Comparison

Melodic Studio vs Brecken's Beats

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

Head to head
About

Melodic Studio

This app provides a professional mobile music production environment for creating, arranging, and finishing songs. It offers a pattern-based workflow with looping clips and a full timeline, along with multiple built-in instruments and audio editing tools.

Highlights
  • Scene and Arrangement Modes
  • Eight built-in instruments
  • Audio recording and editing
  • Channel mixer and effects
  • MIDI editor
  • Cloud sync and collaboration
  • Export to WAV, MP3, MIDI
Features
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Melodic Studio is a professional, mobile-first DAW designed to make music creation feel fast, clear, and natural. It gives you a complete environment to sketch ideas, build tracks, and finish songs—all from a single, focused workflow. At its core, Melodic Studio is built around two main modes: Scene Mode and Arrangement Mode. Scene Mode lets you work with looping clips, building ideas in small sections. Arrangement Mode gives you a full timeline where you structure your track from start to finish. A simple Context Button is always available, letting you switch modes and manage scenes without breaking your flow. You get eight built-in instruments: Drum Pads, Piano, Synth, Guitar, Strings, Sampler, Voice Recorder, and Chord Organ. Each one includes built-in music theory features, along with tools like note repeat, real-time effects, and expressive controls that make playing feel immediate and responsive. There are also hundreds of sounds and presets available, so you can move quickly from idea to sound. You can also turn your own recordings into playable instrument sounds. Record or import audio, refine it in Audio Lab, use pitch detection to set the root note, then play it from instruments like Piano, Guitar, Strings and more. The workflow is pattern-based. You create clips, arrange them, and build your track step by step. Audio editing tools are included, allowing you to trim, split, fade, and process recordings directly inside the app. A full channel mixer lets you control volume, panning, and routing across your project. You can also apply effects to any track or instrument, including EQ, compression, delay, reverb, and more. Melodic Studio includes a MIDI editor with tools to manipulate notes in detail. You can also automate any parameter, from volume to effects, giving you full control over how your track evolves over time. The interface is split into four main views: Arrangement, Instrument, Launchpad, and Mixer. Each one is focused on a specific part of the process. Arrangement handles the timeline. Instrument is where you record. Launchpad lets you control clips and scenes in real time. Mixer gives you quick access to balancing your tracks. Clips can be saved and reused across projects, making it easy to build your own library of ideas. When your track is ready, you can export full arrangements, individual clips, or scenes as WAV, MP3, or MIDI files. Projects can also be synced to the cloud and shared with others, allowing for collaboration and continuity across devices. You explore, listen & create - That’s the core idea behind Melodic Mind. Let music feel natural again. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://melodic-mind.com/privacy-policy

About

Brecken's Beats

Create professional-sounding beats with realistic drum pads and a versatile piano keyboard. Record your voice over your creations, play a rhythm game, and share your music with friends. This app offers a fun and engaging way for young musicians to explore beat making and composition.

Highlights
  • Studio-quality TR-808 drum samples
  • Record voice over beats
  • Full piano keyboard with 6 voices
  • Beat Rush rhythm game
  • Beatbox studio functionality
  • Export and share tracks
Features
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Brecken's Beats is a music studio made for kids 8 to 13. Open it and within seconds you are building a real song: drums, bass, keys, your own voice and your own beatbox, all stacked in one place. It was designed with a nine year old, so everything is big, obvious and fun, and everything you make stays on your device. THE SONG STUDIO Start from one of eight original song starters (trap, hip hop, pop, lo-fi, house, EDM, drill, reggaeton) or from silence. Tap steps on the drum grid, add a bass line and chords on scale-locked grids that always sound good, record the piano straight into the song, then rap or sing on top with a four beat count-in. Mute, solo, copy bars, double the length, undo and redo. Save it to My Beats and send it to family. BEATBOX Tap Record, get four clicks, then beatbox for two bars. Your actual mouth sounds go into the song as a loop. The app also listens for your kicks, snares and hats and lays them out on a drum grid you can use. Play it back inside the song before you add it. A REAL PIANO A keyboard that behaves like one: slide your finger across the keys, play chords, press lower on a key to play louder. Four octaves, an octave navigator, sustain, note names you can switch on, and a recorder that keeps your take and drops it into your song. Classic and Toy pianos are free. Electric, Rhodes, Synth, 808 Keys, Marimba, Music Box, Organ and Strings come with Plus. RECORD YOUR VOICE Rap or sing over your beat with the microphone, then pick a voice effect: Echo, Robot, Deep or Chipmunk. Recordings never leave the device unless you choose to share them, and sharing is behind a parent check. DJ STUDIO Two decks that play the songs and mixes you made. Scratch a platter that has real weight and pitch bend, nudge, set a cue point, drop beat-synced loops, tap Sync to line two tracks up, sweep the filter, ride the crossfader, and record the whole mix straight into My Beats. MADE FOR FAMILIES No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Nothing is collected. Every purchase, link and share sits behind a parental gate. Works offline. Turn the phone sideways for a wider keyboard and side by side decks. BRECKEN'S PLUS Free: the full Song Studio, Beatbox, voice recording, the DJ Studio, two piano sounds, 30 second exports and three saved songs. Plus adds all ten piano sounds, 60 second exports and unlimited saved songs. Plus is a monthly subscription billed to your Apple Account, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://bearandhati-oss.github.io/breckensbeats-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Melodic Studio4 screens
Brecken's Beats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brecken's Beats at 100% against Melodic Studio's 50%. Brecken's Beats also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3). Melodic Studio's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Melodic Studio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Brecken's Beats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brecken's Beats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Melodic Studio's written reviews are positive against 100% of Brecken's Beats's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Melodic Studio ships an update every 8 days, Brecken's Beats every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Melodic Studio versus Brecken's Beats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMelodic StudioBrecken's Beats
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSean Ray DvirCole stegman

Customer experience

Melodic Studio

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Brecken's Beats

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Melodic Studio

Subscriptions6
  • No Ads$1.991 Month
  • Melodic Studio Full Access3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Melodic Mind Standard Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Melodic Mind Pro Monthly3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Melodic Mind Standard Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Melodic Mind Pro Yearly3 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time4
  • 4 Stem Credits$0.99
  • 25 Stem Credits$4.99
  • 60 Stem Credits$9.99
Show 1 more
  • Melodic Studio Full Lifetime$79.99
1 purchases

Brecken's Beats

Subscriptions1
  • Brecken's Beats Plus$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Melodic Studio free?
Melodic Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brecken's Beats free?
Brecken's Beats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Melodic Studio or Brecken's Beats?
Brecken's Beats is rated higher. Melodic Studio averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Brecken's Beats averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Melodic Studio or Brecken's Beats have ads?
Neither Melodic Studio nor Brecken's Beats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Melodic Studio or Brecken's Beats?
Melodic Studio ships an update every 8 days, and Brecken's Beats every 5 days. Most recently, Melodic Studio was updated on November 10, 2026 and Brecken's Beats on October 31, 2026.

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