Comparison

Ableton Note vs Disci Player

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

Head to head
About

Ableton Note

Create musical ideas with curated sounds and effects. Build beats, melodies, and sample your surroundings. Seamlessly transfer your projects to Ableton Live for further development.

Highlights
  • Create beats and melodies
  • Sample sounds with phone microphone
  • MIDI Editor for sequencing
  • Transfer projects to Ableton Live
  • 76 Drum Sampler kits
  • 317 synth sounds
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Start new musical ideas with a curated selection of sounds and effects. Create beats and melodic parts, sample your world, and continue your tracks in Ableton Live. Note is a place to form ideas, explore new sounds and find direction. Get your ideas out or just experiment until inspiration hits, using a selection of Ableton Live’s drum kits, synths and melodic instruments. Create your own sound palette by sampling with your phone’s built-in microphone. And use Note’s built-in MIDI Editor to sequence notes, beats and chords or make tweaks as you listen back Follow your ideas wherever they lead by sending your projects to Live without leaving the app with the help of Ableton Cloud. Open projects from Live’s browser and keep working – you can edit all your MIDI notes, and all your samples and sounds from Note are exactly the same. Ableton Note users get a free license for Ableton Live Lite – simple, intuitive software used by musicians, producers and DJs around the world to write, record, and perform. For Ableton Move users, Note also offers the chance to keep working on a Set from your phone. Begin with a beat: • Choose from 76 Drum Sampler kits • Tap out a beat using the 16-pad grid, or sequence one with the MIDI Editor • Play each drum hit melodically using 16 Pitches mode • Quantize your beat or nudge notes to fix loose timing or mistakes • Add more layers of rhythm • Create beat repetitions with Note Repeat • Change parameters to shape your sound • Experiment with effects or apply swing for variations Start with a melody: • Choose from 317 synth sounds and 60 Melodic Sampler instruments • Play or program your melody or chord progression with the 25-pad grid, piano roll or MIDI Editor • Set a key and scale to get instantly harmonic results • Add more layers of harmony • Change parameters to shape your sound • Add effects to experiment with sound design Sample your environment: • Create your own kits by recording percussive sounds into Note’s Drum Sampler • Record tonal sounds to create your own Melodic Sampler instruments • Manipulate your samples by cutting, filtering or repitching them • Sequence samples into beats, melodies and chords using the MIDI Editor • Shape or transform your sounds with effects • Import your own samples or audio directly from videos Work with Audio • Add audio clips from the library • Warp tempo or adjust pitch of your clips • Record audio directly using your phone’s built-in microphone • Connect an audio interface to record external sources • Combine recorded and imported audio with your beats and melodies Capture improvisations: • Play something, then tap the Capture button to keep it • Play at a tempo that feels comfortable and Note will detect it • Note will recognize the length of the phrase and create a loop • Quantize it, add to it, or change the sound • Connect MIDI hardware to play keys and change the sound of your instruments Create variations: • Note features a grid-based Session View layout • Double your loops to create variation within clips • Duplicate your clips and create different versions of your ideas • Add, delete or adjust multiple notes at once with the MIDI Editor • Create eight tracks with up to eight clips on eight scenes • Try different clip combinations and song structures • Export your work as an audio file to listen and share

About

Disci Player

Features
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Disci Player is built for playing the music you own — securely and exclusively on Disci. Disci is a new platform designed to restore value to digital music. Streaming made music infinitely accessible — but stripped it of ownership, scarcity, and long-term value. Disci brings that structure back. Artists and labels can release music as limited editions with controlled distribution, built-in protection, and resale. Collectors can own, play, and resell music — not just stream it. Make Music Valuable Again Release music with fixed supply Preserve scarcity and price integrity Build long-term value into your releases Protect Your Distribution Each copy is uniquely fingerprinted Designed to reduce unauthorized sharing Maintain control over how your music spreads Own, Don’t Rent Collect rare digital releases Verify ownership and provenance Resell on a secondary market Built for a New Music Economy Disci aligns incentives between artists and collectors. Less dilution. More control. Real ownership.

Screenshots

Ableton Note4 screens
Disci Player3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Disci Player at Free against Ableton Note's $6.99. Disci Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Ableton Note's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and chart position (#10 vs unranked). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Disci Player is free to download; Ableton Note costs $6.99 up front. Ableton Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Disci Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ableton Note ships an update every 5 weeks, Disci Player every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Ableton Note versus Disci Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbleton NoteDisci Player
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (699 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings699 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size1010 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbleton AGDisci Music Corp

Bugs and requests

Ableton Note

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional loss of unsaved work
  • Freezing issues when editing clips

Requested features

6 requests
  • Audio track support
  • Expanded note editing tools
  • Midi controller support
  • More effects and synth options
  • Time signature flexibility
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  • Ability to import samples from Ableton Live

Disci Player

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ableton Note

One-time1
  • Drift In-App Purchase$3.99
None

Disci Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ableton Note free?
Ableton Note costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Disci Player free?
Disci Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ableton Note or Disci Player have ads?
Neither Ableton Note nor Disci Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ableton Note or Disci Player?
Ableton Note ships an update every 5 weeks, and Disci Player every 5 months. Most recently, Ableton Note was updated on October 30, 2026 and Disci Player on October 24, 2026.

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