Kalkyl vs Samba Pad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kalkyl
A powerful and intuitive calculator designed for speed and ease of use. Features include collaboration, haptic feedback, and advanced input methods like keyboard trackpad mode. Offers basic graphing and localized number formatting for a seamless user experience.
- Optimized for quick calculations
- Collaborate on documents
- Intuitive design with haptic feedback
- Keyboard trackpad and pointer interactions
- Basic graphing capabilities
- Localized number formatting
- Undo and Redo support
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Kalkyl is just a really good calculator. • Optimized for quick calculations. • Collaborate on documents. • Simple and intuitive design. • Haptic feedback (on supported devices). • Undo and Redo support (shake to Undo). • Keyboard trackpad mode using 3D Touch, or Haptic Touch (on supported devices), or two fingers on iPad. • Pointer interactions on iPad. • Basic graphing. • Properly localized number formatting. • App-wide dynamic type support. • Accessible. Terms of Use: https://kalkyl.io/terms.html
Samba Pad
This app provides a collection of 36 authentic Brazilian and Latin drum beats for music production and live performance. It features independent track control, tempo adjustment, and intro/ending options for creative mixing.
- 36 Brazilian and Latin beats
- 8 independent instrument tracks
- Independent pan and volume control
- Intro and ending playback
- Mute track function
- Adjustable BPM slider
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Welcome to the envolving Brazilian music scene! This app is a drum machine application as an easy way to play 36 of our favorite and exotic beats from Brazilloops website. It comes with several variations of Samba, Bossa Nova, Muzenza, Maracatu, Capoeira, Afro-Brazilian beats and some Latin as well, ready to mix with your music in your studio or live performance. It’s a high quality sample player* with 8 instrument tracks, each one with independent pan and volume. It plays the factory loops previously downloaded in the player. Features an “intro” and “ending” playing and mute track function. Also you can change the speed in the bpm slider. Try it with your own settings of volume and panning, mute some instruments and you will find a new world of possibilities to mix in your project! It’s a loop player (pre-recorded audio) and not a sequencer machine, so it enables original Brazilian rhythms style and human touch in the project. A very handy application to play exotic Brazilian beats in the iPad for live performance or even for studio recording! *At the first launch, the synchronization slider is adjusted to 1/4. Different iPads/phones devices may need to adjust the sync slider for perfect synchronization between tracks. Adjust when the player is stopped.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Kalkyl at Free against Samba Pad's $19.99. Kalkyl also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (717 vs 1). Samba Pad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Kalkyl is free to download; Samba Pad costs $19.99 up front. Kalkyl sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Samba Pad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kalkyl holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kalkyl has 717 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kalkyl ships an update every 5 weeks, Samba Pad every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kalkyl | Samba Pad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (717 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 717 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | nordic io | Eduardo Sallada |
Customer experience
Kalkyl
Samba Pad
Bugs and requests
Kalkyl
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch for some users
- Graphing issues with certain equations
- Incorrect results for some calculations
Requested features
5 requests- Add a clear/reset button
- Implement calculation history and memory functions
- Improve graphing controls and zooming
- Add support for more mathematical functions (e.g. factorials, fractions)
- Provide an option for independent dark mode
Samba Pad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kalkyl
- Kalkyl Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Year
Samba Pad
No in-app purchases









