Comparison

Riffer Madness vs Wavepocket

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

Head to head
About

Riffer Madness

Easily record, clip, and arrange musical ideas with a tempo-first approach. Capture audio, loop it, and experiment with arrangements using intuitive tools. Export your creations to share your music.

Highlights
  • Audio recording with metronome and backing track
  • Clip audio to exact beats
  • Arrange clips on a beat timeline
  • Low latency playback
  • Duplicate clips without storage penalty
  • Metadata management with tags
Features
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Capture your instrument or voice as ideas come and explore how they fit together with an efficient tempo based approach. Record, clip, arrange, and listen, with ease. Explore: • Library: import, filter, sort, manage, share, and preview all your creations • Recorder: capture unprocessed audio from the bottom mic while metronome clicks play in headphones • Editor: clip audio to make Riffs • Canvas: arrange Riffs and Arrangements over beat lines Concepts: • Audio: imported or recorded to be used in Riffs • Riff: clipped audio • Madness: the Lovecraftian kind • Arrangement: musical slots arranged on a 10 minute canvas of beat lines (Arrangements can also be nested within other Arrangements) • Slot: either a Riff or an Arrangement • Low Cut: removes low frequency noise that makes mixes muddy, also know as a high pass filter • BPM: beats per minute, the tempo Features: • Low latency playback - preview anything you create, quickly • Single audio source - make multiple Riffs from a single recording without storage penalties • Tools for metadata management - use tags to stay organized • Metronome clicks in headphones while recording - get your timing right • Backing track in headphones while recording - follow an Arrangement or practice a song • Auto level of recording gain by default, with a target of −23 LUFS • Default recording low cut of 30 Hz • Configurable theme colors • Siri AI controls for hands free jamming and practicing: + "Record with Riffer Madness" (Siri asks "What BPM?", then opens the app and records) + "Tag Audio in Riffer Madness" (Siri asks "With what tags?", then adds them to the latest created audio) TOOLS Library: • Sort • Audio filter • Eye Button (context sensitive): - (No slots selected) + Create Empty Arrangements + Create Riffs + Settings - (One or more slots selected) + Arrange: start a new Arrangement with the selected slot(s) + Duplicate + Share + Tag + Delete • Arrangements filter • FIlter Recorder: • Set BPM • Toggle headphones • Configure backing track with count-in and loop settings • Record from bottom mic with no audio processing Editor: • Adjust Clip Boundaries • Play • Loop (toggle) • Metronome (toggle): BPM can be changed in the Book tool • Snap to Leading Beat (toggle): leading clip edge snaps to beat lines • Snap to Trailing Beat (toggle): trailing clip edge snaps to beat lines • Focus: zoom to the region of selected slots • Adjust Gain and Low Cut • Book: edit metadata: name, start, end, gain, low cut, BPM, color, and tags Canvas: • Rectangle Select (long hold on the Canvas will trigger it) • Play • Loop (toggle) • Metronome (toggle): BPM can be changed in the Book tool • Snap to Leading Beat (toggle): slots snap their leading edge to the nearest beat when dragged • Snap to Trailing Beat (toggle): slots snap their trailing edge to the nearest beat when dragged • Slot Tools: + Group (toggle): treat selected slots as a single unit + Tornado: arrange selected slots end to end + Duplicate: copy selected slots and place copies + Focus: zoom to the region of selected slots + Delete: remove selected slots from the canvas • Library: import Riffs and Arrangements • Book: edit metadata: name, BPM, color, and tags CONTACT Questions or feedback? Please contact us at support@riffermadness.app.

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

Riffer Madness4 screens
Wavepocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wavepocket at Free against Riffer Madness's $1.99. Wavepocket also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Riffer Madness's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Wavepocket is free to download; Riffer Madness costs $1.99 up front. Riffer Madness sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wavepocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Riffer Madness holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Riffer Madness versus Wavepocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRiffer MadnessWavepocket
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph GranadosMATTHEW RYAN SANDY

Customer experience

Riffer Madness

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wavepocket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Riffer Madness

One-time3
  • $1$1.00
  • $3$3.00
  • $6$6.00
None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Riffer Madness free?
Riffer Madness costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Riffer Madness or Wavepocket?
Riffer Madness is rated higher. Riffer Madness averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Wavepocket averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Riffer Madness or Wavepocket have ads?
Neither Riffer Madness nor Wavepocket shows ads.

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