Comparison

Absolute Pitch vs Wavepocket

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Absolute Pitch

Train your musical ear by playing notes on a virtual piano instead of just tapping buttons. Offers multiple training modes, including note recall, sequence playback, and a unique "Note Rain" game. Features daily puzzles and a persistent scoreboard that tracks your progress without decay.

Highlights
  • Play notes on a virtual piano
  • Four distinct training modes
  • Daily pitch puzzles
  • Persistent twelve-light scoreboard
  • Supports twenty-one languages
  • Customizable note naming systems
Features
Read full description

Here you don't tap a button labelled C#. You play the note. That is not a cosmetic detail. Picking the right answer out of twelve is a quiz. Finding the note on a keyboard is an act — the same act a musician performs, with the same uncertainty and the same payoff when it lands. FOUR WAYS TO TRAIN 1 note — hear a note, play it back. The original app's mode, unchanged in spirit. 3 notes — hear a sequence, play it back in order. Run and record in the header, exactly as they were. Ear — which note was that? Between questions a few seconds of unrelated tones play, so the previous note is not still sitting in memory and the answer has to come from recognition rather than from comparison. It is uncomfortable, and that is the entire point. Note Rain — notes fall toward the keyboard. Play the piece in time, build a run, and hear the accompaniment grow with the multiplier. See the notes, or switch them off and find them by ear. DAILY PITCH One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, three notes and five guesses. A grid to share when you solve it. No account, no nagging notifications. TWELVE LIGHTS Your progress is twelve lights, one per note. They come on when a note is reliable, and they never go out — nothing decays because you were away for a week. HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS IS Absolute pitch in adults is contested. In published training studies roughly one in five to one in three committed adults reached criterion, and the average was about seven of twelve pitch classes after some twenty-one hours of practice. This app does not promise more than that. What it does promise is that the training is built on what was actually measured: masked intervals, feedback half a second after the answer, and pitch class rather than pitch height. TWENTY-ONE LANGUAGES, AND YOUR COUNTRY'S SONGS FIRST The interface comes in twenty-one languages and switches with one tap inside the app, not three screens deep in Settings. Note naming is a separate choice: H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E. And the Note Rain repertoire follows your language, so the tunes you grew up with are at the top of the list. NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO CURRENCY Every mode, the whole daily puzzle, all languages and all accessibility are included. No subscription, no currency, no lives to buy, nothing that disappears if you stop playing. BUILT TO BE PLAYED Landscape on iPhone, because seven white keys in portrait put the black keys under Apple's 44-point floor. Real piano geometry — the black keys are not evenly spaced, because they are not on a piano. Polyphonic, so two fingers give two notes. VoiceOver on every key. H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E: four naming systems, because in Sweden the note is called H and an app that says B has taught the wrong name for two notes out of twelve.

About

Wavepocket

This pocket studio app combines a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler, and 4-track tape recorder for music creation on your device. It offers multi-touch controls, various sound engines, and a clip-based timeline for easy track arrangement. All your creations are saved locally, and the app works completely offline.

Highlights
  • Synthesizer with multiple sound engines
  • 8-pad drum kit with adjustable parameters
  • Sampler with chromatic playback and slicing
  • 4-track tape recorder with clip timeline
  • Versioned tweaks with undo/redo
  • Offline functionality
Features
Read full description

Wavepocket is a pocket studio: a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler and 4-track tape recorder that fit in your hand. Play it with your fingers: multi-touch chords, glissando slides across the keys, drum pads, and four color-coded encoders that always control what you're looking at. MAKE A SOUND: Analog (saw–square with sub), FM, and Cluster Engines • A sampler engine: play any recording chromatically across the keys • Slice samples on the waveform, name each slice, and flip between them • ADSR envelope, resonant filter, env→cutoff, LFO • Presets by category (bass, keys, strings, brass, lead, pad, pluck, bell). MAKE A BEAT: Synthesized 8-pad drum kit: kick, snare, hats, clap, tom, rim, bell • Kit-wide tune, decay, tone and level • Arpeggiator (up / down / up-down / random) and metronome MAKE A TRACK: 4-track tape with a clip timeline: record in any mode, then drag clips between lanes, trim their edges, and cut at the playhead • Everything shares one loop boundary, so your layers always line up • Mixer with per-track level, pan and mute • Filtered delay and spring-style reverb sends. KEEP EVERYTHING: Every tweak is versioned: undo, redo, or scrub the timeline of your session and annotate the versions worth keeping • Recordings and imports persist on your device between sessions • Save the whole project with settings, history, presets and audio as a single file, and render your mix to MP3 NO STRINGS: No account, no ads, no tracking • Works completely offline • Nothing leaves your device

Screenshots

Absolute Pitch3 screens
Wavepocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wavepocket at Free against Absolute Pitch's $0.99. Wavepocket also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wavepocket is free to download; Absolute Pitch costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wavepocket holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Absolute Pitch versus Wavepocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute PitchWavepocket
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApps by Alex ABMATTHEW RYAN SANDY

Customer experience

Absolute Pitch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wavepocket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Pitch

No in-app purchases

None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Pitch free?
Absolute Pitch costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Absolute Pitch or Wavepocket?
Wavepocket is rated higher. Absolute Pitch averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Wavepocket averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Absolute Pitch or Wavepocket have ads?
Neither Absolute Pitch nor Wavepocket shows ads.

Other comparisons