Comparison

VoxBeat drums and looper vs BeatForge Studio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

VoxBeat drums and looper

Record your voice to create instant drum beats with a sophisticated drum machine. Capture musical ideas by adding multiple audio tracks, mixing, and applying effects. Export your creations as WAV files.

Highlights
  • Voice-to-drum machine conversion
  • Multi-track audio recording
  • 12 drum kits with 108 sounds
  • Delay, LowPass, HighPass, Band Pass effects
  • Preset saving and recall
  • Quantize and swing settings
  • Export to WAV
Features
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Sing a beat and have it automatically and instantly converted to a drum machine beat! Plus you can record audio tracks to fully capture your musical ideas - super fast. It's the ultimate musical sketchpad. The revolutionary VoxBeat drum machine analyzes the kick, snare and hat sounds that you sing ("beatbox"), and assigns high-impact drum samples to your beatboxed drum sounds. It's amazing and intuitive. It is the easiest and fastest way to program beats: just sing them. You can also just touch the screen to enter or correct drum hits, in real time. You can also add audio tracks to capture your ideas. Make a beat, sing a bass line, play guitar, sing a melody, mix, add effects if you like, and export your pattern/loop to a WAV file. VoxBeat is the ultimate musical sketch pad looper and features: -12 durm kits with 9 sounds each - 108 drum sounds! -6 tracks total (3 for drums, and 3 for either drums or audio) -Training capability to better recognize your own voice's kick, snare and hat sounds -Delay, LowPass, HighPass and Band Pass effects for each track. -Preset saving and total recall -Quantize and swing settings -Crazy beat subdivisions if desired Works best with wired headphones.

About

BeatForge Studio

Features
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BeatForge is an AI-native music studio for iPhone. Describe a vibe and the AI drafts a full beat — drums, bass and melody, in key. Then it lands in a real studio you can actually produce in. MADE TO FINISH TRACKS • 17 on-device synth instruments — electric piano, supersaw, reese, choir, acid bass and more • A built-in sampler — record from the mic or import audio; multi-sample zones play in tune, with velocity layers, loop and reverse • 7 drum lanes + 4 melodic voices, with per-genre drum kits so every style hits different • A sequencer with per-note control — velocity, probability, ratchets and filter cutoff, triplets and 32nds, chromatic or scale-locked • A real mixer — per-channel level, tone, sidechain and sends, with a live LUFS meter • Master bus glue + limiter, then export a lossless 24-bit master, per-lane WAV stems, or MIDI PLAY IT AND SHIP IT • Song mode — chain sections into a full arrangement • Perform mode — trigger sections live • Set Builder — auto-order your tracks by key and energy, beatmatch and crossfade into one mixed set • Discover — hear what others made and remix it MADE ON YOUR PHONE Synthesis runs on-device, so the studio keeps working offline. You don't need an account to make music. The AI composer runs in the cloud. FREE TO MAKE MUSIC The whole studio is free. BeatForge Pro unlocks lossless and stem export, MIDI, watermark-free sharing and unlimited AI generations. You own everything you make. — BEATFORGE PRO SUBSCRIPTION BeatForge Pro is an auto-renewable subscription — Weekly, Monthly and Yearly plans (the Yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial). Prices are shown in-app in your local currency and charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://beatforge.music/terms Privacy Policy: https://beatforge.music/privacy

Screenshots

VoxBeat drums and looper4 screens
BeatForge Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BeatForge Studio at Free against VoxBeat drums and looper's $1.99. BeatForge Studio also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). VoxBeat drums and looper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BeatForge Studio is free to download; VoxBeat drums and looper costs $1.99 up front. VoxBeat drums and looper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and BeatForge Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VoxBeat drums and looper ships an update every 3 weeks, BeatForge Studio every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
VoxBeat drums and looper versus BeatForge Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoxBeat drums and looperBeatForge Studio
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAvi BortnickAnton Butser

In-app purchases

3 purchases

VoxBeat drums and looper

One-time3
  • Old School Drum Kits 1, 2 and 3$0.99
  • Game Boy 8 bit drum sounds and blips - 4 kits$0.99
  • Dance Kits 1, 2 and 3$0.99
3 purchases

BeatForge Studio

Subscriptions3
  • BeatForge Pro (Weekly)3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • BeatForge Pro (Monthly)$6.991 Month
  • BeatForge Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is VoxBeat drums and looper free?
VoxBeat drums and looper costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is BeatForge Studio free?
BeatForge Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do VoxBeat drums and looper or BeatForge Studio have ads?
Neither VoxBeat drums and looper nor BeatForge Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VoxBeat drums and looper or BeatForge Studio?
VoxBeat drums and looper ships an update every 3 weeks, and BeatForge Studio every 3 days. Most recently, VoxBeat drums and looper was updated on November 6, 2026 and BeatForge Studio on October 31, 2026.

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