# Sitala — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Sitala by Decomposer, rated 4.80/5 from 57 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sitala/id1605657678/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sitala/id1605657678.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 50 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (12 of 36) ### 4/5 — zoom *2023-10-20, version 1.3.1* if you were able to zoom on the waveform for longer samples this would be the best app on all the AppStore for music production ### 5/5 — The best drum sampler on iOS! *2023-04-23* I’m sooooo happy with it ### 5/5 — Genialer Dateibrowser *2023-04-22, version 1.3.0* Es lassen sich sehr schnell neue Presets aus bestehender Sample Library erstellen. MIDI Mapping funktioniert auch sehr einfach und schnell. Man sollte unbedingt noch Ordner für Presets anlegen können! ### 5/5 — From Samplebank to Tiny Groovebox *2022-10-01, version 1.2.1* I love this app, it’s easy to use, lightweight and a lot of fun. I used it mostly for making Drumkits but lately I enjoyed pushing it to its full potential: why only using drums? I loaded various synth one-shots into it that I recorded and manipulated with Koala Sampler. The straight forward midi-mapping makes it super easy to control this app as an auv3 via different sequencers (like LK or many others). It’s very cool and fun to use it as a groovebox by loading some rudimentary drums and some bass / synth shots into one bank. Or just make instrument banks and load multiple instances via auv3. One thing that is a tiny bit annoying: when fine tuning a sample, like for example making two different hihats sound good together, the time the „settings ui window“ refreshes is a little bit too long in my opinion. I regularly tweak the wrong sample when A/B them if I work too fast. Maybe there could be a setting implemented that „locks“ the sample edit to one chosen sample so you can trigger other samples quickly and just tweak the one you want to work on. But this is complaining in „nitpicking territory“. This App is great! Thanks to the developer/s for creating this beauty!!! ### 4/5 — Less is more, almost *2022-07-20, version 1.1.9* Sitala is a great addition to the rhythm section of any IOS music maker. What’s so good is the simplicity coupled with intelligent functionality. The ability to swipe and audition all samples within a folder is a superb innovation. Also, because the app does NOT duplicate files, but rather uses them in situ, it’s a space saver. AU3 works well, too. I would like to be able to load and slice to pads larger files. At present anything it considers too long has the option greyed out. Another problem is that external sources other than iCloud, such as Box are not yet supported, and one issue that is not the fault of Sitala at all. Audio Share is badly in need of an update so that apps like this can see its folder. ### 5/5 — Good first impression *2022-07-20, version 1.1.9* thoughtfully designed, plays nice with GarageBand. GarageBand’s kits are not tunable so this his helps in that regard. However it only comes with a stock 808 kit so you have to hunt down your own samples. ### 5/5 — Excellent iOS Drummachine & Sampler *2022-07-08* Simple workflow, excellent file management, drag’n’drop files to pads… and responsive devs, which makes a huge difference for any iOS music app. Cannot recommend enough. ### 5/5 — Nice app ! *2022-06-27, version 1.1.8* Thank you ! ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2022-06-27, version 1.1.8* Great drum sampler!!! Love that I can go in and audition all my sample folders from with in the app!!!!! InstaBuy for anyone. ### 5/5 — Small but mighty drum sampler with one of a kind browser *2022-06-27, version 1.1.8* I own many drum samplers including Battery 4 and Ableton drum racks on the desktop. Sitala is one of the most efficient drum samplers I’ve ever used. It is fine tuned for percussive hits. The displays showing you what controls do to shape sound are super informative and help you make musical decisions. The browser allows you to easily scroll through sample folders and pick the right sound. ### 5/5 — Drum sampler & 808 Goodness! *2022-06-24, version 1.1.8* I heard about Sitala when it came out for desktop and was hoping they were going to make an iOS version. Well here it is! Thank you Decompser team for making it happen. 808 is the drum kit it comes with, and it’s #1 in electronic drum sounds, so it’s great that they included it. I’ve tried other drum sampler apps since day one, but Sitala is the only one that I have interest in exploring further. ### 5/5 — Drums *2022-06-23, version 1.1.8* This is what I was looking for Something for garage band ,perfect All it need is note repeat sample play options Like hold til you take your finger off the pad . Not heavy on the cpu just something simple It’s great ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Doesn’t Slice Short Samples *2022-08-15, version 1.1.9* I purchased this app cause it’s supposed to be able to detect and slice by transients. This was the first thing I attempted to do after downloading the app, and it didn’t work. I loaded a short sample, a drum roll with three distinct transients, but the options to detect transients and slice to pads were greyed out. This was my main reason for purchasing this app and It doesn’t seem to work. It seems there are some limitations with the slicing features of this app. Had I known this I wouldn’t have spent the money. The app should be able to detect transients from any sample, regardless of size. I’m sure it does other things well, but this was my reason for buying. Hopefully I’m missing something here and can get a response from developer. ### 2/5 — Not enough *2022-06-23, version 1.1.8* Too many standard features missing, inconvenient way to copy paste etc., etc. I just can hope it gets an overhaul… ### 2/5 — Too early *2022-06-15, version 1.1.8* Update: I missed the copy/paste support! ### 3/5 — Yes *2023-07-28* I dig it! ### 3/5 — It doesn’t work on GarageBand *2023-07-19* I downloaded Sitala on iPhone to use as an AUv3 Audio Unit Extension for GarageBand but it doesn’t show up as an audio unit extension! Is this just an error on my end?? Help! ### 3/5 — please add AudioShare access!! *2022-07-06, version 1.1.8* Good drum machine but I pretty much literally keep all my samples in AudioShare and every time I try to add it to Sitala it is always greyed out and not an option? Update: but Koala and Beatmaker3 and many other apps let me use Audioshare as a file directory when adding sounds to it?? ### 3/5 — Not ready for prime time *2022-06-10, version 1.1.8* Looks and works good on iPhone but does not work on my iPad Pro **Developer response:** Could you drop us a line at info@decomposer.de to let us know what's not working? We're not aware of any issues affecting the iPad Pro. If you get in touch, we'll try to get things sorted out and a fix incorporated into our next version (probably a week or two from now). ### 4/5 — How do you do this? *2024-03-20, version 1.3.1* The image above shows a dark mode. I’ve been to Settings - Sitala, nothing there. I’ve checked the elipses in the upper left in the program, and the only settings available is for MIDI. How do you get the dark mode? The reason I rated 4 out of 5 is because you show a mode that doesn’t seem to exist? ### 4/5 — Only one thing *2024-03-07, version 1.3.1* This app would have gotten 5 stars if it had a way to delete browser location. ### 4/5 — Awesome sampler *2024-02-17, version 1.3.1* The workflow is lightning fast. It contains all the major parameters you need to tweak per sample. Has midi mapping and the best, most unique feature is previewing and replacing samples as they play via swiping. I hope development of this app continues, I don't particularly need any more features but would definitely appreciate them! You can layer drums via multi-trigger of pads and save/export kits if you are afraid of losing/moving samples as this sampler loads samples in place which is great as long as you don’t move your samples later. There are choke groups and an awesome integrated compressor that will makes your drums phat with the turn of a knob! This is like a lite version of beathawk, lite as in faster and more efficient! It’s a workhorse and I’m surprised it’s not sitting in the top music apps list! Only missing the 5th star as there’s been no updates for almost a year now. @dev - I prefer dark mode but the theme should be set in app and not rely on ipad display settings to change it… some more (or custom) colour schemes would be nice! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Dopest drum machine yet *2026-02-18, version 1.3.1* Need more kits and sample recordings features ### 5/5 — A fantastic drum-sample player which only needs one more thing to be perfect *2026-01-08, version 1.3.1* Given Koala just “updated” its Samurai add-on to include the “chopper” mode which lets you trigger random slices of a sample (per pad), a feature that was incredible and only available in Drambo (AFAIK) before Koala’s inclusion… All I have to say is — please include this mode in Sitala; so we can - for example - include samples which contain slice-variations of a drum hit and have Sitala select slices from such samples every time a pad is played. This would make Sitala substantially more versatile than it currently is. Please note I’m not asking for a way to separate a slice-collection sample into multiple pads — rather interested in having pads acquire the functionality of “selecting a slice” of the corresponding sample (conformed by multiple slice-samples) in a random fashion (or by another method such as velocity, or “note”). ### 5/5 — Prima *2025-12-31, version 1.3.1* Perfekt und zuverlässig :-) ### 5/5 — Buena *2025-05-01, version 1.3.1* Muy cómoda para guardar todos tus samples y usarlos como extensión auv3 👌 ### 5/5 — Best drum sampler *2024-12-26, version 1.3.1* This is my favourite drum sampler. So fast to work with. Browsing samples a breeze. the edit controls also good. Just needs a normalize function to be perfect for me. No updates in the last year a bit concerning….but as it is it is already good. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-06-29, version 1.3.1* Exactly what I was looking for. Preview in place functionality is implemented well. ### 5/5 — Stand alone *2023-11-30, version 1.3.1* This needs to have its own sequencer and patterned based sampler. The next koala sampler. ### 5/5 — Yes *2023-08-26* I dig it! Idk why it says 3 stars when I hit 5 fo sho!!! Because it is a killer sampler/drum machine!!! **Developer response:** Any particular reason for only 3 stars if you dig it? ;-) ### 5/5 — EDIT: IT WORKS THANK YOU DECOMPOSER *2023-07-30, version 1.3.1* Original review: I downloaded Sitala on iPhone to use as an AUv3 Audio Unit Extension for GarageBand but it doesn’t show up as an audio unit extension! Is this just an error on my end?? Help! New: It works now. Thank you so much devs for getting back to me with support. I love using this sampler with GarageBand! For anyone wondering, you can edit and quantize midi in GarageBand with this app as each drum pad sample is assigned to a key on the piano ### 5/5 — Nice! *2023-06-02, version 1.3.0* I done created a nice workflow with Sitala I cant wait for more features and ways to modify the sample. I love the unique shaper knob and would also love an adsr knob to really set things off. Keep going💪🏾 --- *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.*