Songen vs Udio

Songen generates instrumental MIDI loops in a chosen style, building lead, chord, bass, and drum parts that users can refine track by track or section by section. Its on-device engine creates notes from scratch rather than drawing on premade loops, and generation does not require an internet connection. Users can edit notes, regenerate selected parts, and work in a piano roll that highlights chord notes. Songen offers nearly 50 styles, including Trap, Amapiano, Lo-fi, House, and Cinematic. It exports MIDI and WAV audio as full mixes or separate stems for other music software. The app runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac; there is no Android or Windows version. The free plan allows 100 generated loops per day and one export. Premium is listed at $8.99 a month, $89.99 a year, or $149.99, paid once, with unlimited generation and saved tunes and up to 250 exports per month. Generated beats are described as royalty-free, but Songen does not write lyrics or record vocals.

Udio generates songs from prompts describing a style, mood or theme, and each prompt produces two songs. Listed clip lengths are 32 seconds or 2 minutes 10 seconds. The Create page provides sliders and fields for refining tracks, experimenting and generating variations. Its library has search, filters, favorites, playlists and a trash bin for recovering deleted songs, while the player can share songs. Udio offers vocal generation and audio upload, but audio downloads—including stems—are disabled. Paid subscribers can upload audio for extending, inpainting, remixing, stylizing or editing in a waveform-focused Session editor; uploaders must own the rights, and commercial or copyrighted tracks are not allowed. The service is available on the web and iOS. The iPhone app supports track extension but not uploading, remixing, inpainting, styling or title-based song search; Udio says there is no Android app. Free service includes 10 daily and 100 monthly credits. Standard costs $10.00 per month, and Pro costs $30.00 per month.