Comparison

AmenBeats vs Rapper

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

Head to head
About

AmenBeats

This app offers a dual-mode music creation experience. Kids can enjoy a simplified interface with big buttons and playful beats, while adults can access a full studio with advanced features and MIDI capabilities. All creations are saved locally and securely.

Highlights
  • Kid-friendly interface with large buttons
  • Variety of playful and legendary drum breaks
  • Step sequencer for beat creation
  • Live drum playing
  • Performance recording and playback
  • Parental controls for customization
  • Full studio mode with advanced features
  • MIDI export and Ableton Link integration
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AmenBeats is a real drum machine built for kids — with a full studio hiding behind a grown-up gate. KID MODE: ONE SCREEN, BIG BUTTONS A focused instrument with big controls and a row of picture buttons for choosing beats. Open it and the row spins like a slot machine and lands on a groove, ready to play. Kids can: • Pick from playful beats — Boom Bap, Rock, Disco, Marchin', Shuffle, Techno, Reggae, Waltz — and eight legendary breaks • Tap the grid to add and remove drum hits, on a 4, 8, 12, or 16-step canvas • Bash the four drums live — Open Hat, Closed Hat, Snare, Kick — right from the grid • Flip power switches: SWING for groove, WILD to loosen it up, FILL! for a snare roll, DROP! to cut the beat out and slam it back • Speed up and slow down with big plus and minus buttons • Spin the wheel any time for a surprise beat SAVE A BEAT. SAVE THE WHOLE SHOW. Everything a kid plays is quietly recorded — the beat, the tempo changes, every live tap. One button saves the entire performance, however long it ran, and one tap plays it back exactly as it happened. Their beats and shows sit in their own list, ready to hear again. GROWN-UPS SET THE RULES Kid Setup tailors the app to each child: • Choose exactly which beats and famous breaks they can reach • Set the tempo range they can dial between • Cap the volume • Turn on mute and solo for older kids learning how a kit fits together • Set up more than one child, each with their own beats, limits, and saved work Kid Mode stays put. A six-digit parent PIN protects access to the studio. Set up your PIN before the first Kid session and save your private recovery code. Tap the lock to unlock; hold it for help. Your PIN and recovery code stay on that device. THE GROWN-UP STUDIO Behind the gate is a proper 16-step, 4-voice sequencer: • Eight study templates of the most sampled breaks ever recorded: the Amen break, the Funky Drummer, Apache, Think, Impeach, When the Levee Breaks, Cold Sweat, and the Big Beat • Tap any step through on, stomp (accent), and ghost — stomps add punch, ghost notes add the feel that makes a break breathe • Tempo from 40 to 220 BPM, swing, and per-voice mute and solo • Humanize and per-voice lay-back for a relaxed, human pocket • Save your grooves and chain them into a looping song, each pattern held for as many bars as you like MIDI AND ABLETON, SET UP BY A GROWN-UP The studio talks to real gear, and every bit of it is configured on the parent side — never in the child's reach: • Send MIDI on GM channel 10 so your pattern drives a drum rack in Ableton Live or any DAW • Export any pattern as a Standard MIDI clip and drag it straight into a session • Import a .mid clip back onto the grid • Sync tempo with Live and other Link-enabled apps over Ableton Link SAFE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No ads. No in-app purchases. No analytics, no tracking, and no servers — AmenBeats collects nothing, and everything a child makes stays on the device. Every drum sound is synthesized as the app runs, so nothing is ever downloaded and the app stays tiny. It plays through the speaker even with the ring switch set to silent. Free.

About

Rapper

Features
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Turn any idea into a real rap song — bars written, beat produced, artwork generated — in seconds, for free. No studio. No ghostwriter. No subscription. Rapper is the AI that sits in your corner and builds a complete track from whatever's on your mind. Type a concept, speak it out loud, and the song comes to life before you finish your sentence. The bars are built for the genre you pick — not copy-paste filler but real verses, hooks, and flows tuned to your vibe. Trap, drill, boom bap, melodic rap, lo-fi hip-hop, west coast — choose your lane and the AI locks in with the right energy, cadence, and wordplay for that sound. Every track drops with a produced beat that matches your style and tempo. Pull up the full-screen player and you get the whole experience — cover art, synced scrolling lyrics, and a scrubber to move through the song. It's not just a text output. It's a real track. Save everything to your personal library. Rename it, cache it offline, delete what doesn't hit. When you've got something fire, share it with a single public link — one tap and you're putting people on to your sound. No account required to start. No subscription. No paywall. Rapper is completely free because the come up shouldn't cost anything. Generate tracks in multiple languages and bring your sound to wherever you're building from. Stuck on what to make? Starter Ideas kick off a track instantly so you never freeze on a blank page. One tap and you've already got a direction. Your next song is one idea away. Drop it in.

Screenshots

AmenBeats4 screens
Rapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: AmenBeats at none against Rapper's shown. AmenBeats also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AmenBeats ships an update daily, Rapper every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
AmenBeats versus Rapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmenBeatsRapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer1041Soft LLCKonrad Sierzputowski

In-app purchases

None

AmenBeats

No in-app purchases

None

Rapper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AmenBeats free?
AmenBeats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rapper free?
Rapper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AmenBeats or Rapper have ads?
Rapper shows ads; AmenBeats does not.
Which is updated more often, AmenBeats or Rapper?
AmenBeats ships an update daily, and Rapper every 3 weeks. Most recently, AmenBeats was updated on October 31, 2026 and Rapper on October 31, 2026.

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