Comparison

GripBeats vs Brecken's Beats

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

Head to head
About

GripBeats

Create music using intuitive touch controls and motion. This application allows users to explore their creativity by making sounds through interactive gestures.

Highlights
  • Music creation
  • Touch controls
  • Motion input
  • Sound generation
  • Creative expression
Features
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Music making through touch and movement.

About

Brecken's Beats

Create professional-sounding beats with realistic drum pads and a versatile piano keyboard. Record your voice over your creations, play a rhythm game, and share your music with friends. This app offers a fun and engaging way for young musicians to explore beat making and composition.

Highlights
  • Studio-quality TR-808 drum samples
  • Record voice over beats
  • Full piano keyboard with 6 voices
  • Beat Rush rhythm game
  • Beatbox studio functionality
  • Export and share tracks
Features
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Brecken's Beats is a music studio made for kids 8 to 13. Open it and within seconds you are building a real song: drums, bass, keys, your own voice and your own beatbox, all stacked in one place. It was designed with a nine year old, so everything is big, obvious and fun, and everything you make stays on your device. THE SONG STUDIO Start from one of eight original song starters (trap, hip hop, pop, lo-fi, house, EDM, drill, reggaeton) or from silence. Tap steps on the drum grid, add a bass line and chords on scale-locked grids that always sound good, record the piano straight into the song, then rap or sing on top with a four beat count-in. Mute, solo, copy bars, double the length, undo and redo. Save it to My Beats and send it to family. BEATBOX Tap Record, get four clicks, then beatbox for two bars. Your actual mouth sounds go into the song as a loop. The app also listens for your kicks, snares and hats and lays them out on a drum grid you can use. Play it back inside the song before you add it. A REAL PIANO A keyboard that behaves like one: slide your finger across the keys, play chords, press lower on a key to play louder. Four octaves, an octave navigator, sustain, note names you can switch on, and a recorder that keeps your take and drops it into your song. Classic and Toy pianos are free. Electric, Rhodes, Synth, 808 Keys, Marimba, Music Box, Organ and Strings come with Plus. RECORD YOUR VOICE Rap or sing over your beat with the microphone, then pick a voice effect: Echo, Robot, Deep or Chipmunk. Recordings never leave the device unless you choose to share them, and sharing is behind a parent check. DJ STUDIO Two decks that play the songs and mixes you made. Scratch a platter that has real weight and pitch bend, nudge, set a cue point, drop beat-synced loops, tap Sync to line two tracks up, sweep the filter, ride the crossfader, and record the whole mix straight into My Beats. MADE FOR FAMILIES No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Nothing is collected. Every purchase, link and share sits behind a parental gate. Works offline. Turn the phone sideways for a wider keyboard and side by side decks. BRECKEN'S PLUS Free: the full Song Studio, Beatbox, voice recording, the DJ Studio, two piano sounds, 30 second exports and three saved songs. Plus adds all ten piano sounds, 60 second exports and unlimited saved songs. Plus is a monthly subscription billed to your Apple Account, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://bearandhati-oss.github.io/breckensbeats-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

GripBeats4 screens
Brecken's Beats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GripBeats at none against Brecken's Beats's 1. GripBeats also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Brecken's Beats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. GripBeats asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GripBeats against 5.0 for Brecken's Beats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GripBeats versus Brecken's Beats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGripBeatsBrecken's Beats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWTUS LLCCole stegman

Customer experience

GripBeats

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Brecken's Beats

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

GripBeats

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Brecken's Beats

Subscriptions1
  • Brecken's Beats Plus$2.991 Month

Questions

Is GripBeats free?
GripBeats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brecken's Beats free?
Brecken's Beats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GripBeats or Brecken's Beats?
GripBeats and Brecken's Beats are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do GripBeats or Brecken's Beats have ads?
Neither GripBeats nor Brecken's Beats shows ads.

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