MACHINE DRUM vs Brecken's Beats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MACHINE DRUM
This app offers a minimalist drum machine and sound design lab for creating beats and audio. It features a tactile step sequencer, custom kick sound designer, and the ability to record and manipulate custom samples. Professional DSP effects and genre-inspired templates are also included to enhance creativity.
- Tactile 16-pad step sequencer
- Custom kick sound designer with dual-oscillator engine
- Record and manipulate custom samples
- DSP effects including Delay, Reverb, and Bitcrusher
- Frequency filters (LP, BP, HP)
- Hardware and genre-inspired presets
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MACHINE DRUM: Minimalist Drum Machine & Sound Design Lab Experience beatmaking stripped of clutter. MACHINE DRUM combines retro hardware aesthetics with clean, modern minimalism, giving you a distraction-free canvas built purely to support your creativity and professional grade audio expression. Every knob, slider, instrument and effect has been crafted for visual simplicity and self expression, letting you stay locked in the flow whether sketching rhythms on the go or sculpting intricate synthesis in the studio. TACTILE 16-PAD STEP SEQUENCER Build loops instantly with an intuitive, hardware-style pad grid. Tap steps to program rhythms, control tempo (BPM), and fine-tune levels. Solo or mute individual tracks to build dynamic build-ups and drops live. CUSTOM KICK SOUND DESIGNER Stop relying on generic samples. Synthesize your own signature kicks with a dedicated, dual-oscillator sound engine: • Envelope (ADSR): Fine-tune Attack, Decay, Sustain, & Release using a live visual envelope graph. • FM Synthesis: Dial in punchy transients using FM Depth, FM Speed, and Base Pitch controls. • LFO Modulation: Add rich movement and texture. Route the LFO to Pitch, Filter, Level, or Pan RECORD CUSTOM SAMPLES Record real-world sounds instantly using your iPhone's microphone. Pitch, trim, and swap custom samples into any track pad in real time. Perfect for integrating vocal chops, ambient hits, or custom percussion. DSP EFFECTS & FREQUENCY FILTERS Sculpt your final output mix with professional audio processing: • Delay, Reverb and Bitcrusher: Add analog-style warmth, drive, and grit to glue your beats together. • Frequency Filter: Switch between Low Pass (LP), Band Pass (BP), and High Pass (HP) modes with dedicated Cutoff and Resonance sliders. PRESETS & LEGENDARY GENRE TEMPLATES Load instantly playable song templates and legendary drum machine styles to jumpstart your inspiration: • Explore hardware profiles like the TR-808, TR-909, Linn LM-1, and MPC60. • Load curated song setups inspired by Classic Hip Hop, EDM and Synthwave
Brecken's Beats
Create professional-sounding beats with realistic drum pads and a versatile piano keyboard. Record your voice over your creations, play a rhythm game, and share your music with friends. This app offers a fun and engaging way for young musicians to explore beat making and composition.
- Studio-quality TR-808 drum samples
- Record voice over beats
- Full piano keyboard with 6 voices
- Beat Rush rhythm game
- Beatbox studio functionality
- Export and share tracks
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Brecken's Beats is a music studio made for kids 8 to 13. Open it and within seconds you are building a real song: drums, bass, keys, your own voice and your own beatbox, all stacked in one place. It was designed with a nine year old, so everything is big, obvious and fun, and everything you make stays on your device. THE SONG STUDIO Start from one of eight original song starters (trap, hip hop, pop, lo-fi, house, EDM, drill, reggaeton) or from silence. Tap steps on the drum grid, add a bass line and chords on scale-locked grids that always sound good, record the piano straight into the song, then rap or sing on top with a four beat count-in. Mute, solo, copy bars, double the length, undo and redo. Save it to My Beats and send it to family. BEATBOX Tap Record, get four clicks, then beatbox for two bars. Your actual mouth sounds go into the song as a loop. The app also listens for your kicks, snares and hats and lays them out on a drum grid you can use. Play it back inside the song before you add it. A REAL PIANO A keyboard that behaves like one: slide your finger across the keys, play chords, press lower on a key to play louder. Four octaves, an octave navigator, sustain, note names you can switch on, and a recorder that keeps your take and drops it into your song. Classic and Toy pianos are free. Electric, Rhodes, Synth, 808 Keys, Marimba, Music Box, Organ and Strings come with Plus. RECORD YOUR VOICE Rap or sing over your beat with the microphone, then pick a voice effect: Echo, Robot, Deep or Chipmunk. Recordings never leave the device unless you choose to share them, and sharing is behind a parent check. DJ STUDIO Two decks that play the songs and mixes you made. Scratch a platter that has real weight and pitch bend, nudge, set a cue point, drop beat-synced loops, tap Sync to line two tracks up, sweep the filter, ride the crossfader, and record the whole mix straight into My Beats. MADE FOR FAMILIES No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Nothing is collected. Every purchase, link and share sits behind a parental gate. Works offline. Turn the phone sideways for a wider keyboard and side by side decks. BRECKEN'S PLUS Free: the full Song Studio, Beatbox, voice recording, the DJ Studio, two piano sounds, 30 second exports and three saved songs. Plus adds all ten piano sounds, 60 second exports and unlimited saved songs. Plus is a monthly subscription billed to your Apple Account, renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://bearandhati-oss.github.io/breckensbeats-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: MACHINE DRUM at free against Brecken's Beats's freemium. Brecken's Beats's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). 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
Both are free to download. MACHINE DRUM sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Brecken's Beats sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MACHINE DRUM against 5.0 for Brecken's Beats. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | MACHINE DRUM | Brecken's Beats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Burazer | Cole stegman |
Customer experience
MACHINE DRUM
Brecken's Beats
In-app purchases
MACHINE DRUM
- MACHINE DRUM PRO$9.99
Brecken's Beats
- Brecken's Beats Plus$2.991 Month









