Comparison

ChordWeave vs Wave Slicer

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

Head to head
About

ChordWeave

Features
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Your AI songwriting partner. Chords, lyrics, and music theory guidance. ChordWeave helps you write songs: chord progressions for any key and mood, lyrics for your theme and style, and music theory you can hear. The AI runs on your device. PLAY & NAME CHORDS Play on the on-screen keyboard or a connected MIDI keyboard, and ChordWeave names the chord you play. Build a progression by playing, then get suggestions for what comes next in pop, jazz, blues, and more. AI CHORD PROGRESSIONS Pick any of 24 keys and a mood, and get a progression with a tempo and an explanation of why it works. Reorder chords, hear every chord, and see its notes. LISTEN FOR KEY (iOS 27) Play or sing for a few seconds, and ChordWeave detects the key and tempo on your device. LYRIC WRITING AI writes verses, a chorus, and a bridge for your mood, theme, and style, streamed as they are written. Edit and refine them in your library. SONG PROJECTS Arrange a song in sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and more), reorder them, and play the whole song. EXPORT TO YOUR DAW Export any progression as a MIDI file for GarageBand, Logic, or any DAW, or share it as text. MUSIC THEORY REFERENCE Scales and modes in every key, the chords of each scale with Roman numerals, and common progressions. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Ask Siri for a chord progression, or see your recent compositions, without opening the app. 100% PRIVATE — ON-DEVICE AI All AI features use Apple Intelligence and run entirely on your device. Your songs are never uploaded to a server. When Apple Intelligence is not available, ChordWeave uses built-in music theory instead. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. No ads. PREMIUM Free: save up to 3 compositions and 3 sets of lyrics. Premium: unlimited saves, Song Projects, and the Music Workshop with explained progressions. Terms of Use: https://portfolio-legal.pages.dev/terms Privacy Policy: https://portfolio-legal.pages.dev/privacy

About

Wave Slicer

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Wave Slicer cuts a sound down to the piece you actually want. Load a track, record something, or send a file to it from anywhere on your phone — then zoom in until you can see the individual samples and cut exactly there. WHAT IT DOES A waveform that stays smooth on a ten-minute file and keeps going down to sample level. Drag the edges of a selection, slide the whole selection along, or draw a new one. Every edge snaps to a zero crossing, so a cut never clicks. A full effect chain that you hear while you turn it. Transpose by semitones, high-pass and low-pass with resonance, tanh saturation, bitcrush and sample rate reduction, echo with feedback, and a reverb that can ring out for eight seconds past the end of the slice. An amplitude envelope you draw by hand. Tap to add a point, drag to move it, bend the curve between two points. The same envelope drawing as the pitch curve in Drum Rack. Fades on both ends, and a loop crossfade that folds the tail over the head so a loop comes round without a seam. Export as a 16 or 24-bit WAV, with TPDF dither on 16-bit. The file lands where you choose to save it, named so you can find it again in a DAW browser. Record straight from the microphone when you want to sample something in the room. Echo cancellation and noise suppression stay off, because those are built for speech and ruin anything worth sampling. Twelve sounds are built in to start with, including two drum loops on the grid, so there is something to cut the moment you open it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Audio you load, record or export never leaves your device. The app asks the internet for exactly one thing: a small text file holding the current links shown on the last screen. FROM THE LAB Wave Slicer is part of Lumlux Art Lab, a set of free browser tools for people who make music. The same slicer runs on the website, so you can try it before installing anything. Made in Antwerp by FDR-Sound.

Screenshots

ChordWeave4 screens
Wave Slicer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wave Slicer at every 4 days against ChordWeave's fortnightly. Wave Slicer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChordWeave ships an update fortnightly, Wave Slicer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
ChordWeave versus Wave Slicer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChordWeaveWave Slicer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDotdotdotapps LLCFrank De Rop

In-app purchases

None

ChordWeave

No in-app purchases

None

Wave Slicer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChordWeave free?
ChordWeave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wave Slicer free?
Wave Slicer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChordWeave or Wave Slicer have ads?
Neither ChordWeave nor Wave Slicer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChordWeave or Wave Slicer?
ChordWeave ships an update fortnightly, and Wave Slicer every 4 days. Most recently, ChordWeave was updated on October 15, 2026 and Wave Slicer on October 24, 2026.

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