Comparison

loopdaloop vs Groove Mixer

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

Head to head
About

loopdaloop

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loopdaloop is a beat maker that grooves the moment you touch it โ€” 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 โ€ข Add sound: a surprise voice lands on the deck and speaks right away โ€” a kit, a bass, a lead, a pad, a texture. โ€ข Every pattern swings: a swing groove and light humanization are built in, and a groove readout lets you dial it from straight to deep. โ€ข Fill, drop, lift, flip, more hits, fewer hits, half-time, double-time: one tap each, quantized, self-resolving. Mash buttons, get an arrangement. โ€ข Whole-deck warps: echo, space, dark, crush, phaser, flanger, a Leslie cabinet, auto-wah, pump โ€” and you can see them. Echo ripples the sky, space hazes it, the Leslie spins around its orb. TAKING CONTROL โ€ข Hold an orb for its halo: busier, calmer, half-time, double-time, flip, swap, octave up and down, duplicate, tone, faders, edit, banish. โ€ข Draw the beat: a 16-step grid per sound. Drums get a row per voice, melodies a row per note of the key โ€” so anything you draw stays in key by construction, and it sounds the moment you paint it. โ€ข Sounds you can shape: a four-band EQ on every sound, drawn as one curve. Drag a node and hear the band sweep. โ€ข A fader for every hit: mix the kit live โ€” kick, snare, clap, hats, toms, ride, crash โ€” while it keeps playing. โ€ข Paint the chords: a harmony lane with one chord per bar. Bass, lead and pads follow it, voice-led, never clashing. โ€ข 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. โ€ข 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. โ€ข 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. โ€ข Loop any move: press an orb or a fader, then drag โ€” it loops. โ€ข Infinite undo. Every move on the deck can be walked back to the start of the session. DRUMS THAT RING TRUE โ€ข 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. โ€ข Seventeen drum styles โ€” house, disco, funk, pop, boom bap, trap, drill, grime, electro, big beat, big room, rolling techno, 2-step, half-time, footwork, gqom, dembow โ€” written to groove, not to fill. Every sound you add is picked for the tempo and the style already playing. โ€ข 14 chord journeys and 7 moods. The whole deck follows the harmony; the drums are tuned to the key too. โ€ข Take the kits with you: "loopdaloop drums" is an Audio Unit instrument for GarageBand, Logic and any AU host โ€” seventy presets over MIDI, tune and decay per voice. SONGS AND SCENES โ€ข 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. โ€ข Line scenes up in the sequencer lane: tap a step and the song plays itself from there. โ€ข 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 โ€” you're in control.

About

Groove Mixer

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Groove Mixer is a multi-stem drum loop and rhythm player built for musicians, producers and anyone who loves to practice with grooves. Explore 55 rhythms across different musical styles. Each groove is built from individual stems, giving you control over the mix instead of playing a single pre-mixed audio file. GENRES Pop & Rock: - Modern Pop - Pop Ballad - Indie Pop - Synth Pop - Pop Waltz - Stadium Rock - Half-Time Rock - Rock Shuffle - Progressive Rock - Anatolian Rock - Britpop Backbeat - Garage Rock - Power Ballad - Math Rock - Acoustic Rock Electronic: - Deep House - Tech House - Classic House - Minimal Techno - Driving Techno - Melodic Techno - Trance Lift - Psytrance Drive - Electro Waltz - Odd Techno Hip-Hop & R&B: - Boom Bap - Lo-Fi Pocket - Trap Half-Time - Trap Hat Rolls - Drill Motion - Jersey Bounce - Slow R&B - Neo Soul - Trip-Hop - Odd Hip-Hop Funk, Disco & Soul: - Funk Pocket - Funk Syncopation - Space Funk - Disco Groove - Nu Disco - Classic Soul - Detroit Soul - Gospel Shuffle - Funk Five - Funk Seven Latin & Caribbean: - Bossa Nova - Samba - Salsa Clave - Mambo - Cha-Cha - Reggaeton Dembow - Cumbia - Merengue - Afro-Cuban - Baiao TIME SIGNATURES - 2/4 - 3/4 - 4/4 - 5/4 - 6/8 - 7/8 - 9/8 - 12/8 MULTI-STEM GROOVES Control individual parts of each rhythm such as kick, snare, hi-hat, percussion and other instruments. MIX EVERY STEM Adjust the volume and stereo pan of individual channels to create your own balance. SOLO & MUTE Isolate individual stems or mute parts of the groove while practicing, playing or experimenting with arrangements. FAVORITES Save your favorite rhythms and genres for quick access. BUILT FOR PRACTICE & CREATIVITY Use Groove Mixer for instrumental practice, songwriting, jamming, rhythm study or simply exploring different drum and percussion patterns. Start with 10 free grooves and unlock the complete collection with Groove Mixer Pro. Put every part of the groove under your control with Groove Mixer. SUBSCRIPTION GrooveMixer Pro Monthly subscription: $3.99 per month Yearly subscription: $19.99 per year Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Terms and conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.serkanmusic.com/drum-apps-privacy-policy/

Screenshots

loopdaloop4 screens
Groove Mixer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: loopdaloop at none against Groove Mixer's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Groove Mixer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. loopdaloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

loopdaloop ships an update every 3 weeks, Groove Mixer monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
loopdaloop versus Groove Mixer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterloopdaloopGroove Mixer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better17.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristophe CarveniusSerkan Seker

In-app purchases

None

loopdaloop

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Groove Mixer

Subscriptions2
  • GrooveMixer Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • GrooveMixer Pro Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

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

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