Volotic vs Wormhole
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Volotic
Create unique songs with a visual sequencer, no musical experience needed. Arrange "towers" on a grid to generate beats and trigger instruments. Explore diverse tower types and share your creations.
- Nonlinear song composition
- Tower-based beat creation
- Instrument triggering
- Preset scales and arpeggios
- Manual tuning
- 3D sound visualization
- Composition recording and sharing
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Volotic is an experimental nonlinear sequencer by artist Scott Garner. What does that even mean? It means a fun way to create songs for everyone, with no musical experience required. In Volotic, you compose a song by arranging a selection of "towers" on a grid. Each tower has a different function for creating beats, modifying beats or triggering instruments. Here are some points with bullets next to them: • Over fifty tower types with more on the way. • A selection of demo compositions to get you started. • No musical experience is required, preset scales and arpeggios keep things sounding nice. • Manual tuning for advanced control. • 3D sound—drag your music to focus on different sections. • Easily record and share your composition with Everyplay. • Tons of new towers and handy features in Plus Mode. Volotic was selected for inclusion in the App Store Best of 2015. Neat!
Wormhole
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Wormhole turns any sound you have into music you made. Drop in a clip — a video from your camera roll, a voice memo, a file, or something you hum into the mic. Wormhole listens to it, finds the tempo and the key on its own, and chops it into slices you can play. From there you are one tap away from a beat. FIVE INSTRUMENTS, ONE SCREEN Drums, 808, keys, your chopped clip, and a lead — all on one page. Tap a row to open its notes and draw them straight in. There is no edit mode to learn and no menu tree to climb. If you can tap, you can write a pattern. EVERY NOTE IS IN KEY Wormhole knows what key your project is in and keeps every instrument inside it. You can't place a wrong note. Change the key later and your melodies move with it — the app remembers the scale degree, not the absolute pitch. THE WORMHOLE Send any sound into the Wormhole and it comes back out in your key. Freeze a single grain into a pad. Smear a vocal into a choir. Stutter a snare into a fill that was never played. It is a scale-locked granular bus, and it is the reason the app is called what it is called. CHOP IT YOUR WAY Slice on transients, slice on the grid, or cut it by hand — tap the waveform to add a cut, drag a dot to move one. Pick a part of a long clip and chop only that. Every slice gets its own pitch, filter, and length. STUCK? PRESS FLIP One button writes a whole beat — drums, bass, chords, melody, all in your key, all editable. Press it until something grabs you, then make it yours. LOOPS BECOME A SONG Build up to four versions of every instrument, then place them on a timeline. Drag a block's edge to repeat it. That is the entire arrangement view. POST IT Export a 1080x1920 vertical video with a reactive visual, ready to go straight to your feed. Or take M4A for other apps and 24-bit WAV for your DAW. BUILT PROPERLY Real-time audio engine written from scratch. No login, no account, no cloud, no tracking — your projects live on your phone. Works fully offline. Something you already have is a beat. It just needs chopping. https://wormhole.aimoxyz.xyz/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wormhole at every 4 days against Volotic's every 2 months. Volotic's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Volotic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wormhole sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Volotic ships an update every 2 months, Wormhole every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Volotic | Wormhole |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SGARNER LLC | Moritz Maximilian Fricke |
In-app purchases
Volotic
- Plus Mode$1.99
Wormhole
- Wormhole Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Wormhole Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year









