Bitbop vs Brusmaskin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bitbop
Create music with a pocket instrument where every pad is in key. Explore over 1,000 songs across various genres, customize sounds with five unique synthesizer worlds, and visualize your music with full-screen graphics. Share your creations as video, audio, or links.
- Pocket instrument with in-key pads
- 1,000+ song templates across genres
- Five distinct synthesizer sound worlds
- Full-screen music visualizations
- Export audio, MIDI, and video
- Real-time collaborative jamming
- Offline functionality
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Bitbop is a pocket instrument for making music. Every pad is in key, so you can't play a wrong note, and a full band plays along: lead, bass, bells and drums. START FROM 1,000+ SONGS Techno, house, trance, drum and bass, synthwave, lo-fi, hip-hop, disco, afrobeat, latin, raga, classical, folk and Bitbop originals. Load one, change anything, make it yours. Or tap Surprise me and start from a new idea. FIVE SOUND WORLDS Each one is its own synthesizer: - Bitbop: the signature chiptune sound, a PWM lead and a chip supersaw - Techno: a resonant lead, a clean sub and a driven kit - Retro: a pulse melody, square chimes and a smooth triangle bass - Classical: bowed strings and a plucked harp in a concert hall - Dancehall: a syncopated sub, a skank chop and a steppers riddim SOUND YOU CAN SEE 100 full-screen visuals that follow every note you hear. SHARE WHAT YOU MAKE - Export a video for stories and feeds, with the visuals you see - Export WAV audio or MIDI for any music app - Share a song as a link or QR code - Go Live: friends watch your jam in real time from a link, no app needed PLAY YOUR WAY - Tempo from 65 to 250 BPM, a vibe filter and a feel control for swing - Loops from 8 steps up to 10 bars, with a fader for lead, bass, bells and drums - Undo, erase, copy and paste, and lock a control between songs NO ADS. NO ACCOUNTS. Bitbop works offline and your songs stay on your device. Only anonymous usage counts are sent, and you can turn them off in Settings.
Brusmaskin
Create complete music tracks on your mobile device with this 8-track groovebox. It features multiple sound engines, a sampler, deep modulation, and advanced sequencing capabilities for song creation and live performance.
- 8-track synthesizer, sampler, and sequencer
- Seven distinct sound engines
- Stereo sampler with slicing and chopping
- Deep modulation with envelopes and LFOs
- Advanced step sequencing with probability and ratchets
- Song chaining and live performance modes
- MIDI learn for controller mapping
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Brusmaskin is a pocket groovebox — an 8-track synthesizer, sampler and sequencer for making complete tracks wherever you are. SEVEN SOUND ENGINES FM synthesis with a subtractive filter stage, a raw mono synth with drive and wavefolding, a lush 7-voice supersaw, a dedicated drum synth with FM percussion, filtered noise and attack transients, a plucked string (Karplus–Strong) with a pick that changes every note, and GRAIN — a granular engine that plays any sample as a cloud. Plus a sampler with stereo samples, slicing, key-mapped chopping, non-destructive trim and a start offset for ghost notes. The same audio plays both ways — sampler or cloud — with zero copies. RESAMPLE YOURSELF Capture any track with one button — it keeps playing while the recording runs through its own private effects, so the take carries the filter, the drive and the track's own reverb and delay tail, in stereo. Then listen and choose what it becomes: a sample, a grain cloud sliced on the hits, or a playable kit where each note is one hit. Or record from the microphone, or GRAB the last 30 seconds of the master — the take you just played but forgot to record is still there. DEEP MODULATION Three envelopes and three LFOs per sound, each with three freely routable destinations — and every target lives on every engine. Vibrato on a sample, a moving noise filter on a drum, an LFO that rechops a break on every note, an envelope that scrubs a grain cloud through a field recording. HOLD, CURVE and END floors turn envelopes into drones. DEEP STEP SEQUENCING Per-step trig conditions, probability, ratchets with pitch rolls, swing, and patterns up to 128 steps with independent speed and length. An arpeggiator with chord pools, inversions and free-run mode. Sound locks put a different sound on any step, and per-step parameter offsets shape your sounds over time. SONGS, NOT JUST LOOPS Chain patterns into parts, phrases and full songs. Perform live in the performance view, mix with per-track faders, and glue everything together with chorus, delay and a rich plate reverb. Sidechain ducking built in. HANDS ON MIDI learn maps any knob, fader or button on your controller to sounds, mixer faders, mutes and solos — with soft takeover so nothing jumps. 576 factory presets cover every engine, and an INIT patch per engine gives you a clean starting point when you want to build from scratch. YOURS Projects and sample banks are stored in iCloud Drive as plain files you can see and back up. Scale-aware note entry, a built-in browser of vintage drum machine sample packs, and video import that pulls the audio straight out of a screen recording. No account, no subscription, and everything works completely offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Brusmaskin at every 3 days against Bitbop's weekly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bitbop against 5.0 for Brusmaskin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Bitbop ships an update weekly, Brusmaskin every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Bitbop | Brusmaskin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Franz Enzenhofer | Mattias Ahlstrom |
In-app purchases
Bitbop
No in-app purchases
Brusmaskin
No in-app purchases







