WayLoop guides
A free alternative to Transcribe! for practicing songs
Disclosure: WayLoop is made by BeatsAround, and this page is ours. Transcribe! is the classic tool for this job. If you mostly use it to slow a recording down, loop a passage and change its key, WayLoop does those things for free. If you depend on its transcription tools, keep it.
What WayLoop covers
- Slowing a song from 30% to 200% without changing its pitch
- Looping a passage with saved loops and markers, per song
- Shifting the key by semitones and cents, independently of the speed
- A metronome with tap tempo and time signatures
- A chromatic tuner
- Recording yourself over the track and listening back
- Playlists with their own speed and volume for each song
What WayLoop doesn't do
- It doesn't detect notes or chords.
- It has no spectrum view for working out what's being played.
- It has no Linux version.
- It opens audio files, not video.
Which one to choose
WayLoop fits if your routine is open a song, find the hard phrase, slow it down, loop it and play along, especially if you also want to practice on a phone or tablet. It's free on Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad, and Android is coming.
Transcribe! fits if you write out parts in detail and use its spectrum view and note guessing, or if you work on Linux. It's paid, with a long track record.
Since WayLoop costs nothing and needs no account, the easiest test is to open a song you already know from Transcribe! and compare how it sounds to you at the speeds you use.
Your music stays yours
WayLoop works on your own audio files. Songs and recordings stay on your device, and BeatsAround runs no server that your music could go to.
Transcribe! is a product of Seventh String Software. WayLoop and BeatsAround are not affiliated with it. Details about other apps can change, so check their own sites.
Get WayLoop
WayLoop is free, with no ads and no account: App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad, Microsoft Store for Windows. Android is coming. You can also try it on its page, in your browser.