Comparison

Samplebot vs Magma

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

Head to head
About

Samplebot

Record and import audio clips to create music. Arrange them using a sequencer with looping and quantization. Edit samples for the perfect mix and share your songs.

Highlights
  • Record or import audio samples
  • Finger-drummable rainbow pads
  • Sequencer with loop record/playback
  • Sample editing (trim, volume, pitch, speed)
  • MIDI control with velocity
  • Share creations or export to other apps
Features
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Samplebot is a collector of sounds. It's a crafter of songs. It's a finger-drummable looping sequencer of rainbow glory, and it wants to be your friend. Come. Play. Robo-boogie. - Record samples or import clips from your Music library, from iCloud Drive, Dropbox or other compatible services, then play them back on beautiful, sproingy rainbow pads! - Then record or input arrangements using the sequencer, featuring built-in drum patterns, loop record and playback, quantization and copy/paste - Trim samples, and adjust volume, balance, pitch and speed for the perfect mix - Share your creations to Facebook, or export them to other music apps - Comprehensive MIDI control with velocity, for play using a grid controller like the Launchpad - Helpful and fun-loving intro tutorial

About

Magma

This audio processing tool manipulates incoming sound by blending it with its past, creating unique textures from drones to ethereal timbres. It acts as a micro-looper, granular engine, sustainer, and sound warmer, allowing for extensive sound sculpting.

Highlights
  • Time-based audio blending
  • Micro-looper and granular engine
  • Sustainer and sound warmer
  • EQ and Mid/Side sculpting
  • Distortion and amplitude modulation
  • Freeze toggle for infinite sustain
Features
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Magma is an audio processor that grabs incoming audio and twists its presence throughout time, blends it with its past self, unravels its most recondite shades and controls its weight in space, creating everything in between dark drones, shimmery textures and weird percussive timbres. At the very crossroad between a micro-looper, a granular engine, a sustainer, and a sound warmer, Magma can squash your sounds with reverb-like, big shaking auras, or sprinkle air and make your lines ethereal. Simply load Magma on your track and give your sounds a new identity. Magma is a sound processor with its very own character. Magic when paired with acoustic sounds, it can transfigure all kind of sources in unexpected ways: it will react differently, according to the input you feed it with. It can either magnify or disintegrate. Magma can be molten lead, screaming metal, frozen wind. You will handle Magma with care, paying attention on how each parameter acts, according to different contexts. Magma will carry your sound around unexplored territories. HOW IT WORKS Magma continuously records the incoming signal in a short buffer, it then plays back the content by blending different moments in time, creating a texture. User can set the density and the persistence of the texture, that can sound as a reverb, an infinite sustain, or a sort of spectral shadow. Several parameters let user sculpt the texture: an EQ section, a Temperature knob (a specifically designed distortion adds a noise-based amplitude modulation on higher values), and a Mid/Side knob to handle its weight in space. GO RAW OR KEEP IT SMOOTH /// The RAW switch disables an envelope follower applied to the input by default. Set it ON for a sharpen sound, or OFF for a smooth texture. MEMORIES AND FROZEN TIME /// Choose how much persitent memories should be, and let Magma blend past with present; enable the freeze toggle for an organic infinite sustain. SPEED /// Set the playback speed of memories to harmonize the present with perfect and odd intervals. SCULPT /// Use the intuitive EQ section to boost/cut hi and low frequencies and get the perfect timbre for your texture. WEIGHT /// We included a classic Mid/Side operator; you’ll love how it can sculpt the texture, giving weight or adding air to it! IN-GUI INFOS /// Enable Infos toggle to get all parameters details always in sight; just hover on a parameter. 2 FLAVOURS /// Dark and light skin. *** Please note: Magma is an Audio Unit extension (AUv3) – it only works in an AUv3 host app like AUM, Drambo, Cubasis, etc... ***

Screenshots

Samplebot4 screens
Magma3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Magma at 4.9 against Samplebot's 4.4. Samplebot's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 45 months). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Samplebot costs $3.99 and Magma $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magma holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Samplebot's written reviews are positive against 80% of Magma's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Samplebot ships an update every 10 days, Magma every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Samplebot versus Magma: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSamplebotMagma
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating4.4 (56 ratings)4.9 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 45 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperA Tasty PixelK-Devices

Customer experience

Samplebot

All ratings56 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral1.8%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative17.9%

Magma

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Samplebot

No in-app purchases

None

Magma

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Samplebot free?
Samplebot costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magma free?
Magma costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Samplebot or Magma?
Magma is rated higher. Samplebot averages 4.4 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Magma averages 4.9 from 16 ratings.
Do Samplebot or Magma have ads?
Neither Samplebot nor Magma shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Samplebot or Magma?
Samplebot ships an update every 10 days, and Magma every 45 months. Most recently, Samplebot was updated on November 2, 2026 and Magma on November 3, 2026.

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