Comparison

YouCompose vs Beatly Pro

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

Head to head
About

YouCompose

Create original music effortlessly with an AI assistant. This app generates unique compositions using music theory and genetic algorithms, ensuring no copyright issues. It offers a wide range of built-in instruments and flexible editing tools.

Highlights
  • AI-powered music composition
  • Original, copyright-free music generation
  • 80+ built-in instrument sounds
  • Over 85 predefined ensembles
  • Multiple creation methods (keyboard, MIDI, grid, score)
  • Classical and jazz harmonization
  • Advanced editing capabilities
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Meet Aimée, your AI assistant composer, ready to help you create amazing music effortlessly. Aimée: Originality You Can Trust. In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and creativity, concerns about originality and copyright are paramount. Aimée, the AI-powered assistant in YouCompose, stands out by ensuring that the music she helps you create is entirely original and free from copyright issues. Aimée Doesn't Steal! Aimée's AI isn't trained on existing musical data. Instead, she generates her own unique musical content. This innovation is achieved through the clever use of an expert system that combines music theory with advanced genetic algorithms. As a result, Aimée produces truly original compositions that are not based on or derived from existing works. At the heart of Aimée's originality is an expert system grounded in comprehensive musical theoretical data. This system provides Aimée with a deep understanding of music, enabling her to compose with creativity and precision. Whether you're crafting a symphony or a simple melody, Aimée applies her theoretical knowledge to ensure your music is harmonically rich and structurally sound. Aimée also leverages genetic algorithms, which allow her to evolve and refine musical ideas through a process akin to natural selection. By iteratively improving upon initial ideas, Aimée can explore a vast space of musical possibilities, generating compositions that are both innovative and musically coherent. This approach is crucial in addressing potential copyright infringements. By not relying on pre-existing musical data, Aimée ensures that the music you create with her assistance is genuinely yours. Why Originality Matters? In the realm of music composition, originality is not just a matter of artistic integrity but also a legal necessity. Copyright infringement can lead to significant legal challenges and financial liabilities. Aimée's ability to create original music provides peace of mind, allowing you to focus on your creative process without worrying about potential legal repercussions. Features of YouCompose and Aimée: Built-in Instruments: - 80 instrument definitions with their sounds, including all regular orchestral instruments, keyboards, organs, guitars, basses, chorus, and percussion. - Over 85 predefined ensembles for quick setup, ranging from trios to orchestras. Creating and Editing: - Create melodies using the built-in virtual keyboard, a MIDI keyboard, a grid or score editor, by importing MIDI files, or by asking Aimée to generate them. - Aimée harmonizes your melodies in classical or jazz style, considering your chosen instruments. - Edit compositions by copying, pasting, moving, and deleting movements, segments, and individual notes. - Let Aimée compose a complete symphony or add new movements based on her own or your melodies. - Control harmonization with instrumentation tools, ‘Composition instructions,’ ‘Harmonization Points,’ or leave it to Aimée. - Combine classical and jazz styles within a single piece. - Special tools for entering lyrics, applying melodic transformations, and creating dynamic effects. Sharing and Saving: - Compatible with Audiobus, AudioCopy, and Inter-App Audio for seamless audio recording and integration with other apps. - CoreMIDI compatible for use with MIDI keyboards, sound modules, or synth apps. - Export audio files in MIDI, AAC, M4A, AIFF, CAF, and WAV formats, with M4A files containing iTunes data like ‘artist,’ ‘song name,’ and ‘lyrics.’ - View, print, save or export full scores and individual parts (transposed when applicable) as PDF. - Save compositions to your device, with options to share via iCloud, email, or AirDrop. - Share compositions through email with YouCompose files, audio files, MIDI files, and PDFs of scores and parts. YouCompose also includes several sample compositions featuring well-known melodies, providing a rich starting point for your musical journey.

About

Beatly Pro

Generate unlimited original looped music in various genres. Features include a powerful piano roll, chord progression builder, and stem exporting. Ideal for creators needing unique soundtracks.

Highlights
  • Unlimited original looped music generation
  • Multiple genre styles (rap, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, dance)
  • Advanced piano roll with undo and pattern editor
  • Chord progression builder
  • Export to MIDI and render stems
  • Sample recorder and import
  • Audiobus and Ableton Link sync support
Features
Currently charting
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With Beatly Pro you can generate unlimited amount of 100% original looped music in rap/lo-fi/chiptune/cinematic/dance genre. Features: - up to 8 bars of music to combine arbitrarily - up to 7 instruments to work with - effects and filters on each channel for shaping the sound (low pass filter, decimation) - simple yet powerful piano roll with undo, realtime beat transpositions, key locks and custom template pattern editor (patterns applicable automatically in the generated music) - chord progression builder - exporting to MIDI (including stems) - rendering stems and seamless loops - key and BPM options - mixer with volume, solo, mute and filters - regeneration of any instrument part - sample recorder and editor - sample import in WAV/M4A format, supporting drag and drop - SF2 SoundFont sound bank import - MIDI files import (single bars only) in the piano roll, supporting drag and drop - drum presets - song mode which automatically arranges the generated bars for you - MIDI output with configurable output channels and notes (for drum instruments) - Audiobus support (MIDI out per channel + full audio mix) - Ableton Link sync support - app color theme configurator Who is Beatly Pro for: • composers/producers to get quick inspiration or a fresh material to work with • artists/singers in need of unique rap beats on demand • game developers, film-makers, digital content creators, who need to use free and original music in any kind of multimedia • musicians who need an accompaniment for their practicing (thanks to the chord progression builder you can simply define what you want Beatly to play) • pretty much anyone interested in generative art and nonmainstream music How it works: Beatly Pro randomly chooses set of instruments and creates 8 unique bars of looped instrumental music (32 beats). You can combine and rearrange these bars arbitrarily and edit them in piano roll. Tempo is chosen automatically, however it can be simply changed as well as key. All notes are picked by the algorithm. Currently you can choose from default rap, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic or dance styles. Each of these styles brings unique music experience. You can also activate chord progression builder to define exactly what chords will Beatly use in the generated bars or create your own bar patterns which will be consequently used by the algorithm when building a new track. To modify already generated chord progression in the track you can change key/base chord of each beat within a bar. All notes of given beat will be transposed appropriately. Run app, tap the play button. It is that simple. Music will be different each time you hit the reload button. Once you're done editing the tune, simply save it for later, export to MIDI or record your live session to WAV audio file. You can even render separated stems or seamless loop of your entire track. You can also hook up Beatly with your favorite mixer using MIDI output. Drums too loud? Adjust the volume. Synth annoying? Mute it or try other built-in sounds. Loving the sound of piano? Solo it and make it shine. Mixer got your back! Need variation? Reload any instrument part of your track. Generated part not to your liking? Leverage the piano roll to fix algorithm's mistakes and make it awesome! Can I import my own samples? Yes! You can attach or record your very own WAV or M4A sound to any instrument track. Just bear in mind, samples tuned in C will sound best! :) If you like Beatly Pro, please, support us by rating this app in the App Store or donating via in-app purchase. If you have any idea how to improve Beatly Pro, please, leave us a message! Thank you!

Screenshots

YouCompose4 screens
Beatly Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beatly Pro at $4.99 against YouCompose's $12.99. Beatly Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and chart position (#180 vs unranked). YouCompose's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

YouCompose costs $12.99 and Beatly Pro $4.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. YouCompose asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for YouCompose against 4.5 for Beatly Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 37 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of YouCompose's written reviews are positive against 81% of Beatly Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

YouCompose ships an update every 4 months, Beatly Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
YouCompose versus Beatly Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYouComposeBeatly Pro
Price$12.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.4 (35 ratings)4.5 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews81.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3537 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#180 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size399 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElstarAntonin Charvat

Customer experience

YouCompose

All ratings35 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral11.4%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative18.0%

Beatly Pro

All ratings37 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral7.4%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

YouCompose

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Beatly Pro

One-time2
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Large tip$3.99

Questions

Is YouCompose free?
YouCompose costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beatly Pro free?
Beatly Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, YouCompose or Beatly Pro?
Beatly Pro is rated higher. YouCompose averages 4.4 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Beatly Pro averages 4.5 from 37 ratings.
Do YouCompose or Beatly Pro have ads?
Neither YouCompose nor Beatly Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, YouCompose or Beatly Pro?
YouCompose ships an update every 4 months, and Beatly Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, YouCompose was updated on July 6, 2026 and Beatly Pro on September 19, 2026.

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