Comparison

Beat Maker vs Dawnbeat

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

Head to head
About

Beat Maker

Create professional-sounding beats on your mobile device with a wide variety of samples, including those inspired by famous songs. Enhance your tracks with effects, use a metronome for perfect timing, and record your creations to share.

Highlights
  • Create beats with samples
  • Use samples from famous songs
  • Add effects like delay and reverb
  • Metronome for timing
  • Record and share beats
  • Customizable themes
Features
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The best Beat Making Sampler app you will find on the app store. WHY YOU WILL LOVE BEAT MAKER • Easily create beats with the best samples • Use samples recreated from famous songs • Add awesome effects like delay and reverb • Use a metronome to always stay on beat • Record your beats to let your friend know how good you are • Choose from a variety of awesome themes to customize your board COMPLETELY FREE This app requires no money and we think that's pretty cool. WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK Do you have improvements? Bugs? Or do you just want to share other thought? Let us know: info@devnex.nl Terms of Use: https://www.devnex.nl/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.devnex.nl/privacy

About

Dawnbeat

This app lets you create music by sampling and sequencing audio. It offers advanced features like multi-touch pads, an always-recording buffer, and flexible routing for creative sound manipulation. Integrate with external MIDI devices and apply a wide range of built-in and AUv3 effects.

Highlights
  • Multi-touch and draggable pads
  • Always-recording buffer (Memorizer)
  • Advanced loop manipulation (BRIIKS)
  • Flexible mixer with assignable busses
  • Polyphonic pads for chords
  • MIDI IN/OUT for external control
  • AUv3 effects and instrument support
  • Auto-slicer for audio chopping
Features
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Dawnbeat inherits the best part of the classic hardware samplers and takes it further by adding features only possible on a multi-touch device.  Create more natural patterns by tapping and swiping pads.  Focus on creativity, you don't need to select a tempo before hit record to finally play a pattern until you get the right take, just play and forget about to record! Dawnbeat is always recording! Multi-touch and draggable pads: - Pads are multi-touch, play a single pad with two fingers at the same time! - Pads are individually configurable, allowing re-triggering when dragging for amazing fills, tone variations . - Mute and Solo buttons for pads available. - Mute groups. Memorizer: - DawnBeat is always recording pad events, you'll never miss a beat, play and experiment and when you hear something you like, it's already recorded! simply go to Memorizer and select the desired events. BRIIKS sampler: - Advanced loop manipulator. Rearrange and combine your loops. Also available as standalone, AUv3 and MacOS. Mixer: - 4 assignable BUSSES and one MAIN BUS. Assign pads to busses, assign internal effects or AUV3 effects to busses.  - Mute and Solo buttons. Polyphonic pads: - Pads can be turned polyphonic, import a piano-like sample and play and sequence chords with a single pad. MIDI IN and MIDI OUT: - Trigger samples from a MIDI controller, play melodies from a MIDI piano. - Sequence hardware drum machines and synths from Dawnbeat. - Use Dawnbeat as an intermediary between a midi keyboard and a synth, save the sequences you are playing. Dawnbeat can save poliphonic sequences! Pattern sequencer with piano editor. - Swing, count-in, metronome. Audio Units: - Dawnbeat support AUv3 effects and instruments! Built in Effects: - Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Flutter, Gate, Tremolo, Noise, Filter, Chorus, Equalizer, Stutter and Tape slow motion. - Effects can be rearranged. Built-In sample browser: - 6 drum kit sample libraries, and 1 bass sample library. Selectable internal sample rate: - Internal sample rate can be changed, choose between HI-FI and LO-FI sample rates. AUTO-SLICER: - AutoSlicer detects hit points and slices audio into individual files minimizing the need for manual editing. Chop up any audio file in a few seconds. Recording sample rate can be selected. Export movies with images and animated GIFs .

Screenshots

Beat Maker4 screens
Dawnbeat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dawnbeat at none against Beat Maker's shown. Dawnbeat also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 40%). Beat Maker's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 112). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Beat Maker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Dawnbeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beat Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beat Maker has 1.8K ratings behind it against 112, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Beat Maker's written reviews are positive against 71% of Dawnbeat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beat Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, Dawnbeat every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Beat Maker versus Dawnbeat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeat MakerDawnbeat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better4.2 (112 ratings)
Positive reviews40.3% of reviews70.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K — better112
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size124 MB504 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevnexLuis Rivas

Customer experience

Beat Maker

All ratings1,757 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral5.1%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive40.3%
Neutral8.1%
Negative51.6%

Dawnbeat

All ratings112 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews127 reviews
Positive70.9%
Neutral18.1%
Negative11.0%

Bugs and requests

Beat Maker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Delayed audio playback
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to record and save own samples
  • Longer loop lengths
  • Individual pad volume control
  • Import custom sound packs

Dawnbeat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Beat Maker

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial2 variants$3.997 Days
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  • Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Dawnbeat

One-time1
  • Dawn Beat Complete$5.99

Questions

Is Beat Maker free?
Beat Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dawnbeat free?
Dawnbeat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beat Maker or Dawnbeat?
Beat Maker is rated higher. Beat Maker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Dawnbeat averages 4.2 from 112 ratings.
Do Beat Maker or Dawnbeat have ads?
Beat Maker shows ads; Dawnbeat does not.
Which is updated more often, Beat Maker or Dawnbeat?
Beat Maker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dawnbeat every 3 weeks. Most recently, Beat Maker was updated on September 29, 2026 and Dawnbeat on September 29, 2026.

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