Samplist vs Briiks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samplist
This app lets you chop audio samples into multiple slices. You can then play these slices using on-screen pads, a keyboard, or MIDI controllers. It offers real-time time-stretching and individual control over each slice's parameters.
- Chop samples into slices
- Velocity-sensitive pads
- Chromatic keyboard playback
- MIDI input (wired & Bluetooth LE)
- Real-time time-stretching
- Individual slice filters and pitch shifters
- Sample import/export
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Samplist is a MIDI Sampler Instrument which allows you to easily chop a sample into different slices. You can then play the slices with the velocity sensitive on screen pads, chromatically with the on screen keyboard or with via MIDI. All this with Realtime Timestretch (monophonic only). Features: • Realtime time stretch with individual tempo per slice • MIDI in, both wired & via Bluetooth LE • Sample import from Files app or "Open in..." • Export slices as Zip file to other apps • Each slice has its own Filter, Envelope & Realtime pitch shifter. • Record your samples via Microphone. • Record your performance into an audio file. More to come in the near future
Briiks
Manipulate audio loops non-destructively with this sampler. Rearrange, combine, and modify slices on the fly using various tools for pitch, time, and position adjustments. Features include multiple tracks, a built-in mixer, and bus effects.
- Non-destructive sample slicing
- Rearrange and combine loops
- On-the-fly modification of slices
- Up to 6 tracks
- Built-in mixer
- Delay and compressor on buses
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AUv3 and standalone sample-loops manipulator. BRIIKS is non destructive sample slicer, you can rearrange and combine your loops on the fly. Modify start points, slice length, pitch, time stretch on the fly. - Up to 6 tracks to rearrange slices. - Built in mIxer. - 4 busses and main output. - Delay and compressor on every bus. 6 tools: - SELECT Change slice position, start point and length. Change slice track. - STRETCH Change pitch and time stretch by dragging start and end point. - HAND Change sample start point without change the slice position. - SLICER Chop from the source sample or form the selected slice. - PENCIL Replicate selected slice, Snap to slice and zero cross.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Briiks at Free against Samplist's $3.99. Briiks also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (73% vs 50%). Samplist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). On ratings volume, ads 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
Briiks is free to download; Samplist costs $3.99 up front. Briiks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Samplist asks for nothing beyond the download.
Briiks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Samplist's written reviews are positive against 73% of Briiks's.
Samplist ships an update every 4 days, Briiks every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Samplist | Briiks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (49 ratings) | 4.7 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cristina Buga | Luis Rivas |
Customer experience
Samplist
Briiks
In-app purchases
Samplist
No in-app purchases
Briiks
- Briiks Complete$6.99









