Comparison

Pitch Pipe vs What About Phase?

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

Head to head
About

Pitch Pipe

Features
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A warm, always-in-tune reference pitch — every note from C to B, held as long as you need. It plays a pure, steady reference tone for any note — tune by ear with confidence. All 12 chromatic notes across multiple octaves. Tap a note and it rings true, warm, and clean. Sustain a tone indefinitely while you match strings, vocals, or wind instruments. No ads, no noise — just a clean reference pitch whenever you reach for it. Perfect for guitar, violin, choir, brass — a chromatic pitch pipe that fits in your pocket. — SUBSCRIPTION — Premium unlocks all features. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy

About

What About Phase?

Record short audio clips and transform them into evolving, hypnotic soundscapes. This pocket instrument uses phasing and other processes to create unique, unfolding audio patterns from simple sounds.

Highlights
  • Audio recording and looping
  • Ten distinct audio processes
  • Radial display of sound patterns
  • On-device pitch detection
  • Save, share, and revert recordings
  • Live control over audio parameters
Features
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Record a few seconds of anything — your voice, a clap, a passing train — and let the app pull it apart in time. What about phase? is a pocket instrument for process music: it loops your recording in two channels and lets them drift out of sync, so simple sounds grow into shifting, hypnotic patterns. Inspired by the tape-phasing experiments of 1960s minimalism, it makes the process itself audible — you set it in motion, then listen as it unfolds. TEN PROCESSES • Phasing — two copies of your loop, one drifting a few cents faster; hear them separate into echo, then canon • Gradual process — a ramp that grows louder and sweeps across the stereo field • Tape loop multiplication — your loop fanned into a detuned chorus • Rhythmic construction — a rhythm assembled hit by hit • Pattern substitution — beats replaced one at a time: silence, octaves, fifths • Resultant patterns — two interlocking rhythms revealing a third • Clapping Music — a pattern rotating against its fixed copy • Pulse / drone — a pulse grid over a deep foundation • Canon — staggered voices entering one after another • Speech melody — a syllable pulsed in speech rhythm and dynamics THE WHEEL A radial display shows what the process is doing: your loop's waveform — or the process's own pattern — wrapped around a circle, left channel in coral, right in cyan, a comet sweeping the playhead. In Phasing you can watch the two rings physically drift apart. Volume and pitch views included, with on-device pitch detection. MADE FOR EXPLORING • Ten built-in demo takes, one per process, playable from the very first launch • Every take saves with its process and settings; rename, share as WAV, revert • Takes named after where you record them (optional, location used only while in the app) • Live controls: drift in cents, process amount, tempo, sample offset • No account, no ads, no analytics — recordings never leave your device unless you share them Record something small. Let it become something long.

Screenshots

Pitch Pipe4 screens
What About Phase?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: What About Phase? at daily against Pitch Pipe's every 2 months. What About Phase? also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Pitch Pipe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and What About Phase? sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pitch Pipe ships an update every 2 months, What About Phase? daily. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pitch Pipe versus What About Phase?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPitch PipeWhat About Phase?
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamVladimir Gusev

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pitch Pipe

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
1 purchases

What About Phase?

One-time1
  • Full Version$0.99

Questions

Is Pitch Pipe free?
Pitch Pipe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is What About Phase? free?
What About Phase? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pitch Pipe or What About Phase? have ads?
Neither Pitch Pipe nor What About Phase? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pitch Pipe or What About Phase??
Pitch Pipe ships an update every 2 months, and What About Phase? daily. Most recently, Pitch Pipe was updated on September 6, 2026 and What About Phase? on September 4, 2026.

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