Beatwave - Music Made Easy Reviews

As an old huge fan of beat wave. I remember when it first was on the old iPod touches and it was simple. However it progressed over the years and recently it had easy controls and had amazing sounds if you bought it for 8.99 or so. My hubby and I made three awesome albums together we made for iTunes which thankfully I still enjoy to this day. And each album I learned more features about Beatwave by making hole notes that play longer than just single taps. And it was beautiful, absolutely beautiful, until Beatwave updated. And it was TRASH! They removed all my favorite instruments I had saved and changed the layout of making music. And it was so frustrating that I stopped making music. And now the greedy developers won’t let you buy this app pro you have to pay 50$ for a yearly subscription. Garbage absolute garbage. Unless your willing to invest the money for this app and learn how to use it. But coming from an old fan of this app who watched it grow and get progressively worse over the years. Do yourself a favor and buy a free music maker... this app just makes me sad now, it used to be my favorite app of all time. Now it’s trash..... 😭😭😭

I had bought the extra features for Beatwave when it was a free app and you didn’t have to pay some annoying membership fee or subscription. Also I’m not even able to edit songs anymore. Whenever I try to add another sound track to my song Beatwave always crashes making it impossible to get anywhere and make the music that I was so proud of what I’ve been able to make with Beatwave. The original version was better! Please revert back to it so you don’t get anymore extremely upset customers! It’s in your best interest!

You can’t suddenly make a free app $400 with one update! You can’t take away what people have paid for already just to make more money. If someone like myself has already purchased the extra features to get the full version of Beatwave then they should be exempt of playing this stupid subscription fee!

Also the most recent update said it fixed the pesky bugs that we told you about... not true at all! It still crashes whenever you want to add another sound track!

This sold-out iteration of Beatwave really screwed up something good. I used the versions developed under Collect3 all the time for a loooong time and had almost no issues, could tweak and modify any and all settings to no end with the small premium fee that I was happy to contribute to the developer. Now, you get ads every two minutes and need a *subscription* to fully use the entire program! One of the worst changes made here is that you can no longer choose your scale for the board; you’re stuck in the one they give you, B-C#-D-E-F#-G-A, which eliminates the possibility to create many many styles of music. Also, as you’d expect from a cash-grab like this, there is no real care put into Beatwave beyond making it look fancy on the surface; this thing will crash on you and lose 30mins of your work, crash when trying to tweak the tiniest of variables, freeze up if you scroll too far in one direction, etc... Do not give this company money, they do not care about you or the product that they didn’t make.

I really loved this app 3 two years ago when i got it but seeing all the other reviews on here it seems to me that im not the only one that thinks Beatwave was so much better back then
It keeps on glitching , lagging, and crashing when i try to record my music , and some features that used alot back then have been taken away like the copy and paste option that used to be there for copying notes that you had placed and pasting them
Or duplicating a section of a melody
I listen to my old music i made back when Beatwave worked right and it has no issues at all but when i listen to my recent ones they keep on lagging and its getting annoying
Please if you can fix this issue because i dont want to have to use another music app cause this one is simple and to the point

I have been using this app since I was in middle school to create tracks and play around with music, and it’s now been 7 years since then. Beatwave has always had a few glitch errors and crashes a couple times, so if you don’t exit and re-open to save your music every few minutes you run the risk of losing progress. But it has been super beginner friendly. I wish it was still updated regularly to add features like 3/4 tempo and pitch shifting to every instrument but I am still a loyal fan and continue to use Beatwave to make everything from club bangers to ambient dreamscapes.

this app two was probably the best iteration of Beatwave. Pay a small fee, and in return, you get to play around with more tools. Controls were simple, and easy to use too. The new version is a bit more messy. The UI isn’t as newbie friendly as it once was, at least in my opinion. It’s also upsetting to lose all of my songs due to the huge transformations that Beatwave went through. Which be fine, if I wasn’t walled to pay a weekly subscription to even attempt to remake them. I’d be alright with paying another one and done price for the new features, but 7.99 a week is just too much for the same features and instruments you got in the last this app.

I’ll give it two star’s, since I still like Beatwave itself, but I do hope it takes a different route in the case that this app four comes around.

So I haven’t used Beatwave yet and will update after I do. Apparently no one knows how to get around the auto-renewal of the subscription and it’s turning people away from what is probably a good app so here it is.

Settings>tap on your Apple ID>iTunes & App Store>Tap your Apple ID again>view Apple ID>subscriptions

And there it is, go into this app 3 and hit cancel. The free trial will expire after 7 days or whatever they’re offering.

You’re welcome. Enjoy.

P.S. I’m only giving the 1 star right now because I have to make this PSA review. The Devs should really make this easier or make a separate app that’s just the trial and load it with a ton of ads to make up for the $400 a year they’re tricking people into.

P.P.S. There’s a yearly subscription option for $40 a YEAR. Which isn’t so bad if you really like this. I pay $60 a year for Xbox sooooo..... perspective.

[UPDATE]

There are a lot of instruments you just have to download them all. It’s a little overwhelming at first but it looks pretty good so far. People were complaining there are missing notes but if you change the scale to chromatic they’re all there just takes some searching and messing with settings.

So, I haven’t used this app sense 2017...I came back in 2018 to the UPDATE. I lost ALL of my songs. And the newer version is SO Much harder to use... Also, was there even a this app 2???
Please put the first this app back on the AppStore...
Other than that this is a great app with so much potential :/
Btw I used the old this app on my iPad. And that’s broken so I can’t just use it on there like some other people stated in there reviews about Beatwave.

I’ve had this app since the OG back in 2011. this app 2 was when I really started getting into it and I even paid the $10-$12 one-time-payment for all of the instruments and I enjoyed it a lot. I noticed the other day that this this app is now under a different developer and that the one I already have on my phone is no longer on Beatwave Store. Curiously, I downloaded Beatwave to see if it was any different but it was exactly the same just a different developer and they added a subscription paywall behind the sound packs. It’s a little disappointing that I’d have to subscribe to get all of these sound packs when in the previous version of Beatwave I already had access to all of them with my Pro purchase.

When the original this app came out years ago it was amazing. Very user friendly and you could even create links for your projects to show your friends.
At one point, I had broken my device with all my first precious projects, but I still was able to listen to them from the links I had saved.
After a while, those links stopped working. I had emailed the developer and they never responded. Years later here I am, attempting to contact the developer via email and they still do not respond at all, yet in the responses on the reviews they tell everyone to email them. Why? You won’t respond anyway.
The projects I made on the original app are some of the only things I’ve created in my life that I was actually proud of. Lately it has been weighing on me greatly that I can not even listen to them anymore. I still have all the old links but they just redirect to the new apps main page to download Beatwave .
I am very sad and my inspiration has been lost for years. I keep trying to make more music occasionally and get absolutely nowhere with any DAW or app.
I want my old projects. I want to share them with my fiancé. I want to expand on them. I miss them.

I’ve used this app for years and finally upgraded to the premium and love it MOSTLY but the new (and frequent) glitches when trying to record or when loading a scene with multiple instruments are rough. The timing will glitch and restart the scene or it will straight crash. It’s frustrating and it means I definitely don’t use it for anything live, but I trust they will fix this and make it the super reliable and super fun DAW it has been before.

Update: still crashes more than any app I’ve ever owned and takes way too long to load things. I just know that the developers can make it fun to use again if they tried. Please debug Beatwave, it’s nearly unusable at this point

I just recently got back into the iOS game. The last time I used Beatwave was in 2016 and I was able to go in, make beats and experiment right from the get go. And now... you’re telling me that in order for me to even USE Beatwave I have to start up a free trial and risk being charged for it if I forget to cancel the subscription? What kind of gouging is this?

This “new” model of doing things really ticks me off. I have old projects that I can’t load into Beatwave .

I will continue to use the older version still on my iPod touch. Doesn’t bug me about trial nonsense and subscriptions.

What about the people who already purchased the music packs? Were there really that many people not buying the add ons that you switched Beatwave from “ pay what you want” to “WEEKLY subscriptions?” Are you really asking for $400 plus dollars a year for Beatwave? I’m sure most people would just buy a total package app for less than 1/4 the price.

My previous review of Beatwave was 4 stars when it was the hot new music making app and now it will remain at 1 because not everyone has deep pockets to pay $7.99 WEEKLY for a mobile app. Ridiculous.

There are seemingly 2 this app apps. The this app app that I originally had on my device somehow got hijacked by a newer one. The new this app App erased everything that I was doodling with before. This new this app app is locked with ads (this would be fair if I opted in, I did not). The old and new app have identical icons identical name and look identical so there’s no way to differentiate which one is which and what exactly happened. All I know is the this app app previously in my iPhone is no longer. I tried to reach out to the developer but the hyperlinks lead to broken webpages that I couldn’t reach out to tech-support. This is a very un-Apple experience stay away from Beatwave.

I couldn’t even make it past the opening screen. The all immediately asked for a one week trial that would convert to an $8/week subscription. That’s over $400 per year!

This was recommended to me by my music teacher, and after showing him that screen he will stop recommending it to his students. I immediately deleted it fun my phone and downloaded Reason Compact instead, which offers a similar experience for free, with far more affordable in-app purchases.

I don’t care if I can subscribe then unsubscribe to get the free version, this sort of behavior by a developer is unethical, and I won’t engage in App Store subscription games. I strongly suggest you do the same and avoid Beatwave and this company.

I was reading the reviews, and then a developer or somebody said that we don’t have to pay. So, I got it and that’s a lie. You have to pay. So it’s a scam so they get more plays in the game. I’ve seen $8.99 a week before for games. However, those games are for knowing yourself better. So, sure it costs a lot. But those games are needed more. Those games have more stuff. This game is for entertainment. Nothing else. If a developer says it’s free, it’s a lie and as far as I know, if it’s a scam online, people will find the scam. And tear this game down over that one “white lie.” So think for a moment. Do you really want that? Because for a game that cost so much, I don’t think you’re getting much money. Not enough for a lawyer anyways.

-A rude kid

I, like a lot of other users, used to use Beatwave before they transitioned to a subscription based format. Used to be $10 for all the sounds and features that they're asking for $7/week. I bought it and now I'm being asked to give you more money or I can't use the stuff I already paid for? Maybe I would if you added something new to Beatwave but nothing has changed since the huge overhaul of Beatwave a few years back (which also took away features I had already paid for and erased all the songs I had saved up to that point). Can't restore my purchases either, so no canned response saying I can get it back, cause I can't.

Would be the best free beat making app out there, except it crashes way too much and every time you restart Beatwave /exit for a while, you lose all of your progress. Also, I can’t close certain ads, which causes me to restart Beatwave altogether. It’s very frustrating having to start all over again because of this. I’m using an iPhone 11 Pro Max and I’m assuming Beatwave hasn’t been modified for notched corners?? Sometimes I can see the “x” in the corner of an ad but it won’t let me press it, thus having to restart Beatwave .

I can’t even try it out, and the first thing it asks for is 8 dollars for only a week. Maybe a month, but not a week. One of my friends said that Beatwave lost all of his songs because he didn’t pay for a couple weeks, and I can find any free app that would be better than spending that much money on Beatwave. If you are gonna ask for that much money, please put it on the description. I don’t want to download something only for entertainment purposes, and find out that it cost 8 bucks a month. Unbelievable.

I have a problem with any developer that gives No response....I had purchased all the effects as well as 2-3 sound packs ....it was before the apps big overhaul and transformation into a forced subscription skeem. Still ....after E-mailing my receipt from Beatwave Store ....for some reason I cannot redeem my content.
Don’t expect me to pay just so that I can find out if that’s how I get my stuff back. This apps sound wasn’t that great then and isn’t sounding worth the money or trouble now. I get better sound quality for free from other developers.....uncool.

I’ve had this app since 2011. I have loved Beatwave and told many of my musician friends to download it. I purchased the pro upgrade two years ago.

I now download it to my new phone and it won’t restore my pro account, but instead wants to charge me 8 DOLLARS A WEEK, not just to use the pro edition, which I’ve already paid for, but to use it at all. What an unabashed ripoff. I don’t know if any music program that’s worth 8 dollars a week, but as great as this is, it certainly isn’t worth that.

Until the developers lowers the price or reimburses former users, Beatwave is to be AVOIDED.

I’ve had this app since 2011. I have loved Beatwave and told many of my musician friends to download it. I purchased the pro upgrade two years ago.

I now download it to my new phone and it won’t restore my pro account, but instead wants to charge me 8 DOLLARS A WEEK, not just to use the pro edition, which I’ve already paid for, but to use it at all. What an unabashed ripoff. I don’t know if any music program that’s worth 8 dollars a week, but as great as this is, it certainly isn’t worth that.

Until the developers lowers the price or reimburses former users, Beatwave is to be AVOIDED.

Why in the hell does Beatwave request that I pay a fee to keep making music when it didn’t before? Why does any music app do this? This is the best music creation app I have found, but if I want to keep producing songs I have to pay a weekly fee? This is beyond stupid and greedy.

So I’ve had this app for a while and enjoyed it. It was removed off of Beatwave store and I found that out when I went to leave a review on the original (which I believe was a really good app.) Anyways I saw this and decided to download it. Before, you could buy all the packs separately, then you could only buy this app pro which gave all the packs. I went on and it’s the same thing, but now it’s a subscription. You should go back to how it was before, when it was good.

Several weeks ago I purchased the extension packs and full features in the old this app app and now I have to pay for them over and over again in the new version? $7.99 per week is a crazy price to ask!

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve love using this app to compose songs but I think that this is a bad decision. I will definitely not be using this app 3.

Also how can you exit out from the free trial in the new version of this app? You should be able to skip that if you don’t want the pro features or expansion pack?

I was using Beatwave a year or two ago and it was great. Today, after reopening it after a long while, I see that the version I was using is no longer on Beatwave Store and has been replaced by a version that seems to be inferior in many ways.

Even worse, I can no longer access the several sound packs I had purchased since they’re now behind a $20 pay wall. That’s unacceptable. Either give me my money back or give me access to the things I paid for.

So This Alice person, you keep telling people “you dont have yo pay, you can still use the free restricted version of Beatwave ” yeah thats a bold face lie, i just now downloaded the game which im deleting because there is no such thing i either have to get the 7 day trial or get the premium which i will not do i saw someone mention a different app in the reviews and i think ill go to that app and not come here again. Dont waste your time here folks. Beatwave isnt worth the $400 a year they trying to squeeze out of ya.

Honestly, I like Beatwave but please add the ability to records vocals. And I would also like the this app 2 instruments back including Ledder and Bunk and more... Not saying I want you to revert back to actual this app 2. I want it to stay this app 3, and keep all this app 3 instruments, but bring this app 2’s instruments back.

Maybe I just didn’t figure it out, but from what I tried, you weren’t able to play different beats at the same time. I know it sounds dumb, but it would be really cool to be able to see the different sounds I could create by doing so. Also, I wish Beatwave didn’t make you pay a subscription, or at least not for so much. Both were very disappointing. But, the game itself isn’t too bad.