Sampler to Phone vs iSimpleLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sampler to Phone
Transform your phone into a portable music recording studio. Capture high-quality audio from your music gear via USB or a 3.5mm jack. Organize, manage, and share your recordings with a clean, user-friendly interface.
- Portable recording station
- High-quality audio capture
- USB and 3.5mm jack input
- Configurable quality presets
- Organize and manage recordings
- Instant sharing
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Sampler to Phone turns your iPhone into a portable recording station for your music gear. Record directly from your EP-133, EP-1320, OP-1, Roland SP-404, or any device through a USB audio interface or 3.5mm cable. Features: • Record in high quality — up to 48kHz / 256kbps stereo AAC • USB audio interface mode for class-compliant devices (MOTU M2, Focusrite Scarlett, iRig) • 3.5mm jack recording for quick captures • Configurable quality presets (low, medium, high, custom) • Organize recordings into folders • Rename, play, and share recordings instantly • Clean, minimal interface inspired by Teenage Engineering design No subscriptions, no gimmick. One and cheap $9.99 payment, record your music forever. Privacy Policy: https://ep-to-phone.replit.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://ep-to-phone.replit.app/terms
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.
- Multi-track recording
- Built-in guitar, keys, and pads
- Audio and MIDI export
- Song arrangement and editing
- Effects and EQ
- Lyrics and note editor
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iSimpleLoop at 100% against Sampler to Phone's 0%. iSimpleLoop also leads on price (Free vs $5.99) and rating (5.0 vs 1.0). Sampler to Phone's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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
iSimpleLoop is free to download; Sampler to Phone costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iSimpleLoop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Sampler to Phone's written reviews are positive against 100% of iSimpleLoop's.
Sampler to Phone ships an update every 2 months, iSimpleLoop every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sampler to Phone | iSimpleLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Camarena | Artem Kolchin |
Customer experience
Sampler to Phone
iSimpleLoop
In-app purchases
Sampler to Phone
No in-app purchases
iSimpleLoop
No in-app purchases
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