Comparison

Psychodeli vs Wave Slicer

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

Head to head
About

Psychodeli

This app transforms music into dynamic, ever-changing visuals. It reacts to live audio input, user movement via the camera, and offers various visual styles and color palettes. Enjoy an immersive, non-repeating visual experience that syncs with your music.

Highlights
  • Live music visualization
  • Camera-based motion and face tracking
  • Dynamic kaleidoscopic and organic patterns
  • Multiple color palettes
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Tunnel and Duplex visual modes
  • Autonomous ambient mode
Features
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Give the music in your room a world of color. Psychodeli+ creates flowing patterns and kaleidoscopes on iPhone and iPad, drawn live as you watch. Play music through speakers and enable microphone listening, or enjoy an evolving picture on its own. MADE FOR iPhone Duo Open, fold and rotate your phone while the picture keeps flowing. Controls stay clear of the fold and move below it in tabletop position. Closing the hinge gently slows the visuals; reopening restores your chosen pace. APPLE MUSIC PLAYER: macOS ONLY The in-app Apple Music player is macOS only for this release. It is not included on iPhone or iPad. The Mac edition requires macOS 26 or later and Apple silicon; catalog playback requires an Apple Music subscription. The player is included without a Psychodeli purchase. HOW THE VISUALS LISTEN Enable the microphone in Reactivity. Psychodeli listens to sound in the room, shaping motion and color from rhythm, energy and changes in the music. It can respond to speakers, a turntable or live music nearby. Microphone listening does not access the protected stream from Apple Music or other music apps. Music playing only through headphones cannot drive the visuals through the microphone. You can still enjoy the visuals on their own. MAKE THE ROOM PART OF IT Compatible Govee lights carry the visual palette into your room. Supported segmented strips spread the colors along their length. Connections are local over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth; model support varies, and some Wi-Fi lights need LAN Control enabled in Govee Home. Turn on camera reactivity to let your head movement influence the picture. Camera frames and microphone audio are processed on your device. KEEP YOUR FAVORITE LOOKS Explore 17 Pdeli Looks across Originals, Animal Patterns and Kaleido. Save your own in Personal and assign favorites to Jukebox slots. Your Looks stay on your device. Choose a palette, settle into a kaleidoscope, or let the picture keep evolving. START WITH THE FREE EXPERIENCE The visualizer, microphone listening, camera reactivity, curated palettes, Saved Looks, compatible Room Lights and PNG sharing are included. You do not need a Psychodeli account. PSYCHODELI TOUCH One optional purchase adds the Perform deck for hands-on visual control, expressive Self, Mask and Eyes modes, palette holds, keep-awake and extra room controls. Supported iPhone and iPad features also include camera color capture and silent Live Photo creation from your visuals. Features vary by device. Psychodeli Touch is not a subscription and does not include an Apple Music subscription. Photosensitivity notice: Psychodeli fills the screen with motion, flashing, and rapidly changing colors and patterns. A small number of people may experience discomfort, dizziness, or seizures when exposed to such visuals, even with no prior history. View in a well-lit room, sit back from the screen, take breaks, and stop immediately if you feel unwell.

About

Wave Slicer

Features
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Wave Slicer cuts a sound down to the piece you actually want. Load a track, record something, or send a file to it from anywhere on your phone — then zoom in until you can see the individual samples and cut exactly there. WHAT IT DOES A waveform that stays smooth on a ten-minute file and keeps going down to sample level. Drag the edges of a selection, slide the whole selection along, or draw a new one. Every edge snaps to a zero crossing, so a cut never clicks. A full effect chain that you hear while you turn it. Transpose by semitones, high-pass and low-pass with resonance, tanh saturation, bitcrush and sample rate reduction, echo with feedback, and a reverb that can ring out for eight seconds past the end of the slice. An amplitude envelope you draw by hand. Tap to add a point, drag to move it, bend the curve between two points. The same envelope drawing as the pitch curve in Drum Rack. Fades on both ends, and a loop crossfade that folds the tail over the head so a loop comes round without a seam. Export as a 16 or 24-bit WAV, with TPDF dither on 16-bit. The file lands where you choose to save it, named so you can find it again in a DAW browser. Record straight from the microphone when you want to sample something in the room. Echo cancellation and noise suppression stay off, because those are built for speech and ruin anything worth sampling. Twelve sounds are built in to start with, including two drum loops on the grid, so there is something to cut the moment you open it. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Audio you load, record or export never leaves your device. The app asks the internet for exactly one thing: a small text file holding the current links shown on the last screen. FROM THE LAB Wave Slicer is part of Lumlux Art Lab, a set of free browser tools for people who make music. The same slicer runs on the website, so you can try it before installing anything. Made in Antwerp by FDR-Sound.

Screenshots

Psychodeli4 screens
Wave Slicer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wave Slicer at none against Psychodeli's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Psychodeli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wave Slicer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Psychodeli against 5.0 for Wave Slicer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Psychodeli versus Wave Slicer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPsychodeliWave Slicer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKent Andrew EdmondsFrank De Rop

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Psychodeli

One-time1
  • Psychodeli Touch$3.99
None

Wave Slicer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Psychodeli free?
Psychodeli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wave Slicer free?
Wave Slicer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Psychodeli or Wave Slicer?
Psychodeli and Wave Slicer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Psychodeli or Wave Slicer have ads?
Neither Psychodeli nor Wave Slicer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Psychodeli or Wave Slicer?
Psychodeli ships an update every 4 days, and Wave Slicer every 4 days. Most recently, Psychodeli was updated on October 24, 2026 and Wave Slicer on October 24, 2026.

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