Comparison

Resamplr vs Granula

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

Head to head
About

Resamplr

This music creation app offers a hardware-inspired sampler and beatmaking experience. Quickly capture and shape audio ideas using a 4x4 pad workflow, from sampling to sequencing and resampling. Import sounds, record live, and export your creations.

Highlights
  • 4x4 pad sampler workflow
  • Import sounds and extract audio from video
  • Live recording with threshold capture
  • Non-destructive sample editing
  • Pattern sequencing with advanced controls
  • Resampling and skipback capture
  • Flexible FX and song arrangement
Features
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Resamplr is a fast, hardware-inspired sampler and beatmaking app for iPhone and iPad. Capture ideas quickly, shape them on a 4x4 pad workflow, and keep moving from sampling to sequencing to resampling without ever breaking flow. 2.0 turns Resamplr into a full workstation. Lay your beats and loops onto audio tracks with a proper timeline, record straight in through the mic or an audio interface, warp anything to tempo, and host your favourite AUv3 instruments and effects right inside the app. Load sounds from the built-in library, import your own files, or extract audio from video. Drop a loop in and it auto-warps to your project tempo at the right bar count — no manual correction. Record through the microphone or a connected audio interface with live input metering, threshold recording, and quick pad assignment. Chop samples non-destructively, build layered pads, tweak pitch, filters, envelopes, playback modes, and bus routing. Lock a pad's pitch independently of its speed with Sharp and Smooth timestretch modes, then sequence patterns with velocity, probability, ratchets, and live performance controls like 16 Levels and Roll. Scratch and perform on the deck, and when a pattern hits, resample it back to a pad and keep transforming it. Resamplr also includes flexible FX buses, output processing, song arrangement, project saving, skipback capture, a light/dark theme, and offline export for sequences, songs, audio tracks, or individual pads. Features: 4x4 pad sampler workflow built for fast beat making Audio tracks with a full timeline — record, arrange, loop, and trim clips Timestretch and keylock — independent pitch and tempo per pad, with Sharp and Smooth modes Auto-warp loops to tempo on import, at the right bar count Host third-party AUv3 instruments and effects Built-in sounds plus import from Files and video audio extraction Mic and audio interface recording with live meters and threshold capture Sample chopping, layering, trimming, and waveform editing Turntable-style deck for scratching and performance Pattern sequencing with velocity, probability, ratchets, and nudge Conditional trigs and polyrhythms / per-pad step lengths 16 Levels, Roll, resampling, and replay capture Bus FX, output processing, song mode, and WAV export Performance FX with automation per sequence and export Parameter locks per step, per sequence with export Effect automation MIDI in & out with fully custom mapping Audio Mixer to dial in your mix Play and sample from classic games Set Key, Scale and Chords per pad or project Deep Arpeggiaotor for samples and AUV3

About

Granula

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Granula is a granular synthesizer for the phone. It takes a sound from demo samples (like guitar, calimba, tongue drum, etc.) or thirty seconds you record on the spot and scatters it into hundreds of tiny overlapping grains. A slow, shifting texture comes back to your space: ambient pads, drones, atmospheres that keep evolving as long as you keep listening. Everything is played with your hands. The whole screen is a morph pad: move a finger across it and the sound moves with you, while a field of glyphs lights up under your touch and churns in time with what you hear. FOUR CHARACTERS • Reverse: short grains, played mostly backwards, with octave and fifth sparkles on top • Gater: a denser cloud chopped on a grid, from halves down to sixteenths • Chorus: long, slow, detuned grains with the read position drifting like a tide • Scatter: harmonic intervals thrown at random and sprayed wide FOUR KNOBS • Grain size, from 15 ms clicks to 1 second • Position: where in the sample the grains are lifted from • Density: from sparse drips to a solid wash • Dry/Wet: a six-second convolution reverb, plus the amount of reversed grains RECORD THE WORLD AROUND Hold the record button and capture up to thirty seconds of anything: your voice, a room, rain on a window, a string you plucked once. The take is granulated immediately and kept in your library under a name of its own. You can also import your own MP3 or WAV files. MADE FOR A PHONE • Keeps playing with the screen locked and in the background • Survives calls, headphone unplugs and output switches without losing your session • Any class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard plays it - plug in and go, nothing to pair inside the app GRANULA PRO Every built-in sound is free and stays free. A free account also brings in one sound of your own - recorded or imported. Granula Pro lifts that limit: record and import as much as you like, and everything syncs to your account so a new phone picks up where the last one left off. No ads. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Resamplr4 screens
Granula4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Granula at Free against Resamplr's $4.99. Resamplr's advantage is chart position (#123 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Granula is free to download; Resamplr costs $4.99 up front. Resamplr sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Granula sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Resamplr ships an update every 4 days, Granula weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Resamplr versus Granula: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResamplrGranula
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#123 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size330 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott PatersonSergey Duzhev

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Resamplr

One-time9
  • Compositions V1$3.99
  • Compositions V2$3.99
  • Jazz Style$3.99
Show 6 more
  • Forms$3.99
  • Forms Vol. 2$3.99
  • Killer Drums V1$3.99
  • Made For TV V1$3.99
  • Killer Drums V2$3.99
  • C Notes Vol 1$3.99
1 purchases

Granula

Subscriptions1
  • Granula Pro$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Resamplr free?
Resamplr costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Granula free?
Granula is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Resamplr or Granula have ads?
Neither Resamplr nor Granula shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Resamplr or Granula?
Resamplr ships an update every 4 days, and Granula weekly. Most recently, Resamplr was updated on October 28, 2026 and Granula on October 29, 2026.

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