Play Orff vs Quantiloop Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Orff
Explore and interact with classic Orff Schulwerk pieces. Play along with individual instrumental parts, combine them freely, and save your own arrangements and compositions. This app serves as a digital companion to a book on the Orff Schulwerk method.
- Play along with classic pieces
- Combine and customize instrumental parts
- Save custom arrangements
- Compose and save original voices
- Load and modify music pieces
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Play Orff: Das Orff-Schulwerk neu entdecken! Bei acht zeitlosen „Klassikern“ können einzelne Stimmen mitgespielt, frei kombiniert und mit eigenen Ideen ergänzt werden. Diese App ist eine Erweiterung zu dem Buch "Das Orff-Schulwerk neu entdecken". Stücke: - Rhythmisches Rondospiel - Jeder spielt so gut er kann - Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf - Gassenhauer - Rundadinella - Malagueña - Tanzstück - Ekstatischer Tanz Features: - Musikstücke laden und Änderungen speichern - einzelne oder mehrere Instrumentalspuren abspielen oder stummschalten - eigene Arrangements speichern - eigene Stimmen komponieren und speichern
Quantiloop Pro
This app offers a powerful 4-track live looping experience for musicians. It allows for hands-free control, extensive MIDI integration, and a variety of audio effects to enhance live performances. Create complex layered performances with ease.
- 4-track looping with unlimited overdubs
- Hands-free and MIDI foot controller support
- Built-in rhythm guide and metronome
- Up to 3 simultaneous input and track effects
- Ableton Link and MIDI clock synchronization
- Multiple quantize and stop modes
- Undo/Redo functionality
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Built for Live performance and hands free use, Quantiloop recreates the simplicity of a hardware loop pedal in an iOS app. Attach a MIDI foot controller and control it the way you want. No MIDI controller at hand; just preset your loop length, enable auto–record or a count–in and your loops will automatically close, no hands or feet required. Big onscreen controls allow for easy configuration and tactile control by vocalists or beat boxers. Focus on your performance instead of fiddling with dip switches or complex menu’s. Be Creative Create 4 tracks with endless layers of overdubs to build your performance. Record a Chorus, Verse and Bridge and switch between them seamlessly or create a 1 bar percussie loop on track one, a 4 bar chord progression on track two and layer a bass line on top, all in perfect synchronisation. Rhythm Guide The builtin rhythm guide provides a rhythmic backing. Use the internal metronome for practice, import drum loops from virtually anywhere or host and control your favourite rhythm apps to enhance your performance. MIDI master lets you control MIDI hardware, and MIDI slave lets Quantiloop follow it. Ableton Link lets you even play in time over WiFi with external apps and devices. Quantisation aligns your actions to the nearest measure or beat so you stay in time, and real-time tempo control sets the pace. Prefer setting your own pace, disable quantisation and Quantiloop will react to your actions with minimum latency to create tight synchronised recordings. FX Assign up to 3 simultaneous effects to the input. Use the built-in transpose to covert your guitar into a bass, or host your guitar amp sim directly in Quantiloop. The results will be recorded into your loops. Or assign up to 3 simultaneous track effects to the output. Use the tape stop to add drama, introduce a key change to build up your performance, or host an Inter-App audio/AU reverb processor. Track FX may be assigned to a single track, all tracks or the combined output. Features • Free, Synced and Paralel,Serial, Mixed Playing Styles • Multiple Quantise Modes • Multiple Stop Modes • Unique Dub Mode and Mute Mode • Unlimited Overdubs • Overdub Decay • Undo / Redo • Auto Record • High quality stereo audio • Clear loop status display • Rhythm guide with optional auto-start, auto-stop and count-in • Audible and Visual Metronome • Send start, stop and host sync to hosted rhythm apps. • Sync to host when embedded in an Inter-App-Audio host • Real-time Tempo Control • Extensive MIDI control • Multiple Assignments per MIDI controller (tap, hold, double tap) • MIDI Program Change support for changing presets • Supports Audiobus and Inter-App-Audio and Audio Units (AUv3) • Individual outputs for each track and rhythm • Synchronise to other apps and devices with Ableton Link • MIDI clock sync (both slave and master) • 4 physical/iaa/au/audiobus inputs routable to any track • 8 outputs (main, monitor, track 1-4, rhythm, input out) • 3 assignable input Fx, including transpose, reverb and IAA, AUv3 • 3 assignable track Fx, including transpose, reverse, tape stop, fade and IAA, AUv3 • Cloud (iCloud, Dropbox, Audioshare …) import / export • AudioCopy/Paste • Open In • Store Phrase Presets in unlimited banks with 100 presets each • Individual Volume and panning controls for each track
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Play Orff at Free against Quantiloop Pro's $14.99. Play Orff also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Quantiloop Pro's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 18 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Play Orff is free to download; Quantiloop Pro costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quantiloop Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quantiloop Pro has 201 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Play Orff's written reviews are positive against 94% of Quantiloop Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Play Orff ships an update every 18 months, Quantiloop Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Orff | Quantiloop Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 4.9 (201 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 94.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 201 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Schott Music | Stephan Marx |
Customer experience
Play Orff
Quantiloop Pro
Bugs and requests
Play Orff
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Quantiloop Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes or freezes on certain devices
- Issues with MIDI sync or connectivity
- Problems with audio routing or effects processing
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to export/import presets and settings
- Support for more input channels or tracks
- Improved stability and compatibility with older iOS versions
- Addition of a macOS version
- More customization options for the user interface
In-app purchases
Play Orff
No in-app purchases
Quantiloop Pro
No in-app purchases
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