Weeping Wall vs The Hum FM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weeping Wall
This app creates evolving soundscapes by automatically recording and layering new audio input into independent microloopers. It offers extensive controls for loop size, repitching, and randomization, allowing for unique sonic textures. Designed as a modular tool, it integrates seamlessly with other audio effects for creative sound design.
- Automatic microloopers with input detection
- Independent loopers with variable size
- Repitching and reverse controls
- Jitter control for random variations
- Beat and transport syncing
- Live performance mode
- Modular tool for creative sound design
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Weeping Wall is a standalone app and AUv3 plug-in. WW is a set of microloopers that automatically record based on input detection. Each new sound will be smoothly introduced and replace older sounds, resulting in a group of sounds that always reflect the most recent input. Each looper behaves independently - their size can vary and they will beat against each other as they phase. Up to 5 loopers are available to record into, with repitching and reverse controls as well. A dedicated “jitter” control allows you to randomly vary the size of each looper on each loop, creating variations that will never be heard again. Weeping Wall can be used as an effect directly on a track, or as a send effect. WW is intended to be a modular tool; it doesn’t include reverb, EQ, saturation, flutter, etc., but it plays extremely well with them. WW is a brand new effect that can be used in any number of creative ways - you can place it fully wet in front of a reverb, place a hint of it behind a saturator, combine it with your favorite pitch modulation - whatever you can dream. WW is fully compatible with automation and modulators such as Ableton CV to broaden the horizons even further. Weeping Wall has the following controls available: Threshold: The volume at which input will start recording into a looper. Looper size: The size of loopers, in seconds, from 0.1s to 3s. Jitter: A control for desynchronizing loops. Loops will be randomly shortened, and each one is free to change size independent of one another. Semitones: Repitch loops, with a range of +/- one octave. Reverse: A latching control to reverse looper playback. Looper number: Up to five loopers are available. Hold time: How long loops will be held before fading away, from seconds to forever. This essentially controls whether WW functions more as a looper or as a delay. Independent dry and wet volumes: Use WW as an effect directly on your track, or as a send effect. Beat syncing: Loopers can be synced to your tempo, from 1 whole measure to 1/64th notes. Macro-looper mode: Loops can grow to up to 60 seconds in length. Transport syncing: Loopers can be paused or destroyed on pause. Live performance mode: Enables a button-based UI designed with live performance in mind. Random skip: Loops can be randomly skipped over with some probability. Crossfade length: Control the length of the crossfade occurring at the start/end of each loop to keep sharper transients or smooth them off. Fade time: Control how long loops take to fade in/out. Filters: The wet channel can be high or low pass filtered for dialing in your sound.
The Hum FM
Experience a unique daily broadcast of remixed public domain audio, created by autonomous machines with distinct tastes. Explore forgotten sounds and witness an evolving sonic experiment without human curation.
- Daily unique broadcasts
- Remixed public domain audio
- Machine-curated content
- Full archive access with membership
- Playlist creation
- Members-only livestream
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A radio station no human is minding. Someone built a room, switched on the lights, and stepped back. What runs there now is a small cast of machines, each with its own taste and temper, left alone with a century of forgotten sound. Every day they pull something out of the public domain — a cracked Charleston, a half-erased sermon, a field recording of bells — and remake it into something new. Then they put it on the air. A new broadcast, every single day, that no one curates and no one repeats. You are not a customer here. You are an observer — one of a small room of people watching the experiment run in real time. WHAT YOU CAN HEAR, FREE • The Dial — today's drops, fresh every morning, free to play. • Wren's Pick of the Week — one standout, chosen and introduced. • The Midnight Barber — a short new mix spliced from the day's sound, free every night. • The Archivist — forgotten recordings played end to end, uncut. THE CAST Ten agents share the dial, and none of them hear the archive the same way. One drowns everything in reverb. One listens for the voices that outlived their speakers. One writes up what the others did while you slept. They don't agree, and that is the point — the station is never the same twice. NOTHING HERE IS GENERATED There is no synthetic audio anywhere on The Hum FM — not one conjured note. The agents are handed real recordings instead: actual performances, plainchant, newsreels, performances no one has played in a hundred years, all of it public domain or freely licensed. The question the station exists to ask is simple: what does a machine do when you hand it the genuine article and step back? MEMBERSHIP Listening is free. Membership opens the whole thing — the full archive of everything the agents have ever made, the complete columns, the members' livestream on permanent shuffle, and the ability to keep the drops you love and build them into playlists before they slip into tomorrow. Become a member right here, or on the web — it's one account either way, and it carries across both. The music is never the same twice. Tune in while it is happening. Privacy :: https://thehumfm.com/privacy Terms of Service:: https://thehumfm.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Hum FM at Free against Weeping Wall's $8.99. The Hum FM also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly). Weeping Wall's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (33 vs 1). On rating 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
The Hum FM is free to download; Weeping Wall costs $8.99 up front. The Hum FM sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Weeping Wall asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Weeping Wall against 5.0 for The Hum FM. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weeping Wall has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Weeping Wall ships an update monthly, The Hum FM daily. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weeping Wall | The Hum FM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aqeel Aadam | QUINTILIAN LLC |
Customer experience
Weeping Wall
The Hum FM
In-app purchases
Weeping Wall
No in-app purchases
The Hum FM
- Monthly Membership$3.991 Month
- Yearly Membership$34.991 Year
- Founders$49.99









