Comparison

Samba Pad vs iDOS 3

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

Head to head
About

Samba Pad

This app provides a collection of 36 authentic Brazilian and Latin drum beats for music production and live performance. It features independent track control, tempo adjustment, and intro/ending options for creative mixing.

Highlights
  • 36 Brazilian and Latin beats
  • 8 independent instrument tracks
  • Independent pan and volume control
  • Intro and ending playback
  • Mute track function
  • Adjustable BPM slider
Features
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Welcome to the envolving Brazilian music scene! This app is a drum machine application as an easy way to play 36 of our favorite and exotic beats from Brazilloops website. It comes with several variations of Samba, Bossa Nova, Muzenza, Maracatu, Capoeira, Afro-Brazilian beats and some Latin as well, ready to mix with your music in your studio or live performance. It’s a high quality sample player* with 8 instrument tracks, each one with independent pan and volume. It plays the factory loops previously downloaded in the player. Features an “intro” and “ending” playing and mute track function. Also you can change the speed in the bpm slider. Try it with your own settings of volume and panning, mute some instruments and you will find a new world of possibilities to mix in your project! It’s a loop player (pre-recorded audio) and not a sequencer machine, so it enables original Brazilian rhythms style and human touch in the project. A very handy application to play exotic Brazilian beats in the iPad for live performance or even for studio recording! *At the first launch, the synchronization slider is adjusted to 1/4. Different iPads/phones devices may need to adjust the sync slider for perfect synchronization between tracks. Adjust when the player is stopped.

About

iDOS 3

Experience classic DOS games and applications on your iPhone and iPad. This app emulates a DOS PC, offering modern controls for enhanced playability. It also supports productivity tasks like word processing and programming.

Highlights
  • On-screen keyboard with custom layouts
  • Virtual gamepad with customizable bindings
  • Trackpad mouse emulation
  • MT-32 emulation and MIDI support
  • Bluetooth keyboard and gamepad support
  • Bluetooth mouse support
Features
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Play classic DOS games on your iPhone and iPad! iDOS turns your device right into a powerful DOS gaming PC, with modern game control to make your old favorites as playable as possible. You can also use iDOS for non-gaming purposes, such as word processing, casual programming. Apps in the DOS days are often simpler and surprisingly productive. KEYBOARD iDOS provides a PC compatible on-screen keyboard with carefully designed layouts for different devices and orientations. The keyboard has a sliding control in landscape mode so that you can keep it from covering critical part of the screen. Bluetooth keyboard is fully supported on iOS 14+. GAMEPAD iDOS provides a virtual gamepad with key bindings that are fairly common in DOS games. You can customize the bindings. The DPAD works in 8-axis way. It can also be toggled into a joystick. External bluetooth game controllers are supported. Make sure your game controller is connected (System Settings->Bluetooth). To customize button bindings, go to iDOS in landscape mode, tap on bluetooth icon on the auto-hiding top bar. MOUSE The screen area serves as a trackpad for moving mouse pointer. Tap on the screen for left click. If direct touch is enabled, the mouse pointer will move to where you tap. Hold one finger on the screen, and tap with another finger for right click. On-screen mouse buttons are also provided for your convenience. Bluetooth mouse are fully supported on iOS 14+. AUDIO iDOS supports mt32 emulation, MIDI sound fonts, cuesheet based CDimage with compressed audio tracks (ogg/mp3/flac). SUPPORT - Visit https://litchie.com/dospad for more information - Send email to idos@litchie.com - Follow the developer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/litchiedev - iDOS is open source, report issue on https://github.com/litchie/dospad

Screenshots

Samba Pad1 screens
iDOS 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iDOS 3 at $4.99 against Samba Pad's $19.99. iDOS 3 also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (52 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Samba Pad costs $19.99 and iDOS 3 $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iDOS 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDOS 3 has 52 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Samba Pad ships an update every 2 months, iDOS 3 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Samba Pad versus iDOS 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSamba PadiDOS 3
Price$19.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.3 (52 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—69.7% of reviews
Number of ratings152 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#100 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEduardo Sallada潮激 李

Customer experience

Samba Pad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

iDOS 3

All ratings51 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral11.2%
Negative19.1%

In-app purchases

None

Samba Pad

No in-app purchases

None

iDOS 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Samba Pad free?
Samba Pad costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iDOS 3 free?
iDOS 3 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Samba Pad or iDOS 3?
iDOS 3 is rated higher. Samba Pad averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while iDOS 3 averages 4.3 from 52 ratings.
Do Samba Pad or iDOS 3 have ads?
Neither Samba Pad nor iDOS 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Samba Pad or iDOS 3?
Samba Pad ships an update every 2 months, and iDOS 3 every 6 weeks. Most recently, Samba Pad was updated on October 23, 2026 and iDOS 3 on October 25, 2026.

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