Comparison

Jamful Looper vs PadLoop

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

Head to head
About

Jamful Looper

Record and overdub musical layers to create arrangements. Visualize your music as color-coded rings, trim individual tracks, and save everything automatically. Share your final mix as an audio file.

Highlights
  • Record and overdub musical layers
  • Visualize layers as color-coded rings
  • Trim individual audio layers
  • Automatic saving to library
  • Share mixdown as audio file
Features
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Jamful is a looper app for musicians. Record a loop, overdub layers on top. • Each layer draws as a colored ring, filling live as you play • See your whole arrangement as color-coded rings, one per layer • Trim layers for a tighter loop • Everything autosaves to the library • Share a mixdown as an audio file

About

PadLoop

Features
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Sixteen pads, a track looper and a sampler: PadLoop turns your phone into a real instrument for making beats with your fingers - no musical training needed. Try everything free for 7 days. After that PadLoop stays free with 2 banks, 2 looper tracks and one project, or you unlock everything with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. NEW • Ready beats: 24 complete grooves (Trap soul, Afrobeats, Deep house, UK drill, Funk, Lo-fi...), each with its own bank, tempo and swing, drums and music already recorded. One tap and you play over them • Optional plugins: 6 sound kits (Reggaeton, Afro & Amapiano, Jungle & DnB, Phonk, Drum Machines, Percussion) and 4 instruments with real recorded notes (grand piano, marimba & vibraphone, strings, winds) • Split a song: the Stem split plugin separates a track into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, right on your phone, no internet needed. Then put the parts on your pads (needs 3 GB of RAM or more) • Pedals: MIDI pedals run the looper hands-free • More precise mic recording: the delay is stored separately for speaker, headphones and Bluetooth • On first launch, if you like, an example to listen to or a step-by-step guide PLAY • 8 sound banks (128 pads): drums, basses, synths, vocals - all replaceable • Touch dynamics: hard at the bottom, soft at the top, like real pads • Keyboard: play any sound in a scale with no wrong notes, chords included • Note repeat with Latch, an arpeggiator, 16 Levels (the same sound at sixteen velocities), hold-down effects (filter, echo, reverb, lo-fi...) • Shape every pad: pitch, reverse, envelope, filter, echo, lo-fi RECORD LOOPS • Hit REC and play: the loop records itself and keeps going, layer after layer • Up to 16 synced tracks: name them and drag them into your own order, without stopping the loop • Time-stretch: a loop follows the project BPM without changing pitch • Quantization with a selectable grid (8ths, 16ths, triplets, 1/32) or off - and you can change it afterwards • Step sequencer with per-cell hit strength: accents and ghost notes • Mute in time, per-layer undo, loop doubling, swing SAMPLE ANYTHING • Record from the mic, import audio files, take the sound from a video, or resample the app itself • Trim with handles, split on hits automatically or chop by hand; clean up steady background noise • Sound library with 558 ready-made sounds and 29 pre-built banks SING AND SHARE • Record your voice straight onto a track, in time with the beat • Save your own banks and share them with friends as a file • Record your live performance, effects and mistakes included • Export to MP3/WAV or as separate tracks, at the same full level you hear in the app BUILT FOR REAL PLAYING • A "?" on the main screens explains every button, with the full guide one tap away • Two calibrations, for taps and for the mic, so what you record lands where you played it • MIDI controllers and keyboards, USB and Bluetooth, with MIDI learn • Autosave and one-file project backup HONEST • No ads. Ever. For anyone. • No subscriptions: a 7-day trial with everything unlocked, plugins included, then playing stays free forever (2 banks full of sounds, 2 looper tracks with the microphone too, one project) • A single one-time purchase unlocks everything: the full sampler, all 8 banks, 16 tracks, 558 sounds, 29 ready-made banks, 24 Ready beats, all plugins, export, performance recording, unlimited projects • Everything you create stays yours and keeps playing, no matter what Make your first beat in thirty seconds. The rest follows.

Screenshots

Jamful Looper4 screens
PadLoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jamful Looper at none against PadLoop's 2. PadLoop's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. PadLoop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Jamful Looper asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Jamful Looper versus PadLoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJamful LooperPadLoop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB138 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander PogosyanPOSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA.

In-app purchases

None

Jamful Looper

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PadLoop

One-time2
  • 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • Full Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Jamful Looper free?
Jamful Looper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PadLoop free?
PadLoop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jamful Looper or PadLoop have ads?
Neither Jamful Looper nor PadLoop shows ads.

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