Comparison

Fender Tone vs sedā.fm

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

Head to head
About

Fender Tone

This app is a wireless companion for Fender Mustang and Rumble amplifiers. It allows real-time sound editing, preset management, and cloud backup. Users can also discover and download tones created by a community of players and artists.

Highlights
  • Wireless amp connection
  • Real-time sound editing
  • Preset management
  • Cloud backup and restore
  • Download community presets
  • Share custom tones
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Fender Tone® is the ultimate companion app to the Fender® Mustang™ Micro Plus, LTX, GTX, GT, and Rumble™ Stage/Studio amplifiers. • REQUIRES A FENDER® MUSTANG™ MICRO PLUS, LTX, GTX, GT, OR RUMBLE™ STAGE/STUDIO AMPLIFIER * Fender Tone® connects wirelessly to your amp so you can edit your sounds in real-time from across the room, backup & restore your presets to the cloud, or audition and download thousands of tones created by Fender’s community of players and artists. MANAGE PRESETS • Quickly navigate presets on your amp. • Edit, save, and play in real-time through your connected Mustang™ Micro Plus, LTX, GTX, GT, or Rumble™ Stage/Studio amp. EASY EDITING • Intuitive interface & responsive design for easy editing. • Endless sound tweaking for your Mustang™ Micro Plus, LTX, GTX, GT or Rumble™ amps. CLOUD PRESETS • Search, browse and download presets from the Fender Tone® community. • Discover presets by well-known artists & players created exclusively for Fender Tone®. • Create your own custom tones and share your presets with others.

About

sedā.fm

A community for independent artists and listeners to connect, share music, and engage in conversations. Discover new artists, buy music and merchandise directly, and participate in artist-led discussions.

Highlights
  • Follow artists and their releases
  • Listen to tracks directly from artist channels
  • Engage in conversations on artist channels and scenes
  • Buy digital music and physical merchandise directly from artists
  • Artists paid fairly with high revenue share
  • Direct messaging and notifications
Features
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sedā is a music community for independent artists and the people who actually listen. No ads. Not a feed of strangers, not a catalogue of everything. A place where artists put out their work, the people who care about it show up, and the conversation happens in the same room as the music. FOLLOW ARTISTS, PROPERLY Every artist has a channel: their tracks and releases, a community tab where conversations happen, and a store. Follow them and their releases and conversations come to you. LISTEN Play tracks straight from an artist's channel. Releases are grouped the way artists actually think about them — singles, EPs, LPs — with the artwork they chose. TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC Start a conversation on an artist's channel or in a scene, reply to other people's, and keep up with threads you're part of. Scenes gather people around a sound rather than an algorithm. BUY DIRECT Digital tracks and albums, bundles, and physical merch — bought from the artist, not from a middleman. Pay-what-you-want where artists offer it, pre-orders, and limited runs. Purchases land in your library, ready to download, and your orders keep their receipts. ARTISTS ARE PAID FAIRLY An artist keeps 100% of their first $1,000 in sales on sedā. After that they keep 92% — an 8% fee is the whole of what sedā takes. Payment processing is added at checkout rather than deducted from the artist, so what they earn is what you paid for the music. STAY IN TOUCH Message other people on sedā, and get notified when someone you follow releases something or replies to you — with links that take you straight to the thing itself. BUILT FOR ARTISTS Verified artist profiles, direct sales, and payouts through Stripe. Artists keep the relationship with the people who buy their work. NO ADS No advertising anywhere in sedā. Your attention isn't the product, and nothing on your screen is there because someone paid for it to be. sedā is in beta. We are building it with the artists and listeners using it, and it gets better every week.

Screenshots

Fender Tone3 screens
sedā.fm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: sedā.fm at 100% against Fender Tone's 34%. sedā.fm also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Fender Tone's advantage is ratings volume (4.3K vs 8) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

sedā.fm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fender Tone has 4.3K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Fender Tone's written reviews are positive against 100% of sedā.fm's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fender Tone ships an update every 6 weeks, sedā.fm every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Fender Tone versus sedā.fm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFender Tonesedā.fm
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4.3K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.3K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFender DigitalSam Mogharabi

Customer experience

Fender Tone

All ratings4,251 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral3.1%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews439 reviews
Positive34.4%
Neutral12.3%
Negative53.3%

sedā.fm

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Fender Tone

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Presets not syncing correctly between app and amp
  • App crashing or freezing during use
  • Incorrect firmware update prompts
  • Search functionality not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Portrait mode support
  • Ability to reorder presets
  • Cloud backup and sync for presets
  • Detailed amp/effect parameter controls
  • Integrated tuner in the app

sedā.fm

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fender Tone

No in-app purchases

None

sedā.fm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fender Tone free?
Fender Tone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is sedā.fm free?
sedā.fm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fender Tone or sedā.fm?
sedā.fm is rated higher. Fender Tone averages 4.6 out of 5 from 4.3K ratings, while sedā.fm averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Fender Tone or sedā.fm have ads?
Neither Fender Tone nor sedā.fm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fender Tone or sedā.fm?
Fender Tone ships an update every 6 weeks, and sedā.fm every 5 days. Most recently, Fender Tone was updated on November 1, 2026 and sedā.fm on October 24, 2026.

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