# touchAble Pro — user reviews

> 126 indexed App Store user reviews of touchAble Pro by AppBC, rated 2.90/5 from 54 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/touchable-pro/id1205967746/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/touchable-pro/id1205967746.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 20 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 20

## What do users think of touchAble Pro?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎛️ Comprehensive Ableton Live control surface with multitouch capabilities
- 🚀 Superior to Push 2 in many ways with unlimited grid control
- 👍 Intuitive interface design and clean layout
- 🎹 Powerful isomorphic keyboard with scale highlighting
- 🎚️ Excellent device control and custom MIDI CC control panels
- ⚡ Low latency performance over USB and WiFi
- 🎵 Clip editing and waveform visualization features
- 📱 Works well on iPad Pro and other tablets
- 🔧 Highly customizable with split-screen capabilities
- 🎭 Great for live performance and looping

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and instability issues
- ❌ No longer maintained or supported by developer
- 🔌 Connection problems (both USB and WiFi)
- ⚠️ Incompatible with Ableton Live 11 and 12
- 🚫 Broken download links for required server software
- 📵 Unresponsive developer support and forum
- 🔄 Version mismatch between app and server script
- ⏱️ Significant lag and latency in some operations
- 🎯 Steep learning curve and complex setup process
- 💸 Expensive for a non-functional product
- 🔗 Difficult initial connection setup requiring multiple attempts
- 🐛 Glitches with clip recording and triggering
- 📊 Small UI elements difficult to read on smaller screens

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on startup or during use
- Connection drops after wake-up requiring force quit
- Server software download links return 404 errors
- Version mismatch between iPad app and Mac/Windows server
- Clip recording glitches (records only one bar, records indefinitely)
- Clip triggering delays and quantization issues
- Undo history pollution from slider interactions
- Waveform not loading in Simpler plugin
- Repeat/hold function glitches causing endless playback
- Freezing when using sliders
- App crashes when enabling arm button in keyboard section
- Detached track headers in clip view when scrolling
- Incompatibility with Ableton Live 11.3+ and Live 12
- Server executable flagged as malicious by Windows security
- MIDI not registering from iPad to Ableton
- Laggy piano roll and automation recording

**Most requested features**

- Larger Scenes Launch button with adjustable size
- Arrangement view option
- Customizable UI color scheme for outdoor/bright environments
- Light mode theme option
- Chord mode functionality
- Automatic version synchronization between app and server
- Better font size and label visibility for device controls
- Improved X/Y pad mirroring in split-screen mode

## Newest reviews (11 of 126)

### 3/5 — Make Scenes Button Bigger

*2025-07-25*

Can you please allow an option to make the Scenes Launch button larger? It’s too small. I can adjust the size of the clips button but not the scene button. I would like a larger scene laugh button=) thank you.

### 4/5 — Un update ou upgrade s’impose maintenant

*2025-05-17*

Est ce que je vais devoir l’abandonner ,perdre encore de l’argent et acheter un contrôleur hardware pour ableton live 12 ?

### 2/5 — Abandoneware

*2024-10-31*

This used to be the best iOS app for Ableton by leaps and bounds. However, it is no longer being maintained by the developer and is currently in a barely functional state especially since the release of Ableton 12. Worst of all, no competitor has taken its place and now there is a serious gap in the market, with no viable multitouch controller apps for Ableton in existence, at least not even close to what Touchable was.

### 3/5 — Eigentlich super….

*2024-05-01*

…aber gibt‘s kein Update für 12?

### 2/5 — App no longer supported

*2023-07-30*

Some stuff works but there still are many bugs that makes the app not usable.
It is also impossible to reach out to the devs anymore to get support (see the forum on their website).

### 1/5 — This app has been abandoned by the developer and does not work

*2023-03-17*

After purchasing this application from the App Store, I found out that the developer has abandoned the project and is no longer supporting it so I paid $39 for something that does not work. I will be demanding a refund from Apple and requesting that they take this product down since it’s just scooping up money from people and doesn’t actually do what its supposed to do.

### 1/5 — Negative 5 stars

*2023-03-14, version 1.761*

Downloaded the server.exe from their website on my pc and now my pc freezes within 10 sec of booting EVERY TIME. I should have listened to windows when it said the file was malicious but I saw the dev response saying that’s ok. Now I’m going to have to wipe my pc. Do not download this virus of an app whatever you do.

### 2/5 — Gute Idee

*2023-02-20*

Aber zum einen funktioniert es einfach nicht stabil.. und manches ist echt nicht intuitiv .. aber vor allem Abbrüche sind nervig.

### 1/5 — Touchable is Dead

*2023-02-16, version 1.761*

Developer has not updated this in a long time and it does not work and has not for years.

### 1/5 — WARNING - ABANDONWARE!

*2023-02-01, version 1.761*

Devs have gone AWOL. Has never worked properly with Ableton Live 11. Bugs galore, crash city limits. DO NOT BUY.

### 1/5 — I PAID WAY TOO MUCH MONEY FOR THIS CRAP.

*2022-10-30, version 1.761*

And I couldn’t even get it to work. What a piece of garbage this app is.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Would’ve been nice to know this isn’t supported

*2025-02-24*

Disappointing that this would still be available on the Apple Store and presented as an iPad option by Ableton when it’s no longer supported and doesn’t even seem to work. Looking to get my money back.

### 1/5 — Gut ... aber

*2024-11-23*

Entweder mach ich was falsch oder ich habe einen bug gefunden. Wenn ich den ableton looper verwende und mit diesem Programm hier mehrere Buttons erstelle die dann rec/Play/Ovedub und Loop delete steuern sollen, fangen die Buttons an das selbe zu tun und sich gleich zu verhalten. Wenn ich das selbe mit meinem Launchpad mache dann funktioniert es einwandfrei. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass das Problem auftritt wenn ich die loop delete Funktion auf einen Button patchen will. Sowohl über die midi learn Funktion als auch händisch gepatcht. Ich hatte gedacht wenn die App schon so teuer ist dann wird sie so Kleinigkeiten auch hinbekommen. Bitte schaut mal danach ich hatte mir diese App extra geladen um mehrere looper in Ableton über mein iPad steuern zu können. Ist eins der ersten iPads mit iOS 10.3.3 Aber daran wird es wohl nicht liegen, weil kompatibel. Erst mal ein Punkt wenn das gefixt is ändere ich die Bewertung noch einmal.

### 1/5 — Does not work.

*2024-07-10, version 1.761*

Please take this app out of the store!! Just payed good money for an app that does not work!!!

### 1/5 — Save your money

*2024-01-18*

I was a previous user of Touchable. It was. Great app. I just purchased Pro today and cannot get the download of the required server software which needs to be installed on the PC for this to work. From posts on their forum, it appears the devs are not responding to support questions nor updating the app. Do your research before you buy. Hopefully a dev
May offer support to get the required download file. Else, I’ve wasted $30

### 1/5 — Don’t buy

*2023-12-12*

I bought this app but it turns out you need three further apps to get it to work. One gives a 404 page not found and the other two give an error message too. Save your money.

### 1/5 — If only it worked

*2023-12-12, version 1.761*

It’s the perfect iPad controller for Ableton but it’s buggy af. Disconnect even over usb and multiple crashes - completely unstable for any serious use. Save your money

### 1/5 — Why is this still on here?

*2023-10-14*

It doesn’t’t work anymore.I uninstalled it.Shame.It worked great in Ableton live,but stopped after 11.3

### 1/5 — Keine Updates mehr

*2023-09-08*

Leider erhält die App keine Updates mehr. Die Server Downloads funktionieren nicht mehr. Schade. So viel Geld dafür verschwendet.

### 1/5 — App wird wohl nicht ' mehr unterstützt

*2023-08-20*

Man kann das Programm nicht als Benutzeroberfläche einstellen bei ableton live 11

### 1/5 — Abandonware!  Caution!

*2023-04-03, version 1.761*

Not sure what happened but this once-great app appears to now be abandonware.  Links on the site to the server software are non-functional.  Forum posts go unanswered.

Feeling really stupid about upgrading yesterday and losing $30.

Refund anyone?

(I’m more than happy to revise this rating if the developer wakes up and updates their site.)

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Superb

*2026-02-09*

Using touchable almost a decade. 
Love performing recording sessions , on the fly.

Never let me down, would like to see more updates like more effects, second screen, stability issues,my favourite app paired with my Akai pad 40 mk2.

Maybe mirroting would be ideal for controlling from bigger screen that would be ace .

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2025-11-04*

I also have a push 2.
Never spent the time to really learn it, then one day I finally put time in, its absolutely amazing. For many things is much quicker than push 2, and way easier to use live.
I sure hope they fully update it for 12.
Well worth the money.

### 5/5 — Pls make it compatible with ableton 12

*2025-07-31*

It’s not working proper on ableton 12

### 5/5 — Works Flawlessly

*2023-07-05, version 1.761*

This app is fantastic and works flawlessly on my 2021 iPad Air 4 to control Ableton Live. I primarily use this as a clip launcher. One feature I would really like to see in a future release: please add the ability to customize the user interface colour scheme. I frequently perform outdoors in bright daylight and the dark mode scheme is a bit harder to see vs the light mode high contrast theme I have installed in Ableton Live. Other than that this is a fantastic app and well worth the $40!

### 5/5 — This is genious!

*2023-02-18*

I thought I had to buy a midi controller for automating the levels of my mix in Ableton. This is so much nicer than having another device!!

### 5/5 — Works great!

*2023-02-05, version 1.761*

Amazing control surface. Love it. But can be a little tricky to setup the connections. I got it working with osx and windows but had to reinstall the server a few times.

### 5/5 — How can anyone use Ableton with this????

*2023-01-10*

Does what it says it does….really really well. Not sure why this app has anything other than a 5 star rating. I’m running Ableton live 11 version 11.2.6 on windows 10 version 21H with an iPad. Installed perfectly. Works perfectly. No problems at all. Only thing I can think of re: the other reviews is that people don’t know how to follow basic install instructions????

### 5/5 — Phenomenal

*2023-01-02, version 1.761*

Easily one of the best music production apps ever created for iOS. In many ways it is a superior control surface vs Ableton Push 2. In particular the touch screen approach combined with a high resolution tablet grants you unlimited control off session view grid. Far more flexible than the Push’s 8x8 grid, and every clip is fully labeled. Edit the piano roll in ways that cannot be done with Push.

### 5/5 — Brilliant - Push on iPad

*2022-11-20*

Very good and handy apps - thanks to developers.
Maybe un update that includes some new features of AL11 - probability of notes for exemple :)

### 5/5 — Incredible App!

*2022-10-05*

It is immediately obvious the amount of time and care that has been put into this app. Most of the bad reviews here seem to be folks that either don’t understand how to install the app properly or aren’t hooking it up right. I use this app to perform and live loop and it has never let me down. I have a gigantic ableton set and it navigates the set quickly and with grace. The custom control section is especially powerful when combined with the split screen features. Customizable, powerful, and easy to use. I hope more ableton users get on board with this incredible app!

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