vocal remover AI vs TempoKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vocal remover AI
This app uses AI to separate songs into vocals and instruments, allowing you to adjust pitch and volume. It's designed for music enthusiasts and aspiring producers to remix, practice, and create custom backing tracks.
- AI vocal and instrument separation
- Pitch adjustment
- Audio track volume control
- Import songs from URL, files, or iTunes
- Export stems and songs in multiple formats
- Real-time pitch and volume adjustments
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● AI vocal and instrument remover. ● Pitch changer. ● Audio track volume adjuster. ● Visual Stem Player. Split songs into 6 audio tracks, including vocals and instruments, with MEL. Remove vocals and instruments, and adjust the pitch with utmost ease. Then play or sing, and master your craft. Whether you're a music enthusiast or an aspiring producer, MEL empowers you to explore and control music in detail intuitively. IMPORT SONGS Import songs from a URL, your files, or iTunes. Then pick any song, and our AI-powered music separator will split the songs into stems that can be adjusted. ISOLATE & ADJUST Our AI precisely separates all vocals and instruments into separate audio tracks. Remove vocals and instruments, and adjust the volume of each audio track. For added intuitiveness, MEL features a sleek volume-adjusting wheel similar to the physical stem player product. CUSTOMIZE THE PITCH As you play or sing, you can adjust the pitch of each audio track in real time to tune or accommodate different vocal ranges. EXPORT Export or share stems, or the whole readjusted song in different audio formats including m4a, wav, and aiff. Now it’s time to transform your favorite tracks into personalized creations by extracting vocals for acapella performances or isolating instruments to create custom backing tracks. ► Download MEL for free and unlock endless possibilities for remixing, karaoke, playing, practicing, and music production. We provide all users with one free premium processing of your song. After you use it, you can purchase a premium subscription (monthly or annual) to gain full premium access to all features, or you can use the app for free but with limited functionality. Privacy policy: https://incredy.co/apps/ios/stemsai/privacypolicy Terms of use: https://incredy.co/apps/ios/stemsai/termsofuse
TempoKey
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Know every song's tempo before you walk on stage. TempoKey analyzes an audio file you already own and returns its BPM in seconds — and it always shows two readings, the primary tempo and its half-time or double-time alternative, because that ambiguity is real in almost every library. You choose the one that matches how you count the song. From there it goes straight into a setlist you can reorder, annotate, and read from the stage. WHAT'S INSIDE • Automatic BPM analysis — Import a local audio file through the Files picker or drag and drop, and an on-device engine returns the tempo: Apple's Music Understanding framework on iOS 27, or the built-in DSP engine on earlier systems. Your audio is never uploaded or copied — it stays on your phone. • Dual reading, by design — Every result shows a primary BPM next to its half-time or double-time alternative, for example "87 · or 174". One tap swaps them, and you can type a value in by hand when you disagree with both. • Song Map and auto key on iOS 27 — See the song's structure at a glance: sections, bar grid, where vocals, drums and bass enter, and overall loudness. The detected key is shown with an honest alternate reading; a key you type yourself always takes priority. On earlier systems the key field is typed in by you. • Tap tempo — Tap along four or more times and watch the tempo settle live. Made for rehearsal rooms, live counts, and anything you cannot import as a file. • Setlist library — Build ordered setlists with song title, BPM, a musical key, and your own notes. Drag to reorder until the running order is right. • Home screen widgets — An extra-large widget shows the next song in your setlist with tempo and key, readable from across the stage (iOS 27; medium size on earlier systems). • Performance Mode — A large-type card built for a dark stage: title, tempo and key readable at a glance, swipe left and right to move through the set, screen stays awake. • Transpose and tempo math — Capo and semitone transposition, BPM to milliseconds for delay and echo, and 75% / 50% practice-speed references. Pure arithmetic, no audio processing. • Spotlight and Siri — Your songs and setlists are searchable from the system search and openable by Siri (iOS 18.4 or later). • Works offline — No account, no sign-in, no cloud sync, no ads. WHAT TEMPOKEY IS NOT • Not a metronome. The app makes no sound at all. • Not a player. There is no playback, no now-playing screen, no media library browsing. • Not a tuner, not a notation app, not an audio editor. • No subscription, no advertising, no account. FILE SUPPORT Local, DRM-free audio only — MP3, WAV, M4A, AIFF and FLAC, imported from Files or dropped in. DRM-protected downloads cannot be analyzed, and the app says so plainly instead of failing quietly. Tempo detection covers 50–210 BPM; outside that range you get an explicit message rather than a wrong number. PRIVACY Your audio is decoded in memory for the length of the analysis and then released. TempoKey never copies, caches or uploads a file. Only the results — tempo, alternative reading, confidence, file name and duration — along with your setlists and notes are stored on the device. The app requests no microphone, no media library, no location, no contacts and no photos. PAY ONCE TempoKey opens and works without a purchase: tap tempo and every calculator are always free, and so are your first three analyses and one setlist of up to five songs. A single Lifetime unlock removes the limits — unlimited analyses, unlimited setlists and songs, and Performance Mode. One payment, no subscription. Built for the ten minutes before you go on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TempoKey at weekly against vocal remover AI's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. vocal remover AI sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and TempoKey sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
vocal remover AI ships an update every 2 weeks, TempoKey weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | vocal remover AI | TempoKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmitriy Ivanenko | Zcode |
In-app purchases
vocal remover AI
- MEL PREMIUM | WEEKLY2 variants$3.997 Days
- StemsAI Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- MEL PREMIUM | MONTHLY3 Days trial$12.991 Month
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- StemsAI Premium | Annual$38.991 Year
- MEL PREMIUM | ANNUAL$79.991 Year
- MEL PREMIUM | ANNUAL3 Days trial$99.991 Year
TempoKey
- Lifetime Unlock$3.99
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