# BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker — user reviews > 44 indexed App Store user reviews of BAM by Imaginando Lda, rated 4.80/5 from 100 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bam-beat-maker-and-music-maker/id1637599765/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bam-beat-maker-and-music-maker/id1637599765.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 86 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (11 of 44) ### 4/5 — Good *2026-03-28* Seems to be more stable now. **Developer response:** Thanks for your updated feedback. Please keep us posted! Best regards ### 4/5 — Really Nice Workflow *2026-02-22* BAM, eine tolle innovative Groovebox mit enormen Potenzial. Bitte bitte mehr integrierte Effekt&Plugins, um zu Modellieren. Und ein „Pause“ Button um die Plugins auch schnell vorübergehend deaktivieren zu können. Da BAM auch zufällige Melodien und Chorus Lines kreieren kann, wünschte ich mir, es gebe hier noch eine CC Randomizer Funktion. Außerdem wäre es toll wenn im KBD Modus es einen Keyboard Modus geben würde, bei der man 1 oder 2 digitale Keybords übereinander aufrufen könnte. Ein Großer Move wäre wenn BAM auch mit IAA Anwendungen umgehen könnte. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you see the potential in BAM. Improving the UI and expanding the built-in plugins are definitely on our radar. We appreciate your suggestions and will keep working to make BAM even better! ### 4/5 — Scales *2025-01-12* Please add scales 🙏🏼 **Developer response:** We are working on it. It should be available soon. Thank you for your review. Best regards ### 5/5 — 日本語 *2024-11-11* 日本語対応お願いします！ **Developer response:** Hi. Thanks for your review. Do you mean in language? Best regards ### 5/5 — Excellent cross-platform groovebox *2024-11-11* A really strong groovebox, with great-sounding built in synthesis. Works very well across ipad and Mac (separate purchase). **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your amazing feedback and support. Best regards ### 5/5 — TECHNO HEAVEN *2024-09-08* How did I miss this one? Easy to learn and like nothing else for live jamming. Get two iPads and run this on one and DRAMBO on the other and go wild. Who needs hardware when you can this much fun for the price of a couple of beers. **Developer response:** Thanks for your incredible feedback. Reach us out via website for more feedback and suggestions if you want. Best regards ### 5/5 — Immediately enjoyable and gets better the more I use it *2024-07-28* I’ve never clicked with what people call ‘groovebox’ apps but this just made sense to me and I had instant results. The more I use it the more I learn and I realise the possibilities it brings. I’m making some slow, dark, atmospheric stuff with it as well as making quick, rhythmic things. The developers are passionate about what they do and respond to questions quickly. I write this a few days after buying BAM and I can’t wait to learn it inside out to fully explore it. I think this app is an absolute bargain considering the amount of work that has gone into it and the features included. **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your amazing review! Our plan is to keep developing and improving BAM along the road. Best regards ### 5/5 — Love it *2024-06-12* This app is incredible. The demo tunes alone are well worth it! **Developer response:** Thanks for your amazing review and feedback! :) ### 5/5 — Wham BAM thankyou mam! *2024-03-04* Grown to love BAM but I need more channels. Like 32 or… unlimited!? At the very least, you could add an internal drum KIT plugin to allow multiple drum sounds on the same channel without having the use the sample index automation. A linear arrangement view would also be nice as an alternative mode like Ableton. Keyboard input/shortcuts would also be nice! **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. The features you are asking are more likely to be present on a DAW. Maybe BAM will walk that path somewhere along the road but definitely not in the short term. Thank you! Best regards ### 5/5 — Хорошее начало *2024-01-20* Надеюсь будет и далее таким темпом развиваться **Developer response:** Thank you for your 5-star review! We plan to release many more updates to BAM! ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-01-20* Great app for building whole songs, courtesy of the built-in clip launcher. The developer is very active, and constantly fixing bugs and adding new features, so definitely recommended. **Developer response:** A great review, courtesy of the kind words and built-in recommendation! ;D Thank you so much for your review and support! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not worth it. *2025-12-31, version 1.5.4* Random crashing frequently. ### 1/5 — Ca saute à chaque sauvegarde *2025-07-25* Ce n est pas fiable. Ca saute à chaque sauvegarde **Developer response:** Merci pour votre retour et désolé pour cette expérience. 🙏 Cela ne devrait pas se produire — les sauvegardes doivent être fiables. Pourriez-vous nous contacter via info@imaginando.pt avec plus de détails sur votre appareil et votre version iOS ? Nous aimerions résoudre ce problème au plus vite. Merci pour votre patience ! 🎛️ ### 1/5 — Broken *2025-05-03* Poor feature implementatio **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! Could you please let us know what exactly is broken in the app? If possible, we’d also appreciate it if you could share any suggestions for improvement. Are there any features you'd like to see changed or added to make BAM a better app? ### 2/5 — sends so many notifications *2025-08-16* idk if its a glitch or what but the app has sent me countless SALE SALE SALE notifications for the current SALE for days straight. Chill out haha **Developer response:** Sorry about the excessive notifications 🙏 We don’t run sales very often, so you can rest assured you won’t be seeing more push messages anytime soon. We hope you’ll consider reviewing BAM based on what it offers musically, rather than this temporary issue. 🎶 ### 2/5 — Keeps crashing *2024-06-12* Seemed awesome, but it has crashed twice in the last hour of using it and I’ve lost my work both times. Not a good start. **Developer response:** Hi. We are sorry to hear that. BAM is still in its early steps. There are some edges to polish. Can you please contact us so we can add you to beta testing? That way we can track the crash and fix it. Your feedback is very valuable to us and we don't proud ourselves of a crashing app, specially in what regards to making music. Best regards ### 2/5 — Unintuitive and not very interesting *2024-01-18* I had high hopes for this. Really eats cpu fast, difficult to grasp, a lot of tutorial watching. Fine for a hardware groovebox but an ios groovebox should be instantaneous and intuitive. Strictly my opinion. Some will love it. Happy to support Imaginando but I’ll stick with Drambo for now. **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. If you would like to provide further details, or if you have any other feedback, please get in touch via our website! ### 3/5 — Slow developed „DAW“ Beatbox *2026-06-28* The BAM started with some nice Functions and a concept that was a little bit like Korg Gadget with AU3. Many nice and easy to handle things. But i hoped that they optimized some things like note grid editing and import/export Of audio and midi. I will this year test the Apple Pencil with it on my „new iPad 10“. Better audiotrack functionality and Audio sfx per au3 and improvments in the gui. But now its seems they optimize some little steps. The hope is a alternativ gadget host. And i test it on macos Tahoe and new iOS. Thanks 4 your interest in reading. My wish is that you dont stopp to Optimize the GUI. **Developer response:** We are working in BAM. We have been very busy in the last year but a round of regular updates is coming. Next version should come just right next week. ### 3/5 — Frequent hanging of the app *2026-06-02* Purchased it yesterday, it was working for a while but later it started hanging frequently. Also I picked 2 extension packs Velvet vibes and Ladera Nights. LN90s appears does not have a default scene to play. Velvet vibes starts to hang as soon as it is played. Can you please help fix this? ### 3/5 — Slow developed „DAW“ Beatbox *2024-11-01* The BAM started with some nice Functins and a concept that was a little bit like Korg Gadget with AU3 Many nice and easy to handle things. But i hoped that they optimized some things like note grid editing and import/export Of audio and midi. Better audiotrack functionality and Audio sfx per au3 and improvments in the gui. But now its seems they optimize in little steps. I hope they dont give up. The nice is my alternativ gadget host. And i have it on macos and ios thats great. Thanks 4 your interest in reading. **Developer response:** We are working in BAM. We have been very busy in the last year but a round of regular updates is coming. Next version should come just right next week. ### 3/5 — Still Some Shortcomings *2024-07-19* Wanted to love this app, but there are still a lot of issues. -Runs fine in standalone for the most part, but freezes in AUM and Drambo frequently. -Loading audio stems is cumbersome and often leads to freezing. -The controls are small and hard to see when you are actively altering them. Sound quality just isn’t there for the price. Real time control of the synth engines sounds low resolution for the amount of CPU it eats While this dev has some interesting ideas, the price is high for what you get, and it’s competing with a host of extremely powerful apps within that space. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review and feedback. BAM has still some rough edges but we are working on it. We would like to know more about why loading stems is cumbersome. Can you reach us out on the website chat and talk with us? Regarding freezes, we believe this new version 1.2.0 has made some significant improves. We would love to hear your feedback. Best regards ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My go to groove box *2026-06-16* This thing really has everything you need to make full songs. I find the workflow to be the best on iPad for me to make tracks. It’s just a joy to work with and it runs really well. The expansion packs I have tried have been really good, but you don’t need them to access all the parts of this, which most other devs don’t do. Usually you gotta keep buying in app to access everything, but here you only spend more if you want samples and presets. The main app gives you access to everything for one purchase price. ### 5/5 — Wie Ableton fürs iPad *2026-03-12* Lange habe ich nach einer App mit Scene Launcher gesucht, die Audio-Midi Clips kann, LFOs hat und Auv3 einbinden kann. MIDI Roll und Automation sind super komfortabel und gerade für Live Sets gut. Eigentlich gute UI könnte noch einen Ticken etwas auf Touch zugeschnitten sein, aber das ist Jammern auf hohem Niveau. Bitte immer weiter updaten und weiterentwickeln. Jetzt schon meine Lieblings Groovebox DAW auf dem iPad. **Developer response:** Thank you veru much for your warm feedback. Best regards ### 5/5 — Super nice *2025-09-05* All in all, a really good tool. Intuitive, fast and reasonably resource-friendly. Now comes the but, you can't give any scales! Please give us some scales. I would also. I would also be very happy about a few little helpers in the way of a chord+melody generator and more random functions. **Developer response:** BAM has a scales function when you choose the keyboard in bottom. Have you found it? Where are you expecting that scales function to live? We would be happy in hearing more about your request. Feel free to hit us a message on our website chat. Best ### 5/5 — Absolutely stunning beat box *2025-08-08* I love the sound of this thing. It can do subtle organic techno, crazy drum and bass, or downbeat lo-fi. Love it. Watch the tutorials if you’re new. Lots of them and great. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the amazing feedback! 🙌 We're thrilled to hear you're exploring such a wide range of styles with BAM — from lo-fi to organic tech and beyond. It's great to know the balance of simplicity and depth is working for you. Keep pushing those creative boundaries! 🔥🎶 ### 5/5 — Excellent groovebox *2025-07-09* I love this groovebox. It’s simple to pick up but has a lot of depth as well. I’ve created organic tech, lo-fi, and other super original stuff I can’t seem to create anywhere else. Definitely check this one out. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the amazing feedback! 🙌 We're thrilled to hear you're exploring such a wide range of styles with BAM — from lo-fi to organic tech and beyond. It's great to know the balance of simplicity and depth is working for you. Keep pushing those creative boundaries! 🔥🎶 ### 5/5 — Very intuitive *2025-06-02* I havent read the manual yet and I was able to do everything I wanted with little fuss or head scratching which is usually the case with a new DAW. Ill have to read the manual for more advanced features like adding automation and sidechains but so far very happy. **Developer response:** Thanks a lot for your great feedback! 🙌 We're really glad to hear that BAM feels intuitive right out of the box — that’s exactly what we aim for. When you dive into the manual, you'll unlock even more creative potential like automation and sidechaining. Have fun exploring, and let us know if you ever need help! 🎶🧠 ### 5/5 — Near Perfect *2025-05-13* Amazing app with exceptional sound quality, particularly with the built in oscillators which have a warm, analog character to them. The sound quality is the main reason why I now prefer this app to Drambo, despite Drambo being deeper in terms of building and modulation etc. Just a few suggestions that would take it to the next level - 1. Ability to group tracks, e.g., send all drums to a drum bus and process accordingly. 2. Parameter locks. Currently when you lock a parameter to a step it just gets added to the automation section, and when the sequencer proceeds to the next step, the value will change to whatever value is in the automation lane even if it is not an active step. The ability to lock the parameter so that it stays the same value until the next active step would be very useful, particularly for the drum oscillators as they are very suited for experimental music styles in my opinion. 3. A dedicated FM synth would be great! The FM abilities of the oscillator synth sound really good but are limited. (This is just a preference as I LOVE FM) Despite these suggestions, it is an amazing and very capable production environment. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your detailed and thoughtful review! We're thrilled to hear you're enjoying BAM’s sound quality — especially the oscillators — and that it has become your go-to over other production environments. That truly means a lot to us. We really appreciate your excellent suggestions: Track grouping/bus processing – This is something we've been exploring, and your use case helps us understand its value even more clearly. Improved parameter locking – Great insight! We agree that more intuitive step behavior would greatly enhance expressiveness, especially for experimental styles. Dedicated FM synth – We're glad you’re enjoying the FM tone of the oscillators, and your enthusiasm for FM synthesis is noted! It’s definitely something we’re considering expanding on. Thanks again for your support and for helping us shape BAM’s future. Keep making great music! ### 5/5 — One of the best makes of the best grooveboxes *2025-03-11* Imaginando is no new name to iOS and this epic groovebox is a must have for iOS music producers. I admit I love grooveboxes, but this one is special and powerful. It also really allows for so much on top of hosting auv3 and fx plugins. You don’t really have to leave BAM, but if you want to add in other plugins you can. Awesome job! **Developer response:** Thanks for your awesome review! We're glad you're enjoying BAM’s power and flexibility. ### 5/5 — Sample folder issue *2024-11-24* I am having an issue on iPhone version when I try to scroll thru my folders and touch the screen folders automatically open instead of being able to scroll to a folder. For instance when I try to swipe up to my snare folder as soon as I touch the screen whatever folder I fit opens up. **Developer response:** Thanks for reporting this issue. This looks like a major drop back. We need to investigate and fix ASAP. ### 5/5 — So, finally in iPhone!✌️ *2024-11-13* Thanks for BAM - iPhone version, I’m waiting a year, to bought these app! I have iPad, but haven’t enough memory on it. So what for. And many thanks for periodically discounting all of your app, and IAP, only because it, I’m bought almost all of them! Great job, you’re very talented man!🤝 **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your continued support. Best regards --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*