Comparison

WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote vs Tape Death

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

Head to head
About

WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote

Features
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When something sounds wrong during a live production, you need to know what happened, not guess. WAVETOOL 4 helps professional audio teams hear critical sources, identify and investigate issues, and stay coordinated throughout a production. Monitor wired and wireless audio across Shure and other brands, listen from an iPad backstage, and stay on top of what’s happening across your system. GLOBAL INSTANT REPLAY Missed the moment? Go back and listen. Replay up to 30 minutes of monitored audio across your system to investigate intermittent issues and hear exactly what happened to remove guesswork during troubleshooting. MONITOR THE WHOLE PRODUCTION Bring up to 192 channels into one monitoring environment. Listen to channels in real time, monitor key system information, and maintain visibility across the sources your team is responsible for. DETECT MIC ISSUES FASTER WAVETOOL continuously analyzes audio to help identify potential microphone issues, including transient noise, connector faults, and more, while distinguishing them from intentional loud moments in the show. STAY MOBILE WITH iPAD Stay close to the action without giving up visibility into your production. WAVETOOL on iPad lets you monitor and listen from backstage, around the venue, or wherever you need to be. WORK FROM THE SAME SHARED REFERENCE Connect up to eight concurrent clients so the whole audio team can monitor the same production while working from independent views. Enhanced communication tools, including images, voice notes, and reactions, make it easier to share information. ONE MONITORING SOLUTION FOR YOUR AUDIO TEAM From live sound and broadcast to theater, houses of worship, corporate events, and other professional productions, WAVETOOL gives audio teams the visibility, listening, and collaboration tools to respond with confidence. See every channel. Replay the full system. Stay in control.

About

Tape Death

Features
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Tape Death is a four-tape looping instrument that falls apart while you play it. Record a loop onto a cassette and it plays forever β€” but it never holds still. Every second it runs, the tape wears: the highs fray, dropouts bloom, the pitch begins to sag. Nothing you make will ever sound new again. That's the point. This isn't a clean, non-destructive studio β€” it's a machine for sounds that rot beautifully. Four tapes, each aging on its own. Layer them, warp them, drown them in space, and bottle the decaying mix to share. FOUR TAPES β€’ Record straight from your mic β€” a voice, an instrument, the whole room. β€’ Overdub to build layers onto a single loop. β€’ Play each tape forward, in reverse, or ping-ponging back and forth. β€’ Every tape keeps its own character and its own state of decay. DECAY IS THE INSTRUMENT β€’ Tapes wear permanently as they play β€” the heart of the whole app. β€’ Dial each tape from "eternal" to "dying," or age them all together. β€’ Begin the disintegration again whenever you like β€” your settings stay. CHARACTER, NO NUMBERS Shape each tape by feel, not by figures. Every control is a drag between two words: β€’ WARMTH β€” clean to melted tape saturation β€’ DUST β€” quiet to snowy hiss and grit β€’ WOBBLE β€” steady to seasick wow & flutter β€’ TONE β€” dark to bright β€’ SPACE β€” each tape's own echo and reverb (spring, hall, cathedral, shimmer, void; standard, ping-pong, and granular delays) THE ROOM A shared space every tape plays into β€” one reverb, one echo, one bus compressor to glue the whole mix, and a global decay to age everything at once. BOTTLE IT Capture the living, decaying mix to an audio file and share it anywhere. Save whole setups as sessions and return to them. Tape Death records everything on device. No account, no sign-in, nothing collected, and it works fully offline. It keeps playing in the background, too. Make something. Let it die.

Screenshots

WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote4 screens
Tape Death4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote at 3 against Tape Death's 1. WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 3 level
WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote versus Tape Death: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWAVETOOL 4 Mobile RemoteTape Death
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size87 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShureColton Harker

In-app purchases

None

WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote

No in-app purchases

None

Tape Death

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote free?
WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tape Death free?
Tape Death is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote or Tape Death have ads?
Neither WAVETOOL 4 Mobile Remote nor Tape Death shows ads.

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