Highnote vs JackTrip

Highnote provides private spaces where artists and communities upload, share, discuss, and react to music. Its audience includes artists, engineers, labels, producers, and songwriters. Tracks can receive timestamped comments, voice comments, replies, and audio polls. Highnote supports MP3, WAV, AIF, and MP4 files, with folders and nested versions for comparison. Collaborators and share links can have downloads, uploads, and timestamped comments enabled or disabled, and links can be password protected. Dropbox integration is available, and projects can link Google Docs, reference playlists, and other external content. Highnote says music remains private unless shared. Browser playback is lossless and gapless on all plans. Web, Android, and iOS are listed platforms, with mobile apps available. Starter costs nothing and includes 15 total tracks, 50GB cloud storage, and unlimited shared spaces. Indie costs $4.99 a month for 500 tracks and 1TB storage. Studio costs $19.99 a month for unlimited tracks and 5TB storage. Highnote was founded in 2020.

JackTrip provides virtual studios for musicians to rehearse, create and perform together remotely. Sessions combine video with full-duplex audio at the highest resolution supported by a participant’s device, from 44.1 kHz through 96 kHz. The maker says latency can be under 25 ms, depending on setup and connection. Participants can join through a web browser with an embedded microphone, or use the Audio Bridge plugin in VST or Audio Unit format with tools including Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, Studio One and FL Studio. JackTrip offers one-click livestreaming and recording, including simulcasts to YouTube, Twitch and Facebook. The software project is described as free and open source, and users can host studios on their own servers for free. Managed plans add session, musician, concurrent-session and video limits. Free supports joining sessions and managing a server; managed studio use and production features are unavailable on that plan. Lite starts at $4.08 a month billed annually; Advanced allows up to 12-hour sessions, 30 musicians and three concurrent sessions.