Comparison

Bitbop vs Brusmaskin

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Bitbop4 screens
Brusmaskin4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bitbop ships an update weekly, Brusmaskin every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Bitbop versus Brusmaskin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitbopBrusmaskin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFranz EnzenhoferMattias Ahlstrom

In-app purchases

None

Bitbop

No in-app purchases

None

Brusmaskin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bitbop free?
Bitbop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brusmaskin free?
Brusmaskin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bitbop or Brusmaskin?
Bitbop and Brusmaskin are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bitbop or Brusmaskin have ads?
Neither Bitbop nor Brusmaskin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bitbop or Brusmaskin?
Bitbop ships an update weekly, and Brusmaskin every 3 days. Most recently, Bitbop was updated on October 31, 2026 and Brusmaskin on October 31, 2026.

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