Blip Tap vs Wave Synth Digital Instrument
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blip Tap
Create music with a multi-colored keyboard featuring 96 notes and unlimited polyphony. Explore five distinct waveforms and shape your sound with a configurable ADSR envelope. Slide between notes for expressive melodies.
- Multi-colored keyboard
- 96 notes
- Unlimited polyphony
- 5 handpicked waveforms
- Configurable ADSR envelope
- Note sliding
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Choose a waveform and play some sound! • Multi-colored keyboard with 96 notes and unlimited polyphony • 5 handpicked waveforms • Configurable ADSR envelope • Sliding between notes
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
Create electronic music by drawing waveforms and playing multiple notes simultaneously. Customize sounds with built-in or custom wave shapes and adjust pitch with intuitive controls. Explore a digital instrument designed for intuitive musical expression.
- Draw waveforms to create sound
- Multi-finger note generation
- Customizable wave shapes
- Built-in wave presets
- Octave and pitch controls
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WaveSynth is a digital instrument. Draw in the blue area (bottom half, or right half in landscape) to make sound. Use 2-5 fingers to generate multiple pitches. Draw your own waveforms, or use the built-in waves. Change the pitch with the octave buttons or pitch slider.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wave Synth Digital Instrument at fortnightly against Blip Tap's every 90 months. Blip Tap's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blip Tap against 5.0 for Wave Synth Digital Instrument. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Blip Tap ships an update every 90 months, Wave Synth Digital Instrument fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blip Tap | Wave Synth Digital Instrument |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 90 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Schoenenberger | Zoe Cutler |
Customer experience
Blip Tap
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
In-app purchases
Blip Tap
No in-app purchases
Wave Synth Digital Instrument
No in-app purchases
