Best apps like Sample Crate

Whether you want more options like Sample Crate or a completely different take on the same concept, our curated list of 10+ similar apps has you covered. Updated for 2026 with the latest ratings and comparisons.

Top Alternatives to Sample Crate

sEGments by Elliott Garage by Elliott Garage

Slicer & Sampler instruments

Editor's Choice

4.8(173 ratings)

$12.99In-App Purchases

This app allows you to import audio files and slice them into individual samples. You can then play these slices using MIDI controllers or on-screen pads, with independent control over each slice's parameters and effects. It also automatically detects BPM and key, and can be used standalone or as an AudioUnit within other music apps.

EG Nodes by Elliott Garage

Clip based Host/MIDI Sequencer

Strong Contender

4.8😊(93 ratings)

$19.99In-App Purchases

This app is a clip-based audio unit host and MIDI sequencer for creating musical projects. It offers a variety of built-in MIDI and audio nodes for generating sequences, recording, and sampling. Users can load external Audio Units and automate parameters for unique compositions.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive and easy to use
💡 Innovative concept and workflow
🚀 Fast idea generation
✨ Inspiring and creative
🔧 Powerful and flexible
✅ Great for concept creation and sound design
🌟 One of the best apps
🧩 Fills a missing piece in music production
🎛️ Excellent for building compositions without a DAW
📈 Constantly improving with updates
👨‍💻 Responsive and engaged developer
🎚️ Easy to record automation
🎶 Great for live performance and jamming
⚙️ Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🎵 Makes music creation fun
💡 Well-designed MIDI sequencer
🚀 Fast and fluid to use
🎛️ Good for Berlin School jamming
🎧 High sound quality
🎚️ Easy to get started with AUV3 plugins
💡 Generative features and probability are excellent
🚀 Quick to bust out ideas
✅ Great on its own and as a MIDI controller
👍 Easy to grasp quickly
🌟 Modern alternative to AUM
🎚️ Fun and genuinely useful
🚀 Ideas just flow
🎶 Perfect for coming up with song structures
🌟 Superb ergonomics
💡 Unique host app
✨ Feature-packed and fun
🚀 Turns iPhone into a powerful music tool
✅ Good alternative to AUM
✨ Wonderful and fun
🚀 Dev working hard to improve
💡 Great tool, intuitive
🚀 Releases come often
💡 Amazingly intuitive Ableton style groovebox
🚀 Easy to get started
💡 Excellent for solo musicians
🚀 Developer extremely responsive
💡 Incredible intuitiveness and ease of use
🚀 Allows excellent creativity and depth
💡 Wonderful job
🚀 No brainer purchase
🌟 New go to for music noodling
🚀 Excellent!
👨‍💻 Developer on it with bug fixes and improvements
🚀 Implements things at lightning speed
🚀 Jamming in no time
🚀 Easy to use and powerful
✅ Clear and easy to understand
🚀 Can be grasped quickly
👨‍💻 Dev worked quickly since release
🚀 Totally recommended
🌟 Modern Alternative to AUM
🚀 Off to a great start
🚀 Best app I never knew I needed!
🚀 Fluid and fun to use
👨‍💻 Developer super engaged
🚀 One of the most used iOS apps
🌟 Great job
🚀 Perfect for Live Performance and Jamming!
👍 Big toggle buttons
👍 User interface doesn’t require a microscope
🚀 Great sequencers and an arpeggiator
🌟 Superior ergonomics and smooth workflow
🚀 Easy to write music
🚀 Anticipates common actions
🎶 Very good sound quality
💡 Ability to load AUV3s and lay down MIDI easily
👨‍💻 Developer very responsive
🌟 First Thoughts...Super! Fantastic! Even Super Fantastic!
👍 Reasonable price point
✅ "Gets" me, and likewise, I "get" it
🚀 Ability to work fast
💡 Many excellent types of nodes
🚀 Ability to add X/Y pad(s) and/or slider(s)
🌟 Amazing!
🌟 Wonderful!
🚀 Cool! Neues Groove Box Konzept.
💡 Many small details make it fun
✅ Well designed midi sequencer
🚀 Great for getting ideas going quickly
🚀 Smashing!
💡 New approach and I like it
🚀 Purchase, and start making beats
🌟 Does EG stand for Excellent, Great because this app is definitely that.
🚀 Takes iOS music to the next level
🚀 So much fun
🚀 Go buy.

Room to Improve

🐛 Sampler won't play correctly
🐛 Sampler features inconsistent
🐛 Random arming and recording into disabled scenes
🐛 Crashes with some apps
🐛 Too much crashing results in losing work
🐛 Accidental refresh instead of saving
🐛 Can't sequence all AU parameters
🐛 Chord module seems weird
🐛 Rhythm module labeling is hard to understand
🐛 Pads option for iPhone could be better
🐛 Sustain pedal input issue (resolved)
🐛 Pan bug (resolved)
🐛 Teething problems being sorted
🐛 Some bugs reported (quickly fixed)

OCTACHRON MIDI Drum Sequencer by Markus Teufel

MIDI CC AUv3

Worth Considering

Physical Modelling Resonator

4.5😊(104 ratings)

$9.99

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This app is a flexible MIDI drum sequencer for iOS, offering up to 16 tracks with advanced modulation and sequencing. It can be used standalone or as an AUv3 plugin in DAWs, and is optimized for drums but also suitable for melodies. It requires iOS 12 or higher.

What We Love

👍 Intuitive and easy to use
💡 Powerful and versatile sequencer
🚀 Produces results quickly
🌟 Great for drum patterns
🎛️ Excellent modulation options
🛠️ Swiss Army knife of drums
🔄 Constant updates and improvements
🎶 Great for generative textures
🎯 Go-to drum sequencer
✨ Brilliant and well-crafted app
💯 Highly recommended
🎵 Fun to use
🎨 Dynamic and clean interface
🧑‍💻 Responsive and engaged developers
💡 Inspires creativity
🧩 Brings everything together
⚡ Fast and efficient workflow
🎚️ Good for live sequencing
🎶 Musically useful results
🌟 Top-tier app
🚀 Great for beginners and pros
💯 Must-have for mobile music
✨ Incredible power
👍 Works well with other apps/hardware
✅ Plug and play
🚀 Fast and easy setup
🌟 One of a kind
✨ Great AUv3 sequencer
💡 Offers variation options
💯 Worth the price

Room to Improve

🐛 Pattern change via MIDI difficult
❓ Clock div issues reported
💡 Missing touchable pads
❓ No sound output reported
🐛 Projects broken by update
💡 Limited number of patterns
❓ No MIDI recording option
🐛 Unwanted random notes
🐛 Skipping first note on pattern change
🐛 GUI glitchy/choppy
❓ No manual or tutorials
💡 No iPhone version
❓ GarageBand AUv3 compatibility questioned
💡 Only 8 patterns maximum
🐛 Crashing when loading custom mapping
❓ No note length option
❓ Only 1 octave range
🐛 Repeating notes unexpectedly
🐛 Kick muting in song mode
🐛 Controller faders not working perfectly
💡 No MIDI channel per track
💡 No pattern resync for DAW sync
💡 No way to preview sounds
💡 No way to import sound directly
💡 No follow mode in song mode
💡 Enhanced mod edit mode needed
💡 Ability to drag/select patterns in song mode
💡 MIDI learn button for tracks
💡 Option to record drums live
💡 MidiStep record feature requested
💡 Add more patterns
💡 Add triplets
💡 Midi file export/import
💡 System-wide preset save/load
💡 Randomization for different genres
💡 16 channels needed
💡 More options for MIDI input
💡 Midi channel per drum sound
💡 Number indicating parameter value
💡 Ability to tie patterns

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