Blocs Wave vs Sample Tap Loop!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blocs Wave
Create and record music on the go with this portable studio app. Explore diverse sounds, arrange loops, and shape your audio with real-time features. It's ideal for songwriters and electronic music producers seeking a quick and intuitive way to develop musical ideas.
- Record vocals and instruments live
- Combine sounds across genres
- Slice and rearrange sounds
- Real-time tempo and pitch manipulation
- Explore a large sound library
- Export music mixes or individual tracks
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** Free to download ** Blocs Wave is a fun and beautifully designed music app for making and recording new music quickly. For songwriters and electronic music makers alike, it is an on-the-move powerful portable music studio. Start new musical ideas by discovering new sounds across genres. Make your tunes unique by slicing and rearranging your sounds. Play with beautiful touchable waveforms and build up loops in real-time by recording your voice or other sounds, and build bigger ideas using song sections. Blocs Wave is also great for live looping, thanks to its real-time stretch and pitch engine. Features • Find ideas quickly - Combine sounds across genres • Play with sounds - Beautiful, touchable waveforms • Record new sounds - Capture your own vocals and instruments • Explore a huge sound library - Find amazing sounds across genres from electronic to indie, EDM to songwriting, and more • Expand your collection - Download more sounds from an ever-expanding soundpack library • Chop up sounds - Use Slice Mode to make every sound unique (In-App Purchase) • Export your music - Create a mixdown or export individual tracks • Shape your sound - 3-band EQ for boosting bass and mixing sounds (In-App Purchase) • Launchpad Soundpack sharing - Get hundreds more genres and styles through our Launchpad for iOS app Advanced Features • Real-time stretching - Change tempo while playing • Real-time recording - Build up live recorded loops in real-time • Import - Bring in your own sounds from other apps (In-App Purchase) • Key aware - All library sounds stay in-key with each other • User library - Manage your recorded and imported sounds • Works well with others - Supports Audiobus, AudioCopy/AudioShare and hardware input • Jam in sync - Supports Ableton Link For support enquires please visit: https://ampifymusic.com/support Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: www.twitter.com/WeAreAmpify www.facebook.com/WeAreAmpify www.instagram.com/WeAreAmpify
Sample Tap Loop!
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Sample Tap Loop! provides: 1. You can sample a sound from the microphone on your device. 2. You can tap the color pads and play with the sampled sounds. 3. You can make a loop with the sampled sounds. There is no specific usage, so please enjoy this app on your own way! Find your unique way to use it! (Instructions) Sampling - Turn on the "Sampling" switch and tap a color pad that you choose. - On the recording view, press "Rec" button to record a sound from the microphone on your device. (Within 1 minute) - If you press "Done" button, the sound that you sampled will assigned to the color pad. - If you press "Cancel" button, the assigned sound won't change. Tap - Tap the color pads, then you can play the sounds that you sampled. You can play as you like. Loop - Practice the pattern that you want to make a loop. - Turn on "Recording" switch and when you tap any of the color pads, the recording of the loop will begin. - Press "Stop Rec" button to stop recording the loop. You have to be careful of the timing to press. (Or the recording will stop automatically after 10 minutes)) - If you press "Play" button, then you can play the loop you made. - To stop playing the loop, press "Stop" button. - If you adjust the speed of the loop, you can change the value of the slider bar on the top-right of the view.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sample Tap Loop! at none against Blocs Wave's 20. Sample Tap Loop! also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Blocs Wave's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Blocs Wave sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Sample Tap Loop! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blocs Wave ships an update every 2 months, Sample Tap Loop! every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blocs Wave | Sample Tap Loop! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Focusrite Audio Engineering | Takatomo INOUE |
Bugs and requests
Blocs Wave
Reported bugs
3 issues- Exporting projects to Ableton Live not always reliable
- Importing user samples can be inconsistent
- Random project creation feature not functioning properly
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to independently pitch/manipulate samples
- More granular control over loop slicing
- Expanded track count beyond 8
- Seamless sync and integration with other DAWs
- Improved sample library management
Sample Tap Loop!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blocs Wave
- Acid ReflectionFree
- 909 BoosterFree
- Lofi Hip HopFree
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- Chiptune$1.99
- Dusk Dynamics$1.99
- Electric Hip Hop$1.99
- EQ$1.99
- Fusion Cinematics$1.99
- LoFi Glow$1.99
- Underground Hip-Hop$1.99
- Visceral Hip Hop$1.99
- Retrograde Motion$1.99
- Koto Lofi$1.99
- Progressive Electronica$1.99
- Jazz Hop$1.99
- Hip Hop Horns$1.99
- Wayfarer$1.99
- Dismal Techno$1.99
- Audio Import$5.99
- Pro Features Collection$9.99
Sample Tap Loop!
No in-app purchases









