Comparison

LifeSampuru vs Metro Mate

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

Head to head
About

LifeSampuru

This app transforms your Live Photos into an interactive audio experience. Tap on photo thumbnails to trigger sounds, layer them, and create spontaneous jam sessions from your library. Bring your memories to life with unique soundscapes.

Highlights
  • Live Photo to audio transformation
  • Interactive sound playback
  • Audio layering and jamming
  • Favorite, cut, and share audio
  • Intuitive UI for creativity
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Discover the sound behind your memories. LifeSampuru transforms your Live Photos into a unique, interactive audio experience. Tap on thumbnails to trigger sounds, layer them freely, and create spontaneous jam sessions straight from your photo library. Whether it’s laughter, ambience, or surprise audio fragments, every tap is a creative moment. Features include: • Smooth visual browser of your Live Photos • Instant audio playback with looping support • Favorite, cut, and share audio snippets • Playful and intuitive UI designed for spontaneous creativity Bring your memories to life—with sound.

About

Metro Mate

Features
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Metro Mate is a metronome for drummers. Calm between the beats, clear on the beat. Free, open source, no ads, no subscription, no account. THE CLICK - A wave field of connected dots flows in tempo and jumps on every beat, accents hit harder - Tempo wheel from 1 to 300 BPM with a haptic tick per BPM and a stronger one every 10 - Beat grid with accents and note values from quarters to sixteenth triplets - Tap tempo, shuffle a pattern, save your own presets - 7 click sounds: Classic woodblock, Clean, Claves, Pocket, Cowbell, Punch, Deep - Keeps playing with the ringer on silent and in the background YOUR SOUND - Build your own drum kit for Learn: 8 snares, 6 kicks, 5 hi-hats, 4 open hi-hats and 3 practice pad sounds, each with a preview - Import your own one-shots from the Files app, for example an export from your DAW. They stay on your device LEARN - 70 grooves and exercises in 9 categories, Beginner to Advanced - All-Time Classics in the style of Funky Drummer, Purdie Shuffle, Amen Break and more - Funk and ghost notes, linear grooves, hi-hat work, kick independence, shuffles and triplets, accent studies, chops with R and L sticking - Every groove as a grid you can hear, played on a recorded funk kit - Dynamics on or off, accents and ghost notes or every hit at one level - Touch the grid to hear one column at a time, loop the part you are working on - Remembers your tempo for every groove, one tap back to the target tempo HISTORY - Week view with practice time per day - Month view with calendar, longest streak and tempo progress per groove - Stored on your device only Siri: "Start Metro Mate at 90 BPM". The drum and click samples are recorded instruments released under CC0, the Clean tone is generated in the app. The code is on GitHub, so the no tracking promise is something you can check.

Screenshots

LifeSampuru4 screens
Metro Mate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Metro Mate at Free against LifeSampuru's $3.99. Metro Mate also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). LifeSampuru's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Metro Mate is free to download; LifeSampuru costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LifeSampuru ships an update every 5 days, Metro Mate every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
LifeSampuru versus Metro Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifeSampuruMetro Mate
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIscanet Internet Services S.r.l.Alexander Friedl

In-app purchases

None

LifeSampuru

No in-app purchases

None

Metro Mate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LifeSampuru free?
LifeSampuru costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Metro Mate free?
Metro Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LifeSampuru or Metro Mate have ads?
Neither LifeSampuru nor Metro Mate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LifeSampuru or Metro Mate?
LifeSampuru ships an update every 5 days, and Metro Mate every 3 months. Most recently, LifeSampuru was updated on October 30, 2026 and Metro Mate on October 30, 2026.

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