PixelWave vs Skulptur
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PixelWave
Create unique sounds with an experimental wavetable synthesizer featuring a retro pixel interface. Draw custom waveforms, choose from presets, and adjust octaves. Export your creations and integrate with other music apps.
- Draw custom waveforms
- Export to WAV
- Nine predefined waveforms
- Changeable octaves (2-6)
- MIDI keyboard support
- Audiobus and IAA support
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PixelWave is an experimental wavetable synth with old school pixel interface. Key features: • it is possible to draw waveform and play it at the same time; • export to WAV; • nine predefined waveforms; • changeable number of octaves (from 2 to 6); • MIDI keyboard support; • Audiobus and IAA support.
Skulptur
This interactive filter instrument offers a unique way to manipulate sounds with touch-centric controls. Animate and sculpt your audio using 10 surgical filters with kinetic sliders and innovative gestures.
- 10-band surgical filters
- Kinetic sliders
- Touch-centric innovations
- Built-in noise generator
- LFO mode
- Multiple UI modes
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Skulptur is a highly interactive Performance Filterbank designed by Bram Bos and Berlin-based musician Hainbach. It's a 10-band filter instrument unlike any other filterbank you've ever used. Designed for touch with kinetic sliders and other touch-centric innovations, it brings lots of different ways to interact with your sounds. Swipe, throw, slide, push, pull and draw the 10 surgical filters to animate and manipulate your sounds in ways that no other plugin allows. Comes with plugins for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS (13+, Intel and ARM) - Multiple UI modes to play with your sounds - 10 steep, surgical 48dB filters (1 LP + 8 BP + 1 HP) with filter feedback - 4 Filterbank model configurations - Built-in noise generator and high quality input signal saturator - LFO mode, optionally tempo-synchronised - Real world tested as an instrument in numerous live performances by Hainbach Find the manual on ruismaker.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PixelWave at $0.99 against Skulptur's $12.99. Skulptur's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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
PixelWave costs $0.99 and Skulptur $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Skulptur holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of PixelWave's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skulptur's.
PixelWave ships an update every 4 months, Skulptur every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PixelWave | Skulptur |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Zolotov | Bram Bos |
Customer experience
PixelWave
Skulptur
Bugs and requests
PixelWave
Reported bugs
6 issues- AudioCopy not utilized
- Unable to access tools or change parameters
- Memory issue with iOS7 claiming large amounts of storage
- Not visible in Audiobus
- Tone and Waveform text fading in and out
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- Crashes with multiple touch points
Requested features
19 requests- Updated export options
- Screen recording functionality
- Basic reverb effect
- Further functionality (sequencer, LFOs, filters)
- Ability to adjust arpeggiation rate/BPM
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- Ability to adjust/turn off effects (delay, reverb)
- Polyphony
- Save and load waves
- Play via MIDI
- State saving
- Performance recording
- Preset waves
- Other colors
- Adjustable echo time
- Turn arpeggiation on/off
- Lower octaves
- Add/remove effects
- Run in background
- Audiobus compatibility
Skulptur
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PixelWave
No in-app purchases
Skulptur
No in-app purchases
