Comparison

LoopForge vs BeatMapper

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

Head to head
About

LoopForge

Features
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LoopForge is a powerful beat maker and loop creation app featuring high-quality loops produced by professional musicians. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced musician, LoopForge lets you create unique beats, edit existing loops, and enhance your music effortlessly. Key Features of LoopForge: β€’ Professional Loops: Instantly create music with five different channels: Drum, Perc, Bass, Vocal, and Lead loops. β€’ Create Your Own Loops: Craft and save your own custom beats and loops from scratch. β€’ Smart Loop Creation: Feeling stuck? Let LoopForge generate fresh and unique loops for you with the Smart Loop Creation feature. β€’ Advanced Editing Options: Edit and refine AI-generated or self-created loops however you like. β€’ Real-Time Effects and Filters: Main Scene FX: Instantly tweak your sound with eight variations of Stutter and Pitch Shift effects. Loop Edit Scene Filters: Shape your music with LowPass, HighPass, Reverb, Echo, Pitch, and Distortion filters. β€’ Step Sequencing Made Easy: Arrange your beats effortlessly with a 32-step beat sequencer. β€’ Social Sharing: Share your music with the world on social media platforms. β€’ Offline Mode: Make beats anytime, anywhereβ€”no internet required. Create and Share Your Music! LoopForge is your all-in-one platform for beat making, dubstep production, sound effects (FX), music mixing, and step sequencing. Whether you are into electronic music, music production, or sound design, this app makes music creation fast, fun, and easy. Download Now and Start Your Music Journey! -- EULA -- https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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BeatMapper

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BeatMapper turns your iPhone into a grid of coloured pads. Tap a pad to play its sound. Turn on Loop and the sound keeps repeating, so you can stack pad on pad and build a pattern while it runs. Tap a looping pad again to stop it. Seventeen sound sets are built in: drum kit, percussion, music box, bass, sine tones, chiptune, everyday sounds, cartoon effects, sci-fi effects, interface sounds, phonemes, greetings from around the world, the English alphabet, English numbers, Japanese words, French words, and the system sounds. Nearly four hundred sounds in all. Every pad shows what it is doing. A white square shrinks inside the pad as the sound plays, so you can see at a glance where each loop is in its cycle and how the parts line up against each other. Five buttons run along the bottom. Playing Length decides how long a sound plays. Loop makes it repeat until you stop it. Drag Action sets what happens to the pads your finger sweeps over. Randomize plays a handful of pads at once, and All Stop clears everything. The caption above each button names the item currently chosen, so nothing hides behind a symbol. The pads fill the screen. The grid is worked out from how many sounds the set has, always at least four across, so the pads stay large enough to hit with a finger. Randomize shuffles the layout, keeping each sound with its own colour, and Reset puts them back in order. Playing Length decides how long each sound runs: how long you press, the sound itself, the longest sound in the set, or that length with a little drift. Press Length turns the pad into a key you hold. Aligning to the longest sound makes every pad repeat on the same beat, and the drift spreads them so the phases pull apart and the pattern keeps changing. Auto Play taps the pads and buttons on its own, at a pace you set, and the gaps are random rather than even. Leave it running and the app plays by itself. Pro unlocks two more things: importing your own sounds from any folder on the device or in iCloud Drive, and recording what you hear as a 48 kHz / 24-bit WAV file in the Files app. Other things you can set: what appears on the pads, polyphonic playback on or off, background playback so the sounds keep going when you leave the app, and whether the status bar and home bar are shown. A Quick Guide inside Settings explains every control. No account, no setup, no menus to learn. Open it and play.

Screenshots

LoopForge4 screens
BeatMapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BeatMapper at none against LoopForge's 4. BeatMapper also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). LoopForge's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. LoopForge sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. BeatMapper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LoopForge ships an update every 6 weeks, BeatMapper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
LoopForge versus BeatMapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopForgeBeatMapper
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly β€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.6
Further details β€” not scored
Size76 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBaris BiltekinMasayuki Akamatsu

In-app purchases

4 purchases

LoopForge

Subscriptions1
  • Weekly Premium Subscription$0.997 Days
One-time3
  • Deep House Loop Pack$0.99
  • Funky Pop Loop Pack$0.99
  • Soul Loop Pack$0.99
None

BeatMapper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LoopForge free?
LoopForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeatMapper free?
BeatMapper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LoopForge or BeatMapper have ads?
Both LoopForge and BeatMapper show ads.
Which is updated more often, LoopForge or BeatMapper?
LoopForge ships an update every 6 weeks, and BeatMapper fortnightly. Most recently, LoopForge was updated on September 27, 2026 and BeatMapper on October 8, 2026.

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