Comparison

SoundBetter vs sedā.fm

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SoundBetter

This app allows music professionals to manage their freelance business on the go. Receive job notifications, submit proposals, and collaborate with clients directly from your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Receive job notifications
  • Manage projects
  • Send messages and proposals
  • Collaborate with clients
  • Browse music production jobs
  • Request and track payments
Features
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The official SoundBetter app for SoundBetter providers. Receive notifications for job invites, manage jobs, send messages, proposals, and collaborate with clients on the go. Note that this app is for existing SoundBetter pros only. You need to have an existing SoundBetter provider account to use this app. SoundBetter is the world's leading music production marketplace, helping musicians find and hire top mixing engineers, producers, singers, songwriters and session musicians. The SoundBetter app is designed exclusively for SoundBetter providers to manage their studio business from anywhere. Key Features: -Native Notifications: Stay ahead with push notifications for new job leads, messages, and status updates. -Browse Jobs: Access a curated board of high-quality music production jobs. View detailed project requirements, audio references, and client budgets. -Send Proposals: Submit professional quotes and proposals directly to clients. Customize your pitch, set your price, and define your terms. -Manage Your Projects: Collaborate seamlessly with clients. Chat in real-time, share files, and review audio tracks with the built-in player. Request payments, track milestones, and get paid for your work. Whether you are a mixing engineer, a vocalist, or a producer, SoundBetter keeps you connected to your clients and your projects.

About

sedā.fm

A community for independent artists and listeners to connect, share music, and engage in conversations. Discover new artists, buy music and merchandise directly, and participate in artist-led discussions.

Highlights
  • Follow artists and their releases
  • Listen to tracks directly from artist channels
  • Engage in conversations on artist channels and scenes
  • Buy digital music and physical merchandise directly from artists
  • Artists paid fairly with high revenue share
  • Direct messaging and notifications
Features
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sedā is a music community for independent artists and the people who actually listen. No ads. Not a feed of strangers, not a catalogue of everything. A place where artists put out their work, the people who care about it show up, and the conversation happens in the same room as the music. FOLLOW ARTISTS, PROPERLY Every artist has a channel: their tracks and releases, a community tab where conversations happen, and a store. Follow them and their releases and conversations come to you. LISTEN Play tracks straight from an artist's channel. Releases are grouped the way artists actually think about them — singles, EPs, LPs — with the artwork they chose. TALK ABOUT THE MUSIC Start a conversation on an artist's channel or in a scene, reply to other people's, and keep up with threads you're part of. Scenes gather people around a sound rather than an algorithm. BUY DIRECT Digital tracks and albums, bundles, and physical merch — bought from the artist, not from a middleman. Pay-what-you-want where artists offer it, pre-orders, and limited runs. Purchases land in your library, ready to download, and your orders keep their receipts. ARTISTS ARE PAID FAIRLY An artist keeps 100% of their first $1,000 in sales on sedā. After that they keep 92% — an 8% fee is the whole of what sedā takes. Payment processing is added at checkout rather than deducted from the artist, so what they earn is what you paid for the music. STAY IN TOUCH Message other people on sedā, and get notified when someone you follow releases something or replies to you — with links that take you straight to the thing itself. BUILT FOR ARTISTS Verified artist profiles, direct sales, and payouts through Stripe. Artists keep the relationship with the people who buy their work. NO ADS No advertising anywhere in sedā. Your attention isn't the product, and nothing on your screen is there because someone paid for it to be. sedā is in beta. We are building it with the artists and listeners using it, and it gets better every week.

Screenshots

SoundBetter4 screens
sedā.fm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: sedā.fm at 5.0 against SoundBetter's 3.0. sedā.fm also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

sedā.fm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: sedā.fm has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SoundBetter versus sedā.fm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoundBettersedā.fm
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB50 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSoundBetter Inc.Sam Mogharabi

In-app purchases

None

SoundBetter

No in-app purchases

None

sedā.fm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SoundBetter free?
SoundBetter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is sedā.fm free?
sedā.fm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SoundBetter or sedā.fm?
sedā.fm is rated higher. SoundBetter averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while sedā.fm averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do SoundBetter or sedā.fm have ads?
Neither SoundBetter nor sedā.fm shows ads.

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