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title: "Free Melodyne Alternative — Note-Level Pitch Editing Online | IchiPitchy"
canonical: https://www.ichipitchy.com/melodyne-alternative
description: "A free browser-based Melodyne alternative: notes as draggable blocks, pitch-curve control points, plus formant and vibrato edits. Note editing is unlimited and 2 lossless WAV exports a month are free. No licence, no install."
abstract: "IchiPitchy is a free browser-based Melodyne alternative for note-level vocal pitch editing, with draggable note blocks, pitch-curve control points and per-note formant, timing and vibrato edits, and no licence or install."
llmContext: "Comparison page. IchiPitchy is not affiliated with Celemony. It covers monophonic vocal note editing only: it has no polyphonic/DNA note separation, no ARA or plugin integration, and no offline desktop mode, so it does not replace Melodyne for polyphonic or DAW-integrated work. Note editing is free and unmetered; 2 audio exports a month are free, then Pro at $3/month or $33/year."
updated: 2026-09-20
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# A free Melodyne alternative that runs in your browser

IchiPitchy is a free browser-based alternative to Melodyne for note-level vocal pitch editing. It detects each sung note, shows it as a draggable block on a piano roll, and lets you reshape the pitch curve inside a note, plus formant, timing and vibrato edits. Note editing is never metered; two lossless WAV exports a month are free, then Pro is $3 a month.

## What carries over from a tool like Melodyne

- Automatic note detection, so your performance arrives as editable objects rather than a flat waveform.
- Drag a note to move its pitch; edit the pitch curve within a note using control points.
- Split a detected note into segments, or merge segments back together.
- Per-note formant, timing and vibrato adjustments.
- Lossless WAV export.

## What is different

It is a web app, so there is no licence, no installer and no DAW required — but equally there is no plugin mode, so it does not sit on a track inside your DAW. The workflow is upload, edit, export.

It is also broader than a pitch editor. AI vocal separation, a rule-based backing band generator across 50 instruments, and a multitrack mixer with a master limiter are in the same app, so a raw take can become a finished mix without another tool.

It is desktop-only, and it needs a modern browser.

## Honest limitations

A browser tab is not a substitute for a professional offline editor in every case. Polyphonic instrument editing is not the target — this is built for vocals. Uploads are capped at 100 MB per file, and heavy rendering happens server-side, so a long export takes as long as it takes.

If you need a pitch editor inside your DAW session on a track insert, a plugin is still the right tool. If you want note-level vocal editing without buying anything, this covers it.

## Step by step

1. **Open your take in the browser.** Upload a vocal — no install, no plugin, no DAW required.
2. **Work with notes, not a curve.** The take is split into note blocks you can drag, exactly like a note-based desktop editor.
3. **Edit inside a note.** Double-click a block to add control points and reshape its pitch contour — scoops, slides and vibrato shaping.
4. **Split and merge.** Use the cut tool where detection drew a boundary in the wrong place, and merge blocks it split by mistake.
5. **Render it.** Export a lossless WAV with the edits applied, or MIDI of the notes.

## IchiPitchy compared with a desktop pitch editor

| Capability | IchiPitchy | Typical desktop pitch editor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Install / licence | None — browser tab | Desktop install, paid licence |
| Notes as editable objects | Yes | Yes |
| Pitch-curve editing inside a note | Yes, control points | Yes |
| Formant, timing and vibrato edits | Yes, per note | Yes |
| Polyphonic / chord editing | No — vocals only | Yes, in higher tiers |
| Runs as a DAW plugin | No — upload, edit, export | Yes |
| AI vocal separation included | Yes | Usually a separate tool |
| Multitrack mixing included | Yes | Needs the host DAW |
| Export | Lossless 24-bit WAV | Lossless |

## Frequently asked questions

### Is there a genuinely free alternative to Melodyne?

Yes. IchiPitchy offers note-level pitch editing — note detection, per-note pitch dragging and pitch-curve editing — free in a desktop browser, with no licence.

### Does it work as a plugin in my DAW?

No. It is a standalone web app. You upload audio, edit it, and export a lossless WAV to bring back into your DAW.

### Can it edit chords or instruments, like Melodyne's polyphonic mode?

No. It is built for vocals and monophonic pitch editing, not polyphonic instrument separation within a single track.

### What about Auto-Tune — is this closer to that?

It does both. Automatic key-and-scale snapping covers the Auto-Tune use case, while the piano roll and pitch curves cover the Melodyne-style manual editing case.

### What does Melodyne do that IchiPitchy does not?

Three things, honestly. Melodyne’s polyphonic modes separate individual notes inside a chord or a full mix, which IchiPitchy cannot do — it works on monophonic material, one note at a time. Melodyne runs inside a DAW through ARA, so edits sit alongside the rest of your session; IchiPitchy is a standalone web app you export from. And Melodyne is a mature desktop product with deeper timing and tempo-mapping tools than a browser editor offers.

### What does IchiPitchy do that Melodyne does not?

IchiPitchy is a whole vocal studio rather than a pitch editor. It separates a song into vocal and instrumental stems with AI, adds one-click harmonies built from your own voice, generates a 50-instrument backing band from a chord progression, generates an instrumental from a text prompt, records straight from your microphone, mixes multitrack with per-track effects, tunes the vocal inside a video, and answers plain-English requests through an AI assistant. None of that needs an install.

### Can IchiPitchy replace Melodyne for professional work?

For monophonic vocal work — tuning a lead, fixing a few notes, tightening harmonies — yes, and the export is lossless. For polyphonic editing, ARA integration with a DAW session, or offline work on a machine with no connection, no. Those are the cases where a desktop licence still earns its price, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.

### How much does IchiPitchy cost compared with a Melodyne licence?

Melodyne is sold as a perpetual desktop licence, bought once per edition. IchiPitchy costs nothing to use: note editing, auto-tune, harmony, recording and mixing are unlimited and unmetered, and the free plan also includes two editor exports and two mixer exports every month. IchiPitchy Pro removes those export limits for $3 a month or $33 a year, with tax added at checkout.

### Do I need to install anything or create an account?

Nothing to install — it is a website, and it runs in a current desktop browser. You do need a free account to upload a take, because the file is stored against your projects and the final render happens on the server. The key and BPM finder is the one part that needs no sign-in at all.

### Can I edit timing, formants and vibrato as well as pitch?

Yes, per note: formant shift in semitones, a timing offset, a time-stretch ratio, and vibrato depth, rate and reduction. These are applied when the file is rendered rather than during live preview, so the editor stays responsive; the panel says so next to the controls. There is no free-form time-grid dragging of the kind a desktop editor offers.

### Will it flatten my vibrato like a hard auto-tune?

Only if you ask it to. Level sets how hard notes snap to the scale — 0% leaves the performance alone, 100% is the deliberate robotic effect — and Smooth decides how much vibrato and ornamentation survives the correction. For surgical work, skip auto-tune entirely and drag individual notes instead.

### What quality does it export?

Lossless WAV at 24-bit or 32-bit float, rendered server-side with a WORLD vocoder rather than in the browser preview engine, so the file you download is the high-quality render. MP3 at 320 kbps, MIDI of the detected notes, and separated stems as a zip are also available. MIDI export is free and never counts against the export allowance.

### Is the audio I upload private?

Uploads are stored against your own account and are not public or shared. Note detection and the final render run on IchiPitchy servers, so the take is uploaded — this is not an offline tool, and any page that told you otherwise would be wrong. Projects are removed automatically after a rolling retention window unless you extend them, and you can delete a project, or your whole account, at any time.

## Related pages

- [Pitch correction](https://www.ichipitchy.com/pitch-correction)
- [Autotune online](https://www.ichipitchy.com/autotune-online)
- [Vocal remover](https://www.ichipitchy.com/vocal-remover)
- [Audio to MIDI](https://www.ichipitchy.com/audio-to-midi)

## All IchiPitchy pages

**Vocals**

- [Autotune online](https://www.ichipitchy.com/autotune-online)
- [Pitch correction](https://www.ichipitchy.com/pitch-correction)
- [Melodyne alternative](https://www.ichipitchy.com/melodyne-alternative)
- [Vocal harmony generator](https://www.ichipitchy.com/vocal-harmony-generator)
- [Record vocals online](https://www.ichipitchy.com/record-vocals-online)

**Separation**

- [Vocal remover](https://www.ichipitchy.com/vocal-remover)
- [Acapella extractor](https://www.ichipitchy.com/acapella-extractor)
- [Karaoke maker](https://www.ichipitchy.com/karaoke-maker)

**Video**

- [Autotune a video](https://www.ichipitchy.com/autotune-video)
- [Add lyrics to a video](https://www.ichipitchy.com/add-lyrics-to-video)
- [Singing video editor](https://www.ichipitchy.com/singing-video-editor)

**Music & mixing**

- [Online mixer](https://www.ichipitchy.com/online-mixer)
- [AI backing track generator](https://www.ichipitchy.com/ai-backing-track-generator)
- [AI music generator](https://www.ichipitchy.com/ai-music-generator)
- [Chord progression generator](https://www.ichipitchy.com/chord-progression-generator)

**Analyse**

- [Key & BPM finder](https://www.ichipitchy.com/key-bpm-finder)
- [Audio to MIDI](https://www.ichipitchy.com/audio-to-midi)

**Company**

- [Home](https://www.ichipitchy.com/)
- [Pricing](https://www.ichipitchy.com/pricing)
- [User guide](https://www.ichipitchy.com/guide)
- [Contact](https://www.ichipitchy.com/contact)
- [Privacy](https://www.ichipitchy.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://www.ichipitchy.com/terms)

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