Beat User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience68.6% of reviews
Neutral9.8% of reviews
Negative experience21.6% of reviews

~ Based on 51 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Beat Safe?

Beat-Machine appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Beat is 79/100.

This assessment is based on 46 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

78.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
17.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 46 App Store ratings for Beat.

Is Beat Legit?

Beat-Machine is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Beat is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Stupid broken

So it wants to access mikes and you get feedback. What the @#$& ever. Then you restart the app and get no sound at all. This app is a hoax.

Response from developer

iOS 16 is causing this bug - change the sample rate in settings to get sound back until I get a fix out

Everything you need.

Have to use the rest to know this is the best.

Can I load my own files?

Wondering if I can load my own files into this program?????? If so I’d give it 5 stars

Cannot upload sample

Any audio software that you cannot upload custom samples tois useless for anything but a play toy.

Response from developer

yes you can - five stars

Nice app but... how do we record ?

How do you record in this version ?

Very nice

I like it a lot. Very well put together, needs mire love from us home dwellers

Nice

Dope app for sure!

Doesn’t work at all?

Loading app gets me only white noise. Output to headphones also doesn’t work.

Best Drum Machine

This is a solid and straight forward app. Load your samples and create your sequences as you would in a stand alone device. Not sure why it is not supported, but the devs did a great job here.

FINALLY FOUND IT!

Finding free, ad-free, apps on the apple App store is nearly impossible--but here we have one! Awesome app with no B.S. pay-walls or other annoyances! THANK YOU DEVS!!!!

The best software drum machine

This is the best drum machine I found so far for the iPad for one very important reason: IT HAS A TIME SIGNATURE/METER THAT YOU CHANGE FOR EACH PATTERN! This is mandatory for any serious musician. Most if not all of the other drum sequencers can't do this simple task. For this reason alone this app should not be free. Add a few instrument tracks and this is easily the best sequencer app out there too! I'm just sayin....there is so much music with one odd meter bar or one different meter bar in it and you can't transcribe that with these other apps.If I want a bar of 5/4 in the middle of my 4/4 song I should be able to do that just like on any DAW. Why are all the other software developers leaving this out? Bcause it's on an iPad? I don't get it. This app is free amazingly! I paid for several other apps assuming they had this simple feature only to find out they don't. So if you want to be able to change the meter of an individual bar/measure in your composition, this is THE only app I've come across that can do that easily.
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BY FAR BEST BEAT MACHINE 100% FREE

excellent beat machine and sampler, with effects and importing. Really good quality with no hidden purchases. Amazing.

it wont output blutooth

no sound from blutooth....

Awesome drum app!!!

Someone in a group said they didn't like this app, but it is awesome and is now FREE! Here"s what I wrote about it:

"I kind of like the app. I just got done messing around with it and it has some cool features and solid sounds. It has Audiobus and interapp audio...exports to Audioshare and AudioCopy. Has a very easy to use interface...the step sequencer is good...I think it has a lot to offer....and if a sound is out of pitch you can edit it within the app and also change the pitch. You can even import your own sounds. A few dislikes is the quantize only goes up to 1/16 and the knobs are very awkward and don't have the option to double tap to return to zero or default. Other than that...I like it."
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Beat Machine

The only app that disconnects from bt out of the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent on music apps which makes it useless to me if I just want to experiment with different patterns. What’s the problem with this ? I’ve removed and installed a few times with the same result. It may be me but it was just a waste of money to me
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Hidden Gem

You probably already know that when looking for any sort of music production app on here, you have to sift through page after page of cheesy looking gimmicky apps, many of which look exactly the same. Unless it's a semi well known app with a lot of ratings, it's easy for a decent app to get lost in the sea of garbage. That's how I feel about this one. I came across it on some music production forum, somebody linked to it and said it was their friend's creation, were it not for that shout out I probably would have never found it but I'm glad I did as it has become a favorite and essentially go to iOS drum machine. There's some really clever UI ideas in here that I like, particularly the way to edit velocity differences for each sound. This app excels at creating lofi, dusty, crackly and/or early digital sampler sounding drums with a series of options on the pitch page , perfect for lofi hip hop, which I use it mainly for. The ability to load your own samples limits it to your imagination, and it has ability to extensively edit each sound via envelopes, filters, effects RESAMPLING etc..all in all a great drum machine that I hope the developer continues to support. Well worth whatever the pricetag is.
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Great

Easy to use. Like having a simple SP on my phone.

Cool

Better than iMPC at a fraction of the cost AND a fraction of a price! Would like to see a portrait view for the iPhone version though.

If you need MIDI Program Change, DO NOT BUY

I'm disappointed to not see MIDI program changes still. I bought this app because it said "fully MIDI capable." Unfortunately Its pretty much useless to me without it.
Why make an app with sequencer and sync in and out without program changes? Doesn't that force me to switch between apps every time I want to change each one's pattern? Maybe I'm missing something but I tried reaching out via their FB (support) page and haven't heard anything.
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Solid Emulation with great features

This app has just gotten better and better. I can recommend it now without hesitation. The iPhone version works as well as the larger one, and has a tried and true workflow that adds some clever improvements that the hardware could not. It has a great balance of power and ease of use.