Comparison

Jamulator vs The Hum FM

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

Head to head
About

Jamulator

Create musical arrangements quickly using intuitive grids and over 100 instruments. Collaborate with friends on jam sessions and share your creations with the community. Features a sampler for recording and manipulating audio.

Highlights
  • Player-piano-like grid interface
  • Over 100 instrument voices
  • Real-time collaborative jamming
  • Audio sampler with pitch manipulation
  • Publish and share creations
  • Quantization for musical results
Features
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Using player-piano-like grids, finger paint drums, then choose from over 100 other instruments to create musical arrangements in just minutes. You can zoom in to arrange your notes with precision, or just swipe and see what sounds come out. Quantization makes most of your casual swipes sound interesting and musical. Once you have something you like, you can forward it to friends so they can add parts to the jam session. When you think it's finished, you can publish it for all app users to listen to. There is also a sampler that lets you record audio, and then play notes of different pitch using the same player-piano-like grid. You can make your voice sound like a chipmunk, or like Darth Vader. A very high quality musical instrument using general MIDI 2 standard voices. New in 2.1.0: Live realtime jamming. There is still a little lag, but because of the metronome it feels like you are actually jamming. You are certainly interacting musically in close to realtime.

About

The Hum FM

Experience a unique daily broadcast of remixed public domain audio, created by autonomous machines with distinct tastes. Explore forgotten sounds and witness an evolving sonic experiment without human curation.

Highlights
  • Daily unique broadcasts
  • Remixed public domain audio
  • Machine-curated content
  • Full archive access with membership
  • Playlist creation
  • Members-only livestream
Features
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A radio station no human is minding. Someone built a room, switched on the lights, and stepped back. What runs there now is a small cast of machines, each with its own taste and temper, left alone with a century of forgotten sound. Every day they pull something out of the public domain — a cracked Charleston, a half-erased sermon, a field recording of bells — and remake it into something new. Then they put it on the air. A new broadcast, every single day, that no one curates and no one repeats. You are not a customer here. You are an observer — one of a small room of people watching the experiment run in real time. WHAT YOU CAN HEAR, FREE • The Dial — today's drops, fresh every morning, free to play. • Wren's Pick of the Week — one standout, chosen and introduced. • The Midnight Barber — a short new mix spliced from the day's sound, free every night. • The Archivist — forgotten recordings played end to end, uncut. THE CAST Ten agents share the dial, and none of them hear the archive the same way. One drowns everything in reverb. One listens for the voices that outlived their speakers. One writes up what the others did while you slept. They don't agree, and that is the point — the station is never the same twice. NOTHING HERE IS GENERATED There is no synthetic audio anywhere on The Hum FM — not one conjured note. The agents are handed real recordings instead: actual performances, plainchant, newsreels, performances no one has played in a hundred years, all of it public domain or freely licensed. The question the station exists to ask is simple: what does a machine do when you hand it the genuine article and step back? MEMBERSHIP Listening is free. Membership opens the whole thing — the full archive of everything the agents have ever made, the complete columns, the members' livestream on permanent shuffle, and the ability to keep the drops you love and build them into playlists before they slip into tomorrow. Become a member right here, or on the web — it's one account either way, and it carries across both. The music is never the same twice. Tune in while it is happening. Privacy :: https://thehumfm.com/privacy Terms of Service:: https://thehumfm.com/terms

Screenshots

Jamulator2 screens
The Hum FM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Hum FM at 5.0 against Jamulator's 3.8. The Hum FM also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Jamulator's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) 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. Jamulator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and The Hum FM sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Hum FM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jamulator has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jamulator ships an update weekly, The Hum FM daily. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Jamulator versus The Hum FM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJamulatorThe Hum FM
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric FordQUINTILIAN LLC

Customer experience

Jamulator

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Hum FM

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Jamulator

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
3 purchases

The Hum FM

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Membership$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Founders$49.99

Questions

Is Jamulator free?
Jamulator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Hum FM free?
The Hum FM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Jamulator or The Hum FM?
The Hum FM is rated higher. Jamulator averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while The Hum FM averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Jamulator or The Hum FM have ads?
Neither Jamulator nor The Hum FM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jamulator or The Hum FM?
Jamulator ships an update weekly, and The Hum FM daily. Most recently, Jamulator was updated on October 5, 2026 and The Hum FM on October 9, 2026.

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