I think I would rather eat 50 kg of cyanide covered rocks than do anything besides a phone call on a phone, so the difference is that one of them is on a tiny screen that you see even less of because your fingers are in front of it, and the other one is a normal computer program
that said...
try Reaper, and if you have already and didn't like it because of the interface, you can customize the heck out of it. by today there are sufficiently good free plugins for everything that you don't need to buy the brand-name stuff