Comparison

Gridplay vs yawp

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

Head to head
About

Gridplay

Create dynamic, multi-clip music videos with an innovative grid interface. Combine and divide cells, adjust individual clips, and add music to produce unique visual content for social media.

Highlights
  • Multi-clip grid interface
  • Combine and divide cells
  • Independent clip sound control
  • Timeline editing
  • Clip rotation and scaling
  • Save to camera roll
  • Share to social media
Features
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Make quality quick-cut style music videos straight from your phone with Gridplay. Giving even the most experienced filmmakers a new experience, the innovative grid screen allows users to combine and divide cells at will in order to create dynamic videos. Add a song, trim clips, and adjust and scale each cell for extra flair. Turn your inspirational moments into the movie of your life with Gridplay. Features: 1. Takes up to 16 4x4 videoclips (These can be recorded or uploaded.) 2. Swipe to combine or divide the cells 3. Create and edit a timeline with multiple frames 4. Optimized for low-resolution (640p) on Instagram 5. Records up to 15 seconds. (5 minutes with extension) 6. Self-timer 7. Each clip has an independent sound control 8. Ability to save video to camera roll 9. Frame thickness and color settings 10. Automatically saves rough draft 11. Rotate, adjust, scale, and mirror each clip 12. Share to Vine Instructions: 1. Pick a cell and choose the camera mode. (Full screen vs. split screen, and back camera vs. front camera) 2. Swipe to combine cells, and swipe again to divide. 3. Press the "Film" button. 4. Set the timer up to 15 seconds. (If you have unlocked the extension, you can set the timer up to 5 minutes.) 5. When you finish with one frame, it will go to the next automatically. You need to set the timer for each frame. 6. If you don't like what you have recorded, tap to delete. If you don't want to fill up the other cells? No problem, just go to the next step. 7. Adjust the volume and position of each clip. 8. Trim the clips and add background music. 9. Save and share on Vine, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr, and email.

About

yawp

Create unique music by drawing hills over synthesized voice lines, generating evolving loops. Explore a variety of synthesized instruments and visual scenes. Control and share your creations with extensive MIDI and DAW integration.

Highlights
  • Synthesized instrument with evolving loops
  • Visual drawing interface for note generation
  • 22 unique synthesized voices
  • MIDI controller support
  • AUv3 plugin for other DAWs
  • Export stems and MIDI files
  • Offline functionality
Features
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yawp is an instrument made of loops. Draw a hill over a voice's line and the machine sows the notes. Every voice is a loop with its own length, so the loops drift apart and come back — minimal techno and ambient fall out of that drift on their own. There is no wrong way to draw a hill. TWENTY-TWO VOICES, ALL SYNTHESIZED A felt kick, a brushed clap, delicate hats, a walking electric bass, a felt piano, soft minor chords, vocal chops cut from an imagined take, a tine piano whose long tails stack into chords nobody wrote, an octave organ, a tape-hungry wash, a pluck that scatters light, and more. No samples anywhere — the whole app is synthesized live, loads instantly, and works offline. EVERY VOICE UP CLOSE Tap the mark above a voice to open it. Its line, its notes, its sound, its wave, its envelope and an LFO each get their own page, and you change the sound by dragging its picture. Every voice has presets, and you can keep your own. THE DICE Tap the die and it deals the band one piece of music with a section in mind: an open groove, a thinned intro, a break, breakbeats shaped by the tempo, or the strict sixteenth hand. Hold it for a whole new song in one style: tempo, key and scale, who plays, the sound each voice wears and every loop. Keep what you like, redraw the rest. SCENES Watch the song as moving line art: a beacon on a plain, a sea behind glass, breathing tissue, a vessel of light. Swipe to the next one. Watching only — the music does the moving. PLAY IT FROM HARDWARE Plug in a MIDI controller: knobs ride the macros and the tempo, pads mute voices and launch your kept sets on the next bar, keys set the song's key or play notes into a loop. Four MIDI lanes play your own synths and drum machines, and yawp sends its clock. Ableton Link keeps yawp in time with other apps and devices on the same Wi-Fi. INSIDE OTHER APPS With yawp complete, yawp is also an AUv3 plugin for AUM, GarageBand, Logic and other hosts. Load it as an instrument with its own sound, or as a MIDI version that plays every loop as notes into your synths. HAND IT ON Keep sets with their band, mix and key. Share a set as the stereo mix, a stem for every voice and one MIDI file — 32 bars from the same downbeat, ready to drop into any DAW. AND · tap a step to pin or silence it · drag a loop's end to change its length — odd meters are the same gesture · record up to ten seconds of anything — the mic, a headset or an audio interface — and chop it into an instrument · retune the whole song like a tuner (yawp · key A) and choose its scale · mix with hairline faders, mute and solo · record up to ten minutes of the mix and keep the take Most voices and scenes are free. Packs of two voices are one-time purchases, never a subscription. yawp complete unlocks everything: every pack to come, the mixer's performance pads, the song's curves and the AUv3 plugin.

Screenshots

Gridplay4 screens
yawp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: yawp at 100% against Gridplay's 36%. yawp also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.4). Gridplay's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

yawp is free to download; Gridplay costs $1.99 up front. Gridplay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and yawp sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

yawp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gridplay has 77 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Gridplay's written reviews are positive against 100% of yawp's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gridplay ships an update monthly, yawp every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Gridplay versus yawp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGridplayyawp
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (77 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.3 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeta VisionKuta Tsuchikawa

Customer experience

Gridplay

All ratings77 ratings
Positive31.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative62.3%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive35.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative52.7%

yawp

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gridplay

One-time1
  • Expend video length to 5minute$0.99
7 purchases

yawp

One-time7
  • wood$2.99
  • air$2.99
  • song$2.99
Show 4 more
  • windows$2.99
  • glass$2.99
  • fog$2.99
  • yawp complete$19.99

Questions

Is Gridplay free?
Gridplay costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is yawp free?
yawp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gridplay or yawp?
yawp is rated higher. Gridplay averages 2.4 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while yawp averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Gridplay or yawp have ads?
Neither Gridplay nor yawp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gridplay or yawp?
Gridplay ships an update monthly, and yawp every 3 days. Most recently, Gridplay was updated on November 11, 2026 and yawp on November 8, 2026.

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