Comparison

WizzJ vs Sortwave

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

Head to head
About

WizzJ

Experience stunning generative art that dynamically syncs with your music. This app creates immersive visualizers from your device's music library or microphone input, offering a unique artistic interpretation of sound.

Highlights
  • Generative art animations
  • Music library sync
  • Microphone input support
  • 36 unique visual styles
  • High-resolution display support
  • Create music videos
Features
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WizzJ is a cutting-edge music visualizer for high-end iOS devices. It fully exploits the latest advances in graphic processors to create a flow of animated generative art. The animations are synced with the beat and texture of the music being played from your music library. If no music is playing, WizzJ can capture input from the microphone. WizzJ represents a new generation in the art of music visualization! Download WizzJ for free and enjoy a fully functional preview of the available 36 styles, each providing a unique and immersive experience: A Flower of Life, Alien Speak, Ancient Glyphs, Beat Tunnel, Beat'n Chaos, Blossoming, Breeze of Oil, Brick Islands, Color Wand, Cricumpunct, Crystal's World, Dancing Blobs, Disco Sun, Entwined, Girl's Best Friend, Holes of Color, LP's Revenge, Matrix, Neon Ice, Ocean, OneHundredEiiigghtyyyy, Phoenix, Polar Texture, Pop Art Dive, Puzzled, Rainbow's Birth, Sandworms, SpeedBeat, T-Rex's Skin, Tentacles, The Beauty Within, Threads of Light, Threesome, Wanna Kiss?, Wave Dance, Wheel of Color. WizzJ uses Apple's built-in media player and can thus access your existing songs and playlists. In contrast to most other visualizers, WizzJ analyzes the sound of played songs without using the microphone; hence you can enjoy WizzJ even with headsets. Note: Apple does not allow to analyze streamed music. Thus, only music saved on your device and played through the internal iOS audio player is supported. Unfortunately, Apple Music, Spotify et al can therefore not be supported. WizzJ can support the device's native display resolution for a detailed and crystal clear presentation. Activate this feature in the Settings App if you have a powerful device. You can easily create your own music videos by capturing WizzJ's animations with QuickTime and your Mac. Videos and more info can be found on the "Developer Website". Customer comments: ***** Unbelievable Music App "Best music app so far in iTunes Store. Can't go wrong with this one." ***** Beyond beautiful "I just downloaded WizzJ on my iPhone 6 Plus, and I really wanted to express my gratitude for this app. The graphics are beyond beautiful and amazing." ***** 5 stars for sure! "I am delighted to look at the magnific moving designs while listening to my own music. Very Impressed by the various choice of fascinating designs available too. Thank you very much for creating such a beautiful app. It is worth to see it, I am sure that you will enjoy !!!" ***** Unique to iOS, beautiful visualizer "Beautifully crafted automata to match your music. Few apps are made in iOS for generative visualizations and this is by far the best quality; maybe the only app with a very select choices of algorithms/colorizations!" ***** Finally a real visualizer! "Been looking exactly for this! Now if only it had the nice equalizer functions of a couple other apps - and if it would just play my playlists! Other than that! Six stars. You heard me six stars. Love it!" ***** Love it "I'm in love with this app!" Supported Gestures: - one finger double-tap: show/hide player - two finger single-tap: show/hide styles list - two finger swipe right/left: next/previous style - two finger swite down: pause/resume animation - three finger single-tap: screenshot System requirements: - iPhone 8 or higher - iPad 5th generation or higher - iPad Air 3rd generation or higher - iPad mini 5th generation or higher To enable devices without microphone for AirPlay or Bluetooth headphones disable the microphone input by tapping the microphone icon.

About

Sortwave

Features
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Swipe music into place. Sortwave is a focused playlist-curation companion for Apple Music. Choose a playlist, listen to each full song, and decide what belongs without breaking your flow. Swipe right to keep a song. Route it up or down into playlists you already use. Mark favorites, shuffle your session, scrub through playback, undo a decision, or stop whenever you want. Sortwave queues your choices locally and applies them together when you choose Finish & Sync. Apple Music doesn’t allow third-party apps to directly delete arbitrary library songs. When you mark songs for removal, Sortwave places them in a clearly labeled Deleted Songs playlist and shows a short guide for completing deletion safely in Apple Music. Your original library stays under your control. Features: • Full-song Apple Music playback • Fast, gesture-first playlist decisions • Two configurable quick-route playlists • Favorite and unfavorite controls • Interactive playback scrubber • Shuffle, previous, next and undo controls • Batched sync with a clear summary • Session history and resilient local queueing • Secure connection restoration • No advertising or tracking An active Apple Music subscription may be required for full-song playback and library access. Sortwave is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

Screenshots

WizzJ4 screens
Sortwave3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sortwave at none against WizzJ's 3. Sortwave also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WizzJ sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sortwave asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WizzJ ships an update every 2 weeks, Sortwave every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
WizzJ versus Sortwave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWizzJSortwave
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoachim WolfframSooraj Sambasivam

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WizzJ

One-time2
  • Style Bundle "Living Light"2 variants$1.99
  • Style Bundle "Jump Start"$2.99
None

Sortwave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WizzJ free?
WizzJ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sortwave free?
Sortwave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WizzJ or Sortwave have ads?
Neither WizzJ nor Sortwave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WizzJ or Sortwave?
WizzJ ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sortwave every 5 days. Most recently, WizzJ was updated on October 16, 2026 and Sortwave on October 28, 2026.

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