherDesertCities changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Price drop
9.99 CAD → 4.99 CAD
Price drop
9.99 AUD → 5.99 AUD
Price drop
6.99 USD → 3.99 USD
