Comparison

PanSphere vs Wavepocket

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

Head to head
About

PanSphere

Features
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Play a digital handpan anywhere—no setup or music theory required. PanSphere is a musical instrument first. Touch the center and surrounding tone fields to hear responsive notes immediately. Its tuned layouts make it easy to improvise and stay in the flow. PLAY WITH FEELING • Responsive multi-touch performance surface • Touch-sensitive dynamics and haptic feedback • Nine tuned scales with clear center and outer notes • Quick scale and ambience controls that keep you close to the instrument SHAPE YOUR SPACE Add rain, wind, or thunder around your playing, or choose Silence when you want only the instrument. Wind Down and Unwind provide calmer starting points without turning PanSphere into passive audio. FREE AND PRO The free experience includes four complete scales and four ambience presets. PanSphere Pro adds five scales and the full ambience mixer with one optional lifetime purchase. Apple's current localized price is shown before purchase. Pay once—there is no subscription or auto-renewal. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account required • No advertising or third-party tracking SDKs • Practice history and preferences stay on your device • No automatic CloudKit or iCloud sync • Core playing works offline PanSphere is intended for music, creativity, and relaxation. It is not a medical or therapeutic service. Support: https://pansphere.borealbit.com/support Privacy: https://pansphere.borealbit.com/privacy Terms: https://pansphere.borealbit.com/terms

About

Wavepocket

This pocket studio app combines a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler, and 4-track tape recorder for music creation on your device. It offers multi-touch controls, various sound engines, and a clip-based timeline for easy track arrangement. All your creations are saved locally, and the app works completely offline.

Highlights
  • Synthesizer with multiple sound engines
  • 8-pad drum kit with adjustable parameters
  • Sampler with chromatic playback and slicing
  • 4-track tape recorder with clip timeline
  • Versioned tweaks with undo/redo
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Wavepocket is a pocket studio: a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler and 4-track tape recorder that fit in your hand. Play it with your fingers: multi-touch chords, glissando slides across the keys, drum pads, and four color-coded encoders that always control what you're looking at. MAKE A SOUND: Analog (saw–square with sub), FM, and Cluster Engines • A sampler engine: play any recording chromatically across the keys • Slice samples on the waveform, name each slice, and flip between them • ADSR envelope, resonant filter, env→cutoff, LFO • Presets by category (bass, keys, strings, brass, lead, pad, pluck, bell). MAKE A BEAT: Synthesized 8-pad drum kit: kick, snare, hats, clap, tom, rim, bell • Kit-wide tune, decay, tone and level • Arpeggiator (up / down / up-down / random) and metronome MAKE A TRACK: 4-track tape with a clip timeline: record in any mode, then drag clips between lanes, trim their edges, and cut at the playhead • Everything shares one loop boundary, so your layers always line up • Mixer with per-track level, pan and mute • Filtered delay and spring-style reverb sends. KEEP EVERYTHING: Every tweak is versioned: undo, redo, or scrub the timeline of your session and annotate the versions worth keeping • Recordings and imports persist on your device between sessions • Save the whole project with settings, history, presets and audio as a single file, and render your mix to MP3 NO STRINGS: No account, no ads, no tracking • Works completely offline • Nothing leaves your device

Screenshots

PanSphere3 screens
Wavepocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wavepocket at none against PanSphere's 1. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PanSphere sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wavepocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
PanSphere versus Wavepocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanSphereWavepocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBorealbit Technology LimitedMATTHEW RYAN SANDY

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PanSphere

One-time1
  • PanSphere Pro LifetimeFree
None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PanSphere free?
PanSphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PanSphere or Wavepocket have ads?
Neither PanSphere nor Wavepocket shows ads.

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