Loopy HD vs Drambo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loopy HD
Create music by layering looped recordings of vocals or instruments. This app offers a sophisticated, tactile looper with a user-friendly interface for beginners and advanced features for experienced musicians. It supports MIDI control, flexible track timing, and easy import/export of audio.
- Layered looped recordings
- Sophisticated tactile looper
- MIDI control support
- Flexible track timing
- Import loops via iTunes
- Live tempo adjustment
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Create music with Loopy HD by layering looped recordings of singing, beatboxing, or playing an instrument with a savvy, sophisticated, tactile looper that totally reinvents the formula. As seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. https://loopyapp.com -- “This is the best loop station on the iPhone” -- Dub FX (dubfx.net) -- “I pretty much own every mobile looper out there and Loopy is HANDS DOWN the best. Super simple interface with powerful features.” -- J. Alan Meier -- “If you want a recording app that will get out of the way and just let you be creative, you just found it.” -- Dave Merson-Hess, indie film composer -- “Loopy 2 is by far the best looper for the iPhone we’ve seen to date” -- iOS Recording Compatible with the Audiobus app: Record and loop live audio directly from other Audiobus-compatible apps! While other music creation apps tend to be either powerful but difficult to learn, or easy to use but limited in features, Loopy doesn't compromise. Loopy offers a sleek, expressive, instantly understandable interface that beginners can start using effectively straight away. It's fun, right from the start. More advanced users, however, will not be disappointed by Loopy's rich feature set, with extra features many other loopers just don't have. Plus, a sophisticated interactive tutorial system lets users discover Loopy's more advanced features at their own pace. RECORD & LAYER - Six, nine, or twelve beautifully rendered circular loops, with simple yet powerful controls. - Count-in, count-out and record chaining lets you keep your hands free to play an instrument. - MIDI control, to control Loopy via foot pedal or other controller. - Overdub, to build beautiful, complex soundscapes from many layers. - Support for tracks of any multiple or fraction of a beat, for flexible and expressive looping. - Sophisticated audio or visual metronome to keep you in time - no matter what time signature you choose. - Perfectly synchronized, low latency audio engine. - Robust MIDI clock receive and send, and support for Ableton Link. IMPORT & CONSTRUCT - Import loops from your computer via iTunes, with support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, M4A, CAF and more. - Bring in audio from many other audio apps with integrated audio copy and paste. - Imported loops are automatically fit to your beat, no matter what tempo. MANIPULATE & TWEAK - Full stereo audio, with pan controls for each track to create custom stereoscapes. - Fix up timing by twisting tracks around to line up the beat, or make funky sound effects with dynamic time shifting. - Drag a track onto another track to merge tracks, and clear up a space. - Live, dynamic tempo adjustment to speed up or slow down your creations, without altering the pitch. - MIDI clock sync, to play in time with other MIDI-capable devices or apps. PERFORM & SHARE - Record whole performances with in-app session recording facilities. - Upload performances or single loops straight to SoundCloud, and post to Twitter or Facebook. - Email audio clips. - Share audio with many other audio apps with audio copy and paste. - Transfer loops or performances to your computer via iTunes. ----- Loopy is developed by one guy who loves making great apps, and who is dedicated to responsive development and support. Please contact me with questions, bug reports, feature ideas, and other feedback at support@atastypixel.com or https://forum.loopyapp.com. I may be able to fix your issue in less time than it would take to write a negative review!
Drambo
This app offers a flexible sound design experience, allowing users to build beats, create synthesizers, and process audio with effects. Its innovative modular system simplifies connections and organization, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced musicians. It functions as a standalone application or a plugin within a DAW.
- Modular sound design
- Intuitive cable-less connections
- Advanced sequencer
- Standalone and AUv3 plugin
- Over 140 modules
- Polyphonic stereo processing
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"Drambo changes the face of iOS music apps." Cult of Mac Drambo is your all-in-one sound laboratory that adapts to your workflow: build beats as a groovebox, design synths, or transform audio with effects, standalone or inside your favorite DAW. At the core of Drambo is a fresh approach to modular design that makes creating with modules easy, fun, and accessible. Connections happen automatically as you add or move modules, so there are no messy cables to slow you down. The interface adapts to your workflow, generating modulation controls when you need them, and even lets modules contain other modules for perfect organization. You’re always free to override the automatic connections, but most of the time, you can just dive in, experiment, and shape sounds without getting tangled in wires. Use a deep and innovative sequencer to compose patterns and whole tracks, for production or live performance. Go beyond simple looping sequences with parameter locking, conditional step components, parameters automation and powerful scene morphing. Drambo works equally well as a self-contained standalone app or audio unit plugin with audio and MIDI connectivity as an AUV3 instrument, audio effect and MIDI effect. You can use Drambo as • A Complete Studio: Produce entire tracks and perform live in a self-contained, multitrack environment. • An Endless modular playground, that allows you to build, modify and store custom instruments and effects. For instance: build a custom synth, sample and resample, build a Theremin using a gyroscope module, or turn your table into a playable surface, by processing microphone input with physical modelling modules. • An Advanced MIDI Sequencer: Control hardware or AUv3 instruments. Generate custom MIDI CC messages or send modulation signals to physical modular synths via DC-coupled interfaces. • The Ultimate AUv3 Plugin: Load Drambo inside other DAWs as an instrument, audio effect, or MIDI processor. Replace dozens of standard plugins by building your own complex modular delays, reverbs, decimators, or modulators in seconds. • A Unified Audio-Visual Studio (Drambo Visual IAP): Arts united. Step into another realm of modular visual synthesis to build complex generative video art, or seamlessly patch your audio and visual engines together for deeply integrated performances. Features: • Polyphonic, stereo processing and audio-rate modulation. All signals are equal. Up to 16 voices per modular instrument rack. • Unique modular concept: cable-less, drag'n'drop, color coding dynamic interface, automatic connections, and customizable compact, rack views. • Directional flow makes Drambo routing and patching straightforward. Signal flows only left to right, so there are no instant feedback routings in Drambo. Delayed feedback is possible using certain modules. • Simple and clean interface, that scales to every size and device orientation • Over 140 modules available, such as: oscillators, samplers, physical modelling modules, LFOs, envelope generators, filters, audio effects, mixers, MIDI processors, sequencers and math functions. (Includes a macro oscillator based on the famous Eurorack Plaits module, with 24 synth engines) • Custom modular racks that can be nested, with presets at the track, rack, and module level. • Clip launcher / song arrager. • 16-tracks, polyphonic sequencer with parameter locks, automation and step components. 8 dedicated step sequence editor types, piano-roll, powerful automation designer with drawing modes and cubic Bezier curves. • Audio Units hosting ( standalone app only ) • Morph groups: you can morph many parameters using a single slider. • Available as a standalone app, AUv3 instrument, effect and MIDI effect. • MIDI and Ableton Link support Drambo is all about control. Control things that other apps don’t even give you access to. Visit the BeepStreet page for help and tutorials, and Patchstorage for community content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Loopy HD at $4.99 against Drambo's $24.99. Loopy HD also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#75 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, 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
Loopy HD costs $4.99 and Drambo $24.99 up front. Drambo sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Loopy HD asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Loopy HD against 4.8 for Drambo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 331 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Loopy HD's written reviews are positive against 87% of Drambo's.
Loopy HD ships an update every 3 weeks, Drambo every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loopy HD | Drambo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $24.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) | 4.8 (331 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better | 86.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 331 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #75 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Tasty Pixel | BeepStreet |
Customer experience
Loopy HD
Drambo
Bugs and requests
Loopy HD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Drambo
Reported bugs
3 issues- Audio cutting out after 5 minutes of use
- Presets and patches not loading properly
- Incompatibility with certain iOS devices
Requested features
5 requests- Stem/track export functionality
- MIDI CC learn and external control
- Ableton Link support
- More parameter control and modulation options
- Improved piano roll and sequencing tools
In-app purchases
Loopy HD
No in-app purchases
Drambo
- Granular extension$4.99
- Waves extension$4.99
- Formants extension$4.99
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- DSP extensions 1$4.99
- Visual extension$14.99








