WaveCloud vs Outer Space
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WaveCloud
This app offers advanced tools for manipulating audio samples into unique sounds. It allows for precise control over tiny audio fragments, enabling the creation of diverse textures, effects, and soundscapes. Features include a morphing oscillator, LFOs, filters, and unique movement modules.
- Granular synthesis engine
- Morphing oscillator
- Orbit and WaveGlide modules
- MPE support
- Built-in effects suite
- Audio editor and managers
- 200+ presets
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WaveCloud is an innovative granular synthesizer that offers powerful tools for manipulating and playing sounds. Granular synthesis divides an audio sample into tiny fragments, called grains, each typically a few milliseconds in length. These grains are then manipulated independently in terms of pitch, duration, position in time, and amplitude. Unlike traditional synthesis, the capability to manipulate tiny grains of audio offers enormous precision of sound control, transformation, and compositional possibilities. WaveCloud offers a wide range of tools for experimentation – oscillator, LFOs, filters, envelopes, routing matrix, innovative WaveGlide and Orbit modules for grain movement, effects, MPE support, extensive waveform editing, customizable themes, MIDI CC control, aftertouch, audio pool manager, and 200+ presets to get you started. Granular synthesis is extremely versatile and can produce a vast range of sounds and textures, from subtle, atmospheric sounds to complex, dynamic ones. WaveCloud offers dozens of parameters, enabling you to sculpt the sound grains in any way you wish – textural pads and atmospheres, time-stretched effects, glitchy and stutter effects, vocal and instrumental manipulations, granular synthesis percussive sounds, experimental effects, as well as microtonal and harmonic soundscapes. WaveCloud features a drag and drop system for importing and exporting of audio files and presets. It has its own built-in Preset and Audio Managers to help keep everything in order. WaveCloud even features a fully-fledged zoomable audio editor along with a suite of tools to crop, fade, cut, copy, paste, and normalise your samples. We include a morphing 3-state Oscillator to support the granular engine. The granular engine allows up to 50 grains per second per note, with grain lengths up to a second in length. Grains can be sculpted with our morphing envelope generator, manipulated with our LFOs, FEGs and VCFs, and passed through lots of randomisation to keep things continually evolving. WaveCloud also features two unique features for adding movement to audio grains. Orbit mode allows you to play sweeping patterns tied to the physical host tempo of your DAW, and WaveGlide is a sequencer with glides and fades from one location to another. To top it all off, we include 7 built-in effects, delay, reverb, chorus, overdrive, phaser, resonator, and 8-band EQ. The resonator controls per-note feedback and dispersion for amazing MPE effects. WaveCloud is not only a deep and powerful granular synth but also a fun way to create many incredible sounds. Features • Over 200 presets • 3-state morphing oscillator (sine, square, saw) • Morphing grain shapes • 2 low-frequency morphing oscillators • 4 multistep envelope generators • 2 visual filters (series and parallel modes) • Per-channel feedback resonators with dispersion • MPE Support (per-channel pitch bend, aftertouch, and CC74) • Orbit mode • WaveGlide sequencing • Fully Featured Mod-Matrix • Direct record and playback of samples • Built-in sample editor with editing tools • 7 built-in effects • Built-in Audio Manager with drag and drop support • Preset Manager with easy import/export, drag and drop • Colour scheme editor
Outer Space
This app emulates a vintage tape echo unit from the seventies, featuring three playback heads and two spring reverb tanks. It models various tape responses and analog imperfections for authentic sound.
- Tape echo emulation
- Three playback heads
- Two spring reverb tanks
- Multiple tape responses
- Analog imperfection modeling
- AUv3 and Standalone support
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Outer Space is a faithful emulation plugin of a famous vintage tape echo made in the early seventies. As the original unit, Outer Space features a tape echo section with three playback heads and two spring reverb tanks. We have modelled three different tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analog imperfections of tape recording/playback. Available as AUv3 and Standalone.
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Verdict
WaveCloud and Outer Space both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Outer Space's written reviews are positive against 69% of WaveCloud's. WaveCloud's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and price ($14.99 vs $19.99). 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
WaveCloud costs $14.99 and Outer Space $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for WaveCloud against 5.0 for Outer Space. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of WaveCloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Outer Space's.
WaveCloud ships an update every 3 weeks, Outer Space every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | WaveCloud | Outer Space |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 286 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4Pockets.com | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
WaveCloud
Outer Space
In-app purchases
WaveCloud
No in-app purchases
Outer Space
No in-app purchases






