MidiWrist Unleashed vs Sphere Flow Pocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MidiWrist Unleashed
Transform your Apple Watch into a standalone MIDI controller. Directly connect to Bluetooth LE MIDI devices without your iPhone, offering tactile control with haptic feedback and the digital crown. Customize knobs, buttons, and pages for a personalized music production experience.
- Standalone Apple Watch MIDI controller
- Direct Bluetooth LE MIDI connection
- Digital Crown control with haptic feedback
- Configurable knobs, buttons, and pages
- Transport control for DAWs
- Motion data transmission
- Save and manage presets
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MidiWrist Unleashed turns your Apple Watch into a standalone MIDI controller that directly connects to any advertised Bluetooth LE MIDI device, without the need of your iPhone or any other proxy. The tactile feel of the digital crown combined with haptic feedback, gives you control over any MIDI device by touching your wrist, even when you're not looking. MidiWrist Unleashed makes no sound on its own and can't advertise itself as a Bluetooth LE MIDI device. NOTE: The reliability of Bluetooth LE MIDI support in hardware devices varies. MidiWrist Unleashed was tested with iPhone, iPad, Mac and CME WIDI devices. We can't guarantee the connection stability nor MIDI message latency with other devices. IMPORTANT: MidiWrist Unleashed can only connect to Bluetooth MIDI devices, and doesn't support Siri commands. If you need to connect to other MIDI devices or use the Siri features, the original MidiWrist app is still available with those features. Features: • Standalone MIDI controller for your Apple Watch • Fully configurable on your Watch, no external app is required • Watch face complication to launch the app straight from your watch face • Any number of knobs can be controlled with the Digital Crown • Macro control over multiple MIDI parameters from the Digital Crown • Remotely Play / Stop / Pause / Record / Rewind / Fast Forward your DAW from your Watch • Knobs can be controlled individually or simultaneously • Knobs can be linked to preserve their offsets • Any number of buttons can be toggled by tapping the Watch • Buttons can either be stateful or momentary • Double tap to actuate controls on Apple Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 and later • Buttons and triggers can send a single CC or channel pressure value instead of switching between a minimum and a maximum • Pages can be created with any combination of controls choosing from buttons and knobs • Program changes through the Digital Crown or by tapping the Watch • Transport control over MIDI Machine Control (MMC) or Mackie Control Universal (MCU) • Scrub transport with the Digital Crown • Save / Undo / Redo / Toggle Cycle / Toggle Click / Enter through MCU • XY pad with individual messages for each axis • Stepper panel to step through MIDI values with plus and minus buttons, accelerating as you hold • Motion data (pitch, roll, yaw, acceleration) can be sent in real time • Trigger thresholds for motion data to send discrete messages instead of a continuous stream • Configurable accelerometer range, so a strong movement can be told apart from an ordinary one when you wear the watch somewhere other than your wrist • Optional haptic feedback • Configurable colors for all knobs, buttons and panels • Configurable labels for knobs, buttons and panels • Configurable MIDI channels and MIDI messages (continuous control, program change, channel pressure, note) • Create any number of controller pages you need • Delete and rearrange controller pages • Save your configurations to presets for easy retrieval • MIDI learn for easy controller configuration • Delete and rearrange presets • Connect to other Bluetooth MIDI devices • Low latency and fast response
Sphere Flow Pocket
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Sphere Flow Pocket turns your iPhone into a 3D panning controller for immersive audio. Hold the glowing sphere on screen and move your iPhone through the air — the audio object in your DAW follows in real time, at full floating-point resolution. Let go and it stays. Reach a wall and you feel it click in your hand. No MIDI mapping, no mouse. Just move. HOW IT WORKS Sphere Flow Pocket connects over your local Wi-Fi network to the free companion AAX plug-ins for Avid Pro Tools. Insert SphereReceiver on a mono or stereo track — or SphereConstellation on a 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.4 or 9.1.6 stem — and your motion is rendered in real time while every move is recorded as plug-in automation. Plug-in instances on your network are discovered automatically and appear in a one-tap menu. Communication is built on the open ADM-OSC standard. Full setup guide and plug-in download: reminitone.com/products/sphere-flow A CONTROLLER, NOT A SCREEN Pocket is designed to be used blind. Keep your eyes on your DAW: the iPhone in your hand is the controller, and haptics tell you what you cannot see — a tap when you grab, a knock when you hit a wall, a faint rumble as you slide along it, a click when the sphere snaps into place. Position is relative: every time you hold the sphere, the motion starts from where it is now, so you never have to reach across the room. FREE • Mono panning — unlimited, forever • Haptic walls, floor and ceiling • Wall Snap • CENTER — bring the sphere back to the middle of the room in one tap • Adjustable motion range: 20 to 80 cm of iPhone travel across the full stage PRO (one-time purchase, 7-day free trial) • Stereo — two spheres, front and back on screen; swap targets with one tap • Constellation — take an entire 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.4 or 9.1.6 stem as one object. Move it with your hand, turn and tilt it with your wrist, scale it with a slider or by dragging while you hold. Lock rotation or scale to protect what you have already written, reset either with one tap • Physics — Throw with a swipe (the sphere flies the way you were moving), Gravity, Bounce. Every bounce is felt in your hand and recorded as automation Try everything free for 7 days, then unlock once to keep it. Mono panning stays free whether or not you buy. BUILT FOR ENGINEERS • 6DoF motion tracking — real position in the room, not just tilt • Float resolution over OSC — no 7-bit MIDI stepping • 60 Hz position updates for dense, smooth automation • Automatic discovery via Bonjour, manual IP connection as fallback • Tracking-loss protection: the sphere freezes instead of jumping when tracking degrades REQUIREMENTS Sphere Flow Pocket requires the free companion plug-ins (AAX, for Avid Pro Tools) running on a computer on the same network: SphereReceiver for mono/stereo tracks, SphereConstellation for 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.4 and 9.1.6 stems. Download and documentation at reminitone.com/products/sphere-flow. Motion tracking uses the rear camera; no images are stored or transmitted. Also available: Sphere Flow for Apple Vision Pro — the same system, with your hands as the controller. Dolby Atmos is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. Pro Tools is a trademark of Avid Technology, Inc. Sphere Flow Pocket is an independent product of reminitone and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dolby Laboratories, Avid Technology, or Apple Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sphere Flow Pocket at Free against MidiWrist Unleashed's $14.99. Sphere Flow Pocket also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). MidiWrist Unleashed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Sphere Flow Pocket is free to download; MidiWrist Unleashed costs $14.99 up front. Sphere Flow Pocket sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. MidiWrist Unleashed asks for nothing beyond the download.
MidiWrist Unleashed ships an update every 3 weeks, Sphere Flow Pocket daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MidiWrist Unleashed | Sphere Flow Pocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uwyn, LLC | Yujiro Yonetsu |
In-app purchases
MidiWrist Unleashed
No in-app purchases
Sphere Flow Pocket
- 7-Day TrialFree
- Sphere Flow Pocket Pro$39.99
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