# SKIIID — user reviews > 23 indexed App Store user reviews of SKIIID by Stephan Bolch, rated 4.40/5 from 31 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skiiid/id1516634571/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skiiid/id1516634571.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 23 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (4 of 23) ### 5/5 — Getting better all the time *2020-07-19* Really innovative and interesting sound generator - there's nothing quite like it in the whole app store. Loving the sounds you can get out of it and the way it's being developed and looking forward to AUV3 support. ### 5/5 — Lots of fun *2020-07-07* Looking forward to the built out maybe a beefier sequencer like different running directions flip or some live control. Midi? **Developer response:** midi capability and a sequencer update has been added with version 1.02. have fun ### 5/5 — Unique *2020-07-07* We need more non trad noisemakers in the iOS world. This is one of those and it seems very good and deep so far. Looking forward to sampling it to death. ### 5/5 — Niiice Creative Random Sound Sorce *2020-07-07* Super fast output for new sounds. Love the sound engine and morphing between the sounds. In seconds i have new sounds that are glitchy, organic, massiv and something like drones are possible to. My cons. Please fix or expand the sequencer. Besides the existing sequencer line i wish one sequencer line (beneath each other) for each of the 4 sounds. Thanks for a very inspiring sounddesign tool and drumsynth. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Really sucks. *2026-02-18* It’s just a bunch of static and glitchy sounds. Nothing really musical. I wasted my money. ### 1/5 — No real MIDI implementation in standalone mode. *2024-12-15* It must be profoundly challenging to implement MIDI in iOS apps. ### 1/5 — Wastes 20% of iPhone 12 display *2022-12-10* Making it impossible to see and play. ### 3/5 — Sound great *2021-12-04* Sounds great but midi implementation is not good. No midi cc. No way to change midi channel. No way to change midi notes. And you can’t trigger more than one sound at a time even if you load 2 instances in AUM. ### 3/5 — mh, interessante möglichkeiten... *2020-07-26* noch recht buggy. ableton link funktioniert bei mir nicht und ich kann nur zwei projekte speichern. zumindest werden mir nur zwei beim laden angezeigt. **Developer response:** mit dem neuen update (1.05) funktioniert ableton link wieder. danke für den hinweis. ### 3/5 — Crashing frequently *2020-07-24* iPad Pro 11.5 running iOS 13.5.1 Example: click first step in sequence, click folder to load a sound, click factory sound bd 02. Crashes 100%. It’s unclear if the pads are supposed to animate all the way to the top of the pad or if that’s a UI issue on iPad Pro? A real-time recording option would be nice. **Developer response:** this problem is fixed in the recently uploaded 1.04 version. ### 4/5 — app was the best until iOS 16 *2022-12-03* the app has multiple modes, and you can easily bounce between the three and really utilize this app by itself as a peformance level drum synth. unless you upgrade to an iphone 13 from iphone 11 and are using iOS 16. once that happens you lose the ability to leave the first mode, rendering the drone and sequencer as well as all of their features unusable. this is a bummer. i will go back to five stars if they update and fix this issue. ### 4/5 — Amazing! *2020-10-26* This is a very interesting app for sound design and beat creation. It s on the indus/experimental side of the sound. Wish it would have a pan and volume button for each steps and that it would have a longer step sequencer and a velocity editor. ### 4/5 — Wonderful morphing droning percussive sounds *2020-09-26* So, the good stuff... the four instruments are incredibly expressive and easy to shape. Within a single pad, you have a wide range of sound possibilities depending on how you set parameters across the width of each pad. Everything is on one page, so you can readily see how your sound is made and where morphing takes each of your sound’s parameters. Very intuitive! The bad stuff... not to much to say here. You have to play around a bit to get some good sounds. With a little time and effort, any you’ll start to see how powerful this instrument can be in a live setting as well as within daw arrangements. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-02-10* Buy it! ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — It’s own thing *2023-07-16* The sound palette and rhythmic structures this thing can produce are stunning. Teams up nicely with Octachron. Oscillator crackles when the pitch is changed. Hope this can be fixed. ### 5/5 — This was great! Easy five stars! Needs an update nowadays! *2022-12-21* Love this app but hadn’t used it in a bit. Just opened it up and it definitely needs an update. Do an IAP! I’d purchase in a heartbeat. This was cool in the first place! Recent updates make it awesome! Nice combination of random and programmed sounds! 😎👍🏼👍🏼 ### 5/5 — Favorite iOS percussion synth *2021-06-20* So innovative and weird but still easy to dial in to taste. Please make more apps! ### 5/5 — Great for experimental music! *2021-03-04, version 1.18* This is just what I was looking for, amazing, thanks!!! ### 5/5 — Super fun! *2021-01-10, version 1.18* Glitchy, noisy, and nasty. Well worth it. I hope the dev makes more apps ### 5/5 — Amazing app but seriously needs midi and sequencer update *2020-12-31* Update - prior to the developer response I figured out how to send midi. Can't remember the issue, although I still wish I could specify midi channel. I've been sending notes from digitakt to aum and I specify limiting this app to a specification midi channel in aum. Anyway it's a great sound design tool and I hope it's expanded upon - whether this app itself or maybe some future deluxe version or something. not enough unique drum sound design tools on ios for my taste. so this is nice So first of all - amazing app for the price. Anyone considering it, just go find a demo video and you'll be sold. However... The sequencer is frustratingly limited. You can choose to have between 1 and 16 steps but that's as advanced as it gets. I'd like to see up to 64 steps in the sequencer, probability per step, and a "retrigger" option. Thanks a ton for reading this, developer. Look forward to updates and future drum design apps **Developer response:** hi, you can play the PADs using MIDI with your DAW (Ableton, Logic etc) or inside of your IPad with virtual Midi (App to App) or inside of PADs like AUM. playing the PADs with a connected keyboard or via korg nanokey should work too (not tested yet) PAD 1 = C4 (notenumber 60) PAD 2 = C4# (notenumber 61) PAD 3 = D4 (notenumber 62) PAD 4 = D4# (notenumber 63) ### 5/5 — Innovative and deep *2020-12-20* Wow. Truly this is one of the rare artifacts recovered from the alien world. I can’t wait to see where this goes. How does the AU midi work? Tried in cubasis but the GUI never showed up and I couldn’t get it to play any sound. Works great in nanostudio2. Very much love this thing. Would love to see some manual and good docs! **Developer response:** hi, there is a question mark on top of the app which leads you to a manual, enjoy :-) and i am happy you like the app ### 5/5 — For grimy sound manglers *2020-11-27* Sick and slimy beats that you can morph and mangle like a wizard. Parameter locks are in here as are high quality randomization options. This a Is a synth drum and drone mode is very obtuse. ### 5/5 — Finally something different *2020-07-21* All very experimental, raw and noisy. Very nice drone generator. A sequencer with 32 or 64 steps would still be cool. --- *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 2026-08-28.*