Comparison

BAM vs Stellarvox

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

Head to head
About

BAM

This app is a professional music production tool that allows users to create beats, loops, and full tracks. It offers a versatile interface with built-in instruments, effects, and extensive sequencing capabilities. Users can also host AUv3 plugins and arrange music for live performance or export.

Highlights
  • Groovebox-style music production
  • AUv3 plugin host
  • Built-in instruments and effects
  • Step sequencer with 256 steps
  • MIDI clip and scene launcher
  • Full mixer controls
  • Clip-based parameter modulation
Features
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BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker is a professional groovebox-style music production app and AUv3 plugin host with everything you need to bring your musical ideas to life. Ready, set, create! Experience music production with next-level productivity, BAM’s versatile functionality and feature set is easy to pick up, and hard to put down. In addition to AUv3 plugin support, BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker comes loaded with its own set of high-quality instruments and effects, for a groovebox with a well stocked toolbox. Whatever you want to make, quickly turn inspiration into creation with BAM’s intuitive easy-to-use interface, supercharge your workflow and build beats, loops and scenes in minutes. Expand and grow your projects with BAM’s MIDI clip and scene launcher, perform live and arrange full tracks using extensive follow actions. A step ahead of the competition, BAM’s step sequencer gives you up to 256 steps per clip. View and edit multiple track clips simultaneously, and visualise a scene’s clips together. Summary of features: - 16 rack-style tracks plus Master and 2 send channels - AUv3 plugin support - Full mixer with volume, pan, mute, solo, arm controls - Built-in synthesis engines: Oscillator synth, Drum synth, sampler, classic acid bass synth - Built in effects: Filter, EQ, parametric EQ, delay, chorus, compressor, reverb, saturator, bit reduction, 3D panner and stereo width - MIDI clip piano roll editor - Step sequencer with up to 256 steps per clip - Clip based parameter modulation editor - Track level trigger options plus LFO and EG modulators - Matrix MIDI clip and scene launcher with extensive follow action options - Real-time adjustment of audio clip playback speed to match the tempo of the song, without altering pitch - Sample library including over 1000 drum and percussive samples, plus melodic timbres “I’m marking ambient, field recordings and techno projects, the modular interface is perfect for this type of projects, and the interface is minimal with no weird distractions.” “Great app! Intuitive, fast, logic…” “Whatever I try, I always come back to BAM to start my tracks. Either to jam live and have fun or to build the basics then export in audio or MIDI and complete in another app.. BAM is versatile enough to allow any musical genre. The team is responsive and helpful in case of questions or issues. I like: intuitive & simple yet powerful UI, built in effects, work with audio loops, export capabilities.” “How did I miss this one? Easy to learn and like nothing else for live jamming. Get two iPads and run this on one and DRAMBO on the other and go wild. Who needs hardware when you can have this much fun for the price of a couple of beers.” “I’ve never clicked with what people call ‘groovebox’ apps but this just made sense to me and I had instant results. The more I use it the more I learn and I realize the possibilities it brings. I’m making some slow, dark, atmospheric stuff with it as well as making quick, rhythmic things. The developers are passionate about what they do and respond to questions quickly. I wrote this a few days after buying BAM and I can’t wait to learn it inside out to fully explore it. I think this app is an absolute bargain considering the amount of work that has gone into it and the features included.” “This app is incredible. The demo tunes alone are well worth it!” “Great app for building whole songs, courtesy of the built-in clip launcher. The developer is very active, and constantly fixing bugs and adding new features, so definitely recommended.” “This app has me excited to make arrangements, jams and tracks on the ipad. Your YouTube tutorials were super helpful. The app is easy to use with powerful tools to have a lot of fun. Really appreciate the work you put into this and all of your apps. We are very fortunate. Thank you. Keep jammin!” “This is literally the type of app I’m looking for, FAR easier to use than most music programs and so far their best work since DRC.”

About

Stellarvox

Design immersive ambient soundscapes with a hybrid reverb and artificial space designer. Create lush textures, deep spaces, and whispering backgrounds for electronic, experimental, and sound design projects. Offers intuitive controls and inspiring presets for quick, high-quality results.

Highlights
  • Hybrid reverb with artificial space designer
  • Algorithmic reflections tail processing
  • Dynamic timbre changes over time
  • Geometry and dimension control
  • Factory presets and random feature
  • MIDI learn support
  • Standalone and AUv3 module
Features
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Hybrid reverb with an artificial space designer, combining it with algorithmic reflections tail processing, is ideal to creating immersive ambience of deep spaces, lush atmospheric textures or stunning whispering backgrounds in your ambient, electronic, experimental and sound design projects. Unlike traditional algorithmic reverbs, Stellarvox constructs a complex model of a vast resonant sound spaces with choice of geometry, dimensions and tonal structure of the space, along with a unique feature that dynamically change the timbre of reflections over the reverberation time. The second algorithmic reverb allows you to prolong and blur reflections, adding extra dimensions to the sound space. Easy-to-use controls on a single screen, along with optimally designed parameters that always give great results, make insignificant the peculiarity of that kind of reverbs, when the model creates with a little delay after changing it. Factory presets and the random feature will give you a starting point of inspiration and allow you to get a quick result where you need just to slightly tweak the parameters to align with your idea. This application is great for ambient projects, it can create mesmerizing atmosphere from single infrequent sounds of various instruments, or giving a beautiful and deep backgrounds to sharp sequences in electronics, as well as for any experimental projects that require unusual, deep and rich sound ambience. Stellarvox is a universal application for iOS and macOS. It can work on iPhone and iPad as well as Mac / MacBook with M1 chip (and later). Stellarvox works on iPhone and iPad standalone, as an Audio Unit or Inter-App Audio module, with supports Audiobus host app. On MacOS, Stellarvox can works both as a standalone application and as an Audio unit (AUv3) with DAWs and other hosts that support AUv3 plugins. All application features are available on iOS and macOS, including MIDI support (with a MIDI learn option) and audio unit parameters. Stellarvox has a built-in detailed description of all parameters also available as PDF file on the application site. Sound demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtZfvLtJy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCYa1tp2Qw You can find more information on Stellarvox and other audio apps at: https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com

Screenshots

BAM4 screens
Stellarvox3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stellarvox at none against BAM's 11. Stellarvox also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). BAM's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (103 vs 11). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BAM costs $12.99 and Stellarvox $11.99 up front. BAM sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Stellarvox asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stellarvox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BAM has 103 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of BAM's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stellarvox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BAM ships an update every 3 weeks, Stellarvox every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
BAM versus Stellarvox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBAMStellarvox
Price$12.99$11.99 — better
Rating4.8 (103 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size490 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImaginando LdaIgor Vasiliev

Customer experience

BAM

All ratings102 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative13.3%

Stellarvox

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

BAM

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Frequent hanging of the app
  • Extension packs causing hangs (Velvet vibes, LN90s)
  • App freezes in AUM and Drambo
  • Loading audio stems is cumbersome and leads to freezing
  • Random crashing frequently
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  • Ca saute à chaque sauvegarde (crashes on save)
  • Sample folder issue on iPhone (folders open on touch)
  • Unstable: no sound, stuttering, freezing
  • Keeps crashing, lost work
  • Recording from a count in is laggy, misses first note
  • UI issues with some Audio Units being cropped

Requested features

27 requests
  • More integrated effects & plugins
  • Pause button for plugins
  • CC Randomizer function
  • Keyboard mode with multiple digital keyboards
  • IAA (Inter-App Audio) support
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  • Scales functionality
  • Chord+melody generator
  • More random functions
  • Ability to group tracks
  • Parameter locks
  • Dedicated FM synth
  • More channels (32 or unlimited)
  • Internal drum kit plugin
  • Linear arrangement view
  • Keyboard input/shortcuts
  • Recording from audio unit keyboard to timeline
  • Keyboard shows up on all Audio Units
  • Fix cropped Audio Unit windows
  • Loop points
  • Chord button on keyboard with preset tab
  • Drag & drop sample slicer
  • Ableton Link send start stop
  • Send MIDI Clock out to selected channels
  • Audio Input 24 Channel Selector
  • Sample import button for existing iPad samples
  • More tutorials for traditional beatmakers
  • Improve GUI for touch

Stellarvox

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

BAM

One-time11
  • Fusion City Grooves$8.99
  • House Flavours Pack$8.99
  • Techno Flavours Pack$8.99
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  • Bass Mechanics Pack$8.99
  • Ladera Nights Pack$8.99
  • Soulful Hip Hop Vol. 1 Pack$8.99
  • Urban Beats Vol. 1 Pack$8.99
  • Retro Future Pack$8.99
  • Brazilian Funk Pack$8.99
  • Urban Beats Vol. 2 Pack$8.99
  • Velvet Vibes$8.99
None

Stellarvox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BAM free?
BAM costs $12.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Stellarvox free?
Stellarvox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BAM or Stellarvox?
Stellarvox is rated higher. BAM averages 4.8 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Stellarvox averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do BAM or Stellarvox have ads?
Neither BAM nor Stellarvox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BAM or Stellarvox?
BAM ships an update every 3 weeks, and Stellarvox every 5 months. Most recently, BAM was updated on October 30, 2026 and Stellarvox on October 30, 2026.

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