Sample Library vs Digital Crate Digging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sample Library
Discover and select unique audio samples for your music production. Save your favorites to a personal list and easily share links to them.
- Random sample selection
- Curated sample playlists
- Save favorite samples
- Copy sample links
- Great-sounding samples
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The app lets you randomly pick a sample from multiple, carefully prepared playlists for sampling with great-sounding samples. You can save them to a list and play them or copy a link to a sample.
Digital Crate Digging
Explore a vast digital collection of vinyl records from the comfort of your home. Discover rare and interesting music through random song selections sourced from YouTube playlists. This app brings the thrill of crate digging to your fingertips.
- Digital vinyl record crate digging
- Random song discovery
- YouTube playlist integration
- Explore rare and overlooked music
- Home-based music exploration
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Digital Crate Digging is app that lets you search digitally through boxes (or "crates") of vinyl records online. In the past your would search in record stores, flea markets, thrift shops, garage sales, or even private collections—to find rare, interesting, or overlooked music, now you random search with this App. The Random songs are added from a Youtube playlist. More random songs will be added in the future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Digital Crate Digging at none against Sample Library's shown. Digital Crate Digging also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Sample Library's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sample Library against 5.0 for Digital Crate Digging. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Sample Library ships an update weekly, Digital Crate Digging monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sample Library | Digital Crate Digging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dariusz Chynek | PARIS PINKNEY |
Customer experience
Sample Library
Digital Crate Digging
In-app purchases
Sample Library
No in-app purchases
Digital Crate Digging
No in-app purchases
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