Beatwave - Music Made Easy

By: MWM

Music Maker - Share Your Beats

Features & Capabilities

Beatwave is a complete mobile music studio that fits in your pocket. Mix and loop tracks to refine your ideas, play with a grid-based composer featuring auto-tune and auto chords, and produce with 15 built-in sounds (Beatwave Pro expands your sound library). Record performances and publish them to the world, while getting inspired by a feed of other artists. Manage your projects in a personal Space, design your own instruments, and import sounds to tailor your synths and drums. Beatwave is available for iPhone and iPad, making music creation portable and social wherever inspiration strikes.

With a subscription for premium features, you can unlock unlimited access, premium drum kits, and templates while keeping your work synced across devices.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Music & Audio Entertainment

By:

MWM

Rating:

4.20

(2,040)

Version:

2.07.00 Last updated: 2023-01-11

Version code:

854291095

Creation date:

2019-05-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

156.72MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 44,146 ▼ 83

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Developed by:

MWM

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beatwave-music-made-easy/id1463548238

Website:

https://www.mwm-apps.com/legals/beatwave/tos

User Reviews

Beatwave is praised for being beginner-friendly with good sounds and a portable, quick-create workflow on iPad. However, stability problems (crashes, freezes, data loss) and reliability issues hurt long sessions. Users dislike the transition to a subscription model, loss of one-time purchases, and difficulty restoring content. Support complaints and perceived lack of updates add to frustration. Despite its charm and ease of use, business model and reliability concerns dominate sentiment.

Pros

Beginner-friendly and easy to learn.
Good-sounding instruments with unique, high-quality tones.
Portable, quick DAW-like workflow on iPad for capturing ideas.
Pattern/grid-based interface enables fast composition.

Cons

Crashes, freezes, and data loss with large projects due to lack of autosave.
Shift to a subscription model while legacy purchases are disrupted; high annual cost and difficulty restoring previous purchases.
Ongoing reliability issues such as tempo drift, random bursts, and interruptions during recording/looping.
Support issues and perceived neglect after ownership change.
Loss of features and reduced instrument variety in newer versions compared to the old app.

Recent reviews

I bought this app a long time ago, when the ipod was still a thing, lol, and then they did an “upgrade” which was cool, I even purchased some extras, but it would be great if I could take the ideas I made and transfer them into my logic daw and continue to build on them. I’d give it way more stars if I could do that.

by mi*****, 2026-02-07

Straight to the point, biggest issue is crashing with no autosave. So just be careful with large projects. Everything else is fine.

by de*****, 2026-01-22

This was an awesome easy to use music making app until the original developer sold it. Now there are subscription costs to unlock tools that were originally sold as one time upgrades. Still fun to use Beatwave for recording purposes in conjunction with acoustic instruments though. Overall 4 stars because Beatwave is still fun and generally easy to use.