# Sampletoy — user reviews > 98 indexed App Store user reviews of Sampletoy by Mazbox Limited, rated 4.20/5 from 104 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sampletoy/id355918828/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sampletoy/id355918828.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 66 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 8 ## Newest reviews (18 of 98) ### 4/5 — Pls add a hold button and an AuV3 connection *2026-02-05* Than I’m happy. Tolle App mit enormen Potential auch zum Live spielen. ### 4/5 — Crash de l'application *2025-03-07* Crash de l'application à plusieurs reprises lors de là création de sample dans les réglages. Merci au développeur pour l'appareil ### 4/5 — Good app *2023-06-27, version 1.2.5* Combine this with kaola and this would be dangerous..,, ### 5/5 — The best audio toy for iPhone ever *2021-04-01, version 1.2.5* I’m so glad this app has survived the legendary Apple culling, because I would be so truly lost without its quick and easy little creative utility. This is the app I still think about when thinking about mobile sound apps that are legitimately useful for design work ### 5/5 — Fun! *2020-10-19* Very simple. One of those apps you don’t have to think about when you’re using it — it’s built right and just makes sense. EDIT: I don’t know how I missed the de-clicker; it’s right there 😆. **Developer response:** Hi Satchnut! Thanks for the review! There is a start/end de-clicker - in the PITCH options, it’s called “SMOOTH LOOP” ### 4/5 — Nifty but doesn’t seem to sample *2020-10-16* Rec button doesn’t seem to turn the mic on for me (it’s meant to yeah?? doesn’t record what’s playing from another app.). Mic seems to be fine in other apps. Happily however I can at least take the extra step of importing recordings from elsewhere, play around with them, record the manipulations then export them. Fun app with a creativity-friendly interface. **Developer response:** Hi KiteO You might have microphone permissions turned off for sampletoy. iOS doesn’t let you record sounds from other apps unless you use something like AudioBus (which sampletoy supports) you can also load WAV files into sampletoy - find the WAV file you want to import, then press the share button and press “open in sampletoy) ### 5/5 — Sampletoy 2! *2020-08-24* Please) With modern design and AU3! Take my money!!!))) ### 4/5 — Awesome and simple to use *2020-08-19* A novelty gadget that could also have some serious uses. Record in the field or import your samples easily. So good. Thanks for making it free. Would pay up to $5.99 for something like this. Will stay tuned for more apps from this dev. ### 5/5 — Mad Genius *2020-04-17* Simple put, bought this app because of the confidence I have in elf-audio’s KOALA. Once again, was NOT disappointed! Look, apps on the iPad and iPhone can be characterized as SPG’s, Serious Professional Gadgets. Love what they do right out of the box by themselves. They get you there quickly and easily. That being said, they have tons to offer in the form of creativity. When you have people like Marek, they understand what the future of productivity looks like. I hope they continue to keep one eye on that future and the other on what’s needed today, and seems like he does. Looking forward to creating some interesting projects with this one, thank you. ### 5/5 — Hidden Gem *2020-01-28* This is like my OG iPhone app. It was literally the first thing I installed on my original iPhone 3GS way back in the day. I have loved and used it more than probably any app on any device I’ve ever owned. It’s easy to use and fun to play. My only ‘complaint’ I guess would be that the newer version does not seem to offer the hold function when you slide your finger to the edge of the screen. I really appreciated locking in on a particular loop and jamming along with synth, other hardware, or whatever. Maybe it was just an oversight, and the developers will notice they made a terrible error and replace the hold function. Otherwise this app is great! It has everything a music app should: it’s easy to use, versatile and inexpensive. Thank you! ### 4/5 — Very useful synth *2020-01-05* Buying this to support Koala. Really useful for creating interesting sound just missing a couple of things. .1. Hold .2 Normalize ### 5/5 — Sweeeet! *2019-10-14* Fall in love with this app! Thank you. Would you like to add a kind of “hold” function? I mean when I press my screen with finger and put it off and it’s keep playing? Would be great! ### 5/5 — Pretty useful *2019-06-24* I loved koala so much I bought this other app by the same developer. For such a cheap price it's a pretty useful little thing and I'm sure it will fit in to my arsenal quite well. Simplistic but powerful in the right sample junky hands ### 5/5 — Awesome *2019-04-16* If this the kind of thing you like (you know who you are), you’re going to LOVE this! Brilliantly simple but powerful. ### 4/5 — Good app! *2019-03-31* Simple, inexpensive app but it does what it says in the description. ### 5/5 — OMG IT’S BACK!!! =) *2019-03-13* Loved this app years ago, until it was no longer supported. BUT IT’s BAAAACK!!! <3 ### 5/5 — YaY *2018-01-16, version 1.2.2* sampletoy is back!!! best regards ### 4/5 — Oh my goodness thank you so much !!!! *2018-01-16* I have had and used this app since my very first iPhone 4 in 2011 it has always been one of my favs and I can’t even tell you how many times I have referenced the fact that it never got an update , I was actually worried about the developer and thought perhaps he had passed away ...... I got an iPhone 8 Plus last month and was just devastated when it told me that this app would no longer even work at all on the new iOS I almost considered downgrading everything just to be able to have it again Imagine my sweet surprise right now when I just accidentally discovered you updated 5 Days ago !!! Thank you thank you thank you and I’m so glad you are alive still ! **Developer response:** Hi stanleylucas, thanks so much for the touching and almost poetic message, it’s basically the ray of sunshine that brought sampletoy back to life. So massive thank you!! Feel free to get in touch through elf-audio.com ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too basic... *2024-07-02* I wish the recording time of your performance would be longer than the 30 sec. Exporting a midi-file of your performance would be cool. Some basic sample editing features like cut/truncate and/or hold and/or reverse would be nice too. Just zooming in on a selection that you want to loop is a bit, well, let's just say, minimalist. And since I am lusting my wish-list, how about more effects? ### 1/5 — SampleToy will not run on iPad version 4.2.1 *2010-11-28* Just so you know. It will record, but the app will crash on playback. I emailed Marek Bereza 2 days ago about this. Have not heard back yet. ### 1/5 — Kinda useless?? *2010-04-25, version 0* I mean what do you do with it anyway? Boring and stupid waste of 2bucks don't buy it.... It's really freaking stupid ### 1/5 —  *2010-04-20, version 0* Stupid, boreing.... And the sound is more like a freqency mixer...if ur a weird person ud like this app ### 1/5 — Déception *2010-03-20* Trop dur d'en faire quelquechose de bien. Plutôt inutile puisqu il n'est pas possible de réutiliser ce que l'on sample: dommage qu'il n y ait pas plusieurs pistes. ### 2/5 — Still buggy *2018-01-12, version 1.2.2* Not tip top on 7 ### 3/5 — Fun for a buck *2018-01-11* Nice little app. Would love to see a latch button added. And Arpeggiator would be amazing! Fun app as it is though. Very basic but quick for messing with and surprisingly useable results. ### 3/5 — Needs iPad version *2011-11-27* Great app but it should have an iPad version by now ### 3/5 — pretty cool but *2011-09-04* it does record long enough samples only about 5 seconds , would be sweet if it did a lot longer ### 3/5 — Boring *2010-04-20, version 0* This gets boring quickly. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Synthtastic *2026-06-07, version 1.2.5* Amazing ### 5/5 — What a beautiful app *2025-11-10* This is so inspiring. I really needed this since I’m going through a rough time right now. Thank you for your work!!! <3 ### 5/5 — Spaßig *2024-09-15* Find ich super. Nur einen Nachteil hat es. Wenn ich unten im Bildschirm etwas verändern möchte, dann schiebts das ganze Programm aus dem Bildschirm raus. ### 5/5 — Overall good app! *2024-03-14* This is a nice app for playing with sounds and textures… just turn on your cellphone microphone, record a sound and start mangling and manipulating it. Have fun with it and experiment with the different options and parameters! ### 5/5 — Incredibly useful for messing around with sound quick *2023-08-14* Literally one of the reasons to make me buy an iPhone over 6 years ago ### 5/5 — Capture with Ease *2023-04-13* This is one of my all time favorite sampling apps for my cell. It is convenient, simple, and equally a toy as well as useful. I even have it installed on several older phones of mine and have used them all simultaneously during live performances. Bravo! ### 5/5 — Sampletoy is fun. *2022-04-30* I’m a big Koala Sampler fan, and sampletoy is for me! One ui/ux suggestion- move the controls to the top of the screen. On iOS, 15.4, using an iPhone 13, it’s very hard to use the repeat slider, for example, without accidentally closing the app. I’m seeing this with a few apps lately. Tapping at the bottom of the screen is no problem, however, any slide gestures at the bottom of the screen are problematic. Cheers! ### 5/5 — Spass Spass Spass *2022-03-15* Sehr gutes Tool für alles mögliche. Auch das Design gefällt mir gut, hat Retro-Charme. Ein Hold-Button wäre super, damit man einen Sound unendlich weiterlaufen lassen kann wäre vielleicht noch praktisch. Aber so oder so absolute Kaufempfehlung ### 5/5 — Overlooked gem. *2021-12-10* This app is vastly overlooked in the sea of iOS samplers. Super fun, super immediate, and can get wild pretty quickly. I don’t think it needs any other features as that would take away from the simplistic beauty, but I do wish it had a hold button. ### 5/5 — Update *2021-09-16* I love this app and I also adore the koala apps. This app is so cool but you could do so much more with it. I know it is more novelty but I would pay for an in app if you could do more with cut off, filter, lfo , HPF, or other effects can actually really tighten up instead of clicking on or clicking off with no in between. I’m not slagging the app at all but it would be great if you had an export that went directly into koala. Either way it is a great app and I use it quite a bit/I have been in iOS audio apps for over 10 years along with my software in my hardware in my studio. I just think you make some stellar apps and I hope that people actually take the time to review just how good your apps are --- *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 2026-09-14.*