Comparison

Beatbox Pro Live vs Beatbook

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

Head to head
About

Beatbox Pro Live

Features
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BEATBOX LIVE is a live beatbox mixing app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Shape your mic sound with EQ, dynamics, character, and output in one clear effect chain. Includes punch, compression, de-ess, gate, saturation, reverb, feedback suppressor, meters, MIDI learn, metronome, and stage-ready presets for cupped-mic and SM58-style performance.

About

Beatbook

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A drum machine with nothing in it until you beatbox into it. Beatbook is a pocket loop station with one twist: every pad starts completely empty. There's no stock drum kit hiding underneath. Hold a pad, make a sound with your mouth (or your desk, or your dog), and that's your kick. Hold another โ€” that's your snare. In under two minutes you've built a kit out of nothing but your own voice. Record your own sounds. Sixteen pads, all empty on first launch. Press and hold to record, release to stop โ€” no menus, no settings, just hold and make noise. Re-record any pad any time. One row can even hold a longer take, for anyone who wants to hum a hook instead of tapping a beat. Loop it, layer it. Hit record for a one-bar count-in, then tap out a 4-bar beat that loops right back on itself โ€” tight and quantized by default, or turn snap off and keep your own exact timing. Keep hitting record to stack layer on layer: kick pass, then hats, then a vocal stab on top. Perform it live. Four row-mute checkboxes sit right next to the grid โ€” one touch kills a whole row mid-loop, instantly, with zero glitch. Cut the bass, build the tension, slam it back in on the downbeat. It's built for that tension-and-release move live loopers love, not just for programming a beat and walking away. Keep it or share it. Every beat autosaves โ€” there's no save button, because you can't lose your work. Park a few different beats in the tape deck's save slots, come back to any of them, or export a loop straight to Messages or Mail so a friend can hear it. Made a beat you love? It's one tap away from someone else's ears. Sketched, not skinned. Every line on screen looks hand-drawn in pencil on ruled notebook paper โ€” because beatboxing into your phone in a quiet corner of a study hall is exactly the vibe this app is for. No ads. No stock sounds. No account. Just you, a mic, and an empty grid waiting to be filled.

Screenshots

Beatbox Pro Live2 screens
Beatbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Beatbox Pro Live at 4 against Beatbook's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Beatbox Pro Live versus Beatbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeatbox Pro LiveBeatbook
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBart VoogtSamuel Logan

In-app purchases

None

Beatbox Pro Live

No in-app purchases

None

Beatbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beatbox Pro Live free?
Beatbox Pro Live is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beatbook free?
Beatbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beatbox Pro Live or Beatbook have ads?
Neither Beatbox Pro Live nor Beatbook shows ads.

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