ButterSynth Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience59.2% of reviews
Neutral11.3% of reviews
Negative experience29.6% of reviews

~ Based on 71 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about ButterSynth

Is ButterSynth Safe?

ButterSynth appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for ButterSynth is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 63 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.0/5.

Safety Analysis

73.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 63 App Store ratings for ButterSynth.

Is ButterSynth Legit?

ButterSynth appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ButterSynth is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Macht leider Probleme seit iOS 26.3. Toller Synth leider ohne MPE Slide Modus

Wirklich toller Synth mit überschaubarer und aufgeräumter UI. Mit zwei Wavetabel, einem Sampler und FM uuund einem Granulizer. Mega.
Nur eine MPE Einstellung für das Keyboard fehlt hier noch und die Möglichkeit Sounds mit einem Sternchen Icon zu versehen, wenn schon kein Ordner erstellen möglich ist. Hoffe sehr dass hier noch ein Update kommt.
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ButterSynth Still The Best Synth in 2026

ButterSynth is still a very powerful monster of a synth in 2026. IMO it outperforms almost all other synth apps on iOS, it really does have everything you need in a synth - with crystal clear audio.

Updated review years later.

Originally I said that the synth wasn’t great on small screens, but after years of playing around in the iOS music app scene, I’ve come back to this synth as an absolute classic. I’ve gone deep on what’s available here, with two wavetables, with a wavetables generator tool that you can use to tweak harmonics, FM modulation, a wide arrange of filters…. Honestly, amazing. This synth should get much more attention. Whilst it is fiddly to edit on a phone screen, at least it is available on phones and plays presents developed on larger screens (when needed) perfectly. It’s honestly a brilliant balance of functionality and usability and I understand why compromises had to be made to keep it as functional as it is smaller screens. Honestly one of the best, if not the best synths in the iOS/iPadOS toolkit. Really excellent work.
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App crashing

With regular use, I’ve had it crash with AUM. Great app. When it’s not crashing.

Most complete Pro SoftSynth

Awesome and Functional...mpe popup possible on top of the auv3 As an addition?

Serum for iPad

This is one rude synth and I’m lovin it bada ba ba baah no joke this is dutty just how I like em

Amazing, but disappears in Cubasis randomly

Amazing Synth. Great for DnB. Unfortunately one major issue for Cubasis users is that it randomly disappears from time to time leaving entire parts of your track missing. This makes it impossible to work with.

Abandoned?

This used to be my go-to synth for sound design but without even a bugfix release in over a year I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that it’s abandoned. It crashes all the time inside Logic, and desperately needs a button to hide the built in keyboard.

Changing a patch spikes my m4 to 99 percent

Changing a patch spikes my m4 to 99 percent. No way to contact the developer on their website.

Crash Machine

I have made many great sounds with this app across multiple songs, and in every song this app crashes. Totally unstable and disappointing.

Crashes on every patch change

It loads but on changing a patch it just disappears

Everytime i render the track or freeze it Theres no audio

this synth is good but it keeps crashing and bugging out and when I try to freeze or render it to audio it either crash or doesn’t show the audio or it will have like a little bit of the sound and the rest is gone in a bad way. Please fix this bc I use the sample for 808 and it’s good for sound design. Please fix this

Update: it keeps crashing and it’s Annoying theres not even a buffer size on the synth please fix this please. I like using this synth for samples
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Everytime i render the track or freeze it Theres no audio

this synth is good but it keeps crashing and bugging out and when I try to freeze or render it to audio it either crash or doesn’t show the audio or it will have like a little bit of the sound and the rest is gone in a bad way. Please fix this bc I use the sample for 808 and it’s good for sound design. Please fix this
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Buggy, crashing again and again

Nice Synth, i get the good reviews,
but the amount of crashes i had in one session was unbearable.
Unusable as Auv3 and bad Interapp Audio Integration. So basicly just usable as Destop App. Sadly, i wish i could get my money back (or better, an update adressing these issues)

Unusable as it constantly crashes in Logic Pro for iPad

It’s unusable for months already due to constantly crashing in Logic Pro and won’t get fixed as it seems.

Deep Surprises

ButterSynth allows you to program from several different ideas. It is a deep, great sounding synth that can be a sounding as you like or weird and exotic.
This is why I am so fond of this synthesizer. When programming there are many approaches that can be same sounding, but typically offer timbres that are somewhat similar and yet very different sounding until you realize the base of the sound starts from similar areas in the synth well producing different concepts taken from the same beginning.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of the interface. It’s set up in a way that wastes a lot of screen space. And don’t necessarily come from the same style, which can be a little bit disconcerting and for me at least takes a little bit more time for me to figure out where I wanna go next. However, where I wanna go often ends up someplace different and interesting so in that respect as a user you end up in different places, different representations, and places you didn’t expect to find interesting but are. For that reason, I love this synth and find myself using it way more than I expect. Because of this, it does have a learning curve. I do hope that they approach the graphical user interface because I think that underneath this particular UI there is something exceptional waiting to occur. But if it never changes, there’s so much you can do with ButterSynth and I find myself drawn to its sound no matter that sometimes I spend more time than I would like trying to navigate features. The unexpected sometimes yields results I would personally never think of and that’s great..
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unusable

Keyboard doesn’t load on iPhone.

iOS18 Broke ButterSynth

ButterSynth is a very powerful monster of a synth, but unfortunately since iOS18 was released it no longer works when trying to record the audio in a mixdown or manual track record in Cubasis 3.
Months of dedication spent on creating super presets - all for nothing!

Beautiful as a standalone, terrible as Auv3

I love the app as standalone, but sadly when trying to connect to Logic Pro for iPad as an Auv3, it is very miss or hit. Yep in that order, mostly i get failed to load. I have gone through all settings on both ButterSynth and LogicPro. If this ever gets fixed. This app would be the best synth app out there. Other than that I can’t use it
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It just simply doesn’t work

This app just crashes as soon as a preset is selected, both in standalone and au3.
I don’t think in 15 years I’ve bought an app that is so unusable. Refund requested.