Alto vs TwistedWave Remote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alto
A comprehensive guide to musical instruments, detailing their registers, transpositions, playability, and sound characteristics. Explore dozens of instruments by family, alphabetically, or by score order, with highlighted registers and simple transposition features.
- Instrument registers and transpositions
- Playability and sound characteristics
- Explore by family, alphabet, or score
- Registers highlighted by difficulty/timbre
- Simple transposition feature
- Includes woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion, vocals, and more
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This is the ultimate instruments guide for musicians, composers, songwriters, conductors, students and educators. It includes the registers, transpositions, playability, and sound characteristics of dozens of instruments. With this app, you can: - Explore by family, alphabetically, or by score order - See registers highlighted by difficulty and timbre - Transpose with a simple tap - See open strings, vocal ranges, timpani tunings for different sizes of drums, and more. In this version: - Woodwinds: Piccolo, Flute, Alto Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet, A Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Chromatic Harmonica, Diatonic Harmonica, Ocarina, Bassoon, Contrabassoon - Brass: French Horn, Piccolo Trumpet, Trumpet in D, Trumpet in C, Trumpet in Bb, Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tuba - Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass - Keyboard and Percussion: Piano, Celesta, Glockenspiel, Marimba, Vibraphone, Fender Rhodes, Xylophone, Timpani - Choral: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass - Operatic: Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Bass - Harp - Guitar, Bass Guitar
TwistedWave Remote
Control audio playback and recording on your Mac from your iOS device. Start/stop playback and recording, and place markers remotely over WiFi.
- Remote playback control
- Remote recording control
- Place markers remotely
- WiFi connectivity
- Control Mac audio software
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This application is a remote control for the TwistedWave application for mac. Connect to a running TwistedWave application on the local WiFi network, and you can: - Start and stop playback. - Start and stop recording. - Place markers when recording or playing back audio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TwistedWave Remote at Free against Alto's $4.99. TwistedWave Remote also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.3). Alto's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 90 months). 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
TwistedWave Remote is free to download; Alto costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TwistedWave Remote holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Alto's written reviews are positive against 100% of TwistedWave Remote's.
Alto ships an update every 2 months, TwistedWave Remote every 90 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alto | TwistedWave Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 90 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erik Lee | TwistedWave Software Ltd. |
Customer experience
Alto
TwistedWave Remote
In-app purchases
Alto
No in-app purchases
TwistedWave Remote
No in-app purchases
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