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TONAUT is #70 in Music Paid in United States and charting in 6 of 30 countries we track.
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DeveloperRichard Rogers
CategoryMusic
Price19.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (11)
Version2.3
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Oct 2026
25 Oct 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots📦Updated to version 2.3📈Entered the top 10💰Price rise📦Updated to version 2.2💰Price rise📈Entered the top 10🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
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- ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 8 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 8 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 8 countries
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 2.3Tonaut 2.3 is a free update: four new sound engines and over 650 sounds, plus MIDI clock in, a live spectrum behind every EQ, and tape takes that start the moment you play.
- Four new engines. KINK bends a wave's phase for glassy to buzzy tones. MOUTH is a vocoder: it sings its own vowels, or put on headphones and sing into the mic. CHIP is a lo-fi digital oscillator with stepped waves and fast chip chords. GRIT is a rough, crunchy drum engine. Each has its own live 3D screen.
- Over 650 sounds: 50 new for KINK, 50 for MOUTH (the Mic sounds sing through your microphone), 48 for CHIP, and 12 GRIT kits.
- Follow a MIDI clock. On the tempo page, SYNC > Source is INTERNAL or MIDI CLOCK. On MIDI CLOCK, Tonaut follows the tempo and the bars of the clock coming in over USB or Bluetooth MIDI, smoothed so a Bluetooth link doesn't wobble. With Transport in on, the gear's Start starts Tonaut on its first beat; with it off, Tonaut follows the tempo and bars and your own PLAY starts on the gear's next bar. The BPM key reads EXT. If the clock stops, Tonaut keeps the last tempo.
- EQ spectrum. Behind every EQ curve in MIX, for each lane and the master, a live spectrum shows what that EQ puts out.
- Takes that start with the sound. On the tempo page, TAPE > Rec start can be SOUND, with a threshold from -60 to 0 dB. Arm REC, press PLAY, and the tape waits until you play, then records from just before the first hit, so nothing is cut.
- One-press sampling. On a SAMPLER lane or a kit lane, REC opens the recorder ready to sample onto that lane. Hold a key and the capture starts when the sound does.
- Blank projects and your own template. In Settings, New projects can start with the eight SOUNDS, BLANK (every lane empty, ready for the sounds you pick) or MY TEMPLATE. Template's SET makes any project your starting point.
- Fine loop points. Touch and hold still on LOOP START or LOOP END, then drag, to place the loop between beats, read to the hundredth of a second.
- In a host app, the plug-in's MIDI in can now be LANE, so a keyboard that changes channel with every note, like an MPE keyboard, plays the lane on screen. BY CHANNEL is still the default.
- In the classic Dark and Light looks, the iPad's PADS PROGRAM steps are easier to see.
- In the Lo-Fi effect, the GRIT control is now called DIRT.… more - 📈TONAUT entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · CA
- ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 8 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 8 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 8 countries
- 💰TONAUT: price rise19.99 CAD → 24.99 CAD · CA
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 2.2Tonaut 2.2 is a free update: your own AUv3 synths, drum machines and effects now play inside Tonaut, and on the iPad a drum lane can swap its keys for 16 big pads.
- AUv3 instruments. In PATCHES, choose PLUG-IN, pick any AUv3 instrument on your device, then a preset. It plays on the lane like a Tonaut sound: from the keys, SEQ, the arpeggiator, the chord pad, Song Mode and your MIDI keyboard, and it goes onto the tape and into mixdowns and stems. Tap its screen to open its own window over the panel. FILL gives it the whole window, and FIT shows it at its own size. CORE's sliders move its main controls.
- Drum machines on kit lanes. In KITS, choose PLUG-IN. Plug-ins that say they're drum machines come first. The pads play General MIDI drum notes (kick on pad 1, snare on pad 3, closed hat on pad 5), so the pads, SEQ and the groove player all play it.
- AUv3 effects. Every effect list now has TONAUT and PLUG-INS. Put an AUv3 effect in any of a lane's four FX slots, or use one as the master effect on MIX.
- Saved with your songs. Each project keeps its plug-ins and their settings, through SAVE, iCloud and shared .tonaut songs. If a plug-in isn't installed on a device, Tonaut names it and the lane stays silent until you install it.
- A new way into the lists. PATCHES and KITS now start from FACTORY, USER or PLUG-IN. Press PATCH or KIT again to step through them, and the three dots on the key show which one you're in. SHIFT steps back. Each lane remembers its place.
- Lists scroll like a picker. The row you want slides into a fixed box with a light tick (HAPTICS in Settings turns it off), and it's picked the moment the list stops. LOADED marks the sound already on the lane. Short lists show every choice at once.
- Drum pads on the iPad. On a drum lane, the box beside the sliders is now PADS. KEYS | PADS switches with one tap, and each lane remembers its choice. LIVE plays the kit's parts on 16 big pads. PROGRAM turns them into the steps of one part: tap to add or remove a hit, silently, up to 128 steps.
- Mute and solo a single drum part. M and S in the PADS box work on the pattern, the groove and PATTERN PLAY, while your fingers and MIDI keyboard still play every part.
- Mute timing. In Settings, mute keys can act NOW, ON RELEASE, or wait for the NEXT BEAT or NEXT BAR and land right on it.
- First-time tips. A short tip shows once the first time you reach a few places, like step editing, MIX and the drum pads. Settings › ABOUT › TIPS shows them again.
- Patterns up to 128 steps. A pattern can now run eight bars. LENGTH goes from one to eight bars, BAR pages through them, and HOLD and MIDI import reach the whole pattern. On iPad the grid shows four bars at a time.
- LATCH now adds or removes just its own note from a step and leaves the other notes alone.
- The octave − and + keys sit centered, and on the iPhone Duo they're now there half open and folded too.
- On the iPhone Duo half open, a plug-in's window no longer runs into the screen's corners.
- On the iPhone 17 Pro, the SCENES and PATTERN PLAY boxes no longer run off the bottom of the screen.
Hosting works in the Tonaut app. When Tonaut runs as a plug-in inside another app, load your other plug-ins in that app.… more - ✏️TONAUT: app got bigger115 MB → 139 MB (+21%)
- 💰TONAUT: price rise17.99 EUR → 22.99 EUR · DE, IT, FR
- 💰TONAUT: price rise14.99 USD → 19.99 USD · US
- 💰TONAUT: price rise2500.00 JPY → 3000.00 JPY · JP
- 💰TONAUT: price rise299000.00 IDR → 399000.00 IDR · ID
- 💰TONAUT: price rise14.99 GBP → 19.99 GBP · GB
- 💰TONAUT: price rise22.99 AUD → 29.99 AUD · AU
- ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 7 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· FR, US
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · FR, US
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon
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· FR - 📦TONAUT updated to version 2.0.1Tonaut 2.0.1 is a free update with features you asked for.
- Ableton Link. Play in time with Ableton Live, Loopy Pro and other Link apps on the same Wi-Fi. Turn it on in Settings › MIDI › Ableton Link; tempo and start are shared, and the BPM key shows how many Link apps are connected.
- EVERY now has four modes for each count: play a step only on the first pass, only on the last, on every pass but the first, or every pass but the last, of 2, 3, 4 or 8. A small tag on each step shows which.
- Endless knobs: MIDI learn now works with relative encoders. Tonaut hears which kind your controller sends when you learn it, and you can set it per mapping in Settings › MIDI › Mappings.
- Mixer faders: double-tap a fader to put it back to 80, SHIFT + double-tap to undo, and hold still before you drag for fine adjust.
- iPhone Duo: folded and half folded, the keyboard now starts on C3, like the iPhone's.… more - ✏️TONAUT: new icon →
· US - ✏️TONAUT: description updated· JP
- 💰TONAUT: price drop3000.00 JPY → 2500.00 JPY · JP
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· JP
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · JP
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon
→ · JP - ✏️TONAUT: description updated· AU
- 💰TONAUT: price drop29.99 AUD → 22.99 AUD · AU
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· AU
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · AU
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon
→ · AU - ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 5 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 5 countries
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 2.0Tonaut 2.0 is a free update, and the biggest one yet.
- Tonaut as an AUv3 plug-in. Play Tonaut inside AUM, Loopy Pro, GarageBand and other AUv3 hosts, alongside your other apps. A big window shows the full Tonaut panel; a small one shows a compact card with all eight lanes, the tape, a keyboard and the tempo. On iPhone the full panel fits the smaller windows hosts give a plug-in. Load several copies, follow the host's tempo and transport, and projects you save in the plug-in open in the app, and the other way around.
- Tonaut FX. A second plug-in, "Coast Creative: Tonaut FX", for effect slots in AUM, Loopy Pro and other hosts: the channel's audio passes through, and REC records it onto Tonaut's tape.
- Song Mode. Build a song from scenes. Each of the 16 scenes picks a pattern for every lane, so lane 1 can play pattern 1 while lane 2 plays pattern 3, and remembers which lanes are muted. Put scenes in order with repeats, end on LOOP or STOP, and press PLAY. Tap a scene while playing to switch at the end of the current one. Record the whole song to tape, or export it as a MIDI file. Press SEQ again for SONG, and again for PERFORM.
- MIDI learn. In Settings › MIDI, tap LEARN, touch a slider, turn a knob on your controller, and it's mapped. Choose PICKUP or JUMP, see every mapping in one list, and save a set as the default for new projects. Lane levels and mutes can be learned too. With no setup at all, CC 70 to 73 move the four sliders on screen. It works inside the plug-in too, alongside the host's automation.
- iPad: taller faders on MIX and PERFORM, which take a finger anywhere in their column.
- PERFORM: the lane names under the faders are no longer cut off, and the headers always name the lanes on screen.
- Tonaut keeps its usual size at any Display Zoom setting.
- A new install opens on the demo song with a line that says how to hear it.… more - ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· IT, DE, CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · IT, DE, CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon →
· IT, DE, CA - ✏️TONAUT: description updated· GB
- 💰TONAUT: price drop19.99 GBP → 14.99 GBP · GB
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· GB
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · GB
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon → · GB
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.6.1- A new look and a new icon. TN-Dark is now the default look on a new install, and TN, a deep-black icon, is the new app icon. The looks have new names: TN-Dark, TN-Light, TN-XY, TN-Signal, OG-Dark and OG-Light. AUTO now switches between TN-Light and TN-Dark with your phone. The earlier icons are still in Settings as TN-Color and TN-Wave.
- A demo song. A new install opens it on first launch, and everyone finds it in PROJECTS with a DEMO tag. Press PLAY on SEQ to hear it, then take it apart. The demo always stays as it shipped; SAVE keeps your version as a copy.
- Drum keys are now numbered left to right: pad 1 on the first key, pad 2 on the black key after it, and so on up to 24, on screen and from a MIDI keyboard. Every pad still sounds on the same key, so your songs play as before. The old layout is one tap away in Settings as ROWS.
- KILL ALL: press STOP when everything is already stopped, or SHIFT + STOP at any time, to silence every sound and every reverb and delay tail at once.
- CHOP: cut a loop into 8, 16 or 24 slices, or let HITS cut it at the drum hits.
- Pad LINK: a pad can also play a second pad, to layer a kick with a clap. Works on sampled kits, KNOCK and CINDER.
- CLIP: a new soft-clipper effect for any effect slot and the master, for loud mixes that stay clean.
- SAMPLES: on a drum lane, tap a key to pick the pad you load onto.
- Scope style in Settings: line or pixels, in any look.
- iPad: the Settings list scrolls and has roomier rows.
- Lists sort in true number order, so Project 10 comes after Project 9.
- SHIFT hints: the first few times you open each screen, a line shows what SHIFT adds there.
- HELP now starts with a line about the screen you're on. On iPhone, hold HELP / SETTINGS to open Settings.
- A key that makes no sound now says why, for example when its lane is muted or a level is at zero.
- UNDO on the SHIFT keyboard now undoes your SEQ edits.
- Fixed: muting a lane while recording the sequencer to tape cut that track short. The tape now records the sound ringing out, just as you hear it.
- Fixed: a shared M4A on iOS 17 was a little short.
- Fixed: the X/Y key could draw at the wrong size after switching looks.… more - 📈TONAUT entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · ID
- ✏️TONAUT: description updated· CA
- 💰TONAUT: price drop24.99 CAD → 19.99 CAD · CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon → · CA
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon
→ · US - 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.6- PHRASE: a phrase sequencer in the ARP. Hold SHIFT and play to enter up to 999 steps, chords included. Add rests and long notes, then press any key to play the phrase from that key. Play it forward, backward or in random order, or step through it one key at a time.
- RHYTHM: give any arpeggio a pattern of dots and dashes and shift it with ROTATE. A dash can pause the arpeggio or skip a note.
- TRIGGER and ADD: add octaves or other notes to each note of an arpeggio, or restart it on every beat.
- The octave keys now move a playing arpeggio or phrase right away.
- Choose the app icon in Settings: the reels, or the original wave stack.
- MIDI file import: bring a .mid from Files onto your lanes, or send one to Tonaut. Pick which track plays on which lane, keep your tempo or use the file's, and play it on SEQ. Drums land on the pads, and chords and velocity come with them. One UNDO takes it all back.
- Step painting on SEQ: play a key, pad or chord, then hold SHIFT and tap steps to paint it in. Tap a step again to take it off.
- PERFORMANCE LIGHT now lightens the reverb too, for older iPads.
- Older iPads with 2 GB of memory are better protected from running out of memory.
- SAMPLES: LOAD into the SAMPLER now loads dry, with no effects carried over from the last sound. CHOP is on every lane, so a break can become a sliced kit from any lane.
- PATCHES and KITS: ENGINE DEFAULT is now at the top of the list.
- iPhone Duo: split screen goes straight to its layout again, as in 1.5.… more - ✏️TONAUT: new icon →
· 4 countries - 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.5.1- CHOP: in SAMPLES on a drum lane, put the cursor on a loop or break and press CHOP. It becomes a new kit, sliced across all 24 pads.
- Longer samples: a kit or a SAMPLER sound now holds up to 60 seconds (it was 20), so a whole drum break or a long loop fits. The oldest iPads, with the A10 chip, keep 20 seconds.
- Choke groups: every pad of every kit can join one of four groups. A hit cuts the other pads ringing in its group, so an open hi-hat stops when the closed one plays.
- Kits keep their pads in order: after you load a file onto any pad, the waveform reads pad 1 to pad 24 from left to right. Every pad sounds exactly as before.
- Lifting a tape track into a kit now takes its first 60 seconds instead of refusing a longer track.
- iPhone Duo: the outer screen is always landscape, even after folding the phone while Tonaut stood upright.
- The app icon has a little more room around it.
- Sharing: a song with a sample longer than 20 seconds needs Tonaut 1.5.1 or later to open.… more - ✏️TONAUT: app got bigger102 MB → 115 MB (+12%)
- ✏️TONAUT: runs on older iOSiOS 26.0 → iOS 17.0
- 📈TONAUT new best rank in the overall chart: #78Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈TONAUT entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · IT · Top Paid · Music · IT · Top Grossing · Music · IT
- ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 4 countries
- 💰TONAUT: price drop19.99 USD → 14.99 USD · US
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 4 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 4 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new icon → · 4 countries
- 💰TONAUT: price drop22.99 EUR → 17.99 EUR · FR, DE
- 💰TONAUT: price drop129.90 BRL → 99.90 BRL · BR
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.5- Tonaut now runs on iOS and iPadOS 17: iPhone XS, XR and newer; iPad (6th generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), every iPad Pro from 2017, and newer.
- A new install opens in TN-SIGNAL, now first in Settings. Already using Tonaut? Your look stays as it is.
- Settings, AUDIO, Performance: AUTO, FULL or LIGHT. LIGHT eases an older chip with a larger audio buffer, fewer notes at once and calmer 30 fps screens. AUTO turns it on for the iPads with the A10 chip.
- Recording into SEQ: tap the same note twice quickly and the second now goes on the next step instead of stacking on the same one.
- Display Zoom: an iPhone set to Larger Text now shows the full instrument at its usual size instead of saying the screen is too small.
- The iPhone SE's "screen too small" message now says how to ask Apple for a refund.… more - ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 7 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 7 countries
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.4- Tonaut now runs on iOS and iPadOS 18: iPhone XS, XR and newer, iPad (8th generation), iPad mini (5th generation), iPad Air (3rd generation), every iPad Pro from 2018, and newer.
- SAMPLES: link your sample folders once, tap a file to hear it, and LOAD it onto a pad or into the sampler. IMP opens it.
- Drag audio files in from other apps onto a drum pad or a SAMPLER lane.
- A new look, TN-SIGNAL: midnight blue, cyan and coral, on iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo.
- iPad: the 10.2-inch iPad, iPad Air (3rd generation) and iPad mini (5th generation) now get the full iPad layout. Settings has a new Layout choice: AUTO picks it by your iPad's model, even with Display Zoom set to More Space, or choose 11-INCH or 13-INCH.
- iPhone Duo: side by side with another app, Tonaut uses the upright layout with two big lanes (hold a lane for four), and goes straight to it with no wide panel first. Upright and side by side, TAPE shows its reels big and centred. Open, the reels sit clear of the edge, and MIX's balance sliders fit with six or eight lanes.
- MIDI in BY CHANNEL: the same note on two channels now plays on both lanes.
- On the oldest devices Tonaut uses a larger audio buffer, and if a song is too heavy for the device it says so.… more - ✏️TONAUT: description updated· 7 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️TONAUT: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 7 countries
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.3.1- iPhone Duo: open and held upright, or side by side with another app, Tonaut now uses the half-folded layout, screens above and keys below, instead of a small landscape panel. Turning the phone always redraws the panel.
- REVERB has longer, smoother tails that keep moving, and big rooms darken as they fade. Sounds and songs that use it will sound a little different.
- EQ shows frequencies in Hz and gains in dB, draws the real curve, and has a new MID Q control for the width of the middle band.
- REC shows only on pages where it records; elsewhere PLAY takes its space. While the tape or a pattern is set to record, every page's header says so.
- On iPad, the TN-1, TN-1 Dark and TN-XY looks have deeper keys, buttons and lane pills, and a recessed slider deck.
- TN-XY has new black reels with a defined rim.
- Fixed: SLOPE's classic view draws the wave you hear.… more - 📦TONAUT: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.3A free update for the iPhone Duo.
- Folded, the outer screen has its own layout across its full width: the lanes, the two screens, the four sliders, one row of nine keys and a one-octave keyboard, its black keys between the white ones. Swipe the four right-hand keys to reach SYNTH, DRUM, TAPE, SEQ and ARP.
- Hold SHIFT for the quick slots, UNDO and DIE, and OCT- and OCT+ on the two end keys. DRUM shows 12 pads at a time; SHIFT + OCT+ shows pads 13 to 24.
- Half folded like a small laptop, the screens and sliders sit above the fold, and big buttons and a tall-keyed keyboard below it.
- Fully open, you get the iPhone layout with its two-octave keyboard, bigger, with more on screen at once: all eight lanes, all eight sliders of a page, and PATCH, KITS, PROJ, EDIT, MIX, UNDO, DIE and HELP always there.
- Fold and unfold while you play or record. The music doesn't stop.
Nothing changes on other iPhones or on iPad.… more - 📈TONAUT entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Music · BR · Top Paid · Music · FR
- 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.2A free update with new looks for the iPad and a clearer SHIFT on the iPhone.
- iPhone: tap SHIFT and a strip of buttons opens to the right of the tempo key: the page's own SHIFT jobs, then PATCH, KITS, PROJ, EDIT, MIX and HELP / SETTINGS. A button that's on fills in, and one that can't act tells you why. HELP now lives here, as HELP / SETTINGS, instead of on the keyboard.
- iPad: the TN-1, TN-1 Dark and TN-XY housings, with keys made for the iPad. Pick one in Settings > THEME.
- iPad: reel-to-reel TAPE. The reels turn and the tape winds from one to the other. Tap the window to switch to the tape running past the head.
- iPad: CHORD MODE on SYNTH, with CHORD, KEY, STRUM and BASS beside the sliders.
- iPad: a SETTINGS key next to HELP. Quick slots read SLOT 01 to SLOT 08.
- KEY now steps to the next key and keeps the scale, on iPhone and iPad.
- First-launch tips are easier to see, with clear NEXT and SKIP buttons.
- On the iPhone, the TAPE reels have more room around them.… more - 📦TONAUT updated to version 1.1.1Easier to get started.
- Tap the lit sound name at the top to browse more sounds. Tap it again to go back.
- On DRUM, tap a pad on the screen to play it. Hold SHIFT and tap to mute it.
- Double-tap a slider to put it back where the sound started, as it was loaded or last saved. The screen says what it went back to.
- A few short tips on first launch show you around. See them again any time: open Settings, press INFO, then TIPS.
- Controls you can't hear yet are drawn off and tell you why when tapped. For example, oscillator B's controls while B LEVEL is at 0.
- On DRUM, a slider change plays the pad you're editing, so you hear it even when nothing else is playing.
- New tape reels on the TAPE page, with the tape winding from one to the other as it plays.
- HOLD in the sequencer now reaches 64 steps, a whole pattern: 1 to 16 steps, then 2, 3 or 4 bars.
- Fixed: crackles and pops on a quiet lane set to CRUSH's BROKEN, such as Gate Slices.… more - 🆕TONAUT first spotted by AppInsider#35 in Top Paid · Music · United States
- 📦TONAUT version 1.1CHORD PAD: seven chords from your key on seven keys, and a stick that turns each one into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more as you play.
SIXTEEN EFFECTS, eight of them new: tape echo, a reverb with tails up to a minute, distortion, filter, pump, swirl, lo-fi and tremolo.
OVER 500 SOUNDS, a 3D screen for every engine, and on iPhone three new housings with an LED in every key.
CHORD PAD
On a synth lane, hold SHIFT and tap CHORD until it reads PAD. The seven keys play the chords of your key and scale, and the stick changes them: 7, 9, sus4, sus2, dom7, dim, add9 or major to minor. STRUM rolls each chord in time and BASS adds the root below. Play it from a MIDI keyboard too: the white keys pick the chord, the pitch bender and mod wheel move the stick. The chords play into the arpeggiator, the sequencer and MIDI out.
NEW EFFECTS
Every sound still has four effect slots, and MIX has a master effect. Each now chooses from sixteen types:
• ECHO: a tape echo in time with the tempo, each repeat darker than the last
• SPACE: a reverb with tails from one second to a minute, and a shimmer an octave up
• DIST: distortion from crunch to fuzz
• FILTER: a low, high or band filter that moves in time with the tempo or with how hard you play
• PUMP: the sidechain duck, in time with the tempo
• SWIRL: a phaser and a flanger in one
• LO-FI: crackle, hiss, wobble and an old-radio tone
• TREMOLO: the level or the pan moving in time with the tempo
SOUNDS
• Over 500 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments and 40 more: electric pianos, hard basses, big pads and echo plucks, listed under NEW in the browser
• Every synth engine has a 3D screen that moves with your playing, and KNOCK and CINDER kits play on 3D pads and a 3D drum kit. Tap the screen for the classic view
• Each sound opens in its own range, so basses start low
• A filter on the SAMPLER
• Rename your own sounds, tag them by type, and choose SAVE or SAVE AS
FIVE HOUSINGS ON IPHONE
TN-1, TN-1 Dark and TN-XY join Light and Dark (Settings, THEME, Housing). In all three, every key has an LED that lights while its note plays. iPad has Light and Dark.
KEYS AND CHORDS
• Pick a key and scale and the keys in it light up. LOCK keeps every note in key
• CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, and LEARN keeps a chord shape of your own
• Each lane can have its own key
SEQUENCER, MIX AND TAPE
• STEP REC: each note or chord you play fills a step and moves on, with REST and TIE, from the screen, the chord pad, the drum pads or a MIDI keyboard
• Move a pattern up or down an octave, copy a pattern to another lane, and see which bar is playing
• An EQ on every lane
• Recording every lane to tape keeps your mix balance
SHARE AND MIDI
• Share a loop from the tape as a vertical video or as audio, ready to post
• Export MIDI files of every lane
• Your MIDI keyboard can play the selected lane, or each lane can listen on its own channel
• Enter sequencer steps from a MIDI keyboard
EASIER TO USE
PLAY shows whether it starts the sequencer or the tape. REC blinks while it records. The page keys look different from the mode keys. On the FX page, tap an effect's name to change it.
FIXES
No crackle on the first play, smoother audio, and many smaller fixes.
A song that uses the new effects, a lane EQ, LOCK or CHORDS asks a friend still on 1.0 to update before it opens.… more - 🆕TONAUT 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
5.0 ★
11 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#70
Music PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
7
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
TONAUT on the App Store
App details
App ID
6812577930
Publisher
Richard Rogers
On the store since
Oct 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
143 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
App privacy Measured
TONAUT declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
TONAUT 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 TONAUT'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
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United States | MusicPaid | #70 |
 Canada | MusicPaid | #14 |
 Germany | MusicPaid | #57 |
 Japan | MusicPaid | #162 |
 France | MusicPaid | #95 |
 Australia | MusicPaid | #121 |
Apps near TONAUT on the chart
Music Paid, around #70.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
11 ratings
Measured
Ratings
11
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
7
4-week average
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
5.0★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
69/100
faster than 82% 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 TONAUT
From recent reviews.
About TONAUT
Tonaut is a synthesizer, drum machine, sequencer and eight-track tape recorder in one instrument, made to be played rather than programmed. Pick a sound, tap out a pattern and record it to tape, all on one panel that feels more like hardware than an app. It also plays inside your other music apps as an AUv3 plug-in, and now hosts AUv3 plug-ins too.
SOUNDS
• Twelve synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly, a sampler, phase distortion, a vocoder and lo-fi digital
• Every engine has a 3D screen that moves as you play, or a classic view
• Over 650 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments. Edit any of them, save your own and star favorites
• Load DX7-style SysEx banks into the FM engine
• Four effects on every sound from seventeen types, a master effect, and an EQ on every lane and the master
DRUMS
• 55 kits on four drum engines: recorded kits, synthesized kits where every pad is its own drum, lo-fi kits and slice kits
• Knock, Cinder and Grit kits drawn in 3D
• A groove player: hold a pad and the kit plays one of sixteen grooves
• Make kits from your own recordings or audio files
AUv3 PLUG-IN AND HOST
• Play Tonaut inside AUM, Loopy Pro, GarageBand and other AUv3 hosts
• The full panel in a big window, or a compact card with all eight lanes, the tape and a keyboard
• Tonaut FX, for effect slots: record another app's audio onto Tonaut's tape
• In the app: your AUv3 synths and drum machines on any lane, AUv3 effects in the FX slots and on the master, saved with each project
SEQUENCER AND SONG MODE
• Eight lanes, each with its own sound and sixteen patterns of up to 128 steps
• Write step by step or record live, with chords, slides, ratchets and chance; STEP REC from the screen or MIDI
• Song Mode: sixteen scenes, each with a pattern for every lane, chained into a song with repeats
• Switch patterns or scenes live; copy, swap and transpose patterns
• An arpeggiator on every synth lane
IPHONE DUO
• Folded, one octave on the outer screen. Half folded, the screens above the keys. Open, the whole instrument. Folding never stops the music
KEYS AND CHORDS
• Pick a key and scale and its keys light up; LOCK keeps notes in key
• CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, with the arpeggiator and the sequencer
• Chord pad: seven chords from your key and a stick that turns each into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more
PLAY IT LIVE
• A Perform page with TONE and SPACE for every lane
• An X/Y pad that bends pitch and moves the sound under one finger
• One-tap mutes, tap tempo, click and count-in
TAPE
• Eight tracks of 20 minutes each, or six of 30 minutes
• Record every lane to its own track, or several onto one
• Loop, reverse, stutter, brake and catch the last 30 seconds you played
• Start a take the moment the sound does
SAMPLING
• Sample with the microphone, a USB interface, or Tonaut itself
• Tap a file in your sample folders to hear it, then load it onto a pad or
SOUNDS
• Twelve synth engines: virtual analog, six-operator FM, wavetable, pulse, modeled string, a seven-oscillator swarm, grains, a classic analog poly, a sampler, phase distortion, a vocoder and lo-fi digital
• Every engine has a 3D screen that moves as you play, or a classic view
• Over 650 sounds, including 147 sampled instruments. Edit any of them, save your own and star favorites
• Load DX7-style SysEx banks into the FM engine
• Four effects on every sound from seventeen types, a master effect, and an EQ on every lane and the master
DRUMS
• 55 kits on four drum engines: recorded kits, synthesized kits where every pad is its own drum, lo-fi kits and slice kits
• Knock, Cinder and Grit kits drawn in 3D
• A groove player: hold a pad and the kit plays one of sixteen grooves
• Make kits from your own recordings or audio files
AUv3 PLUG-IN AND HOST
• Play Tonaut inside AUM, Loopy Pro, GarageBand and other AUv3 hosts
• The full panel in a big window, or a compact card with all eight lanes, the tape and a keyboard
• Tonaut FX, for effect slots: record another app's audio onto Tonaut's tape
• In the app: your AUv3 synths and drum machines on any lane, AUv3 effects in the FX slots and on the master, saved with each project
SEQUENCER AND SONG MODE
• Eight lanes, each with its own sound and sixteen patterns of up to 128 steps
• Write step by step or record live, with chords, slides, ratchets and chance; STEP REC from the screen or MIDI
• Song Mode: sixteen scenes, each with a pattern for every lane, chained into a song with repeats
• Switch patterns or scenes live; copy, swap and transpose patterns
• An arpeggiator on every synth lane
IPHONE DUO
• Folded, one octave on the outer screen. Half folded, the screens above the keys. Open, the whole instrument. Folding never stops the music
KEYS AND CHORDS
• Pick a key and scale and its keys light up; LOCK keeps notes in key
• CHORDS plays a whole chord from one key, with the arpeggiator and the sequencer
• Chord pad: seven chords from your key and a stick that turns each into a 7th, 9th, sus, dim and more
PLAY IT LIVE
• A Perform page with TONE and SPACE for every lane
• An X/Y pad that bends pitch and moves the sound under one finger
• One-tap mutes, tap tempo, click and count-in
TAPE
• Eight tracks of 20 minutes each, or six of 30 minutes
• Record every lane to its own track, or several onto one
• Loop, reverse, stutter, brake and catch the last 30 seconds you played
• Start a take the moment the sound does
SAMPLING
• Sample with the microphone, a USB interface, or Tonaut itself
• Tap a file in your sample folders to hear it, then load it onto a pad or
Latest updates
2.3
Tonaut 2.3 is a free update: four new sound engines and over 650 sounds, plus MIDI clock in, a live spectrum behind every EQ, and tape takes that start the moment you play.
- Four new engines. KINK bends a wave's phase for glassy to buzzy tones. MOUTH is a vocoder: it sings its own vowels, or put on headphones and sing into the mic. CHIP is a lo-fi digital oscillator with stepped waves and fast chip chords. GRIT is a rough, crunchy drum engine. Each has its own live 3D screen.
- Over 650 sounds: 50 new for KINK, 50 for MOUTH (the Mic sounds sing through your microphone), 48 for CHIP, and 12 GRIT kits.
- Follow a MIDI clock. On the tempo page, SYNC > Source is INTERNAL or MIDI CLOCK. On MIDI CLOCK, Tonaut follows the tempo and the bars of the clock coming in over USB or Bluetooth MIDI, smoothed so a Bluetooth link doesn't wobble. With Transport in on, the gear's Start starts Tonaut on its first beat; with it off, Tonaut follows the tempo and bars and your own PLAY starts on the gear's next bar. The BPM key reads EXT. If the clock stops, Tonaut keeps the last tempo.
- EQ spectrum. Behind every EQ curve in MIX, for each lane and the master, a live spectrum shows what that EQ puts out.
- Takes that start with the sound. On the tempo page, TAPE > Rec start can be SOUND, with a threshold from -60 to 0 dB. Arm REC, press PLAY, and the tape waits until you play, then records from just before the first hit, so nothing is cut.
- One-press sampling. On a SAMPLER lane or a kit lane, REC opens the recorder ready to sample onto that lane. Hold a key and the capture starts when the sound does.
- Blank projects and your own template. In Settings, New projects can start with the eight SOUNDS, BLANK (every lane empty, ready for the sounds you pick) or MY TEMPLATE. Template's SET makes any project your starting point.
- Fine loop points. Touch and hold still on LOOP START or LOOP END, then drag, to place the loop between beats, read to the hundredth of a second.
- In a host app, the plug-in's MIDI in can now be LANE, so a keyboard that changes channel with every note, like an MPE keyboard, plays the lane on screen. BY CHANNEL is still the default.
- In the classic Dark and Light looks, the iPad's PADS PROGRAM steps are easier to see.
- In the Lo-Fi effect, the GRIT control is now called DIRT.
2.2
Tonaut 2.2 is a free update: your own AUv3 synths, drum machines and effects now play inside Tonaut, and on the iPad a drum lane can swap its keys for 16 big pads.
- AUv3 instruments. In PATCHES, choose PLUG-IN, pick any AUv3 instrument on your device, then a preset. It plays on the lane like a Tonaut sound: from the keys, SEQ, the arpeggiator, the chord pad, Song Mode and your MIDI keyboard, and it goes onto the tape and into mixdowns and stems. Tap its screen to open its own window over the panel. FILL gives it the whole window, and FIT shows it at its own size. CORE's sliders move its main controls.
- Drum machines on kit lanes. In KITS, choose PLUG-IN. Plug-ins that say they're drum machines come first. The pads play General MIDI drum notes (kick on pad 1, snare on pad 3, closed hat on pad 5), so the pads, SEQ and the groove player all play it.
- AUv3 effects. Every effect list now has TONAUT and PLUG-INS. Put an AUv3 effect in any of a lane's four FX slots, or use one as the master effect on MIX.
- Saved with your songs. Each project keeps its plug-ins and their settings, through SAVE, iCloud and shared .tonaut songs. If a plug-in isn't installed on a device, Tonaut names it and the lane stays silent until you install it.
- A new way into the lists. PATCHES and KITS now start from FACTORY, USER or PLUG-IN. Press PATCH or KIT again to step through them, and the three dots on the key show which one you're in. SHIFT steps back. Each lane remembers its place.
- Lists scroll like a picker. The row you want slides into a fixed box with a light tick (HAPTICS in Settings turns it off), and it's picked the moment the list stops. LOADED marks the sound already on the lane. Short lists show every choice at once.
- Drum pads on the iPad. On a drum lane, the box beside the sliders is now PADS. KEYS | PADS switches with one tap, and each lane remembers its choice. LIVE plays the kit's parts on 16 big pads. PROGRAM turns them into the steps of one part: tap to add or remove a hit, silently, up to 128 steps.
- Mute and solo a single drum part. M and S in the PADS box work on the pattern, the groove and PATTERN PLAY, while your fingers and MIDI keyboard still play every part.
- Mute timing. In Settings, mute keys can act NOW, ON RELEASE, or wait for the NEXT BEAT or NEXT BAR and land right on it.
- First-time tips. A short tip shows once the first time you reach a few places, like step editing, MIX and the drum pads. Settings › ABOUT › TIPS shows them again.
- Patterns up to 128 steps. A pattern can now run eight bars. LENGTH goes from one to eight bars, BAR pages through them, and HOLD and MIDI import reach the whole pattern. On iPad the grid shows four bars at a time.
- LATCH now adds or removes just its own note from a step and leaves the other notes alone.
- The octave − and + keys sit centered, and on the iPhone Duo they're now there half open and folded too.
- On the iPhone Duo half open, a plug-in's window no longer runs into the screen's corners.
- On the iPhone 17 Pro, the SCENES and PATTERN PLAY boxes no longer run off the bottom of the screen.
Hosting works in the Tonaut app. When Tonaut runs as a plug-in inside another app, load your other plug-ins in that app.
2.0.1
Tonaut 2.0.1 is a free update with features you asked for.
- Ableton Link. Play in time with Ableton Live, Loopy Pro and other Link apps on the same Wi-Fi. Turn it on in Settings › MIDI › Ableton Link; tempo and start are shared, and the BPM key shows how many Link apps are connected.
- EVERY now has four modes for each count: play a step only on the first pass, only on the last, on every pass but the first, or every pass but the last, of 2, 3, 4 or 8. A small tag on each step shows which.
- Endless knobs: MIDI learn now works with relative encoders. Tonaut hears which kind your controller sends when you learn it, and you can set it per mapping in Settings › MIDI › Mappings.
- Mixer faders: double-tap a fader to put it back to 80, SHIFT + double-tap to undo, and hold still before you drag for fine adjust.
- iPhone Duo: folded and half folded, the keyboard now starts on C3, like the iPhone's.
Store changes
What TONAUT changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
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