# Ruffio: Backing track creator — user reviews > 41 indexed App Store user reviews of Ruffio by Rufus Mall, rated 4.40/5 from 434 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruffio-backing-track-creator/id1544449867/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ruffio-backing-track-creator/id1544449867.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 331 · 4★ 44 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 37 ## What do users think of Ruffio? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎵 Excellent audio stem separation quality - 💰 Completely free with no ads - 👍 User-friendly and easy to use - 🚀 Fast and efficient processing - ⭐ Works better than paid competitors - 🎸 Useful for musicians and cover artists - 📱 Runs locally on device **Cons** - 🐛 YouTube import feature frequently broken - 📱 iPad compatibility issues and crashes - 🔊 Audio quality sometimes muddy or unclear - 🎚️ Slider controls can be imprecise - ❌ Missing export/save functionality - 📂 No playlist or file management options - 🔄 Cannot delete individual tracks easily **Commonly reported bugs** - YouTube import not working (multiple reports) - App crashes on iPad - Audio phasing in and out during playback - Sliders not responding to input - Staticky sound quality - Drums still audible when slider turned off - Voice cutting out intermittently - App not functioning on iPhone 13 Pro - Blank screen on iPad with missing import button **Most requested features** - Export stems as individual audio files - Pitch change and tempo adjustment - Ability to play songs backwards - Better slider controls and responsiveness - Playlist management system - Easy track deletion without reinstalling - Cleaner and clearer stem separation - Better iPad UI with visible import button ## Newest reviews (15 of 41) ### 3/5 — Love it *2026-05-28* Love love love this app! Have for a very long time now… however recently it’s started to glitch pretty regularly! & it seems as if it’s clipping more than it used to as well… hopefully it gets back to it’s normal greatness VERY soon!! ### 4/5 — Really good for the most part *2026-01-30, version 2025.11.16* Really useful tool I’m super glad it’s free. The only thing is that the YouTube function thingy doesn’t work all the time which gets kind of annoying other than that very pleased with this app. ### 4/5 — Good *2025-01-30, version 4.8* Good, but not enough sections ### 4/5 — Amazing *2024-07-01* I’m gonna start off by saying that this app is awesome. The only thing that I don’t like is that I can still kind of hear the drums when i turn the slider completely off. And the voice is a little bit blurry for some songs. Also sometimes the voice will completely cut off for a little bit. Other than that I would totally recommend it. ### 4/5 — Great tool, but… *2024-06-16, version 3.7* The track separation works quite well. Superior to other apps I tried, like for example “Let’s Unmix”, although this is a paid app. But I really miss an export option ! If you also provide this, I will happily grant 5 stars. ### 5/5 — This is good app *2024-02-01* This is a good free app that does what i need it to do, but i have a recommendation, can you make it where we can save the music as a file? it'll be really good, if you can do that. ### 5/5 — Great App *2023-12-11* Does exactly what it Says ### 5/5 — Good app *2023-11-21, version 3.5* I was looking for a app to do this and it’s just as you expect it has pretty good software but importing the songs are a bit complicated ### 5/5 — so surprising but some questions *2023-08-27* first it is really amazing to find it run localized ,i am wondering how you are able to use spleeter on ios as it is based on tensorflow and python . maybe by mlmodels? or other ways ... 🙏 **Developer response:** It has been written in pure swift, the weights/audio are loaded from disk as binary files and then basically loop over the data and apply the transforms that match the tensorflow graph. If I recall correctly, I also used some of the BNNS Framework. There is also a coreML version on GitHub. But I don’t use that. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2023-07-14* Most apps I try to use have like a free trial or you can only do a certain amount of things or you only get 30 secs of a song but this app lets you do whatever you want and all you have to do is copy a link! I’m fully satisfied with the app and it cancels out the things I don’t want in a song perfectly. I totally recommend this app. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2023-07-07* Developer is a True Music Lover, Your Hard Work Is Appreciated. ### 4/5 — Decent app *2023-06-12* Decent app. Wish there was a way to delete tracks without deleting the app and reinstalling. Some songs sound a little muddy but it’s helped learn a little ### 4/5 — Issue with iPad *2023-04-26* Works great on iPhone (X) but only get a screen on my iPad that says tap the Import button…but there is no button. Really would like it to work on iPad (latest gen, updated). **Developer response:** Thanks for reporting this! You will have to orientate the device in portrait mode to import. I will fix this in a future update! Sorry for the inconvenience. ### 5/5 — Parfait *2023-02-15, version 3.2* Je ne sais pas quoi dire si ce n’est que c’est exactement ce que je cherchais en tant que batteur depuis un moment ! Merci aux développeurs ! C’est parfait ### 3/5 — Please improve sliders *2023-02-09* This is a very great product, but those sliders makes me mad **Developer response:** Hi Memtimen! Thanks for the constructive feedback. I added a fix to make the sliders more responsive to touches. let me know if this resolves your issue! Thanks again. -Rufus ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No funciona en iPad *2026-01-04, version 2025.11.16* No funciona en mi iPad se cierra al momento, tiene 15.8.5 en teoria soporta la aplicación, ### 1/5 — Importing from YouTube doesn’t work *2023-10-25, version 3.5* I’ve had a great experience with this app for the most part, until recently. Importing youtube videos to Ruffio no longer works, which was the biggest draw of this app for me personally. It’s incredibly frustrating to see this bug remain for so long. Hope the feature returns soon. ### 1/5 — Can’t import any video and I do have the last version of it. *2023-09-15* Can’t import any video. **Developer response:** Hey, thanks for reporting this issue. This should be fixed now! ### 1/5 — youtube import is broken *2023-04-29* i cannot import any new videos from youtube to split the audio. this is incredibly frustrating , hope it gets fixed soon. **Developer response:** Hi, sorry for the issues. This should be fixed for you if you download the latest version of the app. ### 1/5 — And … *2023-03-24* If all this is is a blank screen that takes you iTunes then why. Is this an import storage app cause I was under the impression it was more. If it’s not and I paid for it I don’t think so. Anyway there are no directions or tutorials on how to and as you can tell by my review I’m completely stumped ### 1/5 — Not clean *2022-06-08, version 2.0* It needs to be fixed ### 1/5 — Not even close ! *2022-05-10* All the app is doing is fading the song in and out every few seconds . No go , guys ! **Developer response:** Hi there. Thanks for the feedback. Can you please send me one of the audio clips you are having issue with so I can diagnose the issue. Rufusmall@hotmail.com Thanks ### 1/5 — Does not work as advertised *2022-02-19* Downloaded this app this morning and loaded two songs. Cannot mute or isolate instruments or vocals. Thought that it would be a help, but now know otherwise. **Developer response:** Can you email me at: Rufusmall@hotmail.com so I can try resolve your issue? It would be good if you could send along one of the audio files so I can diagnose the issue. Please put Ruffio in the subject of the email. ### 1/5 — Not sure whats going on *2022-02-07* Every file I import has the music phase in and out and the sound is really staticky. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong, but as far as I can tell the sliders aren’t doing anything. **Developer response:** Wow that is strange! Can you email me at: Rufusmall@hotmail.com so I can try resolve your issue? It would be good if you could send along one of the audio files. ### 1/5 — Not working *2021-10-27* Isn’t working anymore, I got an iPhone 13 Pro and isn’t working properly anymore **Developer response:** Edit: This has now been fixed. Thanks for helping me resolve this. This was an issue occurring on iOS 15 only. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I love this app *2026-07-11, version 2025.11.16* Please allow me to export ### 5/5 — Danke *2025-11-25, version 2025.11.16* Danke Rufus Mall für diese kostenfreie App, welche die einzelnen Instrumente recht gut trennt. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-03-13, version 5.2* Is this app really for free? ### 5/5 — I love this app *2024-11-25, version 4.0* As a musician, this app is so useful for me. Dear developer: Can you please tell me where the songs that are converted are stored on my Ipad. Thank you ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-11-16* The app works very well for people like me who do covers of songs and want to hear how a particular rhythm section or melody or drumbeat was originally composed. When everything is pulled together in the complete song sometimes it’s hard to hear what the rhythm guitar sounds like as far as upstrokes and downstrokes etc.. One of the things that would be really useful would be the ability to export the different parts as files so they could be mucked around with later. Not sure if there’s a copyright issue related to that, probably I would think. But that’s the only thing I can think of because the separation works extremely well. Congratulations this is a very well written app. ### 5/5 — This is almost perfect for me and as good as it gets in 2024 *2024-11-04* No ads,super easy to use,doesn’t charge a fee, works as good as anything else out there for my purposes. I wish the stems were cleaner and clearer with all of the stem separaters. Maybe someday that will happen. I really like this!!! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-11-03* The app works very well for people like me who do covers of songs and want to hear how a particular rhythm section or melody or drumbeat was originally composed. When everything is pulled together in the complete song sometimes it’s hard to hear what the rhythm guitar sounds like as far as upstrokes and downstrokes etc.. One of the things that would be really useful would be the ability to export the different parts as files so they could be mucked around with later. Not sure if there’s a copyright issue related to that, probably I would think. But that’s the only thing I can think of because the separation works extremely well. Congratulations this is a very well written app. ### 5/5 — Parfait *2024-06-30, version 3.7* Pourquoi payer une blinde pour d’autres appli qui font largement moins que celle ci. Merci aux développeurs pour ce travail ### 5/5 — SO Awesome. Shocked this works this well *2024-06-23* It’s working extremely, extremely well. It’s a rare experience to have an app or website that’s this cool actually work (and on the first attempt at using it) and to not let your hopes down or something. So so awesome!! ### 5/5 — Good *2024-03-20* It’s really wonderful this app Does what it says --- *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 2026-08-16.*