Comparison

loopdaloop vs AcidGroovebox

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

Head to head
About

loopdaloop

Features
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loopdaloop is a beat maker that grooves the moment you touch it — and hands you the controls the moment you want them. Tap a pad and a beat, a bass line or a pad starts playing, on the beat, in key, already swinging. Hold an orb and a halo of moves fans out around it: make it busier or calmer, flip the pattern, swap the instrument, shift the octave, draw the beat by hand, grab the tone, ride the faders. Nothing you do can be out of time or out of key. Everything you do lands on the next bar. GROOVING IN ONE TAP • Add sound: a surprise voice lands on the deck and speaks right away — a kit, a bass, a lead, a pad, a texture. • Every pattern swings: a swing groove and light humanization are built in, and a groove readout lets you dial it from straight to deep. • Fill, drop, lift, flip, more hits, fewer hits, half-time, double-time: one tap each, quantized, self-resolving. Mash buttons, get an arrangement. • Whole-deck warps: echo, space, dark, crush, phaser, flanger, a Leslie cabinet, auto-wah, pump — and you can see them. Echo ripples the sky, space hazes it, the Leslie spins around its orb. TAKING CONTROL • Hold an orb for its halo: busier, calmer, half-time, double-time, flip, swap, octave up and down, duplicate, tone, faders, edit, banish. • Draw the beat: a 16-step grid per sound. Drums get a row per voice, melodies a row per note of the key — so anything you draw stays in key by construction, and it sounds the moment you paint it. • Sounds you can shape: a four-band EQ on every sound, drawn as one curve. Drag a node and hear the band sweep. • A fader for every hit: mix the kit live — kick, snare, clap, hats, toms, ride, crash — while it keeps playing. • Paint the chords: a harmony lane with one chord per bar. Bass, lead and pads follow it, voice-led, never clashing. • Melt anything into anything: drag one orb onto another and in one bar they become a single new instrument sharing the timbre and rhythm of both. • A stage you can hear: the band stands in front of a listener, and every sound plays from where its orb stands. Carry an orb left and it moves left; drums and bass hold the centre. Walk the listener through the band and the mix follows. • Two faders on every orb: down for the filter, across for the echo. Hold a fader to swap in a tape delay, filtered echo, ping pong, flanger, phaser, bitcrush, autopan, stereolizer, auto envelope, spring or church reverb. • Loop any move: press an orb or a fader, then drag — it loops. • Infinite undo. Every move on the deck can be walked back to the start of the session. DRUMS THAT RING TRUE • Fourteen drum machines, synthesized on your phone the way the originals work: analog circuits that ring on when you hit them fast, sampling machines with their own clocks, bit depths and chokes, hats and cymbals that shimmer. No samples, ever. Basses, leads and pads with accent, slide, detune and drive. • Seventeen drum styles — house, disco, funk, pop, boom bap, trap, drill, grime, electro, big beat, big room, rolling techno, 2-step, half-time, footwork, gqom, dembow — written to groove, not to fill. Every sound you add is picked for the tempo and the style already playing. • 14 chord journeys and 7 moods. The whole deck follows the harmony; the drums are tuned to the key too. • Take the kits with you: "loopdaloop drums" is an Audio Unit instrument for GarageBand, Logic and any AU host — seventy presets over MIDI, tune and decay per voice. SONGS AND SCENES • Capture the deck as a scene, tap scenes in any order, keep songs. Every new song rolls a fresh tempo, key, mood and groove, and every song remembers its own. • Line scenes up in the sequencer lane: tap a step and the song plays itself from there. • Everything is on your phone, fully offline. No account, no samples to download, no subscription to play. There is no manual because there is no wrong move. Tap. Hold. Drag. It's already grooving — you're in control.

About

AcidGroovebox

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A pocket acid machine. 303-style bass, drum machine, lead, a lush pad synth and sample pads: a techno or house track in seconds, with no ads and no connection. Tap the dice and the drums, bass, lead and pads land in key, ready to be mangled. Never touched a synth before? Turn the knobs. You'll get it in 30 seconds. ACID BASS • Cutoff, resonance, env mod, decay, accent and glide • Waveforms: saw, square, triangle, PWM • Step sequencer with slides, accents and note length • Piano panel: the note rings while you press, slide your finger for a glide • Arpeggiator (Pro) DRUM MACHINE • 7 tracks: kick, snare, clap, hats, crash, ride • 3 velocity levels per step and swing, with a choice of which tracks swing (Pro) • Live snare/clap rolls for fills • Double notes, your own samples and custom kits (Pro) ACID LEAD • 3-oscillator paraphonic synth with a snappy filter • Notes per step, chords, harmonic colours and glide • Macros: bite, decay, drive, spread, air, volume • Arpeggiator (Pro) ATMO PAD SYNTH (Pro) • Lay lush chord pads under your set: held chords or short stabs • 12 factory sounds, expressive macros and a full advanced sound editor • Its own sequencer, mixer track and automations HAND-DRAWN AUTOMATIONS (Pro) • Draw curves with your finger on bass, lead and ATMO parameters and watch the knobs move MIXER • Volume, pan and level meters for every track • 4-band EQ on every track and on the master (track EQ in Pro) • The bass ducks under the kick for a punchier, cleaner mix LIVE FX • Hands-on filter on an X/Y matrix • Two assignable LFOs per instrument (Pro) • Assignable reverb and delay (Pro) • 16 or 32-step patterns, A to D switching and full pattern copy (Pro) SAMPLE PADS • 1 pad you can record with the phone mic (3 in Pro) • 3 pads for loading your own sounds (6 in Pro) • Touch pan: where your finger lands sets the pan • Dedicated reverb, delay and beat repeat for the pads YOUR TRACKS STAY YOURS • Save, load, export and import your sets • Bounce your loops to audio to share them • 100% offline: no account, no cloud WHY ACID GROOVEBOX • Zero ads. Actually zero. • No subscription: unlock Pro once, keep it forever • Everything runs on your phone, on a plane or at a festival Home-studio producer, 303 obsessive, techno head or just curious about beatmaking: Acid Groovebox turns an idea into a groove in seconds. Acid Groovebox is built by one independent developer, with no ads and no investors. If you want to support it: unlock Pro and tell your friends.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: loopdaloop at none against AcidGroovebox's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. AcidGroovebox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. loopdaloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

loopdaloop ships an update every 3 weeks, AcidGroovebox fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
loopdaloop versus AcidGroovebox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterloopdaloopAcidGroovebox
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristophe CarveniusMaxime Bernard

In-app purchases

None

loopdaloop

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

AcidGroovebox

One-time1
  • Unlock all Pro features !$7.99

Questions

Is loopdaloop free?
loopdaloop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AcidGroovebox free?
AcidGroovebox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do loopdaloop or AcidGroovebox have ads?
Neither loopdaloop nor AcidGroovebox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, loopdaloop or AcidGroovebox?
loopdaloop ships an update every 3 weeks, and AcidGroovebox fortnightly. Most recently, loopdaloop was updated on October 31, 2026 and AcidGroovebox on November 7, 2026.

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