Comparison

QuickLoops Pro vs DJMesh

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

Head to head
About

QuickLoops Pro

Features
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QuickLoops Pro is a live looper for vinyl DJs who want fast loop capture and performance on iPhone and iPad. Capture audio into two decks with 8 slots each, then trigger, restart, halve, double, match, and layer loops in real time. In Poly mode, loops stay locked to the deck master so layered performances stay tight and musical. QuickLoops Pro is built for live use: fast slot-based recording, BPM and bar display, loop speed control from 0.5x to 2.0x, Echo and Reverb on the loop bus, MIDI Learn for hardware mapping, and saved profiles so your preferred audio, MIDI, routing, and FX setup is ready when you are. Features include: - Dual-deck looper with 16 total slots - Fast tap workflow: record, loop, restart - Mono and Poly playback modes - Stop, Clear, Undo, Match, halve, and double controls - Playback speed control with BPM and bar or note feedback - Echo and Reverb with per-deck send - MIDI Learn for slots, transport, speed, loop length, and FX send - Saved profiles for audio, MIDI, routing, and FX recall - Per-deck input/output routing and loop bus level control QuickLoops Pro is designed for supported USB audio workflows on iOS. For the best dual-deck experience, connect compatible external audio hardware.

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DJMesh

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Your phone is the record. Lay it flat on a turntable platter and DJMesh turns rotation into playback. The phone measures how the platter turns with its own sensors and plays the audio at exactly that speed and in that direction. Slow the platter and the track slows. Stop it and there is silence. Spin it backwards and it plays backwards. No timecode vinyl, no needle, no interface. HOW IT WORKS The gyroscope integrates the platter angle continuously, so the app knows where the record is, not only how fast it turns. Playback rate is sensed rotation over nominal rotation. Reverse, stop and pitch are physics, not modes you switch on. THE SCREEN IS THE RECORD The waveform is drawn as concentric rings, a groove you can read, and it turns with the phone because it is locked to the platter. The playhead, the beat ring and the cue markers are counter-rotated every frame, so they stay fixed in the room while everything underneath them turns. Touches are hit-tested in world coordinates, so a control stays where you see it however the screen is oriented. Set 12 o'clock once with a two-finger double tap; the phone remembers it for the next time it is put down. THREE VIEWS, CHOSEN FOR YOU Groovy when the phone sits over the spindle. Cover when it lies further out on the record, for the picture-disc look. Wavey as a flat band when the phone is in your hand or on the table. The app switches by itself, from the sensors. IN YOUR HAND Off the platter the band is the record: drag it to scratch, let go to throw, tap play to run. A resting thumb on the glass cuts the sound, click-free. ON THE DECK - Click-free varispeed engine, built for scratching - Hot cues and loops on a board that turns with the record and fires where you see it - Cue points, loops and beatgrids read from tagged audio files - Loops that stay correct under bidirectional scratching - Any Bluetooth MIDI crossfader cuts the sound (CC 0, channel 1) - Two phones are two decks on the same network; put one down left of the spindle, one right APPLE WATCH The watch on your wrist shows the other deck: its label stays upright while the platter turns under it, and a live waveform strip runs across the face. One phone, both decks in view. BRING IN A MAC A Mac on the same network can follow the phone's playhead and render the audio on the house system, with a cover-art crate and drag-and-drop onto deck slots. Both sides always sit on the same position, so handing playback from phone to Mac is a change in gain, not a resync. The Mac can also present the platter to your DJ software as a MIDI controller, so the phone on the record drives a software deck: a mapping for Serato DJ Pro is included, djay follows over MIDI. Hot cues, pitch and instant doubles come back to the phone. WHAT YOU NEED A turntable, a phone, and something that stops the phone from sliding. Direct drive and belt drive both work. Smoothest on a 120 Hz display. Calibration is optional; the app offers it once and you can run it any time from Setup. PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Your audio stays on your device. Communication between your own devices runs over your local network only and is never routed through a server.

Screenshots

QuickLoops Pro3 screens
DJMesh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DJMesh at $24.99 against QuickLoops Pro's $29.99. DJMesh also leads on device support (5 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

QuickLoops Pro costs $29.99 and DJMesh $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
QuickLoops Pro versus DJMesh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickLoops ProDJMesh
Price$29.99$24.99 โ€” better
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.615.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter WadamsKarl Rafael Yankovic Capdeville

In-app purchases

None

QuickLoops Pro

No in-app purchases

None

DJMesh

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuickLoops Pro free?
QuickLoops Pro costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DJMesh free?
DJMesh costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuickLoops Pro or DJMesh have ads?
Neither QuickLoops Pro nor DJMesh shows ads.

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