Comparison

Beatly Pro vs Botsong

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

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About

Beatly Pro

Generate unlimited original looped music in various genres. Features include a powerful piano roll, chord progression builder, and stem exporting. Ideal for creators needing unique soundtracks.

Highlights
  • Unlimited original looped music generation
  • Multiple genre styles (rap, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, dance)
  • Advanced piano roll with undo and pattern editor
  • Chord progression builder
  • Export to MIDI and render stems
  • Sample recorder and import
  • Audiobus and Ableton Link sync support
Features
Currently charting
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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 into your own tracks 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—no prompts, cloud generation, or trained AI models. Whether you need quick inspiration, a backing track, or fresh material for a larger production, Beatly Pro takes you from the first generated 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 with up to 7 instruments • Edit notes in a flexible piano roll with undo, velocity controls, copy and paste, real-time beat transposition, a chord-aware keyboard lock, and reusable custom patterns • Build your own chord progressions and change the key or chord of individual beats • Regenerate a single 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 • Record your own samples or import WAV and AIFF audio • Import SF2 SoundFont banks • Use drag and drop for WAV samples and SF2 sound banks • Save and recall drum-kit presets • Import a four-beat region from a MIDI file directly into the piano roll, with optional transposition • Export the complete track as MIDI or create separate MIDI files for each instrument • Render WAV mixes, individual stems, or a seamless loop of the full track • Record a live performance to WAV • Send MIDI from instrument channels, with configurable channel assignments and drum-note mappings • Connect through Audiobus with the full mix and separate MIDI outputs for drums and each instrument group • Synchronize tempo and transport with Ableton Link • Save your tracks and return to them later WHO IS BEATLY PRO FOR? Beatly Pro is made for producers and composers seeking inspiration; singers and artists who need a beat to write or rehearse with; game developers, filmmakers, and content creators looking for distinctive instrumental music; musicians who want a customizable practice accompaniment; and anyone curious about generative music. HOW DOES IT WORK? Open Beatly Pro and tap Play. The app chooses a set of instruments, tempo, key, and musical patterns, then creates up to 8 bars—32 beats—of instrumental music. Tap Next whenever you want to generate 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 open the piano roll and edit the notes yourself. Choose from five styles: Default, Lo-fi, Chiptune, Cinematic, and Dance. The Default style is well suited to rap-inspired beats, while every style brings its own instruments and musical character. For more control, use the chord progression builder to define the harmony, or create custom bar patterns that Beatly can use when generating future tracks. You can also change the key or chord of any beat, and Beatly will transpose its notes to match. When your track is ready, save it, export it as MIDI, record your performance, render a WAV mix, create stems, or export a seamless loop for use in another project. You can also connect Beatly Pro to your studio setup through MIDI, Audiobus, or Ableton Link. CAN I USE MY OWN SOUNDS? Yes. Record a sample inside the app, import a WAV or AIFF file, or load an SF2 SoundFont bank. Samples tuned to C will usually give you 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.

About

Botsong

Features
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Turn a musical idea into a complete song with BotSong, a MIDI and karaoke studio for iPhone, iPad and Mac. PLEASE NOTE The interface is currently in French and is designed for music descriptions written in French. An English localization is coming soon. DESCRIBE YOUR SONG Choose a style, mood, instruments, tempo, key and duration. BotSong creates a fully editable multitrack arrangement. COMPOSE AND ARRANGE • Generate drums, bass, piano, guitars, strings, brass, synths and melodies. • Import one or more inspiration MIDI files. • Organize intros, verses, choruses, bridges and custom sections. • Edit chords, time signatures, tempos, keys and modulations bar by bar. • Edit pitch, timing, length and velocity in the piano roll. WRITE AND SING Add lyrics to each section, align the vocal melody and follow synchronized syllables in full-screen karaoke mode. MIX AND LISTEN Adjust every track, use solo and mute, and preview your song with the built-in General MIDI audio engine. SAVE AND EXPORT Keep complete projects in the BotSong library and exchange portable .botsong files. Export multitrack MIDI, synchronized .kar karaoke, WAV audio and JSON. LOCAL AND PRIVATE Composition, editing and projects remain on your device. No BotSong account, advertising or subscription is required. All creation and editing tools are free. Without a purchase, only MID and KAR exports are limited to 15 seconds. One lifetime in-app purchase unlocks their full duration. Privacy Policy: https://removesilencevideo.com/botsong/privacy.php?lang=en Terms of Use: https://removesilencevideo.com/botsong/terms.php?lang=en End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Beatly Pro4 screens
Botsong4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Botsong at Free against Beatly Pro's $4.99. Botsong also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). Beatly Pro's advantage is chart position (#181 vs unranked). On ads 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

Botsong is free to download; Beatly Pro costs $4.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Botsong asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Beatly Pro versus Botsong: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeatly ProBotsong
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#181 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonin CharvatDavid Paillot

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Beatly Pro

One-time2
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Large tip$3.99
None

Botsong

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beatly Pro free?
Beatly Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Botsong free?
Botsong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beatly Pro or Botsong have ads?
Neither Beatly Pro nor Botsong shows ads.

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