Wavejam vs Session Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wavejam
Easily create music with friends and bandmates. Record ideas, share them, and invite others to collaborate in real-time. This app connects musicians globally to contribute to your projects.
- Collaborative music creation
- Multi-track recording
- Real-time collaboration
- Cloud backup and sync
- In-app chat for feedback
- QuickLink for easy contribution
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Wavejam allows you to easily make music from home, with your band mates and friends. Record your idea, share it, and invite others to collaborate. This new workflow connects you with top musicians around the world, and enables them to contribute to your music, in real-time. FEATURES: ** Collaborative: Share your music ideas with friends and invite them to build your unique sound, together. ** Multi-Track Recorder: Record multiple layers on each track. ** Fast & Easy: Capture inspiration in the moment, with ease. ** Mix: Control the levels and add effects to enhance your recordings. ** BPM: Follow the track’s custom BPM to stay in sync. ** Trim: No need to play an entire take without mistakes, just trim each layer to your liking. ** Track Preview: Preview your tracks in the main menu to access the right project, quickly. ** Monitoring: Hear effects in real-time while monitoring your recording. ** QuickLink: Anyone with the link can contribute to your track, without setting up an account. ** Secure and Private: All your tracks are securely backed-up and synced into the cloud. ** Chat: Share thoughts about each recording using it’s unique chat room. ** Keep Updated: Stay in the loop about changes to the track by receiving notifications. ** Your Creation is Yours: All creations are credited to the artist by linking them to their username, and time stamp. This app was created by musicians, for musicians. As sound engineers and musicians ourselves, we’ve experienced first hand the many pains and challenges when it comes to recording music with others. We’re so fortunate to have worked alongside some amazing musicians in building this app and we place real value on the feedback of each and every one of our users. Using our passion for music, we hope to facilitate the creation of meaningful work, together.
Session Studio
This app helps musicians and producers manage song rights and credits from creation to release. It facilitates collaboration by allowing users to share audio, lyrics, and notes, and ensures accurate royalty payments by injecting creator metadata into the music ecosystem.
- Collaborate with music creators
- Share audio, lyrics, notes, voice memos
- Synchronize song information from DAWs
- Log creator credits via QR check-in
- Manage releases and label copy
- Cross-platform access (mobile, desktop, web)
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Session Studio is the must-have music collaboration tool for music creators, producers and musicians who want to manage their song rights and credits, from the studio right through to release. • Collaborate with music creators by uploading & sharing audio, lyrics, notes and voice memos. • Synchronize song information from major DAWs and recording software to the Session Studio App (desktop only) • Log creator credits and identifiers from all collaborators via QR check-in. • Manage your releases and label copy. • Access to the app across mobile, desktop and web. The Session Studio app collects all creator metadata and ensures it’s injected authoritatively into the music ecosystem (labels, distributors, publishing rights organizations, streaming platforms), facilitating correct creator credits and accurate, timely music royalty payments. Make music, get credit. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wavejam at none against Session Studio's 1. Wavejam also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and review sentiment (80% vs 63%). Session Studio's advantage is ratings volume (199 vs 9). On price, rating, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Session Studio sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Wavejam asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Wavejam against 4.7 for Session Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session Studio has 199 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Wavejam's written reviews are positive against 63% of Session Studio's.
Wavejam ships an update weekly, Session Studio monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wavejam | Session Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | 4.7 (199 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 199 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wavejam Ltd. | Session.id |
Customer experience
Wavejam
Session Studio
In-app purchases
Wavejam
No in-app purchases
Session Studio
- Creator Tier - Monthly$6.991 Month









