Session Studio vs Exploring the Space
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Exploring the Space
Organize and listen to musical recordings like rehearsals, demos, and rough mixes. This app serves as a central hub for artists to manage their compositional process.
- Organize musical recordings
- Catalog rehearsals
- Manage demos
- Listen to rough mixes
- Central hub for artists
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Exploring the Space is a hub for musical artists to organize recordings used in the composition process. Rehearsals, demos and rough mixes can be cataloged and listened to from your app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Exploring the Space at none against Session Studio's 1. Exploring the Space also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Session Studio's advantage is ratings volume (199 vs 1). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Session Studio sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Exploring the Space asks for nothing beyond the download.
Exploring the Space holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Session Studio has 199 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Session Studio ships an update monthly, Exploring the Space fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Session Studio | Exploring the Space |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (199 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Session.id | Andrew Tisdall |
Customer experience
Session Studio
Exploring the Space
In-app purchases
Session Studio
- Creator Tier - Monthly$6.991 Month
Exploring the Space
No in-app purchases
Questions
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