Comparison

Pads K/01 vs iSimpleLoop

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

Head to head
About

Pads K/01

Transform your iPhone into a professional beat-making studio. This app offers customizable pads, advanced effects, and real-time audio playback for creating music on the go. Load your own samples and loops for unlimited creative possibilities.

Highlights
  • 12 customizable pads
  • Loop & Shuffle modes
  • Advanced effects (Fade In/Out, Pitch, Speed, Delay)
  • Real-time audio engine
  • Load custom samples and loops
  • Pad volume, pan, and effects customization
Features
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Transform your iPhone into a professional beat-making studio with Pads K/01 - the ultimate music creation app for producers, DJs, and musicians. * Professional Features: 12 customizable pads with full control over your sounds Loop & Shuffle modes for endless creative possibilities Advanced effects: Fade In/Out, Pitch, Speed, Delay Real-time audio engine for instant playback Multiple banks to organize your sound library Visual feedback with color-coded indicators * Complete Control: Load your own samples and loops Customize each pad's volume, pan, and effects Create complex layered beats with shuffle mode Perfect loops that never stop until you're ready Professional-grade audio quality * Why Choose Pads K/01: Zero learning curve - start creating immediately No subscriptions - one-time purchase, lifetime access Professional results - studio-quality output Portable creativity - make beats anywhere Unlimited possibilities - your sounds, your style Perfect for: Music producers and beat makers DJs and live performers Songwriters and composers Music students and educators Anyone who loves creating music Download Pads K/01 today and unleash your musical creativity. Your iPhone is now your studio!

About

iSimpleLoop

Record and layer multiple audio tracks to create songs. Features built-in instruments like guitar, keys, and pads, along with editing tools and effects. Export your creations as audio or MIDI files.

Highlights
  • Multi-track recording
  • Built-in guitar, keys, and pads
  • Audio and MIDI export
  • Song arrangement and editing
  • Effects and EQ
  • Lyrics and note editor
Features
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iSimpleLoop is a pocket sketchpad for songs. Record a loop, stack takes over it, play the guitar, the keys and the pads on top, keep the lyrics in front of you — and take the result out as audio or MIDI. Everything runs on the device. No account, no subscription, no cloud, no internet connection. LOOPER • Up to 8 tracks. Looped tracks follow the master loop, linear ones run the whole length of the song. • The first take sets the loop length; an overdub stops itself after one lap. • Count-in, metronome, and a per-track input: microphone, the app's instruments, or both. • Latency compensation, so a take lands where you played it. INSTRUMENTS • Guitar: strum and pluck six strings with your fingers, chords of the chosen key, power chords, capo, four tones from nylon to overdrive. • Keys: a polyphonic synth with piano, e-piano, pad, bass and lead, sustain and an octave shift. • Pads: 16 pads, 62 built-in sounds, pitch, filter and decay knobs, reverse. • Sampling from the microphone straight onto a pad, plus import of WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF and FLAC with a trim screen. ARRANGEMENT AND EDITING • The whole song on one timeline: bar ruler, waveforms, playhead, scrubbing. • Select a fragment and trim, cut, silence, fade, normalise, reverse or nudge it by a beat — or drag it onto another track. • Three-band EQ and pan on every track. EFFECTS • Inserts on each track: compressor, overdrive, chorus and flanger. • Two project-wide send buses: a tempo-synced delay and a reverb. • Live instruments sound with the effect but are recorded dry, so the decision stays reversible. LYRICS • The lyrics live in the project, split into sections, and can sit next to the guitar while you play. NOTE EDITOR • Piano roll for the keys, a drum grid for the pads and six-line tabs for the guitar. • Move, stretch, copy, quantize, change pitch, fret, string and velocity — the track rebuilds from the notes right away, so you hear the change in the mix. • Undo and redo; cancel brings the track back exactly as it was. SLICE • Chop a sample by hits, into equal parts or on the tempo grid, drag the markers, tap a slice to hear it. • Slices land on consecutive pads — optionally together with a notes track that plays them in the original order. CHORDS • Any chord on any of the eight buttons: major, minor, 7, maj7, m7, sus2, sus4, add9, 6, m6, dim, aug. • Playable shapes are found automatically; pick a variant or place your own fingers on the fretboard. HARDWARE • USB audio interfaces: choose the input and the channel to record; other sample rates are converted on the fly. • MIDI keyboards over USB and Bluetooth play the synth and record like the on-screen keys; channel 10 plays the pads. • Foot controllers: MIDI Learn for play, record and stop; keyboard-style page-turner pedals work out of the box. EXPORT • WAV 24-bit, M4A (AAC) and MIDI — a track per instrument, pads on channel 10. • A home screen widget records a sample straight into the library. Landscape on iPhone and iPad. Interface in English, Russian, German and Italian.

Screenshots

Pads K/014 screens
iSimpleLoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pads K/01 and iSimpleLoop are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pads K/01 against 5.0 for iSimpleLoop. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pads K/01 ships an update every 2 days, iSimpleLoop every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pads K/01 versus iSimpleLoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPads K/01iSimpleLoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSerge KornewArtem Kolchin

Customer experience

Pads K/01

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

iSimpleLoop

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pads K/01

No in-app purchases

None

iSimpleLoop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pads K/01 free?
Pads K/01 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iSimpleLoop free?
iSimpleLoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pads K/01 or iSimpleLoop?
Pads K/01 and iSimpleLoop are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Pads K/01 or iSimpleLoop have ads?
Neither Pads K/01 nor iSimpleLoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pads K/01 or iSimpleLoop?
Pads K/01 ships an update every 2 days, and iSimpleLoop every 3 days. Most recently, Pads K/01 was updated on October 24, 2026 and iSimpleLoop on October 13, 2026.

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