Comparison

Beatly Pro vs SampleScape

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

Head to head
About

Beatly Pro

Create unique instrumental music with a generative studio. Shape melodies, arrange tracks, and mix with extensive editing and export tools. This app generates music from curated patterns, not AI prompts.

Highlights
  • Generate new musical ideas
  • Arrange up to 8 bars of music
  • Edit notes in a piano roll
  • Mix with channel effects
  • Import and edit samples
  • Export MIDI and WAV formats
  • Synchronize with Ableton Link
Features
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Beatly Pro is a generative music studio for moments when you want to create but need a spark. Generate rap-inspired, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, and dance instrumentals, then shape them with hands-on arranging, editing, mixing, and export tools. Beatly Pro is not an AI music generator. It creates music on your device from curated patterns, musical rules, and controlled randomness. There are no prompts, cloud generation, or trained AI models. Style-aware melodies follow the harmony and develop across the arrangement. Varied instrument levels and effects give each track its own balance and character. Beatly Pro takes you from the first idea to a finished track. FEATURES • Generate as many new musical ideas as you like • Create and arrange up to 8 bars of music • Build tracks across up to 7 mixer channels • Edit notes in a piano roll with pinch-to-zoom, playhead following, undo, velocity, copy and paste, per-beat transposition, a chord-aware keyboard lock, and custom patterns • Build chord progressions and change the key or chord of individual beats • Regenerate one instrument part while keeping the rest of your track • Let Song Mode arrange the generated bars for you • Set the key and tempo, or let Beatly choose them • Mix every channel with volume, solo, mute, low-pass filtering, resonance, decimation, reverb, delay, and compression • Browse, search, and audition built-in sounds in the Sample Manager • Record samples or import WAV and AIFF files individually, by folder, or with drag and drop • Trim, fade, normalize, reverse, tune, warm, and drive your samples • Import, audition, rename, and manage SF2 SoundFont banks • Save and recall reusable drum kits • Play tuned built-in instruments more naturally across the keyboard with multisample playback • Import a four-beat region from a MIDI file into the piano roll, with optional transposition • Export the complete track as MIDI or create separate MIDI files for each instrument • Render a WAV mix, individual stems, or a seamless loop of the active mix • Record a live performance to WAV • Share Beatly tracks with their custom samples included • Send MIDI with configurable channel assignments and drum-note mappings • Connect through Audiobus with the full audio mix and separate MIDI outputs for drums and each instrument group • Synchronize tempo and transport with Ableton Link WHO IS BEATLY PRO FOR? Beatly Pro is made for producers, composers, singers, artists, filmmakers, game developers, content creators, practicing musicians, and anyone curious about generative music. HOW DOES IT WORK? Open Beatly Pro and tap Play. The app chooses instruments, tempo, key, and musical patterns, then creates up to 8 bars, or 32 beats, of instrumental music. Tap Next whenever you want a different idea. Every generated track is yours to shape. Rearrange or repeat its bars, change the tempo or key, swap sounds, adjust the mix, regenerate one instrument, or edit notes in the piano roll. Choose from five styles: Default, Lo-fi, Chiptune, Cinematic, and Dance. Default suits rap-inspired beats. Each style has its own instruments and character. Define the harmony with the chord progression builder, or create custom bar patterns for future tracks. Change the key or chord of any beat, and Beatly will transpose its notes to match. When your track is ready, save or share it, export MIDI, record a performance, render a WAV mix, create stems, or export a seamless loop. Connect Beatly Pro to your studio through MIDI, Audiobus, or Ableton Link. CAN I USE MY OWN SOUNDS? Yes. Use the Sample Manager to record audio, import WAV or AIFF files and folders, or load SF2 SoundFont banks. Preview, search, rename, duplicate, and edit samples without leaving the app. Samples tuned to C usually give the most predictable melodic results. Enjoying Beatly Pro? A rating or review on the App Store means a great deal. You can also support future development through the optional tip jar.

About

SampleScape

Create complex, evolving soundscapes with this sample-based instrument. Build sequences of samples or instruments, control playback with granular synthesis, and apply a variety of filters and effects. Features an auto-sampler for easy recording and SF2 file import.

Highlights
  • Morph Sequencer up to 12 steps
  • Sample or Granular Rendering
  • 12 Sample Slots with 24 samples each
  • 114 Ready-made Instruments
  • Morphing VCF with multiple modes
  • Integrated effects suite
  • Auto Sampler for instrument recording
Features
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SampleScape is an AUv3 plugin for use in your favourite DAW such as AUM, Cubasis, GarageBand, Logic or Loopy Pro. SampleScape is an innovative sample-based instrument for building complex evolving soundscapes. You can create a sequence of steps, each step being either an individual sample or a collection of tuned samples which we refer to as an instrument. Each step allows you has controls how it is played back, either as a traditional sample or via granular synthesis. You can control transition times, fade times, transpose, pitch, glide, level, pan, vibrato, tremolo at each step, and together with a 3 mode morphing filter and integrated effects you can create a constantly evolving and complex soundscape. SampleScape also has the ability to map any incoming CC controllers to a large number of internal knobs, sliders, switches etc. for fantastic automation possibilities. Our build in Auto Sampler makes recording samples from other instruments so simple. You can use this to expand the library of more than 114 pre-build instruments. SampleScape also has a configurable randomisation feature which can piece sequences of instruments together to create new sequences at the press of a button. Need more samples, simply drag and drop SF2 files into the Sample Library to extract all the samples. The Sample Library also lets you configure and reference a remote folder on your iPad. This is useful if you already have a sample library located on your iPad. SampleScape features: • Morph Sequencer: create morphing sequences up to 12 steps in length. • Sample or Granular Rendering: Choose to render samples using sample or granular modes. • 12 Sample Slots: Reference up to 12 individual samples or instruments in your sequence. • 24 Samples Per Slot: Add up to 24 individual samples in any of the 12 sample slots. • Ready-made Instruments: 114 built-in, ready-made instruments to use as a basis for your sequences. • 2x Fluid LFOs: Control panning, vibrato, tremolo, and filter modulation using the LFO's. • VCF: offers Ladder (Moog), SEM (Oberheim), Formant, and CS-20 (Korg) modes with 12/24-bit slopes and morphable LP/BP/HP. • 2x ADSR: Includes two traditional ADSRs to control both AMP and FILTER envelopes. • Beat Sync: Sync sample sequences to your host DAW. • MPE Mode: Use MPE controllers with SampleScape with per-note pitch bends and CC47 control. • Effects: Add reverb, delay, chorus, Haas, 8 Band EQ, Leslie Simulator, and Phaser effects to your presets. • Drag and Drop: Import and export presets, samples, and complete instrument folders. • Modulation: Map MIDI CC to a huge range of interface functions. • Sample Library: Maintain local and remote sample and instrument libraries. • Auto Sampler: Quickly and intelligently record entire instruments directly into SampleScape. • Auto Tune: Built-in auto-tune and tuner options to automatically place your samples on the correct root note. • Auto Looping: An automatic loop finder is available to make finding loop points easy. • Randomisation: Built-in intelligent randomization features to auto-generate sequences. • Sample Extractor: Built-in sample extraction from SF2 soundfont files.

Screenshots

Beatly Pro4 screens
SampleScape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beatly Pro at $4.99 against SampleScape's $14.99. Beatly Pro also leads on ratings volume (38 vs 2). SampleScape's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, monetization model 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

Beatly Pro costs $4.99 and SampleScape $14.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SampleScape asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SampleScape holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beatly Pro has 38 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Beatly Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of SampleScape's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beatly Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, SampleScape every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Beatly Pro versus SampleScape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeatly ProSampleScape
Price$4.99 — better$14.99
Rating4.5 (38 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings38 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.613 — better
Further details — not scored
Size204 MB806 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonin Charvat4Pockets.com

Customer experience

Beatly Pro

All ratings38 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative10.3%

SampleScape

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Beatly Pro

One-time2
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Large tip$3.99
None

SampleScape

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beatly Pro free?
Beatly Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is SampleScape free?
SampleScape costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beatly Pro or SampleScape?
SampleScape is rated higher. Beatly Pro averages 4.5 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while SampleScape averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Beatly Pro or SampleScape have ads?
Neither Beatly Pro nor SampleScape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beatly Pro or SampleScape?
Beatly Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, and SampleScape every 5 days. Most recently, Beatly Pro was updated on November 3, 2026 and SampleScape on October 30, 2026.

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