Samba Pad vs CaptureColor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 36 Brazilian and Latin beats
- 8 independent instrument tracks
- Independent pan and volume control
- Intro and ending playback
- Mute track function
- Adjustable BPM slider
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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.
CaptureColor
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It can obtain colors through the mobile phone camera. Colors captured by the collected camera.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CaptureColor at Free against Samba Pad's $19.99. CaptureColor also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). 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
CaptureColor is free to download; Samba Pad costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Samba Pad | CaptureColor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eduardo Sallada | 改 喻 |
In-app purchases
Samba Pad
No in-app purchases
CaptureColor
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Samba Pad free?
Is CaptureColor free?
Do Samba Pad or CaptureColor have ads?
Which is updated more often, Samba Pad or CaptureColor?
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