Comparison

Beatima vs Ear Engineer Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Beatima

Create music on your wrist with this portable drum machine. It features 16 responsive pads, DJ scratching capabilities, and exclusive sound packs. Save and share your beats seamlessly.

Highlights
  • 16-pad drum machine
  • DJ scratching with Digital Crown
  • 10 exclusive sound packs
  • Export to iCloud
  • Dynamic smoke visual effects
Features
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Beatima - Your Drum Machine on Apple Watch Unleash your creativity with Beatima, the ultimate drum machine crafted for your Apple Watch. Tap into the rhythm of 16 responsive pads and create beats anywhere, anytime. With Beatima, your wrist becomes your personal studio. Features: • 16-Pad Drum Machine: Play and experiment with unique sounds at your fingertips. • DJ Scratching with Digital Crown: Add a professional touch to your beats by scratching like a DJ with the Digital Crown. • 10 Exclusive Sound Packs: Explore a variety of sounds with 10 professionally crafted sound packs made exclusively for Beatima. • Export to iCloud: Save and share your creations seamlessly through iCloud. • Stunning Visuals: Immerse yourself in dynamic smoke effects that respond to your beats, elevating your experience. Whether you’re a seasoned producer or just starting your music journey, Beatima makes beat-making fun, portable, and powerful. Download now and let your creativity flow—right from your wrist.

About

Ear Engineer Mobile

Features
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YOUR EARS ARE THE INSTRUMENT Every plugin, every monitor, every room you will ever work in sits downstream of one thing: your hearing. Ear Engineer trains it. HOW IT WORKS Pink noise plays once, for five seconds. Somewhere inside it a single ISO third-octave band is lifted by 6 dB: the noise fades in, the boost swells and settles back, the noise fades out. Then the room goes quiet and the question appears. Which band was it? One replay per round. Ten rounds per set. Score 8 or better and you move up. FIVE LEVELS, FROM OBVIOUS TO BRUTAL Level 1 offers three options a decade apart, 100 Hz against 1 kHz against 10 kHz. You will get it right, and that is the point. You are calibrating, not guessing. Then the options close in. Two octaves. One octave. Two thirds of an octave. And finally Pro, where all 31 ISO bands sit on screen and the boost could be any one of them. The options are never the same twice. Every round draws a fresh ladder from a random anchor, so level 1 asks 100 Hz / 1 kHz / 10 kHz on one round and 80 / 800 / 8000 on the next. You learn the frequencies, not the layout of the buttons. THE DETAILS ARE THE PRODUCT The filter Q never changes. It is a one-third-octave bell on every level and every round, narrow enough that 1 kHz and 1.25 kHz stay clearly tellable apart. Bandwidth is never part of the test, so you only ever train one variable at a time. The analyser does not cheat. It shows the material breathing across the spectrum, but it is tapped before the equaliser, so it can never draw the bump and hand you the answer. The moment you answer, it draws the real filter curve exactly where the boost was. That is when you see what you just heard. The noise plays once, not on a loop. One pass, one decision, the way it works when a client is sitting behind you. LOW BANDS, ON OR OFF Training on the move without headphones? Switch the low bands off and everything at 100 Hz and below leaves the game, so a phone speaker never costs you a point. Switch them back on with headphones and the full 20 Hz to 20 kHz grid is in play. BUILT FROM YEARS OF TEACHING IT This is not a toy built around a random number generator. It is a training method that has been run with real students for years, put into an app: the same intervals, the same progression, the same insistence that you name the band rather than wave at the general area. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Every level remembers your best set, so you can watch the day 250 Hz stops being a coin toss and starts being obvious. Every level is unlocked from the start, so you can drop into Pro whenever you feel like being humbled. FOR MIXERS, LIVE, MASTERING, POST AND BROADCAST Anyone who has swept a parametric hunting for a resonance knows the feeling of finding it by accident. This is how you stop doing that. A few minutes a day and you start reaching for the right band first, on instinct, while everyone else is still sweeping. Your ears are the one piece of gear you cannot upgrade. Maintain them. No ads. No account. No internet connection required.

Screenshots

Beatima4 screens
Ear Engineer Mobile3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beatima at $1.99 against Ear Engineer Mobile's $9.99. Beatima also leads on chart position (#177 vs unranked). Ear Engineer Mobile's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Beatima costs $1.99 and Ear Engineer Mobile $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beatima ships an update every 2 months, Ear Engineer Mobile weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Beatima versus Ear Engineer Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeatimaEar Engineer Mobile
Price$1.99 — better$9.99
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#177 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAftercompute ABsebastian rivas

In-app purchases

None

Beatima

No in-app purchases

None

Ear Engineer Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beatima free?
Beatima costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ear Engineer Mobile free?
Ear Engineer Mobile costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beatima or Ear Engineer Mobile have ads?
Neither Beatima nor Ear Engineer Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beatima or Ear Engineer Mobile?
Beatima ships an update every 2 months, and Ear Engineer Mobile weekly. Most recently, Beatima was updated on October 5, 2026 and Ear Engineer Mobile on October 7, 2026.

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