# TINKR: Music Box Sampler

> TINKR: Music Box Sampler (iPhone/iPad app by Joseph Musselman.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tinkr-music-box-sampler/id6826888826 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Joseph Musselman](https://appshunter.io/developer/6818844639)
- Category: Music, Entertainment
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB
- Released: 2026-10-30
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is TINKR?

TINKR turns any sound into a music box.

Punch notes onto a paper scroll, put your thumb on the crank, and watch the scroll roll down. Every hole that passes the bar chimes, played by whatever sound you've loaded: a twang, a boop, your voice, a wine glass, a cat.

CRANK IT
• Hold the crank and the scroll rolls at your tempo.
• Switch to THUMB and the crank follows your thumb: drag up to speed up, down to slow down.
• STRUM rolls each chord left to right, and it tightens as you crank faster.
• Feel every step with a soft haptic click.

SAMPLE ANYTHING
• Hold NEW SAMPLE and hum, clink, snap or sing. TINKR finds the pitch and tunes the whole scroll to it.
• Import your own sounds from Files.
• Trim, fade, reverse and normalize them in the sample editor, with the scroll still cranking underneath.
• Five stock sounds to start with.

SHAPE IT
• LOFI (warble and hiss), PHASER (swirl) and CHORUS (shimmer), each with its own little animation.
• REVERB and DELAY knobs, with the echoes in time with your tempo.
• DECAY sets how long each note rings.
• 16, 32 or 64 steps. Chromatic, major or pentatonic notes across the top, with octave shift.

KEEP IT
• SAVE SCROLL puts the pattern in your bank, along with its tempo, strum and sound. Load, rename or delete any time.

TAKE IT ANYWHERE
• Export any scroll as a WAV (1, 2 or 4 passes) or a MIDI file. Save to Files, AirDrop it or share it.
• MIDI out: plug into a Mac and play your synths and DAW from the scroll.

No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Made by GhostKick Audio, the makers of GLIMR.

## Is TINKR safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess TINKR.

## Is TINKR legit?

TINKR: Music Box Sampler has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for TINKR is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-10-30

TINKR just got layers.
• Three layers on one scroll, each with its own sound, scale, key and mix. The other layers show through underneath so you can see how they fit together.
• Sustained notes: hold on the paper and slide up to cut a bar. Record yourself saying “tree” and hear “treeeee”.
• Move any note by holding it and dragging.
• Undo.
• New FILTER and TRANSPOSE knobs in the sample editor.
• REVERB, DELAY, DECAY and VOL now work per layer, and the FX window applies to the whole mix.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-30

No release notes.

## More apps by Joseph Musselman

- [GLIMR: Strum Any Sound](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/glimr-strum-any-sound/id6818844637)

All apps by Joseph Musselman: https://appshunter.io/developer/6818844639

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