Record vs Wavepocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Record
Capture song ideas instantly with a 4-track audio recorder. Overdub, mix, and export your creations, making it the perfect tool for songwriting on the go.
- 4 tracks of clean audio recording
- Overdubbing with existing tracks
- Per-track volume, pan, and delay
- Stereo mix export
- Individual stem export
- Save and reload sessions
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Your song ideas don't wait. Record-o-matic doesn't either. No mics to set up. No session to configure. Just pick up your phone, hit record, and catch the idea before it's gone. Record-o-matic is a 4-track recorder built for the way songs actually start — humming in the kitchen, strumming on the couch, hearing something in your head at 2am. Lay down a first take, overdub a harmony, add a rhythm, build it out. All from the phone already in your pocket. Version 5 allows for endless bounce down of mixed tracks to tracks 1 and 2. Now you can continue adding ideas. What you get: 4 tracks of clean audio recording Overdub while listening to your existing tracks Per-track volume, pan, and delay for tight alignment Stereo Mix — export your full mix as a stereo WAV Export individual stems to bring into Logic, GarageBand, or any DAW Save and reload your sessions Record-o-matic isn't a studio. It's the thing you use before the studio — the place where the song begins.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Wavepocket at Free against Record's $1.99. Record's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Wavepocket is free to download; Record costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Record holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Record | Wavepocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Coppage | MATTHEW RYAN SANDY |
Customer experience
Record
Wavepocket
In-app purchases
Record
No in-app purchases
Wavepocket
No in-app purchases





