# Beatwave - Music Made Easy

> Music Maker - Share Your Beats

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1463548238](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1463548238)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1463548238`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MWM
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (2,044 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.07.00
- **Last updated:** 2023-01-11
- **First published:** 2019-05-17
- **Size:** 157 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-04
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beatwave-music-made-easy/id1463548238)
- **Website:** [https://www.mwm-apps.com/legals/beatwave/tos](https://www.mwm-apps.com/legals/beatwave/tos)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.mwm-apps.com/legals/beatwave/policies](https://www.mwm-apps.com/legals/beatwave/policies)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #41,787 — Overall
- #18 — easy
- #74 — music

## Review summary

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.

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