Comparison

Synthwaver vs Quota Voice Remote

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

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Synthwaver

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SYNTHWAVER: SOUND IN MOTION Step inside the sound. SYNTHWAVER is a spatial synthesizer for iPhone and iPad that turns pure tones, noise, frequency modulation, and movement into an instrument you can feel around you. Every voice travels through a three-dimensional orbit, giving drones and atmospheres a sense of direction and depth. Put on headphones, press play, and hear synthesis leave the flat plane. BUILD A WORLD, ONE VOICE AT A TIME Start with one synth, then add more to create layers of pitch, color, rhythm, and space. Each voice has its own frequency, level, orbit speed, tilt, noise, FM, and reverb. Let one tone circle slowly beneath a fast-moving signal. Blend a warm noise bed behind a cluster of pitches. Set every layer in motion, or hold movement still and focus on timbre. Complex spatial scenes stay approachable because every sound remains visible, independent, and immediately playable. SCULPT PITCH BY EAR OR BY NOTE Explore the audible range from 20 Hz to 20 kHz with a responsive frequency control. Use the one-octave keyboard for familiar notes, then shift across ten octave positions to reach the register you need. Indicators identify voices at a glance, while numerical readouts keep precise tuning close. Whether you are building intervals, beating tones, low-end rumbles, or glassy highs, pitch never feels buried in a menu. MAKE EVERY SOUND MOVE Movement is part of the synthesis engine. Set each voice to orbit from near stillness to 6.8 revolutions per second, then tilt its path through the Z-plane. High-quality HRTF headphone rendering creates a binaural field with changing position. Layer speeds and angles until simple waveforms become kinetic patterns: circling, crossing, separating, and reconnecting in space. GO BEYOND THE SINE Turn on frequency modulation for sidebands, metallic edges, animated basses, bells, buzzes, and unstable textures. Dial in the modulation index, choose a frequency in hertz or a musical ratio tied to the carrier, then refine it with coarse and fine controls. FM can add subtle shimmer or push far into complex territory. Each voice has its own settings, so one layer can remain pure while another fractures into rich motion. BLEND TONE, NOISE, AND SPACE Move from a clean oscillator to noise, or settle anywhere between them. Shape noise continuously from white to pink, from bright hiss to softer ambience. Then place each voice in one of ten acoustic spaces, including rooms, halls, chambers, plate, and cathedral, and set the wet/dry balance. Orbit, noise color, FM, and reverb make SYNTHWAVER at home creating test tones, evolving drones, cinematic atmospheres, strange machines, and abstract sound art. FAST, TACTILE, AND READY TO EXPERIMENT SYNTHWAVER keeps essential controls on the surface. Start or stop voices, minimize them into frequency chips, bring any synth forward, and stop the scene instantly from the master bar. Shape individual levels or adjust overall output. The interface adapts to portrait and landscape on iPhone and iPad, so it stays playable whether you are exploring on the couch, sketching with headphones, or presenting an idea. SAVE THE MOMENT When a combination clicks, save it as a preset. SYNTHWAVER remembers every voice and its playing state, pitch, spatial motion, FM, volume, noise, octave, and reverb. Open a scene later, continue shaping it, or build a library of drones, studies, and sonic environments. Move from discovery to a sound you can revisit. FOR CURIOUS EARS SYNTHWAVER is for musicians, sound designers, composers, students, educators, spatial-audio enthusiasts, and curious listeners. Study frequency relationships, explore modulation, design moving textures, build meditative soundscapes, or lose yourself in a strange orbit of your own making. No timeline. No maze of pages. Just sound, motion, and direct control. Your headphones are not just the output. They are the listening space. Create a voice. Set it in motion. Shape the air. Enter SYNTHWAVER.

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Quota Voice Remote

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Free companion to Quota Voice on your Mac or Windows. Pair it once, then run your whole beat setup by talking โ€” from the couch, the kitchen, the car โ€” while your computer does the heavy lifting. You're scrolling and a track's got a break in it. Say "stem California Reaper by LoFi Charlie" and by the time you're back at the desk there's a warped Ableton set with the parts split out, waiting. Say "build a song kit out of this track" and the whole thing's a playable kit โ€” pads in Live and on the Force. Pull a line out of a video and make it a pad. It all happens on the computer. The phone just tells it what to do. WHAT YOU CAN SAY - Stems โ€” 4, 6, or 10 parts, with warped Ableton and Akai projects cued up - Grab one thing โ€” just the vocals, just the drums, one clean WAV - Kits โ€” song kits, drum racks, Selector Pads at 16, 64, or 128 samples - Chops โ€” pull a line out of any video and turn it into a kit - Your own files โ€” "stem Made You Look from my music folder," or batch a whole folder into one set THE CRATE Hear a break while you're deep in TikTok, IG, or YouTube? Share it to Quota Voice without leaving the app. Fire a shortcut right there, or drop it in the Crate for later. SHORTCUTS Build your own one-tap buttons โ€” a name, an icon, a stack of actions. Stack more than one and it runs as a chain: one tap, one Face ID, everything runs in order. DICTATE Turn the phone into a mic for your computer. One Face ID arms a session and everything you say types live at your cursor โ€” or files itself as a note in your synced folder. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your voice never leaves this phone. Speech is transcribed on-device โ€” only text is ever sent. Everything travels sealed, end to end; the keys live only on your phone and your computer, made the moment you scanned the pairing code. The relay in the middle is blind. No accounts. No third-party SDKs. No analytics. And nothing runs until your Face ID signs that exact command. WHAT YOU NEED Quota Voice on your Mac or Windows machine (getquota.app) โ€” it pairs with this app and runs everything you ask for. Add Quota Stems, Quota Kits, or Quota DS for the job at hand. Pair more than one computer and switch between them anytime. Rare Data โ€” getquota.app

Screenshots

Synthwaver3 screens
Quota Voice Remote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Quota Voice Remote at Free against Synthwaver's $0.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Quota Voice Remote is free to download; Synthwaver costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

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Synthwaver versus Quota Voice Remote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSynthwaverQuota Voice Remote
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard BarberJordan Mcdonald

In-app purchases

None

Synthwaver

No in-app purchases

None

Quota Voice Remote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Synthwaver free?
Synthwaver costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quota Voice Remote free?
Quota Voice Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Synthwaver or Quota Voice Remote have ads?
Neither Synthwaver nor Quota Voice Remote shows ads.

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