Beatly Pro vs Sonedia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beatly Pro
Create unique instrumental music with a generative studio. Shape melodies, arrange tracks, and mix with extensive editing and export tools. This app generates music from curated patterns, not AI prompts.
- Generate new musical ideas
- Arrange up to 8 bars of music
- Edit notes in a piano roll
- Mix with channel effects
- Import and edit samples
- Export MIDI and WAV formats
- Synchronize with Ableton Link
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Beatly Pro is a generative music studio for moments when you want to create but need a spark. Generate rap-inspired, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, and dance instrumentals, then shape them with hands-on arranging, editing, mixing, and export tools. Beatly Pro is not an AI music generator. It creates music on your device from curated patterns, musical rules, and controlled randomness. There are no prompts, cloud generation, or trained AI models. Style-aware melodies follow the harmony and develop across the arrangement. Varied instrument levels and effects give each track its own balance and character. Beatly Pro takes you from the first idea to a finished track. FEATURES • Generate as many new musical ideas as you like • Create and arrange up to 8 bars of music • Build tracks across up to 7 mixer channels • Edit notes in a piano roll with pinch-to-zoom, playhead following, undo, velocity, copy and paste, per-beat transposition, a chord-aware keyboard lock, and custom patterns • Build chord progressions and change the key or chord of individual beats • Regenerate one instrument part while keeping the rest of your track • Let Song Mode arrange the generated bars for you • Set the key and tempo, or let Beatly choose them • Mix every channel with volume, solo, mute, low-pass filtering, resonance, decimation, reverb, delay, and compression • Browse, search, and audition built-in sounds in the Sample Manager • Record samples or import WAV and AIFF files individually, by folder, or with drag and drop • Trim, fade, normalize, reverse, tune, warm, and drive your samples • Import, audition, rename, and manage SF2 SoundFont banks • Save and recall reusable drum kits • Play tuned built-in instruments more naturally across the keyboard with multisample playback • Import a four-beat region from a MIDI file into the piano roll, with optional transposition • Export the complete track as MIDI or create separate MIDI files for each instrument • Render a WAV mix, individual stems, or a seamless loop of the active mix • Record a live performance to WAV • Share Beatly tracks with their custom samples included • Send MIDI with configurable channel assignments and drum-note mappings • Connect through Audiobus with the full audio mix and separate MIDI outputs for drums and each instrument group • Synchronize tempo and transport with Ableton Link WHO IS BEATLY PRO FOR? Beatly Pro is made for producers, composers, singers, artists, filmmakers, game developers, content creators, practicing musicians, and anyone curious about generative music. HOW DOES IT WORK? Open Beatly Pro and tap Play. The app chooses instruments, tempo, key, and musical patterns, then creates up to 8 bars, or 32 beats, of instrumental music. Tap Next whenever you want a different idea. Every generated track is yours to shape. Rearrange or repeat its bars, change the tempo or key, swap sounds, adjust the mix, regenerate one instrument, or edit notes in the piano roll. Choose from five styles: Default, Lo-fi, Chiptune, Cinematic, and Dance. Default suits rap-inspired beats. Each style has its own instruments and character. Define the harmony with the chord progression builder, or create custom bar patterns for future tracks. Change the key or chord of any beat, and Beatly will transpose its notes to match. When your track is ready, save or share it, export MIDI, record a performance, render a WAV mix, create stems, or export a seamless loop. Connect Beatly Pro to your studio through MIDI, Audiobus, or Ableton Link. CAN I USE MY OWN SOUNDS? Yes. Use the Sample Manager to record audio, import WAV or AIFF files and folders, or load SF2 SoundFont banks. Preview, search, rename, duplicate, and edit samples without leaving the app. Samples tuned to C usually give the most predictable melodic results. Enjoying Beatly Pro? A rating or review on the App Store means a great deal. You can also support future development through the optional tip jar.
Sonedia
Record, edit, and mix audio with a multitrack studio. Features include overdubbing, studio editing, smart naming, and searchable transcripts. Collaborate on projects and export in multiple formats.
- Multitrack recording and overdubbing
- Studio editing and effects
- Searchable transcripts
- Role-based collaboration
- Multi-format export
- Optional iCloud sync
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Sonedia is a pocket recording studio. Record, edit, overdub, mix, organize, collaborate, and export without a subscription. Free for everyone: - Base recording and playback with every quality preset, including lossless ALAC and uncompressed WAV - Multi-track overdub with up to 6 synchronized layers, per-channel mixer, and stereo mixdown - Studio editing, 4-band EQ, effects monitoring, metronome, projects, versions, tags, and automatic icons - Free smart naming using Apple/on-device intelligence when available — no paid AI minutes - Shared Albums with role-based collaboration - Searchable transcripts — tap a recognized cue to play near its recognition time - Tamper-evident proof receipts using on-device SHA-256 and a timestamp - Multi-format export — WAV, M4A (AAC), and ALAC lossless - Optional iCloud library sync using your Apple account - Apple Watch capture with automatic transfer to iPhone - 7 distinctive studio themes Sonedia Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription for Cloud AI Insights: - Whole-recording analysis for substantially richer titles and more context-aware automatic icons than the free local path - Structured summaries, key points, and action items - Rich typed full-audio transcripts and music insights such as key, tempo, and sections when relevant Basic Pro Monthly includes 60 minutes of optional Cloud AI audio processing per month. Premium Pro Monthly and Premium Pro Yearly include 220 Cloud AI audio minutes per month; the Premium plans differ only by billing period. Eligible new users receive 10 total trial AI audio minutes. Allowances are verified and enforced by Sonedia using StoreKit entitlement proof and App Attest, and unused minutes do not roll over. Apple displays the localized price and any eligible introductory offer before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and you can manage or cancel in App Store subscription settings. Privacy: - Recording, playback, transcript search, and SHA-256 proof hashing run on-device; completing and verifying a proof requires connectivity so iCloud can store the receipt with an Apple server timestamp, and an offline proof remains pending - Apple speech transcription runs on-device by default. If you explicitly enable or choose Apple server recognition, selected audio is sent to Apple and requires a network connection. Availability varies by device and language - iCloud sync is optional and uses your own Apple account - If you attach precise location to a recording, that coordinate can sync with the recording and can be visible to participants when you share it in a Shared Album - Free smart naming and automatic icons stay on Apple/on-device paths and never call Sonedia's AI service. Only when a paid user enables AI Insights with explicit consent is the selected audio securely uploaded for temporary cloud processing; entitlement and usage limits are verified by Sonedia, provider files are deleted after processing, and the app contains no provider API key - Sonedia maintains no separate hosted recording library and runs no advertising analytics or tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sonedia at Free against Beatly Pro's $4.99. Sonedia also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Beatly Pro's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Sonedia is free to download; Beatly Pro costs $4.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Sonedia sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sonedia holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beatly Pro has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Beatly Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sonedia's.
Beatly Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Sonedia every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beatly Pro | Sonedia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonin Charvat | IA COMPA LLC |
Customer experience
Beatly Pro
Sonedia
In-app purchases
Beatly Pro
- Small tip$1.99
- Large tip$3.99
Sonedia
- Basic Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Premium Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year









