Visual Instrument vs Wave Synth Digital Instrument
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Instrument
This app uses touch input to trigger musical chords and create ambient melodies. Random key changes and physics-enabled "balls" generate unique, endlessly evolving soundscapes with accompanying visuals.
- Randomized chord generation
- Multi-touch support
- Physics-enabled sound triggers
- Ambient visual backdrop
- Endless melodic tunes
- Key changes
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The power of randomness combined with your touch creates an endless melody for your enjoyment. Jazz guitar virtuoso Paul Musso combined his musical knowledge with the programming and artwork of Bryan Leister to create this music-making application. Musso provided guitar recordings of chords typically used to create a melody - F#, D#, C and G. Your touch (supports up to 4 simultaneous touches) creates collisions that will trigger one of these chords. Every 3 seconds, the key is randomly changed to either A Minor, C, F or G. The result is an amazing, soothing and endless melodic tune that you can play for hours without the tune ever repeating itself. The visuals provide an ambient backdrop to help you play. The capsules represent your touch, each moving dot is a physics-enabled ball that contains one note. Hit a ball, and the note plays. If the ball hits the edges of the screen, the collision also triggers the note. An experiment in music theory that was produced for an exhibition in Denver that also used motion tracking. Now available as a touch screen application.
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
Create electronic music by drawing waveforms and playing multiple notes simultaneously. Customize sounds with built-in or custom wave shapes and adjust pitch with intuitive controls. Explore a digital instrument designed for intuitive musical expression.
- Draw waveforms to create sound
- Multi-finger note generation
- Customizable wave shapes
- Built-in wave presets
- Octave and pitch controls
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WaveSynth is a digital instrument. Draw in the blue area (bottom half, or right half in landscape) to make sound. Use 2-5 fingers to generate multiple pitches. Draw your own waveforms, or use the built-in waves. Change the pitch with the octave buttons or pitch slider.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wave Synth Digital Instrument at fortnightly against Visual Instrument's every 64 months. Visual Instrument's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Visual Instrument against 5.0 for Wave Synth Digital Instrument. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Visual Instrument ships an update every 64 months, Wave Synth Digital Instrument fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Instrument | Wave Synth Digital Instrument |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Leister | Zoe Cutler |
Customer experience
Visual Instrument
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
In-app purchases
Visual Instrument
No in-app purchases
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
No in-app purchases


