Comparison

WaveRhythm vs Waveguide Flute

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

Head to head
About

WaveRhythm

Features
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WaveRhythm โ€“ Music & Motion Reactive Color Light Turn your iPhone into a living color light that reacts to music beats and your hand waving. Whether youโ€™re at a concert, dancing in your living room, or creating a cozy vibe, WaveRhythm fills your screen with smooth, rhythm-driven hues. Main Features: Music Reactive Mode โ€“ Detects ambient sound through the microphone. Watch screen colors pulse and change with every beat, chord, or chorus. Wave Motion Mode โ€“ Just swing your phone rhythmically (like a light stick) and the color transforms. Uses the motion sensor, no camera needed. 9 Preset Scenes โ€“ Natural, Warm, Cool, Soft, Girly, Smooth, Snowflake, Purple, Tech Blue โ€“ each with tuned brightness, saturation, and hue. Multiple Color Change Styles โ€“ Random Hue, Random Scene, Ordered Hue, Ordered Scene, Reverse Ordered โ€“ you control the flow of the light show. Full Manual Control โ€“ Adjust hue, saturation, and brightness sliders anytime to create your perfect color. Fine-Tuned Sensitivity โ€“ Customize threshold, cooldown time, and animation speed for both music and motion modes. Haptic feedback on each trigger. Clean & Minimal UI โ€“ Tap to hide controls for a full-screen immersive experience. Swipe horizontally to cycle scenes, vertically to adjust device brightness. Perfect for live concerts, music listening, parties, vlogging fill light, baby night lamp, or just relaxing ambient mood lighting. Note: Music reactive mode requires microphone permission (audio is only used locally to detect sound level, never recorded or stored). Wave motion mode uses device motion data. Download WaveRhythm and feel the flow of light in your hands!

About

Waveguide Flute

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Waveguide Flute turns your iPad or iPhone into a physically modeled wind instrument โ€” a Cook/STK-style waveguide flute you play from an on-screen piano roll or a MIDI wind controller (EWI). FEATURES โ€ข Authentic waveguide physical modeling โ€” not a sample library โ€ข Deep Sound page: shape jet ratio, reflection, loop damping, noise, and more โ€ข Expression controls for live performance: blow intensity, breathiness, pitch bend, auto-vibrato โ€ข Built-in reverb with 7 factory spaces โ€ข On-screen piano roll with velocity and breath control โ€ข Full MIDI support โ€” notes, breath (CC#2), pitch bend โ€ข Compatible with Akai EWI and other MIDI wind controllers that send breath and pitch bend โ€ข Remembers your last settings, with one-tap reset to defaults โ€ข Bluetooth MIDI support, plus a configurable Breath Control input (Mod Wheel or custom CC) for keyboard players without a wind controller Play it like a real wind instrument: breathe into the sound, bend pitch, add vibrato โ€” all rendered by a genuine physical model, not recordings.

Screenshots

WaveRhythm4 screens
Waveguide Flute2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Waveguide Flute at Free against WaveRhythm's $0.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Waveguide Flute is free to download; WaveRhythm costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
WaveRhythm versus Waveguide Flute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaveRhythmWaveguide Flute
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1817.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅ† ๅฎ‡ ้พšTomonori Yamasaki

In-app purchases

None

WaveRhythm

No in-app purchases

None

Waveguide Flute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WaveRhythm free?
WaveRhythm costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Waveguide Flute free?
Waveguide Flute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WaveRhythm or Waveguide Flute have ads?
Neither WaveRhythm nor Waveguide Flute shows ads.

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