Beater vs Lattice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beater
This digital metronome offers comprehensive features for musicians, allowing for the creation of simple and complex time signatures. Customize individual beats, subdivide them, and practice polyrhythms with high accuracy.
- Customizable time signatures
- Beat subdivision
- Beat on/off selection
- Polyrhythm practice
- High audio sample accuracy
- Ad-free and in-app purchase free
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Built by a musician for musicians, Beater is a full-featured and compact digital metronome, containing all the features you need to build simple and complex meters. On the Time and Tempo screen, set the overall meter and tempo. Then for more customization, dive into the beats view, where you can select the sound of individual beats, subdivide beats into parts, and turn beats on and off. Beater is accurate down to a single audio sample. The current version of Beater was designed for practicing polyrhythms in addition to standard meters. By setting a fast tempo and 11 beats per measure for example, the user can use a variety of sounds and accents to practice a repeating meter of 4/4 followed by 3/8. Like all my apps, Beater will always be free of ads and in-app purchases!
Lattice
Generate dynamic drum patterns with this MIDI instrument. Explore and capture ideas, create variations, and arrange them into evolving grooves. Ideal for live performance and music production workflows.
- XY pad and intensity controls for pattern shaping
- Capture eight patterns and two fills
- Edit step strength and hat types
- Build evolving patterns with chained banks
- Per-lane MIDI routing and retrigger options
- Deterministic output for reliable recall
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Lattice is a drum-pattern MIDI instrument for iOS and iPadOS that generates grooves live in your host. It works both as a standalone app and as an AUv3 plugin. Lattice helps you find strong drum ideas quickly: * Explore: shape patterns with an XY pad and intensity controls * Populate Banks: capture eight patterns plus two fills from the generator * Variations: edit strength per step (Off/Normal/Hard) and toggle hats between CH/OH * Arrange: build chains from your captured banks for evolving patterns * MIDI Routing: set per-lane note + channel, use routing templates, and enable Force Retrigger for tricky MIDI chains * Deterministic output: the same controls produce the same results, so you can reliably recall what you liked * Lattice is designed for performance workflows: changes apply at bar boundaries, playback can follow the active tab, and you can pin the top bar to lock playback to Live, a specific Pattern slot, or Chain. AUv3 MIDI Effect - Works in AUv3 hosts such as AUM, Drambo, Logic, and Cubasis - MIDI-only design compatible with any synth or sampler
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Verdict
Beater and Lattice both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Lattice's written reviews are positive against 0% of Beater's. Lattice also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). Beater's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.6). On rating, ads, 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
Beater costs $0.99 and Lattice $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beater against 4.9 for Lattice. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lattice has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Beater's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lattice's.
Beater ships an update every 12 months, Lattice every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beater | Lattice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Geilich | Joe Topjian |
Customer experience
Beater
Lattice
In-app purchases
Beater
No in-app purchases
Lattice
No in-app purchases









