Hi vs Wavepocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hi
Access your music library on iPhone and iPad with a streamlined, distraction-free interface. Enjoy high-quality playback, offline listening, and easy library management. Search and stream additional music from Apple Music.
- Play music from your library
- High-quality audio playback
- Offline listening mode
- Browse, search, and sort library
- Shuffle and repeat modes
- Bluetooth and AirPlay streaming
- Search Apple Music catalog
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Hi-Fi provides fast, simple access to your music library on iPhone and iPad. Hi-Fi’s streamlined design means less clutter and fewer distractions. It’s your music, without the noise. Features • Play music from your library — including Apple Music*, iTunes Match*, iTunes Store purchases, or your music files synced from a Mac or PC. • Listen to music at the highest available quality, including AAC, lossless ALAC, Apple Digital Masters, and Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos. • Listen without an internet connection — optional offline mode filters your library for music you’ve downloaded to your device. • Browse, search, and sort your music library — including albums, artists, genres, playlists, and songs. • Create and edit your own playlists in Hi-Fi. • Use the Now Playing interface to view and manage your playback queue. • Mix it up with shuffle mode, or repeat your queue or individual songs. • Stream music using Bluetooth or AirPlay. • Search the Apple Music* catalog for more music. • No ads. Ever. • Hi-Fi is private. We don’t track our users. Not Supported by Hi-Fi • You can’t delete music in Hi-Fi. • You can’t modify playlists from outside Hi-Fi. Requirements • An iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later. • For Apple Music subscribers: • Apple Music app must be installed on your device. • For iTunes Match subscribers: • Apple Music app must be installed on your device. • To listen to locally synced music files: • Mac with Apple Music app; or • Windows PC with Apple Music and Apple Devices apps installed. * Apple subscription required to access Apple Music or iTunes Match library sync services.
Wavepocket
This pocket studio app combines a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler, and 4-track tape recorder for music creation on your device. It offers multi-touch controls, various sound engines, and a clip-based timeline for easy track arrangement. All your creations are saved locally, and the app works completely offline.
- Synthesizer with multiple sound engines
- 8-pad drum kit with adjustable parameters
- Sampler with chromatic playback and slicing
- 4-track tape recorder with clip timeline
- Versioned tweaks with undo/redo
- Offline functionality
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Wavepocket is a pocket studio: a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler and 4-track tape recorder that fit in your hand. Play it with your fingers: multi-touch chords, glissando slides across the keys, drum pads, and four color-coded encoders that always control what you're looking at. MAKE A SOUND: Analog (saw–square with sub), FM, and Cluster Engines • A sampler engine: play any recording chromatically across the keys • Slice samples on the waveform, name each slice, and flip between them • ADSR envelope, resonant filter, env→cutoff, LFO • Presets by category (bass, keys, strings, brass, lead, pad, pluck, bell). MAKE A BEAT: Synthesized 8-pad drum kit: kick, snare, hats, clap, tom, rim, bell • Kit-wide tune, decay, tone and level • Arpeggiator (up / down / up-down / random) and metronome MAKE A TRACK: 4-track tape with a clip timeline: record in any mode, then drag clips between lanes, trim their edges, and cut at the playhead • Everything shares one loop boundary, so your layers always line up • Mixer with per-track level, pan and mute • Filtered delay and spring-style reverb sends. KEEP EVERYTHING: Every tweak is versioned: undo, redo, or scrub the timeline of your session and annotate the versions worth keeping • Recordings and imports persist on your device between sessions • Save the whole project with settings, history, presets and audio as a single file, and render your mix to MP3 NO STRINGS: No account, no ads, no tracking • Works completely offline • Nothing leaves your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Wavepocket at Free against Hi's $2.99. Wavepocket also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Hi's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Wavepocket is free to download; Hi costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hi holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Hi | Wavepocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pod 98, LLC | MATTHEW RYAN SANDY |
Customer experience
Hi
Wavepocket
In-app purchases
Hi
No in-app purchases
Wavepocket
No in-app purchases









