Comparison

Wormhole vs GLYPHTONE

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

Head to head
About

Wormhole

Features
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Wormhole turns any sound you have into music you made. Drop in a clip โ€” a video from your camera roll, a voice memo, a file, or something you hum into the mic. Wormhole listens to it, finds the tempo and the key on its own, and chops it into slices you can play. From there you are one tap away from a beat. FIVE INSTRUMENTS, ONE SCREEN Drums, 808, keys, your chopped clip, and a lead โ€” all on one page. Tap a row to open its notes and draw them straight in. There is no edit mode to learn and no menu tree to climb. If you can tap, you can write a pattern. EVERY NOTE IS IN KEY Wormhole knows what key your project is in and keeps every instrument inside it. You can't place a wrong note. Change the key later and your melodies move with it โ€” the app remembers the scale degree, not the absolute pitch. THE WORMHOLE Send any sound into the Wormhole and it comes back out in your key. Freeze a single grain into a pad. Smear a vocal into a choir. Stutter a snare into a fill that was never played. It is a scale-locked granular bus, and it is the reason the app is called what it is called. CHOP IT YOUR WAY Slice on transients, slice on the grid, or cut it by hand โ€” tap the waveform to add a cut, drag a dot to move one. Pick a part of a long clip and chop only that. Every slice gets its own pitch, filter, and length. STUCK? PRESS FLIP One button writes a whole beat โ€” drums, bass, chords, melody, all in your key, all editable. Press it until something grabs you, then make it yours. LOOPS BECOME A SONG Build up to four versions of every instrument, then place them on a timeline. Drag a block's edge to repeat it. That is the entire arrangement view. POST IT Export a 1080x1920 vertical video with a reactive visual, ready to go straight to your feed. Or take M4A for other apps and 24-bit WAV for your DAW. BUILT PROPERLY Real-time audio engine written from scratch. No login, no account, no cloud, no tracking โ€” your projects live on your phone. Works fully offline. Something you already have is a beat. It just needs chopping. https://wormhole.aimoxyz.xyz/terms

About

GLYPHTONE

Features
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GLYPHTONE is a pocket-sized step sequencer built around one simple idea: tap a grid, hear a pattern. โ€” 16ร—16 GRID โ€” Sixteen steps across, sixteen pitches down. Tap a cell to place a note, tap again to remove it. Watch the playhead sweep across as your pattern plays back. โ€” 9 TIMBRES โ€” Bell, Piano, Organ, Strings, Brass, Lead, Pad, Bass, and a dedicated Drum voice with nine distinct percussion sounds built in โ€” all synthesized live, no samples to download. โ€” SOLO OR ENSEMBLE โ€” Solo mode keeps one timbre per cell, so switching instruments recolors your whole pattern instead of stacking new sounds on top. Ensemble mode lets you layer multiple timbres in the same cell. โ€” GENERATE โ€” Stuck for ideas? Generate builds a fresh phrase in one of ten shapes โ€” Up, Down, Wave, Zigzag, Random, Drum, and more. Keep pressing Generate to reroll variations, or Undo up to five steps back. โ€” SCALES & OCTAVES โ€” Ten scales (Major, Minor, Dorian, Blues, In Sen, Ryukyu, and more) and a ยฑ2 octave range, so the same grid pattern can sound completely different. โ€” FOUR BARS โ€” Work across four separate bars, each auto-saving as you go. Chain any combination of them together for longer arrangements that loop in order. โ€” EXPORT โ€” Render your pattern to a WAV audio file, or save it as a Standard MIDI File to bring into your DAW. No account. No ads. No internet connection required. Everything happens on your device.

Screenshots

Wormhole4 screens
GLYPHTONE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wormhole at Free against GLYPHTONE's $9.99. GLYPHTONE's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On ads and device support 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

Wormhole is free to download; GLYPHTONE costs $9.99 up front. Wormhole sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. GLYPHTONE asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wormhole ships an update every 6 days, GLYPHTONE every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
Wormhole versus GLYPHTONE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWormholeGLYPHTONE
PriceFree โ€” better$9.99
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.6 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size22 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoritz Maximilian FrickeTakayoshi Ogihara

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wormhole

Subscriptions2
  • Wormhole Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Wormhole Pro Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
None

GLYPHTONE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wormhole free?
Wormhole is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GLYPHTONE free?
GLYPHTONE costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wormhole or GLYPHTONE have ads?
Neither Wormhole nor GLYPHTONE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wormhole or GLYPHTONE?
Wormhole ships an update every 6 days, and GLYPHTONE every 2 days. Most recently, Wormhole was updated on October 24, 2026 and GLYPHTONE on October 16, 2026.

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