Koala Sampler User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience88.1% of reviews
Neutral4.3% of reviews
Negative experience7.6% of reviews

~ Based on 579 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Koala Sampler Safe?

Koala Sampler • Beat Maker appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Koala Sampler is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 1,396 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

93.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,396 App Store ratings for Koala Sampler.

Is Koala Sampler Legit?

Koala Sampler • Beat Maker appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Koala Sampler is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

v2.0 Very Good !!

User from v1.0
Koala is getting mature and solid.

Le problème récurrent de surchauffe et de surconsommation semble avoir été enfin réglé 👍🏻🙏🏻
L’arrivée des AUV3 et toutes les nouveautés montent l’expérience un bon cran au dessus.
Workflow et lisibilité, c’est le meilleur pocket sampler et de loin.

Il me manque juste :
- l’automation (big request)
- a transport bar in the sample section (play stop at least)
- a song mode (an old fashioned playlist of the sequences will be find)
- adjustable volume for previews in the sample selection section

Keep going, Koala sampler rocks 🙏🏻 … 55 years old timer, I used maaaany samplers in my life.
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Response from developer

Battery should be much better now, also now there is auv3 support. More fun stuff to come thx for your support

Exceptional App

Ridiculous value. Amazing feature set. Very intuitive and easy to use, yet extremely powerful. Super fun. I enjoy making music through Koala more than any other tool. Even desktop DAWs!

Best of the best

This app goes from strength to strength with regular updates and over the last couple of years has absolutely excelled beyond anything else for music production! Samples, auv3 sweet little 4 track mixer. Absolutely outstanding bit of kit!

Tips

I ain’t gonna lie if y’all make it to where you can transpose fast and then add automations and the piano roll area like in the like in a sequence it’ll be over with bro if y’all add automations and transposing is overweight

I found the pack

Hopefully the app will allow me to change my review. My apologies. I assumed the item/s came wit an update. The funny thang is I wuz on the right track when lookin in the folders. I did go to Get More Samples, but didn’t click on anything.

I wuz expectin it to be a download of sum kind. Which it is… but my mind wuz thinkin it wuz an update download. Raised my stars to 5. I wonder if in the future an undo button will be added?
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Seriously good.

Massive props to the developer on this. Amazing app. Ridiculous value for money..

Incredible!

Can’t believe I didn’t grab this sooner! This app is amazing. The UI is super intuitive. Having as much fun as I’ve had on gear that costs 30 times the price even after including the samurai and mixer add ons. Resampling, effects, editing clips, arranging. This app does it all. I will say that the add ons are a must. The export to Ableton is a great feature too! Don’t be like me and waste time waiting to buy this app. Just do it.
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Une petite pépite

Comme d’autres je ne suis pas du genre à poster des avis mais là je dois dire que c’est différent ! Koala est la pépite qu’il faut avoir dans la poche. Je m’en sert tout le temps, pour choper un son à la volée est en faire un sample, pour créer des beats pour créer des petits blind tests sonores, pour faire des boucles de synthé etc … j’ai du matos hardware à côté mais koala est tellement puissant ! Je regrette juste de ne pas arriver à faire fonctionner mon Digitakt et koala parfaitement, le mappage bug pour moi mais je ne pense pas que ça vienne de l’application . Un grand merci à toute l’équipe qui bosse pour améliorer cette application vraiment top 🙏
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Groove Box in Your Pocket

It doesn’t have everything, but it has enough to be deadly with your creativity.

For most people this app will save hundreds of dollars as compared to buying a real groove box.

The best music making app

Must have if you love making sample based music. Essential.

NO UNDO BUTTON

If you happen to brush up against the wrong thing by accident say goodbye to hours of sample editing because you can’t undo. I really wish I had known that before spending the money.

Simply a must have.

I think just about anyone would enjoy this app. Musical or not. It’s just straight up fun. But also incredibly deep if you want to keep going. And you do.

If you bought this and drool over something like an MPC, understand that you’re getting 95% of what’s cool about an MOC, and it’s in your pocket.

The lack of subscription puts the cherry on top. Happy to pay for upgrades and packs.
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Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Making Music

This app has put a huge smile on my face so many times. Lightweight and surprisingly powerful, especially once you add the Samurai and Mixer add-ons. The workflow super intuitive and a lot of fun. Highly recommend.

Best music app

If your not sold on it YouTube will sell you on it hands down everything else is second to Koala Sampler 🖖🏽

Buss

One thing PLEASE - could we get the option to route the separate 4 BUSS channels into a audio track inside Ableton so we can record from the BUSS and not have to go to each sample individually to place on each individual “out” audio track. Its do-able now , yet the do-able way the fx from the BUSS’s are not recorded in the “out” option ..


Still with that said this is still Ultimately my favorite sampler. The go to no matter what i am cooking or where i am cooking. Koala is there on the ipad and the laptop.
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Wow!

I’ve never felt compelled to write a review of an app before. But this app has elevated my beat making and given me the inspiration to produce like nothing before. It’s so intuitive, it just works.

The greatest!

Now that there’s AUV3 support, it’s 10/10.

My only wants now are:

1. Easier access to transport and keyboard controls from the Sample tab without having to constantly switch back and forth between Sample and Sequence for those functions.

Maybe you could offer the choice between a few preconfigured UI layout to suit different workflows the way Lumafusion does to accommodate different workflows and displays.

I would personally like to see the all the menu options at the top of the app swap places with all the buttons at the bottom of the screen for quicker to more frequently used buttons/options. I don’t find myself needing to reach for Mute, Solo or any of the pattern banks nearly as often as I do the mode tabs and settings menu.

2. I noticed that synths don’t respond to pressure sensitivity from my Novation Launchpad X like they do when I run them in AUM or Logic Pro on Mac. So, I hope that gets added/fixed.
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More potential

Great app just wish I could use a AKAI APC mini with the app, it connects to it and pads work but no lights, no organization, no mode changing buttons, no slider configuration, and it won’t even let you configure anything, I hope this improves

v2.0 Very Good !!

Le problème récurrent de surchauffe et de surconsommation semble avoir été enfin réglé 👍🏻🙏🏻
L’arrivée des AUV3 et toutes les nouveautés montent l’expérience un bon cran au dessus.
Meilleur workflow et lisibilité, c’est le meilleur pocket sampler et de loin.
Avec la 2.0 je suis de retour dessus full time, il me manque juste l’automation, la possibilité de pouvoir enregistrer un mouvement de filtre ou autre paramètre au choix. Quand ça arrivera je mettrai 5 étoiles.
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Response from developer

Battery should be much better now, also now there is auv3 support. More fun stuff to come thx for your support

2.0 update is perfect

After using this app for over a year solid now, I can say it’s absolutely incredible. Thank you for consistently working on and improving the app. The battery usage is so much better after the 2.0 update, and the previous update added in external auv3 support. I’m excited to see what else will be added over time!
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