Comparison

BEATSURFING Performer vs Resamplr

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

Head to head
About

BEATSURFING Performer

This app acts as a performance interface for compatible music plugins, allowing users to play virtual instruments like drum kits directly. It brings the interactive music-making experience from other acclaimed applications into your digital audio workstation.

Highlights
  • Perform virtual drum kits
  • Connects to BEATSURFING plugins
  • Integrates with DAWs
  • Interactive music-making experience
  • Companion app for plugins
Features
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A companion app for playing BEATSURFING plugins, starting with DRUW, the drum kit generator. Once connected to your plugin, the app lets you perform your drums instead of programming them. Bringing the music-making experience of the acclaimed Playground and Beatsurfing 2 apps into your DAW.

About

Resamplr

This music creation app offers a hardware-inspired sampler and beatmaking experience. It allows users to quickly capture ideas, shape sounds on a 4x4 pad, and transition seamlessly between sampling, sequencing, and resampling. Version 2.0 expands functionality to include a full workstation with audio tracks, timeline arrangement, and AUv3 instrument hosting.

Highlights
  • 4x4 pad sampler workflow
  • Audio tracks with full timeline
  • Timestretch and keylock
  • Auto-warp loops
  • Host AUv3 instruments and effects
  • Mic and audio interface recording
  • Turntable-style deck for scratching
Features
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Resamplr is a fast, hardware-inspired sampler and beatmaking app for iPhone and iPad. Capture ideas quickly, shape them on a 4x4 pad workflow, and keep moving from sampling to sequencing to resampling without ever breaking flow. 2.0 turns Resamplr into a full workstation. Lay your beats and loops onto audio tracks with a proper timeline, record straight in through the mic or an audio interface, warp anything to tempo, and host your favourite AUv3 instruments and effects right inside the app. Load sounds from the built-in library, import your own files, or extract audio from video. Drop a loop in and it auto-warps to your project tempo at the right bar count — no manual correction. Record through the microphone or a connected audio interface with live input metering, threshold recording, and quick pad assignment. Chop samples non-destructively, build layered pads, tweak pitch, filters, envelopes, playback modes, and bus routing. Lock a pad's pitch independently of its speed with Sharp and Smooth timestretch modes, then sequence patterns with velocity, probability, ratchets, and live performance controls like 16 Levels and Roll. Scratch and perform on the deck, and when a pattern hits, resample it back to a pad and keep transforming it. Resamplr also includes flexible FX buses, output processing, song arrangement, project saving, skipback capture, a light/dark theme, and offline export for sequences, songs, audio tracks, or individual pads. Features: 4x4 pad sampler workflow built for fast beat making Audio tracks with a full timeline — record, arrange, loop, and trim clips Timestretch and keylock — independent pitch and tempo per pad, with Sharp and Smooth modes Auto-warp loops to tempo on import, at the right bar count Host third-party AUv3 instruments and effects Built-in sounds plus import from Files and video audio extraction Mic and audio interface recording with live meters and threshold capture Sample chopping, layering, trimming, and waveform editing Turntable-style deck for scratching and performance Pattern sequencing with velocity, probability, ratchets, and nudge Conditional trigs and polyrhythms / per-pad step lengths 16 Levels, Roll, resampling, and replay capture Bus FX, output processing, song mode, and WAV export Performance FX with automation per sequence and export Parameter locks per step, per sequence with export Effect automation MIDI in & out with fully custom mapping Audio Mixer to dial in your mix Play and sample from classic games Set Key, Scale and Chords per pad or project Deep Arpeggiaotor for samples and AUV3

Screenshots

BEATSURFING Performer4 screens
Resamplr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BEATSURFING Performer at Free against Resamplr's $4.99. BEATSURFING Performer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Resamplr's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (22 vs 2). On 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

BEATSURFING Performer is free to download; Resamplr costs $4.99 up front. Resamplr sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. BEATSURFING Performer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Resamplr holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Resamplr has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of BEATSURFING Performer's written reviews are positive against 83% of Resamplr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BEATSURFING Performer ships an update weekly, Resamplr every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BEATSURFING Performer versus Resamplr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBEATSURFING PerformerResamplr
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings222 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB330 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDRUW AudioScott Paterson

Customer experience

BEATSURFING Performer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Resamplr

All ratings22 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

BEATSURFING Performer

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Resamplr

One-time9
  • Compositions V1$3.99
  • Compositions V2$3.99
  • Jazz Style$3.99
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  • Forms$3.99
  • Forms Vol. 2$3.99
  • Killer Drums V1$3.99
  • Made For TV V1$3.99
  • Killer Drums V2$3.99
  • C Notes Vol 1$3.99

Questions

Is BEATSURFING Performer free?
BEATSURFING Performer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Resamplr free?
Resamplr costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BEATSURFING Performer or Resamplr?
Resamplr is rated higher. BEATSURFING Performer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Resamplr averages 4.8 from 22 ratings.
Do BEATSURFING Performer or Resamplr have ads?
Neither BEATSURFING Performer nor Resamplr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BEATSURFING Performer or Resamplr?
BEATSURFING Performer ships an update weekly, and Resamplr every 4 days. Most recently, BEATSURFING Performer was updated on November 6, 2026 and Resamplr on November 5, 2026.

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