Comparison

Loopseque Lite vs spool.

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

Head to head
About

Loopseque Lite

Create music easily with this intuitive app that makes beat-making feel like a game. It offers modes for beginners and professionals to improvise, arrange compositions, and learn different musical styles.

Highlights
  • Easy pattern creation
  • Fast pattern switching
  • Team play modes
  • Learn music styles
  • 32-step circle sequencer
  • 4 channels with 9 patterns
Features
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Loopseque is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere. CONCEPT: * Designed for fun and improvisation * Attractive for both beginners and professionals * Suitable for all ages FEATURES: * "Big Wheel" mode for easy pattern creation * "Wheel Matrix" mode for fast switch between patterns * "Tap" and "Sync" for team play * “Master-Class”. Learn to make music in different styles. LOOPING PLACES: * At Home: on your own, together with a friend or even with the whole family. * At a Party: it’s fun in any setting. Amuse your friends, make music together. * On a Trip: on board of a plane, in a car, or on a train. TECHNICAL INFO: * 32-step circle sequencer * 4 channels with 9 patterns per channel ABOUT: Loopseque is created by Casual Underground international community which comprises of musicians, developers, designers, artists, journalists and producers. Casual Underground lab specializes on research & development in interactive performance area, combining entertaining conceptions with high requirements to usability, advanced technical solutions and wide social integration.

About

spool.

Create full songs on your phone with this pocket music studio. It offers a variety of sound engines, sampling capabilities, step sequencing, and a 4-track tape recorder for recording and mixing your music. Effects and MIDI controller support enhance the creative process.

Highlights
  • Multiple sound engines
  • Sampling and sequencing
  • 4-track tape recording
  • Extensive effects rack
  • MIDI controller support
  • Step sequencer
Features
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Make a whole song on your phone. Spool is a pocket music studio inspired by the joy of hardware grooveboxes — play, sample, sequence, and record to tape, all in one playful instrument. Fourteen sound engines. From punchy FM and fat subtractive Pulse to shimmering Cluster, plucked String, granular Cloud, the TALK vocoder, the WIDE stereo engine, THUMP bass, a Sampler, and two drum machines — each with its own animated, touchable visualizer and four hands-on controls. Sample anything. Record straight from the mic into the sampler or drum kits, trim it, and play it across the keyboard. Drums & beats. Build kits, chop a sample into a playable kit, and lock in grooves with the step sequencer. Playful sequencers. Pattern and arpeggiator to start; unlock Stream, Taps, and the bouncing-ball Gumball machine for happy accidents. Six minutes of 4-track tape. Record, overdub, varispeed (including reverse), scrub, and bounce your jam to a finished mixdown — export to WAV. Your tape is saved with your project. Effects & mixer. A deep rack — delay, spring reverb, drive, compressor, chorus, multimode filter, phaser, tremolo/auto-pan, beat-repeat stutter, and a pitch-shifter/harmonizer — many tempo-syncable. Plus a master EQ and brickwall limiter so it always sounds finished. Plays with your gear. Connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI controller and play Spool like hardware. AUv3 plugin support is planned for a future update. Free to download and make music with a starter set of engines and sequencers. A single one-time Spool Pro purchase unlocks the full instrument — all engines, sampling, every effect and sequencer, unlimited projects, export, and MIDI. No subscription. Spool is an original, independent work by a solo developer — affiliated with no hardware maker.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loopseque Lite at none against spool.'s 1. Loopseque Lite also leads on iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 17.0). spool.'s advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. spool. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Loopseque Lite 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 Loopseque Lite against 5.0 for spool.. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Loopseque Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of spool.'s.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Loopseque Lite versus spool.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopseque Litespool.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 26 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCasual UndergroundKristopher Yang

Customer experience

Loopseque Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative12.5%

spool.

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Loopseque Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

spool.

One-time1
  • Spool Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Loopseque Lite free?
Loopseque Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is spool. free?
spool. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Loopseque Lite or spool.?
Loopseque Lite and spool. are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Loopseque Lite or spool. have ads?
Neither Loopseque Lite nor spool. shows ads.

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