SAMPLER! (Early Access) vs Granula
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SAMPLER! (Early Access)
Record sounds from your environment or use a curated library to create music. This app allows you to experiment with recorded audio by pressing keys to manipulate the sounds.
- Record everyday sounds
- Use curated sound library
- Manipulate sounds with keys
- Create music from recordings
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Say hello to SAMPLER! Record sounds from everyday things or choose from a selection curated by record producer DLM! Press the keys to go crazy with it. Designed and developed by me, Dilim "DLM!" Ogakwu.
Granula
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Granula is a granular synthesizer for the phone. It takes a sound from demo samples (like guitar, calimba, tongue drum, etc.) or thirty seconds you record on the spot and scatters it into hundreds of tiny overlapping grains. A slow, shifting texture comes back to your space: ambient pads, drones, atmospheres that keep evolving as long as you keep listening. Everything is played with your hands. The whole screen is a morph pad: move a finger across it and the sound moves with you, while a field of glyphs lights up under your touch and churns in time with what you hear. FOUR CHARACTERS • Reverse: short grains, played mostly backwards, with octave and fifth sparkles on top • Gater: a denser cloud chopped on a grid, from halves down to sixteenths • Chorus: long, slow, detuned grains with the read position drifting like a tide • Scatter: harmonic intervals thrown at random and sprayed wide FOUR KNOBS • Grain size, from 15 ms clicks to 1 second • Position: where in the sample the grains are lifted from • Density: from sparse drips to a solid wash • Dry/Wet: a six-second convolution reverb, plus the amount of reversed grains RECORD THE WORLD AROUND Hold the record button and capture up to thirty seconds of anything: your voice, a room, rain on a window, a string you plucked once. The take is granulated immediately and kept in your library under a name of its own. You can also import your own MP3 or WAV files. MADE FOR A PHONE • Keeps playing with the screen locked and in the background • Survives calls, headphone unplugs and output switches without losing your session • Any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard plays it - plug in and go, nothing to pair inside the app GRANULA PRO Every built-in sound is free and stays free. A free account also brings in one sound of your own - recorded or imported. Granula Pro lifts that limit: record and import as much as you like, and everything syncs to your account so a new phone picks up where the last one left off. No ads. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SAMPLER! (Early Access) at none against Granula's 1. SAMPLER! (Early Access) also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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. Granula sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. SAMPLER! (Early Access) asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SAMPLER! (Early Access) | Granula |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chukwudilim Ogakwu | Sergey Duzhev |
In-app purchases
SAMPLER! (Early Access)
No in-app purchases
Granula
- Granula Pro$2.991 Month









