Music Looper vs Takebase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music Looper
This app helps musicians practice by slowing down, looping, and isolating sections of songs. It allows for recording with a metronome, hands-free control, and AI-powered practice suggestions. Organize and share practice routines with others.
- A-B loop playback
- Slow down music without pitch change
- Video lesson looping and syncing
- EQ and filters
- Practice Lists for routines
- Record yourself playing along
- AI practice coach
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Practice smarter with Music Looper – the all-in-one app to slow down, loop and isolate any part of a song. Import your own files or use Apple Music, record yourself with a metronome, and take hands-free control with a Bluetooth foot pedal. Key Features: • Seamless A–B loop playback • Slow down music without changing pitch • Video lessons & concerts: loop, slow down and transpose the sound with the picture in sync — frame step, zoom and mirror • EQ & filters: cut the lows or highs, boost the bass, or isolate the left or right channel — free • Automatically change speed, pitch, or BPM during practice • Practice Lists: save your loops as ready-to-go practice routines • Line up routines from different songs and practice them back-to-back • Play Along: record yourself playing over a loop, then hear your take lined up with the backing track • Progress tracking with daily goals, reminders, streaks, session history and stats • Smart review: saved practices come back when they're due, sooner if they were hard • Start a practice or practice list with Siri and Shortcuts • Find songs and practices instantly with Spotlight search • Follow your live practice on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Control playback from the Lock Screen and your headphones — play, pause, jump back to the loop start • Apple Watch remote: play, switch loops, run practices and record takes from your wrist • iPad & Mac: a sidebar for your groups and practice lists, with your library beside the song editor • AI practice coach: a private, on-device suggestion for what to practice next • Song analysis: reveal sections, chords and tempo — free for 5 songs every month • Tap a chord for guitar & piano finger charts; jump to any section and loop it • Auto-scrolling waveform: zoom in and it follows the playhead smoothly, keeping the next chords in view • Mixer AI: separate any song into 6 stems — vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and more • Automatic ready-named loops, BPM and first-beat detection • Record music with metronome • Organize your songs with folders and tags • Export changed pitch/speed files • Share loops with bandmates — export a song's loops and import them via AirDrop • Teacher & student: assign a whole practice list — loops, practices and a note — as one shareable file • Sync across your devices with iCloud Practice Lists – build your own routine: Save any loop with its perfect speed, pitch or BPM settings, then group your favorites into practice lists. Music Looper walks you through them one after another and gradually ramps up the tempo, key or BPM as you improve – so you can just play while the app keeps score. Set a daily goal, get an optional reminder, and track your streaks, session history and progress over time to stay motivated. Teaching? Share an entire practice list with your students as a single assignment they can import in a tap. Play Along – record yourself over the loop: Pick a loop, set a count-in, a short start delay and how many times you want to go round, then play while Music Looper records you through the mic. Your take is played back lined up with the backing track, so you hear exactly where you drifted – nudge the timing, keep the takes worth keeping and record again. Recordings stay on your device. Mix the backing stems to hear only the parts you need, save the whole setup as a practice, add it to a practice list, and every session counts in your daily goal, streaks and stats. Apple Music + Shazam support: Practice with your Apple Music songs. Record a melody offline and identify it later with Shazam. Perfect for: • Music students and teachers • Singers, drummers, guitarists, pianists • Dancers and choreographers • Anyone who wants to learn or practice music effectively To use Apple Music songs, an active Apple Music subscription is required. Terms of Service: https://musiclooper.com/index.php/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://musiclooper.com/index.php/privacy-policy/
Takebase
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Takebase is where a band works on a track together. Record it, listen to it, mark the bits that need work, and stack the next take on top. It lands on the track it belongs to instead of the bottom of a chat thread. RECORD Record straight into the app, from an album or from the track you are adding to. Play to a metronome if you want one: set the tempo with the arrows, by dragging the number, or by tapping it in time, and count in a bar, two or three at that tempo. The waveform flashes on every click and a bar under it shows the beat. The check keeps it, the bin throws it away, and nothing uploads until you keep it. Recorded somewhere else? Share it in from Voice Memos, Files, or anywhere with a share sheet. m4a, mp3, wav and aiff all work. LISTEN AND COMMENT Play a take on a waveform you can scrub. Double tap the timeline to leave a comment at 1:23, and everyone else sees it pinned there. Reply, or tick it off when it is done. A comment belongs to the take it was left on, so it never slides onto a new mix of a different length and points at the wrong bar. When a comment or a new take lands, the band gets a notification. PRACTISE Press and hold the waveform and drag to loop a section. Move the handles while it plays; the loop turns round without a gap or a click. Drag a playing take and the sound follows your finger, so you can find the bar by ear. Add a click to a take and Takebase finds the beats in the recording itself, so it stays with the band through a tempo that drifts. The beats are drawn on the waveform, and one tap fixes a wrong grid. TAKES Takes stack newest first, each carrying the date it was actually recorded. Switch between them in the player and compare without leaving the track. Rename a take, sort them, choose the one the track plays, or move it to another track or out into a track of its own. YOUR LIBRARY Albums hold tracks. Tracks hold takes. No folder tree, no session layer. A wall of covers or a list, dragged into the order you want, searchable, and every row says how many takes it has and how long they run. Mark a track or a take with a colour to find it again. Everybody in the album sees it. WORKING TOGETHER A share link opens the album in Takebase for anyone who has the app, and offers the app to anyone who does not. Tapping it joins that person to the album. No roles to hand out: everybody in an album can add takes and leave comments. A link lasts a day. Adding people is always free. The limit is on audio, never on people. LISTENING A take is kept on your device after the first play, so a track keeps playing where the signal does not. Playback carries on from the lock screen and over AirPlay. Whatever you send is converted to 192 kbps AAC, and that copy is what Takebase streams. WHAT IT COSTS Free up to 30 minutes of stored audio. Takebase Pro raises that to 15 hours, delete a take and its minutes come back. Going over the free limit pauses uploads and playback until you make room or subscribe. Nothing is deleted. PRIVACY No ads. No tracking. Nothing sold. Your recordings are private to the album they sit in and the links you choose to send. SUBSCRIPTION Takebase Pro Monthly: EUR 9.99 per month Takebase Pro Yearly: EUR 69.99 per year Prices vary by region; the app shows yours before you confirm. Where a free trial is offered, the app shows its length and the price that follows; payment is taken when the trial ends, and a trial is offered once per Apple ID. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://takebase.teemusk.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://takebase.teemusk.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Takebase at 15.0 against Music Looper's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Music Looper sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Takebase sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Music Looper ships an update every 3 days, Takebase every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Looper | Takebase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (767 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 767 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imre Virag | Tanel Teemusk |
Bugs and requests
Music Looper
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezing/crashing when trying to use certain features
- Issues with importing/accessing saved songs and loops
- Inconsistent behavior when changing playback speed or pitch
Requested features
4 requests- Background playback support
- More customization options
- Better loop handling (no gaps, more precise control)
- Improved sync between visuals and audio
Takebase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Music Looper
- Music Looper Plus (1 Month)$4.991 Month
- Music Looper Plus (1 Year)14 Days trial$34.991 Year
Takebase
- Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Annual1 Month trial$59.991 Year









