Ghost Notes™ Music vs homecrate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
homecrate
Create music on your mobile device with a powerful digital audio workstation. Offers a free version with essential tools and a Pro upgrade for advanced features like unlimited stem separation and VST3 plugin support.
- 4-track DAW (free)
- Piano roll and step sequencer
- NAM amp and dual-oscillator synth
- On-device stem separation
- Audio to MIDI conversion
- VST3 plugin support (Mac companion)
- Performance Mode for live looping
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Ghost Notes™ Music | homecrate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghost Notes, Inc | anthony burchell |
Customer experience
Ghost Notes™ Music
homecrate
In-app purchases
Ghost Notes™ Music
- Hyper Garden Music Pack$0.99
homecrate
- homecrate - Pro$9.99









