Comparison

Hi vs Wavepocket

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Read full description

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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Read full description

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

Screenshots

Hi4 screens
Wavepocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wavepocket is free to download; Hi costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hi versus Wavepocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiWavepocket
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperPod 98, LLCMATTHEW RYAN SANDY

Customer experience

Hi

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wavepocket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hi

No in-app purchases

None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hi free?
Hi costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hi or Wavepocket?
Hi is rated higher. Hi averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Wavepocket averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Hi or Wavepocket have ads?
Neither Hi nor Wavepocket shows ads.

Other comparisons