Comparison

Sequencer Pal vs Loop Breaker

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

Head to head
About

Sequencer Pal

Create musical patterns like beats, melodies, and bass lines with a touch-first interface. Offers multiple creation modes, detailed note shaping, and flexible tempo controls. Save, share, and export your musical ideas as MIDI.

Highlights
  • Touch-first beat and melody creation
  • Pads, Piano Roll, and Drum modes
  • Adjust note velocity and length
  • Tempo, time signature, and division control
  • Save, duplicate, and import sessions
  • Export as MIDI
  • Customizable themes and sounds
Features
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Turn musical ideas into playable patterns with Sequencer Pal, a fast, expressive step sequencer made for iPhone and iPad. Build beats, melodies, chords, and bass lines with touch-first controls that keep you focused on the music. THREE WAYS TO CREATE • Pads makes it quick to sketch patterns with assignable notes. • Piano Roll gives you a focused view for melodies and chords. • Drums provides a dedicated grid with punchy kits for building grooves. SHAPE EVERY PATTERN Adjust the velocity of individual notes, drag note edges to change their length, and control the volume of each row. Mute and solo parts to hear how everything fits together. Choose the tempo, tap in a BPM, set a time signature, and work with straight or triplet divisions from quarter notes to 32nd notes. Expand your pattern from one measure up to 16 whenever an idea needs more room. SAVE IT. SHARE IT. KEEP CREATING. Save and duplicate sessions, import patterns shared by other Sequencer Pal users, or export your work as a standard MIDI file. Connect a USB, Bluetooth, network, or virtual MIDI destination and send your sequence to external instruments and music apps. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from 16 colorful themes, follow light or dark mode, or create a custom palette. Pick from five melodic sounds and three drum kits, then shape the workspace to match your style. Whether you are learning how patterns work, sketching a song, or programming a groove, Sequencer Pal makes it easy to start—and satisfying to go deeper.

About

Loop Breaker

This app transforms your audio loops into evolving compositions by introducing random modifiers and effects. It encourages creative exploration by letting you decide how to alter your sound or letting the app make choices for you.

Highlights
  • Gamified audio processing
  • Modifier system for effects
  • Probability system for modifier appearance
  • MIDI CC control for probability
  • Preset system for saving/recalling stacks
  • Record and resample audio output
  • Standalone app and AUv3 plugin
Features
Currently charting
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Loop Breaker is a gamified audio processing environment that periodically forces you to make choices about how your audio loops should change and how your compositions should unfold. This is primarily achieved through a modifier system; every few bars, a new modifier appears in a queue. You must decide which of your loops should be affected by the modifier. If you make no choice, Loop Breaker will decide for you. Change is the only constant. Modifiers include standard audio effects like reverb, delay, chorus, filters, granular delay, auto-pan, and tremolo. Each of these effects has multiple parameters that are set on the fly and include various onset times. Other modifiers effect loop playback: you can change the playback speed, reverse playback direction, time-stretch, re-pitch, move loop brackets via the parts system, and slice loops and then shuffle, arpeggiate, or repeat them. Modifiers stack. Within minutes, your loops will wander down their own paths and recombine to create something previously unimaginable. Loop Breaker also contains a robust probability system for controlling how likely it is that modifier types will appear in the queue and how likely it is that an individual loop will be targeted for modification, should you cede decision-making responsibilities to Loop Breaker. The probability system responds to MIDI CC messages, so you can dynamically change probability settings with MIDI controllers, automation lanes in your DAW, or via modulation sources. Loop Breaker also contains a preset system for saving and recalling modifier stacks. Take your explorations as far as you want, save a new preset, and then recall it later on, even between sessions. Like the pads and probability system, presets also can be controlled via MIDI. Still not enough exploratory madness for you? Record and resample the audio output and then re-apply it to a pad or process it further in your DAW. Loop Breaker works both as a standalone app and as a AUv3 plug-in. Loop Breaker knows that you have a hard drive full of 4-bar loops that you never turned into finished compositions. Loop Breaker wants to help. Loop Breaker wants to make sure you don't get stuck in a loop.

Screenshots

Sequencer Pal4 screens
Loop Breaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sequencer Pal at Free against Loop Breaker's $4.99. Loop Breaker's advantage is chart position (#176 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On rating, ratings volume, 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

Sequencer Pal is free to download; Loop Breaker costs $4.99 up front. 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 Sequencer Pal against 5.0 for Loop Breaker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sequencer Pal versus Loop Breaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSequencer PalLoop Breaker
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#176 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua Escribano FontanetGlowMachine LLC

In-app purchases

None

Sequencer Pal

No in-app purchases

None

Loop Breaker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sequencer Pal free?
Sequencer Pal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loop Breaker free?
Loop Breaker costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sequencer Pal or Loop Breaker?
Sequencer Pal and Loop Breaker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Sequencer Pal or Loop Breaker have ads?
Neither Sequencer Pal nor Loop Breaker shows ads.

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