Comparison

KaKaDum vs Beatly Pro

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

Head to head
About

KaKaDum

This app helps users practice Darbuka drumming and belly dance by providing a rhythm library and a player to act as an accompanist. Users can easily save and share their custom rhythms.

Highlights
  • Rhythm library management
  • Accompanist player
  • Rhythm export
  • Darbuka practice
  • Belly dance practice
Features
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KaKaDum is perfect tool for everyone practicing Darbuka drumming or belly dance! KaKaDum not only provides convenient way to keep your rhythm library - with Player feature you can turn your device into real accompanist!  And with export feature it's easy to share your rhythms! Happy drumming!

About

Beatly Pro

Generate unlimited original looped music in various genres. Features include a powerful piano roll, chord progression builder, and stem exporting. Ideal for creators needing unique soundtracks.

Highlights
  • Unlimited original looped music generation
  • Multiple genre styles (rap, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, dance)
  • Advanced piano roll with undo and pattern editor
  • Chord progression builder
  • Export to MIDI and render stems
  • Sample recorder and import
  • Audiobus and Ableton Link sync support
Features
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Beatly Pro is a generative music studio for moments when you want to create but need a spark. Generate rap-inspired, lo-fi, chiptune, cinematic, and dance instrumentals, then shape them into your own tracks with hands-on arranging, editing, mixing, and export tools. Beatly Pro is not an AI music generator. It creates music on your device from curated patterns, musical rules, and controlled randomness—no prompts, cloud generation, or trained AI models. Style-aware melodies follow the harmony and develop across the arrangement, while varied instrument levels and effects give each new track its own balance and character. Whether you need quick inspiration, a backing track, or fresh material for a larger production, Beatly Pro takes you from the first generated idea to a finished track. FEATURES • Generate as many new musical ideas as you like • Create and arrange up to 8 bars of music • Build tracks across up to 7 mixer channels • Edit notes in a flexible piano roll with undo, velocity controls, copy and paste, per-beat transposition, a chord-aware keyboard lock, and reusable custom patterns • Build your own chord progressions and change the key or chord of individual beats • Regenerate one instrument part while keeping the rest of your track • Let Song Mode arrange the generated bars for you • Set the key and tempo, or let Beatly choose them • Mix every channel with volume, solo, mute, low-pass filtering, resonance, decimation, reverb, delay, and compression • Record your own samples or import WAV and AIFF audio • Import SF2 SoundFont banks • Drag and drop WAV samples and SF2 sound banks • Save and recall drum-kit presets • Import a four-beat region from a MIDI file into the piano roll, with optional transposition • Export the complete track as MIDI or create separate MIDI files for each instrument • Render a WAV mix, individual stems, or a seamless loop of the active mix • Record a live performance to WAV • Send MIDI with configurable channel assignments and drum-note mappings • Connect through Audiobus with the full audio mix and separate MIDI outputs for drums and each instrument group • Synchronize tempo and transport with Ableton Link • Save your tracks and return to them later WHO IS BEATLY PRO FOR? Beatly Pro is made for producers, composers, singers, artists, filmmakers, game developers, content creators, practicing musicians, and anyone curious about generative music. HOW DOES IT WORK? Open Beatly Pro and tap Play. The app chooses instruments, tempo, key, and musical patterns, then creates up to 8 bars—32 beats—of instrumental music. Tap Next whenever you want a different idea. Every generated track is yours to shape. Rearrange or repeat its bars, change the tempo or key, swap sounds, adjust the mix, regenerate one instrument, or open the piano roll and edit the notes yourself. Choose from five styles: Default, Lo-fi, Chiptune, Cinematic, and Dance. Default is well suited to rap-inspired beats, while every style brings its own instruments and musical character. For more control, use the chord progression builder to define the harmony, or create custom bar patterns that Beatly can use in future tracks. You can also change the key or chord of any beat, and Beatly will transpose its notes to match. When your track is ready, save it, export it as MIDI, record your performance, render a WAV mix, create stems, or export a seamless loop for use in another project. You can also connect Beatly Pro to your studio through MIDI, Audiobus, or Ableton Link. CAN I USE MY OWN SOUNDS? Yes. Record a sample inside the app, import a WAV or AIFF file, or load an SF2 SoundFont bank. Samples tuned to C will usually give you the most predictable melodic results. Enjoying Beatly Pro? A rating or review on the App Store means a great deal. You can also support future development through the optional tip jar.

Screenshots

KaKaDum4 screens
Beatly Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KaKaDum at none against Beatly Pro's 2. KaKaDum also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

KaKaDum costs $2.99 and Beatly Pro $4.99 up front. Beatly Pro sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. KaKaDum asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KaKaDum holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 38 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of KaKaDum's written reviews are positive against 82% of Beatly Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KaKaDum ships an update monthly, Beatly Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
KaKaDum versus Beatly Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKaKaDumBeatly Pro
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better4.5 (38 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better82.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1638 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladyslav LytvynenkoAntonin Charvat

Customer experience

KaKaDum

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beatly Pro

All ratings37 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative10.7%

In-app purchases

None

KaKaDum

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Beatly Pro

One-time2
  • Small tip$1.99
  • Large tip$3.99

Questions

Is KaKaDum free?
KaKaDum costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beatly Pro free?
Beatly Pro costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, KaKaDum or Beatly Pro?
KaKaDum is rated higher. KaKaDum averages 4.9 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Beatly Pro averages 4.5 from 38 ratings.
Do KaKaDum or Beatly Pro have ads?
Neither KaKaDum nor Beatly Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KaKaDum or Beatly Pro?
KaKaDum ships an update monthly, and Beatly Pro every 3 weeks. Most recently, KaKaDum was updated on October 23, 2026 and Beatly Pro on October 24, 2026.

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