WavePad Music and Audio Editor vs Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WavePad Music and Audio Editor
Edit and record music, voice, and other audio with a professional suite of tools. Features include cut, copy, paste, and a variety of audio effects like echo and noise reduction. Supports numerous file formats and cloud storage integration.
- Record and edit audio
- Cut, copy, paste audio
- Add audio effects (echo, amplify)
- Noise reduction
- Supports multiple file formats
- Cloud storage integration
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WavePad Music and Audio Editor is a full-featured professional audio and music editor. With WavePad you can edit and record music, voice, and other audio recordings. You can edit audio files with tools like cut, copy, paste. You can also add audio effects including echo, amplify, and noise reduction. WavePad Audio Editor supports a number of formats including vox, gsm, and more! Whether you are a professional or an at-home enthusiast, WavePad has all of the tools you need to edit audio files. Typical applications include ringtones, voice-overs, trim sound bits, and many more! WavePad features: • Supports a number of file formats including wave and aiff • Editing capabilities include cut, copy, paste, insert, trim and more • Effects include amplify, normalize, echo and more • Work with multiple files • Supports auto-trim and voice activated recording • Select sample rates from 8000-44100hz, 8-32 bits • Recording runs in the background and when the screen turns off • Upload to and download from your Google Drive and Dropbox account WavePad contains optional in-app purchases and subscriptions. • Subscriptions are billed monthly while purchases are one time payments (these are not subscriptions) • Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period, • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and cost depends on your chosen package • Payments will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable For assistance using WavePad: http://www.nch.com.au/support/supportcontact.html?software=WavePad Terms of service: https://www.nch.com.au/general/legal.html Privacy Policy: https://www.nch.com.au/general/privacy.html
Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
This app is a comprehensive audio studio for creating podcasts, music, and voice recordings. It offers multitrack recording, extensive editing tools, and a variety of audio effects to enhance your sound. Save your work in multiple formats and manage projects efficiently.
- Multitrack recording and editing
- Unlimited high-quality recording
- Basic and advanced editing tools
- Pitch and speed changer
- Stereo expander and normalization
- Various audio effects and 12-band equalizer
- Project saving and multiple export formats
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It's not just an audio editor, it's a powerful recording, mixing and editing studio. Create your own podcasts, record music and voice, add sound effects, background noise and save to various audio formats. We tried to keep only the essentials functions. Key features: ◆ Multitrack recorder Add, edit files and move between tracks ◆ Unlimited recording Record voice and instruments in high quality without limits ◆ Basic editing tools Do you need to cut part of a file, copy or paste? Easily! ◆ Video to audio Add any video from your camera roll and easily extract sound to work on ◆ Adding third party files Add files and background noise to tracks from iCloud Drive, your purchased tracks from iTunes or other sources ◆ Pitch changer Easily change altitude and speed ◆ High precision zoom Convenient movement around the work area - zoom in and out work quickly and accurately ◆ Stereo expander Make your recordings sound truly up-to-date with stereo surround sound ◆ Normalization With an automatic track volume amplifier you can raise the volume of quiet sections and average the overall volume ◆ Tags Label parts of the track or make notes to easily navigate. You can choose the color of the tag and edit it ◆ Saving Export files in many formats, adjust bitrate, delete silence ◆ Working with projects Save your work in the form of projects and return to them at any convenient time ◆ Working with long files (1 hour or more) We have put a lot of effort into making it possible for you to record and add files of various lengths and work with them ◆ Various audio effects Add variety and depth to your recordings: Reverb (with room presets) Delay, Distortion, Chorus, Filters and more effects are available for you ◆ 12-band equalizer It allows you to remove unwanted frequencies from the overall mix or add missing ones ◆ Support for the most popular audio formats WAV, Mp3, Mp4, AAC, AIFF, m4a and more ----------------------------------------- * Subscription Audio Lab : Get access to all features of the application. * You can turn off the auto-renewal at any time: you'll find the option to do this change to a different payment plan in the settings of your device and App Store account. * The first time you can try the free trial for 3 days. After that, your account will be automatically charged for the subscription if you will not stop it before the end of the free trial. * The length of the subscription is 1 month, this subscription is auto-renewing. You can stop the subscription at any moment; * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the and of the current period, and identity the cost of the renewal. ATTENTION: before you subscribe please read: Terms Of Use (https://tinyurl.com/3xba3zmx ) Privacy Policy (https://tinyurl.com/379vxkbe)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: WavePad Music and Audio Editor at free with in-app purchases against Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab's subscription. WavePad Music and Audio Editor also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (61% vs 45%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. WavePad Music and Audio Editor sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WavePad Music and Audio Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.5K and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of WavePad Music and Audio Editor's written reviews are positive against 45% of Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab's.
WavePad Music and Audio Editor ships an update every 5 weeks, Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WavePad Music and Audio Editor | Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4.5K ratings) — better | 4.3 (1.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews — better | 44.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 1.3K |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NCH Software | Tsovinar Popova |
Customer experience
WavePad Music and Audio Editor
Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
User reviews
WavePad Music and Audio Editor
From 4.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Excellent sound quality
- 💡 Lots of features
- 🙌 Great for podcasts
- 👌 Works well on iPad
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 💰 Paywall for core features
- 🤔 Confusing UI changes
- 🔍 Difficult to find saved files
- 📦 Takes up a lot of storage
Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth performance
- 💡 Useful audio editing features
- 👍 Good quality of exported audio
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 🔧 Confusing and unintuitive interface
- 💰 Expensive premium features
Bugs and requests
WavePad Music and Audio Editor
Reported bugs
4 issues- Playback sync issues
- Inability to save/export files
- Unreliable recording functionality
- Unexpected audio quality degradation
Requested features
5 requests- Add spectrogram view
- Improve file management
- Increase accessibility
- Expand AUv3 plugin support
- Streamline subscription model
Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
Reported bugs
3 issues- Music and files disappearing from the app
- Static noise and audio distortion
- Inability to save or export recordings
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to adjust individual track speeds
- Better tutorial and documentation
- More free audio effects and tools
In-app purchases
WavePad Music and Audio Editor
- All Effects Subscription$1.991 Month
- All Formats Subscription$1.991 Month
- All Features Subscription$2.991 Month
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Echo Effect$1.99
- MP3 Format$1.99
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- Unlock All Output Formats$4.99
- Unlock All Effects$4.99
- Pocket WavePad Plus$9.99
- All Current Features$9.99
Audio Editor, Multitrack Lab
- Edit Song - Mixer & MP3 Cutter3 Days trial$9.991 Month
Questions
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