# Patterning for iPhone — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of Patterning for iPhone by Olympia Noise Co., rated 4.80/5 from 246 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/patterning-for-iphone/id1491394394/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/patterning-for-iphone/id1491394394.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 221 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Patterning for iPhone? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 💡 Unique and inventive music device - 👍 Great touch interface - 💡 Inspires creativity and promotes variation - 🚀 Quick and intuitive flow - 👍 Fun and natural approach to drum machine - 👍 Excellent for getting ideas down quickly - 👍 Dope app, awesome for making beats - 👍 Best iOS drum machine found - 👍 Super quick, intuitive, improvisational flow - 👍 Amazing tool for high-quality beats - 👍 Great UI, inspired creativity - 👍 Free and a blast to play with - 👍 Legit with Ableton Live Lite license - 👍 Insane value for the price - 👍 Best drum machine app - 👍 Great interface, easy to use - 👍 Best dev in iOS music apps - 👍 Really nice conversion - 👍 Génial, excellente app sur iPhone - 👍 The best iOS drum machine finally on the iPhone! **Cons** - 🐛 Occasionally crashes - 🐛 Clunky access to advanced features - 🐛 Ads are a no go - 🐛 No support, dead link - 🐛 Stuck on 4/4 pattern - 🐛 Drum sounds are pretty bad - 🐛 Awkward iPhone version on iPad - 🐛 Missing mute and erase functions - 🐛 Limited to 16 steps - 🐛 Design flaw with step limit - 🐛 Can only design 2 beats of a bar - 🐛 No acoustic drum kits - 🐛 Saving/exporting not intuitive - 🐛 Lacking MIDI control - 🐛 No sample import / custom kits - 🐛 No filter or FX - 🐛 iPhone version lacks iPad features **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes from time to time - In-app support points to a dead link - Cannot change time signatures - Locks up on iPad Pro - Force quitting and restarting does not fix it **Most requested features** - Undo button - Isolate audio of individual tracks - Ability to mute/solo tracks - Mix page - More bars to work with - Ability to go through pages of patterns - 32 step support - Separate fractions of steps by 'page' - Expand probability to other parameters - Notes go to 32 - Build own kit - MIDI note input - AUv3 support - Multi output - Patterning 2 for iPhone - Change current pattern by MIDI message - MIDI IN to drum with pads - Import/record individual samples to create new kits - Multi out AU3 or IAA ## Newest reviews (11 of 38) ### 4/5 — Clever implementation, occasionally crash’s *2025-09-19* Really nice concept, well executed, great touch interface. Cons, bit clunky getting at the advanced features, shame it only had one kit, and crashes from time to time ### 4/5 — Great app *2025-05-01* Love having this on the phone. Just wish it had similar features to the iPad version! Ability to mute/solo tracks and a mix page would be fab. Would happily pay full price to do this.. ### 4/5 — Fun app, but needs an undo button *2024-10-06* I see it’s been a long time since you showed this app any love, I know you’re working in patterning 3. But if you could add an undo button, and also a way to isolate the audio of individual tracks, this app would be perfect ### 4/5 — Great app to get a quick idea down, but… *2023-02-16* It would be amazing to have another couple of bars to work with, or at least one more bar. I could imagine there being a line of page numbers - 1,2,3,4 that you can go through and edit individually, and then when you press play it cycles through them in order. Maybe this is a feature on the IPad version? Either way it would be cool to have this and be able to create more varied loops. ### 4/5 — REQUEST *2022-06-06* 32 step support would make this an everyday tool. Please add 32+ step support for those who like going crazy to make it more organization more accessible, I’d separate even fractions of steps by “page” maybe for the iphone version. For ipad, im pretty sure 32 steps can be easily visable ### 4/5 — Auv3 *2021-11-03* Auv3 will be the reference, and inter app will soon disappear, the app will be discontinued? ### 4/5 — So far so good *2021-10-24, version 1.0.9* Are there any acoustic regular sounding drum kits ( not electronic) all the one I have tried are all hip hop digital sounding kits.Just looking for a standard rock drum kit sound ### 5/5 — Love this app *2020-12-07* Love the sounds! I only use my iphone for making music and feel so sad that i can’t use patterning 2. I would gladly pay for either an update to this patterning for : midi note input Auv3 Multi output Or please of please patterning 2 for iphone. ### 5/5 — Legit with the ableton live lite lisence *2020-11-13* Legit with the ableton live lite lisence ### 5/5 — This is the best *2020-08-25* I used it for 5 minutes and can’t believe it’s free. I’ve seen no ads, you can download basically unlimited kits for free and there’s fx sends, all in a unique look and take on a drum machine. The full version is $6, which I already got, so I can save it to my drive or icloud as a .als. If this were a plugin it’d be hundreds of dollars, insane value for the price. ### 5/5 — Great drum machine I want it on my pc please *2020-07-03* GGrewq ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Patterning 2 where art though? I only see your big $40 brother and free step child? *2026-01-22* I guess it was about a year that I had Patterning 2 before Patterning 3 was out and all updates for 2 went legacy. There are things that my fellow Washington people did to mitigate this little bit of “not getting what you paid for and feeling like $39.99 for Patterning 3 is is way different than $9.99 for Patterning 2” … like there better be an air fryer or a free Spotify sub and not just the iPhone version to run on your iPad (pro - it’s awkward and feels weird, although the midi functioning is awesome - I guess it just feels like I’ve been ripped off for $39.99 - $9.99 =$30.00… and that’s a lot of app purchasing power that could be spent in many ways. ### 1/5 — Ads are a no go. *2025-07-12* I opened this app 3 times after redownloading it to be greeted by ads. I won’t be using it again or purchasing other apps by this developer. ### 1/5 — No Support *2025-04-06* Paid for this app. I in-app support points to a dead link Cannot change time signatures, stuck on a 4/4 pattern. Thing feels like a piece of garbage and the drum sounds are petty bad on top of that. ### 1/5 — Locks up on iPad Pro *2022-10-06* This seems like a great idea, but repeatedly locked up on my 1st gen iPad Pro 12.9". Even force quitting the app and restarting did not fix it. ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2021-11-14* I paid for this app because there was no demo. The features seem impressive at first glance but due to the fact that there is a 16 step limit to patterns you can’t build loops up. Really a design flaw. If you want to put 8th notes or 16th notes in a pattern then you will be limited only 16 steps of 8th notes or whatever increment you chose. This is problematic and you can only begin to understand how limiting it is once you begin to build patterns. For example: If you set your kick pattern to 8th notes and your hihat pattern to 16th notes, your hihat pattern will play through twice before a single bar has passed. So you can really only design 2 beats of your bar and it will just repeat itself to finish out the bar. ### 2/5 — No ableton live lite? *2021-03-09* Patterning is a great app, says it comes with live lite although I can’t find it would be nice to sync it with live lite pretty bare on its own **Developer response:** Live Lite is available only with the full version of the app. It will be displayed in the export menu below the Live Export Option. ### 2/5 — Lacking midi control *2020-07-17* Great app and sounds great, the only thing I miss is a way to change current pattern by midi message ### 3/5 — So nice except for MIDI IN ? *2021-02-16* A so fantastic app ! But can we hope soon MIDI IN to drum with some pad ? I know that the iPad version have it, but I’m running an iPhone only for a smal config. ### 3/5 — Sympa ! *2021-02-13* Il manque vraiment les options de la version iPad.. Dommage ! ### 3/5 — So close, but.. *2020-07-03* No sample import / custom kits = deal breaker. Otherwise coolest sequencer on iOS. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Get it *2026-02-02* I left my iPad at work. Good thing I have my phone to deliver beats and midi clock to my eurorack. ### 5/5 — Perfection (... almost) *2024-06-16* Patterning is a unique, incredibly inventive and elaborate music device. I love the Ipad version, and this one too - although the various colours are missing and I cannot find the mute and erase functions. But it’s so much inspiring, don’t miss it! ### 5/5 — iPhone: love patterning and all the great free kits. *2024-05-27* First off- it’s a drum sampler with unique controls, no auv3, and zipped audio exports (lol) but still- it’s free and a blast to play with. patterning 2 on iPad is better, but it’s also not free. Have an iPhone? Download patterning, draw various circles for each drum part, click on pencil, tweak parameters the same way, by filling each drum part- the more color you paint, the more Aggro the sound, less color you paint, the duller it gets. Now hit randomize!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — My favorite drum controller *2024-05-15* I love this UI. It’s inspired creativity and promotes velocity variation which adds to a natural vibe. I am using it wirelessly with my macbook for composition. This means I have the wolds best controller sending midi into my daw, driving my favorite drum vsts. ### 5/5 — So fun *2023-05-15* This approach to a drum machine is so natural and fun. Great job developers ### 5/5 — dope app *2022-06-20* awesome app wish the probability would expand to other parameters maybe also if the notes could go to 32 otherwise i love this app no complaints ### 5/5 — Bombshell - mind blown *2022-01-08* In two days I’ve learned more about making dynamic beats than in a year of struggling. Not only is this app an amazing tool for making high quality beats you will happen across beautiful little accidents that you can incorporate into your regular beat making process, whether it be on hardware or a DAW. There is plenty more I could say but yeah. Amazing. ### 5/5 — Best iOS drum machine I’ve found so far. Super quick intuitive improvisational flow *2021-12-13* Immediately intuitive fun and deep quick performance ### 5/5 — Bit of a learning curve…worth it *2021-06-29* This was one of those apps that initially I downloaded on a whim, played with for a bit, scratched my head, and moved on. Seemed like a neat idea, but I had no clue how to use it. After a few months I revisited it, took a little time to learn it, and became quite impressed. The ability to tweak the f out of time signatures per track is amazing on its own. Velocity editing and ratcheting is great. This app is extremely flexible in how beats can be programmed. I do wish there was the ability to build your own kit, and saving/exporting is not that intuitive, but the rest of the app still merits 5 stars. ### 5/5 — So much fun *2021-03-27* This app helped me get out of a creative slump!!!! I’m a former student of one of the creators of this app and I knew it would be cool, but I didn’t expect it to have so many options for saving and exporting— I can just create and save a sick pattern, export to Ableton, and manipulate clips and record even more with less effort than an entirely new Ableton project. Really awesome for those of us who are rusty with DAWs. Can’t wait to make more music!!!!! --- *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 2026-09-05.*