Highnote vs Sesh

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.

Sesh is a collaborative digital audio workstation for making, editing, and sharing music in real time. The studio runs entirely in a browser, without downloads or plugin installations. Producers, vocalists, and musicians can join sessions together, with no stated collaborator limit. Its workspace includes a sound library, synthesizers, audio effects, a sequencer, and a shared piano roll. Changes save automatically, and earlier versions can be restored. The Pro offering lists hundreds of royalty-free samples, loops, and one-shots, with new sounds added weekly, plus WAV export. Project links can be shared through Discord, iMessage, WhatsApp, TikTok, and similar services; listeners do not need accounts. Starter is free forever with limited projects, exports, and one-hour history for non-commercial use. Pro costs $5 a month, billed annually, and adds unlimited projects, exports, storage, collaborators, history, and commercial rights for new songs.