eSPi Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.8% of reviews
Neutral20.0% of reviews
Negative experience29.2% of reviews

~ Based on 65 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is eSPi Safe?

eSPi appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for eSPi is 73/100.

This assessment is based on 39 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.7/5.

Safety Analysis

59.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
15.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
25.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 39 App Store ratings for eSPi.

Is eSPi Legit?

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

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

Top reviews

Needs Zero Crossing Snapping for De-Click

Gated samples click heavily, adjusting the Envelope doesn’t help. Having a way for the samples to automatically stop at a zero crossing will help. Still lots of other bugs. Segments will randomly stop and the progress bar will be stuck at the beginning. Gated notes in general are faulty when copying on sequence to the next or when opening a saved project. The gated notes get doubled for some reason. Frustrating in general and especially for $20. The longer I use, the more bugs there are. Also, when using the Sample Library, some keyboard keys don’t work when using the Search bar?? Why??
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LoVE IT!

JUST PEEP THE SIDE-BY-SIDE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE TO SEE HOW CLOSE IT IS TO THE OG SP!

Labor of Love

This is really a labor of love. And gets you closest to having a 1200 without paying thousands of dollars. It’s years in the making and the developer is always working on the next update, slow but steady. If you spend any time with the app you can tell they put a lot of effort in the small details too.
I bought the desktop version also to have it, and to support the developer.
And what you get for the price is outstanding. This definitely needed a more recent review, always excited to see what comes next.
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AuV3

No AuV3 ?? 🧐🧐🧐

Great app but a few bugs

This is a really good app and I like it a lot but at the moment there are a couple of bugs. I’m on IPad Pro the sample editor is really fiddly if you’re struggling use two fingers one above and then another gesture with one to the right. Use two fingers to scroll through samples in sample library. Took me ages to work this out.
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Appreciation

Thank You For This App Sitrukain

Good sampler

Thx broski

Reminiscing of the good old days!

This app is definitely a masterpiece it got me reminiscing if when I had my original Sp-12 back in 1989

Great app but a few bugs

This is a really good app and I like it a lot but at the moment there are a few bugs which make it really awkward to use. The main one for me is in the sample library that I cannot scroll through my samples I can scroll through folders but when I open a folder, it kind of freezes and won’t let me scroll through my samples making it very hard to use. There are also some glitches sometimes on the when using sample editor that waveform doesn’t match what’s being edited. I hope these will get sorted soon and then it will be an amazing app. I am using it on the iPad Pro.
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I found a bug

when using the search feature, the application treats letters assigned to pads as triggers, which makes it impossible to type letters from a to z.
Additionally, on the iPhone 13 mini the notch slightly covers some interface buttons.

Why did i get charged so much

It was $24.99 I lost $80? Why?
Other than that it’s awesome, but it was a spur of the moment purchase but for $25 cool, I was in the mood to get billed almost a hundred bucks though I can tell you that

I want to love this app, but still some shortcomings

I really like all the new menu additions to this app compared to the original machine; multi chop, internal EQs and filters would have been a dream to have on the hardware versions. This app keeps falling short from minor bugs that simply make me have to abandon a working project and scrap everything.
Any time I’m in the sound library to load sounds, somehow the screen zooms in where I can only see and access pads 2 to 7, and I can no longer see or access the rest of the user interface. This has also happened with the text keyboard popping up on accident to rename a sample and I have to totally close the app and start fresh again.

If there was a way to recover the last unsaved state of a project, it would be a lifesaver. Another addition that would help this app tremendously would be having the step sequencer like the OG machine for us that don’t want to live on the grid so we can have more control over programming (Tapping out on high resolution does not give the same effect).

I’ll keep an eye out for more updates in hopes that I can finally really enjoy this app and get my money’s worth.
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was ok before the update

Sound is distorded since last update fix it please. Ipad 10th gen

Classic sound on your iPad

It makes my heart happy to know that someone took from his time in order to make this happen. This is a legendary sampler that now (2025) we can enjoy in our iOS devices. Definitely looking forward to make a lot of beats in here specially boom bap and house music! Thanks to the developer for pursuing his passion and love for this vintage sampler machine!!
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Великолепно

Команда начала работу над новой версией , я в них верю !!!

Awesome Replication!

Great SP1200 emulator sounds exactly like a real unit. Update made workflow much easier, keep up the good work. I wish we could have 8 outs into AUM. Peace

Super

Really fun app!

This app is killer! But..

There are a few bugs I’ve come across.

1. The app won’t allow me to give permission to view files in the settings app, only permission to use microphone. I’m on iOS 17.6.1.

2. There’s a graphic bug when I want to use the app in landscape. It turns the iPhone SP1200 UI into the iPad SP1200 UI but it remains vertical.

3. Note repeats seems a tiny bit buggy. It now overlaps the sound rather than cutoff the sound and play it thru the note repeat like before the reconstruction update. An example would be like when I’m adding 1/16th hats over 1/8th hats, it makes the 1/8th hats sound louder because the note repeat is over lapping the sound. Maybe that is a bug.

4. There’s no gain, mixer and metronome sound knobs in the iPhone UI. It only appears when I tilt my phone in landscape and use the iPad UI and change it there.

Hope this feedback helps. I still rated the app 5 stars!
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Aliasing for all

The earlier reviews were fair, but version 2 fixed those issues and the app is now pretty fluid especially when using a computer keyboard along with it. Great sp1200 workflow and sound!

Nickel chrome

De loin la meilleur application du monde vous en rêviez, low hiss la fait