Comparison

Ghost Notes™ Music vs homecrate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ghost Notes™ Music

Create and share interactive music videos with friends. Explore a vast library of virtual instruments and sound effects, and enhance your creations with live visual effects. Collaborate with a global community and easily share your work across social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Interactive music video creation
  • Virtual instruments and sound effects
  • Live visual effects and filters
  • Collaborate with friends
  • Community sharing and discovery
  • Trim to beat looping videos
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Music within. Ghost Notes is an interactive music camera that turns your touch and motion into musical expression. Play live instruments with natural movement. Create interactive videos you can share. Music • Play any sound with touch or motion controlling Drums, Bass, Keys, Synths. Switch instantly or layer them all. • Create with our interactive music packs or build your own. • Trim to the beat to create perfectly looping videos. Camera • Advanced motion tracking follows your movement to create real-time performance. No hardware needed. • Stunning live visual effects sync to every note you play. • Create your own styles. Community • Play live or jump into collaborations with friends. • Share easily to your favorite social networks in one step. • Upvote and share your favorite Notes.

About

homecrate

This mobile music production app offers a free 4-track DAW with essential tools like a piano roll and drum machine. The Pro version unlocks unlimited stem separation, audio-to-MIDI conversion, and 16 tracks for advanced users.

Highlights
  • 4-track free DAW
  • Piano roll and step sequencer
  • On-device stem separation
  • Audio to MIDI conversion
  • 16-track Pro version
  • VST3 plugin support
  • Performance Mode looper
Features
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A truly mobile DAW with 4 tracks free, piano roll, warp markers, a NAM amp, a drum machine, a synth, and a channel of hardware MIDI. Pro is the rest: unlimited stem separation on-device, audio to MIDI, expanded tracks to 16, a spatial mix, and the VST3 plugins on your Mac, a Performance Mode, MCP control, $9.99, once. No subscription, no account. A 4-TRACK DAW IS FREE Four audio tracks, two MIDI tracks, and a master bus. Piano roll, step sequencer, warp markers, slicing, crossfades, and automation. USB-C or Bluetooth MIDI, with clock sync. A new song asks for a key and a tempo you can tap. A take stopped by a call, another app, or an unplugged cable is kept. Closing the recorder mid-take saves it. 95 tunings for guitar, bass, lap steel, and pedal steel, including E9 and C6, checked against John Ely's list and the Papa Dafoe database. Metronome with swing and accents. NAM amp with 10 profiles and a PRE stage, dual-oscillator synth with MPE, a 16-pad drum machine, vocal chain, dynamic EQ with sidechain, Grain, and HC Crate, a patcher with 109 modules. Your own presets, profiles, and IRs are Pro. LEARN THE SONG. PRO On-device stem separation, 4 stems or 6 with a dedicated guitar stem. Unlimited, offline, no account. Stems land on tracks in time. Mute a part and play it. Audio to MIDI turns a vocal or a solo into editable notes. PERFORMANCE MODE Beside the recorder. Monitor through the NAM amp and stack what you play onto looper layers while the clock holds. Start from a drum loop or a stem. Up to 10 layers. Scratch one layer's disk. Let go and it locks back to the beat. Send the sketch to the recorder as an arrangement, plugin chain included. On iPhone Duo the recorder follows the fold. In tabletop, a keyboard and the faders fill the lower half, and transport stays on the upper half. THE AMP Neural Amp Modeler A2. Dynamics morph two profiles or two cabinets. Pro loads any .nam or cabinet IR, and trains a model on the phone from a capture of your amp (A14, M1, or newer). Capture an IR of a cabinet or a room and use it instead of the amp reverb. The screen shows the amp, the IR, and the effects in order. RECORD IT. PRO 16 audio and 8 MIDI tracks. Each input of one interface can record to its own track in one take. Section markers change tempo, meter, and MIDI. Voice control. Theory chat returns MIDI in the song's key and tempo. Live looper with overdubs, retrigger, and a footswitch. Over Wi-Fi, a bandmate's take lands on your timeline in time. Import a loop into the clip drawer once and use it on any track, in any project. YOUR PLUGINS. PRO A free Mac companion hosts your VST3 and Audio Unit plugins. Audio, MIDI, and tempo run both ways, and every parameter can be automated. Four AUv3 inserts per track for chords, arpeggios, or a sequencer. FILM IT. PRO Video of the take, with the mix in the file. 84 stacked effects that can react to your playing. Preserve Me and Preserve Instrument leave you and the guitar clean. Your own ISF, Shadertoy, or p5 sketch. Stream to a Mac or a projector. Hand poses become MIDI. SPATIAL. PRO A 3D mixer with position automation, and APAC export on iOS 26, with video. Mix down to the library, or share the whole project as one file. THE PLAYER A library for the files you already own. FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, and AAC, with line-synced lyrics, bios, and band members. An algorithm you set yourself, widgets, and CarPlay. Pro adds word-by-word karaoke, questions about your library, and Plex. PRO IS $9.99, ONCE Stems, audio to MIDI, tracks 5 to 16, eight MIDI tracks, voice and theory chat, your presets and NAM profiles, on-device training, cabinet and room IRs, VST hosting, gesture control, video, the spatial mix, and Plex. One purchase for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. No renewal. The free download is a finished 4-track DAW.

Screenshots

Ghost Notes™ Music4 screens
homecrate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: homecrate at every 6 days against Ghost Notes™ Music's every 3 weeks. homecrate also leads on device support (4 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ghost Notes™ Music sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and homecrate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ghost Notes™ Music against 5.0 for homecrate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ghost Notes™ Music ships an update every 3 weeks, homecrate every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ghost Notes™ Music versus homecrate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost Notes™ Musichomecrate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size193 MB133 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGhost Notes, Incanthony burchell

Customer experience

Ghost Notes™ Music

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

homecrate

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ghost Notes™ Music

One-time1
  • Hyper Garden Music Pack$0.99
1 purchases

homecrate

One-time1
  • homecrate - Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Ghost Notes™ Music free?
Ghost Notes™ Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is homecrate free?
homecrate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ghost Notes™ Music or homecrate?
Ghost Notes™ Music and homecrate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Ghost Notes™ Music or homecrate have ads?
Neither Ghost Notes™ Music nor homecrate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Notes™ Music or homecrate?
Ghost Notes™ Music ships an update every 3 weeks, and homecrate every 6 days. Most recently, Ghost Notes™ Music was updated on November 4, 2026 and homecrate on November 5, 2026.

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