Comparison

DoomLoop vs Bitbop

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

Head to head
About

DoomLoop

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DOOM LOOP is a stem-based loop machine built from the Doom Cougar catalog. Seven channels โ€” kick, bass, snare, hats, acid, perc, and FX โ€” each loaded with eight loops pulled from real Doom Cougar tracks. Tap a pad to bring that loop in. Tap another to swap it out on the next bar. Everything stays at 138 BPM. Everything stays in time. There is no beat-matching, no syncing, no waveforms to wrestle with. The tempo is fixed. The bars are fixed. The loops swap clean. WHAT'S IN IT - 56 loops from the Doom Cougar catalog โ€” Crease, Creature, Hematoma, Mothers Milk, Parlor Floor, Savage Wit, Shag Chain, Yule, and more - 7 channels โ€” one loop at a time per channel, plus a one-shot FX channel for stabs and vocal hits - 138 BPM master tempo with every stem pitched to match - 3-band EQ on every channel โ€” low, mid, high - Independent volume on every channel - Per-channel lock โ€” protect a loop you like before randomizing - Random โ€” roll the dice on every unlocked channel, queued to the next bar - Bar / beat indicator with 4-LED beat readout HOW IT WORKS Tap a pad to load that loop. If a channel is already playing, the new pick is queued โ€” it swaps in clean on the next downbeat. No bumps. No dropouts. No drift. Lock the channels you want to keep. Randomize the rest. Walk a track from a stripped-down kick-and-acid groove into a full mix and back without touching the play button. This is Doom Cougar's catalog, taken apart and handed back to you. Build new tracks. Wreck old ones. Nothing here gets out of time. 138 BPM. 7 channels. 56 stems. One bar at a time.

About

Bitbop

Features
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Make music with your thumbs. Bitbop is a tiny chiptune groovebox - tap the colored pads to drop notes into a song while a little 8-bit band grooves underneath you: melody, bass, sparkle and drums. Here's the magic: every pad is in key, so you literally can't play a wrong note. Beginners make something that sounds great in seconds. There's nothing to read, no menus to learn - just tap and it grooves. FIVE SOUND ENGINES, NOT FIVE PRESETS Every mood is its own synthesizer, written from scratch: - BitBop - the signature chiptune voice: PWM lead and chip-supersaw - Rave - detuned supersaw and a saw reese bass, straight off a warehouse floor - Handheld - a faithful 4-channel console chip, real LFSR noise and all - Classical - plucked Karplus-Strong strings in a procedural hall - Dancehall - syncopated sub-bass, skank chop and a steppers riddim 600+ TUNES TO START FROM Load a public-domain classic, a folk tune, a rag, an anthem, a rave groove or an original chiptune sketch - then pull it apart and make it yours. Or hit Surprise and let Bitbop sketch a whole song for you. GO LIVE Start a live stream and anyone who opens your link watches your jam unfold in real time - your notes, your visuals, your beat, as you play it. No app needed on their end. Resume the same link later, or spin up a fresh one. MAKE IT LOOK GOOD Over 60 full-screen visualizers turn any jam into a light show - and what you see on screen is exactly what lands in your exported video. PLAY WITH IT - Tempo 65-250 bpm, swing, and a "vibe" filter; loops from 1 to 10 bars - Export your track as WAV or MIDI, or share it as a video clip - Share a song as a link - it opens the exact tune, in or out of the app PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No third-party trackers. Works fully offline. Your songs live on your device. Bitbop only sends anonymous usage counts (which you can turn off in Settings) - never your songs, never anything that identifies you. Tap a color. Make a banger. That's the whole app.

Screenshots

DoomLoop4 screens
Bitbop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: DoomLoop at 3 against Bitbop's 1. DoomLoop also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
DoomLoop versus Bitbop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoomLoopBitbop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRyan EbnerFranz Enzenhofer

In-app purchases

None

DoomLoop

No in-app purchases

None

Bitbop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DoomLoop free?
DoomLoop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bitbop free?
Bitbop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DoomLoop or Bitbop have ads?
Neither DoomLoop nor Bitbop shows ads.

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