Dawnbeat vs Crate Roulette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dawnbeat
This app lets you create music by sampling and sequencing audio. It offers advanced features like multi-touch pads, an always-recording buffer, and flexible routing for creative sound manipulation. Integrate with external MIDI devices and apply a wide range of built-in and AUv3 effects.
- Multi-touch and draggable pads
- Always-recording buffer (Memorizer)
- Advanced loop manipulation (BRIIKS)
- Flexible mixer with assignable busses
- Polyphonic pads for chords
- MIDI IN/OUT for external control
- AUv3 effects and instrument support
- Auto-slicer for audio chopping
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Dawnbeat inherits the best part of the classic hardware samplers and takes it further by adding features only possible on a multi-touch device. Create more natural patterns by tapping and swiping pads. Focus on creativity, you don't need to select a tempo before hit record to finally play a pattern until you get the right take, just play and forget about to record! Dawnbeat is always recording! Multi-touch and draggable pads: - Pads are multi-touch, play a single pad with two fingers at the same time! - Pads are individually configurable, allowing re-triggering when dragging for amazing fills, tone variations . - Mute and Solo buttons for pads available. - Mute groups. Memorizer: - DawnBeat is always recording pad events, you'll never miss a beat, play and experiment and when you hear something you like, it's already recorded! simply go to Memorizer and select the desired events. BRIIKS sampler: - Advanced loop manipulator. Rearrange and combine your loops. Also available as standalone, AUv3 and MacOS. Mixer: - 4 assignable BUSSES and one MAIN BUS. Assign pads to busses, assign internal effects or AUV3 effects to busses. - Mute and Solo buttons. Polyphonic pads: - Pads can be turned polyphonic, import a piano-like sample and play and sequence chords with a single pad. MIDI IN and MIDI OUT: - Trigger samples from a MIDI controller, play melodies from a MIDI piano. - Sequence hardware drum machines and synths from Dawnbeat. - Use Dawnbeat as an intermediary between a midi keyboard and a synth, save the sequences you are playing. Dawnbeat can save poliphonic sequences! Pattern sequencer with piano editor. - Swing, count-in, metronome. Audio Units: - Dawnbeat support AUv3 effects and instruments! Built in Effects: - Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Flutter, Gate, Tremolo, Noise, Filter, Chorus, Equalizer, Stutter and Tape slow motion. - Effects can be rearranged. Built-In sample browser: - 6 drum kit sample libraries, and 1 bass sample library. Selectable internal sample rate: - Internal sample rate can be changed, choose between HI-FI and LO-FI sample rates. AUTO-SLICER: - AutoSlicer detects hit points and slices audio into individual files minimizing the need for manual editing. Chop up any audio file in a few seconds. Recording sample rate can be selected. Export movies with images and animated GIFs .
Crate Roulette
Effortlessly manage your vinyl collection and discover new music. This app helps you select records based on time, mood, and listening history, ensuring you always find the perfect spin.
- Build and organize your vinyl crate
- Scan barcodes to add records
- Select records by time and mood
- Track listening history and unplayed records
- Integrates with CoverUp game
- Private by design, no account needed
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Crate Roulette keeps track of the records you own, and picks one when you can't decide. Answer three questions: how long you've got, what the room is like, and whether to narrow the crate. The platter spins and lands on something you probably haven't played in a while, with a line on why it suits the moment. BUILD YOUR CRATE Search by title, or scan a barcode with the camera. Crate Roulette finds the pressing, the cover and the tracklist for you, and files each record on a genre shelf. PICK BY TIME AND MOOD Twenty minutes before dinner or a whole evening in? Name your rooms, tell each record what suits it, and the spin respects both. KEEP TRACK See what you haven't played yet, what you've spun this week, and how your shelf breaks down. PLAY YOUR CRATE ON COVERUP Send your collection to the CoverUp album cover game and see how well you really know your own records. Private by design. No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your crate stays on your phone. Titles, pressings and genres from MusicBrainz. Cover art from the Cover Art Archive. This application uses Discogs' API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. "Discogs" is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crate Roulette at 5.0 against Dawnbeat's 4.2. Crate Roulette also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Dawnbeat's advantage is ratings volume (115 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Dawnbeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Crate Roulette asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crate Roulette holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dawnbeat has 115 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Dawnbeat | Crate Roulette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 504 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Luis Rivas | DAVID THOMAS WAGEMAN |
In-app purchases
Dawnbeat
- Dawn Beat Complete$5.99
Crate Roulette
No in-app purchases









