Comparison

Muse Forge vs micopi

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

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About

Muse Forge

Features
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Muse Forge is an AI music studio for people who want to play, remix or study a song โ€” not just listen to it. Upload a track and Muse Forge does the listening for you: pull it apart into separate stems, read out the chord chart, or turn it into piano sheet music you can actually follow. Or start from nothing and generate a new track from a written prompt. WHAT YOU CAN DO Stem Separation Split a song into vocals, drums, bass and other tracks. Play each stem on its own, mute what you don't need, and download the ones you want. Chord Recognition Get the full chord progression along with the detected key and tempo. Follow a synced chart while the song plays, transpose to any key, and read guitar and ukulele fingerings. PopPianoAI Turn a song into a piano arrangement and read it as sheet music โ€” in portrait, or full-screen landscape when you want to prop the phone on the piano. Export as PDF, MIDI or MusicXML to open in your notation software. Music Generation Describe the mood, style or instrumentation you want and get an original track back โ€” usually in 30 seconds to 2 minutes. No upload needed. Forge One upload, the whole pipeline. Pick a template โ€” for example, strip the vocals from a song and turn the accompaniment into a piano score โ€” and get a finished result in one step, with PDF and MIDI downloads. SUPPORTED FILES MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC, M4A, OPUS and WebM, up to 100 MB per file. SUBSCRIPTIONS Muse Forge is free to download and comes with a monthly allowance of processing time. Starter and Creator add more processing seconds each month; the allowance is shared across music generation, stem separation and chord recognition. Piano sheet music is free and does not use your allowance. A subscription also unlocks lossless downloads. Subscriptions renew automatically. You can manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings at any time. Subscription options: Muse Forge Starter (auto-renewable, monthly) and Muse Forge Creator (auto-renewable, monthly). Current prices are shown in the app and in the In-App Purchases list on this page. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and renews at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dwave.cc/en-US/terms Privacy Policy: https://dwave.cc/en-US/privacy-policy Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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micopi

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"What note is that, actually?" Import a song, pick the part you want to hear. micopi splits a song into parts, detects the pitch of each one, and shows what is being played on a piano roll. WHAT YOU CAN DO Visualize what each part plays Split a song into vocals, piano, bass, guitar and other, and lay out what each part plays on a piano roll. The notes scroll with the playback, so a glance while you listen tells you which note is sounding right now. The rise and fall of a phrase, the voicing of a chord, the timing of every note - all of it in plain sight. HOLD Stretch out the sound of a moment you want to keep hearing. Press HOLD and the note at that instant is held as a long tone. Through the fastest chord changes, you can take in every voicing one by one. Read a chord at a glance Note names (C E G, and so on) appear at the top of the screen, in sync with the piano roll. Rather than settle on one reading of the chord, micopi shows the note names one by one instead of a chord symbol. Both the piano roll and the note names follow the transpose setting. Practise with a minus-one track Press and hold to mute one part alone, and play a minus-one track to practise with, right away. Tempo & key change / A-B loop Change the playback speed from 25% to 150% with the pitch untouched, and the key from -12 to +12. Mark a start and end point around a hard passage, and A-B loop repeats just that stretch as many times as you need. Export to MIDI and audio Export the detected notes as MIDI and the separated stems as audio, part by part. Bring the exported files into notation software or a DAW, and there is that much more you can do. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE micopi runs separation and pitch detection entirely inside your iPhone. No server is needed, so it can be a one-time purchase rather than a monthly subscription - a hundred songs a day, however many years from now, you pay once. And since it never talks to the outside, it works in a soundproof room with no reception, or on a plane mid-tour. BEFORE YOU BUY - THE HONEST PART What it is good at, and what it is not micopi is at its best on performances by roughly one to five players, on mostly acoustic instruments. Separation and pitch detection lose accuracy on tracks like these: Heavily distorted tones (metal distortion, clipping in the recording, and the like) Compressed audio from social media (screen recordings of timeline videos or live streams) Separation and detection take time Splitting into parts and detecting pitch takes time. The high-precision pass on the piano part of a 5-minute song measured about 1 minute 30 seconds on an iPhone 17 Pro. How long it takes varies a great deal with your iPhone's performance and temperature, and the song's note count. Accuracy is not perfect Compared to the most advanced models, our part-splitting has limits and parts can bleed together. Pitch detection, too, may miss notes or mistake overtones for notes. WHO IT'S FOR - Anyone who wants to take their time over piano voicings, fast passages, or vocal harmonies - Anyone who takes up transcribing to train their ear, only to give up along the way - Anyone who suspects a tool will not build the skill, and finds doing without one harder still PRIVACY Everything runs on your device, so your music is never sent anywhere. Every feature works in Airplane Mode. IMPORTING SONGS Import from your music library (songs purchased on iTunes), audio files in the Files app, or the audio from videos and screen recordings in your Camera Roll. Songs streamed or downloaded through an Apple Music subscription, and files in formats your iPhone cannot play, cannot be imported. Requires iOS 17.0 or later on iPhone.

Screenshots

Muse Forge4 screens
micopi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Muse Forge at Free against micopi's $5.99. Muse Forge also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). micopi's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads there is nothing between them.

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CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Muse Forge is free to download; micopi costs $5.99 up front. Muse Forge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. micopi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 1 level
Muse Forge versus micopi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuse Forgemicopi
PriceFree โ€” better$5.99
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size121 MB436 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeepWave Co., Ltd.katsuya shinjo

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Muse Forge

Subscriptions2
  • Muse Forge Starter Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Muse Forge Creator Monthly$7.991 Month
None

micopi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Muse Forge free?
Muse Forge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is micopi free?
micopi costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Muse Forge or micopi have ads?
Neither Muse Forge nor micopi shows ads.

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