Wavepocket vs RiffAlly Slowdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
RiffAlly Slowdown
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Hear the notes. Repeat the phrase. Play it at full speed. RiffAlly Slowdown helps you work through the part that keeps tripping you up. Slow your practice audio down without changing its pitch, loop the exact section you need, and increase the speed as you get comfortable. START WITH SOMETHING TO PLAY Choose a compatible, unprotected audio or video file from Files, iCloud Drive, or another Files provider. Record a rehearsal, lesson, or musical idea. Or tap Try a practice track and start with Neon Pocket, an original RiffAlly track included in the app. SLOW DOWN. STAY IN KEY. Adjust local audio playback from 25% to 150% speed while preserving pitch. Change pitch separately by up to 12 semitones in either direction to practice in another key. Tap Original to restore normal speed and pitch. REPEAT THE PART THAT MATTERS Set A and B loop points to repeat a difficult phrase. Zoom into the waveform and drag the boundaries to refine your section. Add named markers so the riff, transition, or turnaround is easy to find again. BUILD BACK TO FULL SPEED Use the tempo ladder to choose a starting speed, finishing speed, increment, and number of repetitions. Slowdown steps up the speed as you complete your loop repetitions. BRING A YOUTUBE LINK Find a video in YouTube, tap Share, copy its link, and paste it into Slowdown. YouTube already offers playback-speed choices; Slowdown adds A/B section repetition so you can practice without scrubbing back after each pass. Available speeds depend on the video and YouTube player. This optional mode requires internet and uses the official visible YouTube player. YouTube media is never downloaded or exported, and playback stops when the app is inactive. Independent pitch adjustment, waveform editing, and the tempo ladder are for local media. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Recent sessions restore your local media, speed, pitch, loop points, named markers, and tempo ladder settings. Your imported media and recordings stay on your iPhone. RiffAlly does not receive your practice files or session history. The optional YouTube player connects to Google/YouTube under their privacy policies. The complete local practice workflow works offline, with no account or subscription required. Files stored only in iCloud or another provider must first be available on your device. Supports compatible, unprotected MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, MOV, and MP4 files where iOS permits. For imported video, Slowdown practices the audio track; synchronized local video playback is not included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wavepocket at none against RiffAlly Slowdown's 3. Wavepocket also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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
Both are free to download. RiffAlly Slowdown sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wavepocket asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Wavepocket | RiffAlly Slowdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MATTHEW RYAN SANDY | Fernando Lanner Cardoso |
In-app purchases
Wavepocket
No in-app purchases
RiffAlly Slowdown
- Small Tip$1.99
- Supporter Tip$4.99
- Generous Tip$9.99









