A maintained successor to BrainWave Generator.
BrainWave Generator was a Windows 95/98/NT binaural-beat and tone generator, last updated in 2005. It still runs for some, and crashes for many, on Windows 10 and 11. FreqCraft is a maintained successor, built for devices that are actually supported.
If you found this page you already know what BWGen did: set a binaural beat frequency, choose a carrier tone and waveform, and run it as a precise, repeatable signal. FreqCraft does that on hardware from this decade, every Hz visible and editable, with no shareware nag, no expired-evaluation lockout, and no 2005 exception dialog.
A precision binaural-beat and isochronic-tone generator you can run on your phone today, with up to five simultaneous voices, each with its own carrier, beat, waveform and level envelope. Every frequency editable to the decimal.
The full desktop successor to BWGen: unlimited voices, timed session sequencing, waveform harmonic filtering, layered noise and backgrounds, and .wav export. The remaining gap, closed.
Feature comparison
✓ supported · — not supported · PLANNED on the roadmap
| Capability | BrainWave Generator Windows · 2005 | FreqCraft Android · now | FreqCraft Studio coming |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precise binaural beat frequency, editable to the decimal | ✓ | ✓ | Planned |
| Precise carrier / audible pitch control | ✓ | ✓ | Planned |
| Isochronic tones, no headphones | ✓via modulation | ✓ | Planned |
| Waveform selection | ✓8 + custom | ✓sine, square, triangle, saw | Planned |
| Fade in / out & session timer | ✓ | ✓ | Planned |
| Readout always matches the engine output | − | ✓ | Planned |
| Presets cite their source, in-app | − | ✓ | Planned |
| Multiple layered voices per session | ✓unlimited | ✓up to 5 | Plannedunlimited |
| Per-voice carrier, beat and waveform | ✓ | ✓ | Planned |
| Per-voice level envelope across the session | − | ✓start → end, per voice | Planned |
| Timed segments / session sequencing | ✓ | − | Planned |
| Waveform harmonic filtering | ✓ | − | Planned |
| Noise generator, white / pink / brown | ✓ | − | Planned |
| Background / nature sound layers | ✓ | − | Planned |
| Export session to audio file, .wav | ✓ | − | Planned |
| Transducer / bass-shaker output, tactile | − | ✓clean low-frequency drive | Planned |
| Any frequency, entered as an exact value | ✓ | ✓ | Planned |
| Runs on a modern OS, current Android / Windows | −Win 95/98/NT era; crashes on modern Windows | ✓ | Planned |
| Actively maintained | −last update 2005 | ✓ | ✓ |
| No shareware nag / no evaluation lockout | −$40 register; import disabled until paid | ✓ | ✓ |
| No ads, no tracking, no subscription | − | ✓no internet permission | Planned |
| One-time price | −$40 shareware | ✓$7.83 | ✓one-time; price TBD |
Why people are moving off BrainWave Generator
These are not opinions. They come straight from the software itself:
- It crashes on modern Windows. On current systems BWGen throws an internal exception (
bwmain.c 3.1.12: 1361) and asks you to email a bug report to an address that has been dormant for years. - It was built for Windows 95, 98 and NT. Version 3.1 dates to 2005. There is no 64-bit build, no mobile version, and no maintenance.
- The evaluation copy locks out. After one month it displays “EXPIRED UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY” and disables import until you pay the $40 shareware fee to a company that is no longer active.
- Hardware assumptions are dated. Its headline visual feature drives AudioStrobe goggles, patent-restricted hardware almost nobody owns today.
The engine idea was sound; the delivery is 20 years past its platform. FreqCraft starts you on the core precision generator today, with the full desktop successor in development.