nondaw is a freeform canvas for experimenting with audio on the iPad. There is no left-to-right timeline: waves sit anywhere and point in any direction, and playheads are paths, straight or curved, whose sweep line plays every wave it crosses. How squarely the sweep strikes a wave, and how much of it it touches, can modulate speed, pitch, gain, filtering and more.
Import any audio file, or record straight onto the canvas. A rolling capture strip always holds the last stretch of what has been playing, from the microphone or resampled from nondaw's own output, and a selection dragged out of it becomes a new wave on the canvas. A paused playhead can be scrubbed by hand, with the modulation following the material under your finger.
Auras are circular regions that process whatever plays inside them through an Audio Unit effect, and can be feathered from the center to the rim. A per-playhead mixer, non-destructive splitting and duplication, keyboard shortcuts and Apple Pencil Pro support round things out. Projects are single packages with every sound embedded.
The current version is 1.0.2, released on 5.10.2026. Release notes are available.
nondaw collects no data and makes no network requests. The details are in the privacy policy.
Questions, bug reports and ideas are welcome through the contact form.