BEATSURFING Performer vs Resamplr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Perform virtual drum kits
- Connects to BEATSURFING plugins
- Integrates with DAWs
- Interactive music-making experience
- Companion app for plugins
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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.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
BEATSURFING Performer ships an update weekly, Resamplr every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BEATSURFING Performer | Resamplr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 330 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DRUW Audio | Scott Paterson |
Customer experience
BEATSURFING Performer
Resamplr
In-app purchases
BEATSURFING Performer
No in-app purchases
Resamplr
- 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
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