Comparison

Wavepocket vs Ringo Beats

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

Head to head
About

Wavepocket

This pocket studio app combines a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler, and 4-track tape recorder for music creation on your device. It offers multi-touch controls, various sound engines, and a clip-based timeline for easy track arrangement. All your creations are saved locally, and the app works completely offline.

Highlights
  • Synthesizer with multiple sound engines
  • 8-pad drum kit with adjustable parameters
  • Sampler with chromatic playback and slicing
  • 4-track tape recorder with clip timeline
  • Versioned tweaks with undo/redo
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Wavepocket is a pocket studio: a synthesizer, drum kit, sampler and 4-track tape recorder that fit in your hand. Play it with your fingers: multi-touch chords, glissando slides across the keys, drum pads, and four color-coded encoders that always control what you're looking at. MAKE A SOUND: Analog (saw–square with sub), FM, and Cluster Engines • A sampler engine: play any recording chromatically across the keys • Slice samples on the waveform, name each slice, and flip between them • ADSR envelope, resonant filter, env→cutoff, LFO • Presets by category (bass, keys, strings, brass, lead, pad, pluck, bell). MAKE A BEAT: Synthesized 8-pad drum kit: kick, snare, hats, clap, tom, rim, bell • Kit-wide tune, decay, tone and level • Arpeggiator (up / down / up-down / random) and metronome MAKE A TRACK: 4-track tape with a clip timeline: record in any mode, then drag clips between lanes, trim their edges, and cut at the playhead • Everything shares one loop boundary, so your layers always line up • Mixer with per-track level, pan and mute • Filtered delay and spring-style reverb sends. KEEP EVERYTHING: Every tweak is versioned: undo, redo, or scrub the timeline of your session and annotate the versions worth keeping • Recordings and imports persist on your device between sessions • Save the whole project with settings, history, presets and audio as a single file, and render your mix to MP3 NO STRINGS: No account, no ads, no tracking • Works completely offline • Nothing leaves your device

About

Ringo Beats

This app generates unique drum patterns using chaotic systems and a learning policy. It offers a variety of sampled and synthesized drum kits, deep control over parameters, and the ability to export MIDI or send MIDI to other apps. Every session provides a new, unpredictable beat.

Highlights
  • Chaotic system-driven beat generation
  • AI policy learns and grooves
  • 10 diverse drum kits
  • Live policy grid for control
  • Real-time chaos scope visualization
  • MIDI export and inter-app MIDI sending
  • AUv3 instrument and MIDI processor
Features
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Ringo Beats writes its own drum parts. Three chaotic systems propose hits — a Lorenz attractor drives kick, snare and clap, a Hénon map flickers the hi-hats, a logistic map detonates fills. A per-voice Markov policy then decides what actually plays, learning from its own output and rewarding patterns that groove. Chaos proposes, the policy disposes. Slide BLEND to choose who wins. No pre-made patterns and nothing loops. Every run is new. WHAT YOU GET • 10 kits — two sampled, a vintage CR-78 and a real rock kit with velocity layers and round robins, and eight synthesised: Neon 808, Dust & Wood, Glitch Lab, Techno Bunker, Trap Haze, Boom Bap, Industrial, Bit Arcade • 8 voices: kick, snare, clap, closed hat, open hat, tom, ride and crash • Live policy grid — watch hit probability build across 16 steps, and tap any cell to lock it on or off • Chaos scope — the attractors driving your beat, drawn in real time • Deep control: tempo, swing, blend, heat, density, Lorenz rho, chaos R, fills, humanise, per-voice mixer • Record a take and export it as a standard MIDI file to the Files app • Sends MIDI to other apps on your device: pick Ringo Beats as a MIDI input in AUM, Cubasis or Drambo, no Audio Unit needed TWO AUDIO UNITS Ringo Beats ships as an instrument AUv3 and as a MIDI processor AUv3, so it can either play its own drums or sequence any other instrument in your host. Both follow your host's transport and tempo — hit play in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, Cubasis or Zenbeats and it locks to the grid. One install registers both. PRICING The app is free and complete: every kit, every control, unlimited MIDI export. Using the Audio Units inside other apps is a single one-time purchase. Try them first — each AUv3 session plays for two minutes before it asks.

Screenshots

Wavepocket4 screens
Ringo Beats3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ringo Beats at 5.0 against Wavepocket's 4.5. Ringo Beats also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Wavepocket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Ringo Beats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wavepocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ringo Beats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wavepocket versus Ringo Beats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWavepocketRingo Beats
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMATTHEW RYAN SANDYSoft Brew Mobile

Customer experience

Wavepocket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ringo Beats

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Wavepocket

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Ringo Beats

One-time1
  • Unlock AUV3 Instrument & Midi$2.99

Questions

Is Wavepocket free?
Wavepocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ringo Beats free?
Ringo Beats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wavepocket or Ringo Beats?
Ringo Beats is rated higher. Wavepocket averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ringo Beats averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Wavepocket or Ringo Beats have ads?
Neither Wavepocket nor Ringo Beats shows ads.

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