Carnyx vs Sequentia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carnyx
This app allows musicians to record multitrack audio sessions on their iPhone or iPad. It automatically syncs and backs up recordings, making them easy to share with collaborators without complex file management. Organize all your audio ideas, demos, and live performances in one library for instant playback.
- Multitrack audio recording
- Automatic syncing and backup
- Direct sharing via username or link
- Import audio files
- Organized audio library
- Built-in mixer for playback
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Carnyx is a portable multitrack audio recorder for sound engineers, bands, and collaborators. Record shows, rehearsals, demos, ideas, and multitrack sessions from your iPhone. Use the built-in mic for quick captures, import audio files, or connect a USB class-compliant audio interface when you need separate tracks. When you stop recording, Carnyx syncs automatically, backs up your audio, and makes it ready to share. Send recordings to bandmates, producers, collaborators, or engineers by username or shareable link. No exports. No attachments. No file juggling. All recordings, imports, and multitrack sessions stay organized in one library, ready for playback. RECORD • Capture single-channel recordings with your iPhone mic • Record multitrack sessions when you need separate parts • Choose lossless quality when you want it • Import audio files into your recording library • Keep shows, rehearsals, ideas, and takes in one place SYNC • Sync automatically after recording • See clear sync status for each recording • Know what is backed up and ready to share • Keep quick captures, imported files, and multitrack sessions together SHARE • Share recordings by username or shareable link • Send takes, shows, and ideas in moments • Skip exports, attachments, and cloud storage workflows • Hand off recordings to bandmates, collaborators, producers, and engineers LISTEN • Play recordings instantly • Use the lightweight mixer to hear and balance multitrack sessions • Review recordings from anywhere Carnyx is focused on recording, syncing, sharing, and playback. Advanced DAW features such as timeline editing and arrangement tools are not included. Sync and sharing require signing in and a network connection. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sequentia
This app transforms your iPhone into a powerful MIDI sequencer for hardware synthesizers and drum machines. Generate complex musical patterns, control parameters, and integrate with your DAW. Save and export your creations for further editing.
- Generative MIDI patterns
- Hardware synth control
- DAW integration
- Customizable modules (Drums, Acid, Chords, Arp, LFO)
- Live pattern editing
- MIDI export (.mid)
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Sequentia is a generative MIDI sequencer for synths, drum machines and modular. Add a module and it writes its own part: drums, basslines, arps, chords, melodies. Press Random and a full pattern is playing. Turn on Mutate and it keeps evolving while it runs. The pattern libraries are written for techno and acid, and the generative modules go further out than that. Seven finished demo tracks come with the app. WHAT WRITES THE PARTS Drums, eight lanes, with the swing each genre actually has. Tops, cymbals, shakers and claves over the kit, on one fader. Bass, sixteen styles from techno to dub to EBM. Acid, 303 lines that really slide. Chords and Arp, in your key, following each other. Stabs, from skank to rave. Piano, drawn by hand or written for you. Euclid, three rings at different lengths, drifting apart and landing together bars later. Rain, notes falling from a drizzle to a downpour. Bounce, physics balls playing your key off the walls. Sampler, your own loop, warped to the tempo and the key. Mod, LFOs that sweep your synth's knobs on their own. Vinyl, a record that turns while the rack plays. Mixer, to solo, mute and balance live. ONE STUDIO, YOUR WHOLE RIG Every module picks its own MIDI device and channel, so each machine gets its own part. MIDI over USB-C, Bluetooth or network. MIDI Clock in and out keeps the gear in time. In any DAW the app is a MIDI source you can record straight onto a track. Leave the app and the music keeps playing, with the controls on your Lock Screen. MODULATE AND CONTROL YOUR HARDWARE Pick your machine from the library and its control map loads, ready to turn: over a hundred and thirty synths, grooveboxes and drum machines, every map read out of its own manual. Put an LFO on any of those knobs and it sweeps in time with the pattern. Arm the red R, turn a knob by hand, and the move becomes a loop locked to the bar. CC coming in works too, so a controller fires Random, Mutate, mutes and the transport. LIVE JAM Every module keeps pattern slots. Fill them as you go and switch on the bar, like clips. Live Performer is one pad for the whole rack: move a finger and every module answers at once with more density, new variations or a break. Fills, swing and humanize are a tap each, while everything runs. SCENES, AND A SET YOU CAN PLAY Save a section as a scene, put the scenes in order, and the timeline plays the set. Or switch scenes by hand while it runs. A project holds several racks, each with its own key and tempo, so a breakdown can sit lower and slower than the drop. ONE PROGRESSION, EVERYTHING FOLLOWS Write the chords once. The basslines, arps and stabs follow the changes. NO HARDWARE YET Every module plays through the app's own synth, free, so a whole track works with nothing attached. Load your own samples into the Sampler, or build a drum kit out of them. EVERYTHING IN ONE PROJECT Notes, patterns, scenes, samples, routing and arrangement live in one project that saves itself. Take the whole thing out in one step: the rack as MIDI, or every scene as its own folder, named so the session opens in your DAW making sense. Samples come with it if you want them. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On the tablet the rack becomes a grid of cards you page through, three across on a 13 inch. Menus come in from the right and leave the instrument where it is. Open a module and it steps into the middle of the screen with its settings beside it. Landscape, for a stand and two hands. Turn iCloud on and the same projects, presets and samples are on both devices, in a Sequentia folder you can see in Files. Off until you switch it on. Sequentia is free, and so is the built in sound, Live Performer and CC Control. Sequentia Pro adds pattern slots, scenes, several racks, every drum style, your own libraries, unlimited projects and MIDI export. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sequentia.studio/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Carnyx at 5.0 against Sequentia's 4.7. Sequentia's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Carnyx sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and Sequentia sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Carnyx holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sequentia has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Carnyx ships an update every 5 weeks, Sequentia every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Carnyx | Sequentia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samir Dahmani | Yahor Kamarou |
Customer experience
Carnyx
Sequentia
In-app purchases
Carnyx
- Carnyx Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
Sequentia
- Sequentia Pro Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Sequentia Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Sequentia Pro Lifetime$79.99









