Comparison

SLAP vs BeatMapper

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

Head to head
About

SLAP

Capture everyday sounds and transform them into music. Record, trim, and arrange your own audio samples on responsive pads to create unique beats and songs. Unlock advanced features and unlimited kits through in-app purchases or by watching rewarded ads.

Highlights
  • Record and import audio samples
  • Non-destructive sample trimming
  • Adjust sample volume, pitch, and speed
  • Create and arrange patterns into songs
  • Nine responsive playable pads
  • Export and import custom kits
  • Apply audio effects with Pro version
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Your world is full of sounds. SLAP turns them into beats. Record a clap, tap a desk, snap a pencil, or capture something wonderfully weird. Drop each sound onto a colorful pad, trim it until it hits just right, and start playing. SLAP stands for Sample, Loop, Arrange, Play—a focused beat-making flow that stays fun instead of feeling like homework. MAKE IT YOURS • Record sounds with your iPhone microphone • Import audio you already have • Trim samples non-destructively with detailed waveform controls • Adjust volume, pitch, and speed • Choose whether repeated hits restart or overlap • Name and customize every pad BUILD A BEAT • Play nine responsive pads • Capture taps into simple one-bar patterns • Switch between four patterns • Arrange patterns into an eight-bar song • Record a live performance or export your arranged song • Export and import kits to share them START FAST, THEN GET WEIRD Factory kits give you a quick starting point, but SLAP is built around sounds that are yours. Create three custom kits free, then watch optional rewarded ads to unlock up to three additional kit slots. GO FURTHER WITH SLAP PRO Unlock SLAP Pro with one purchase—no subscription. • Create unlimited custom kits • Save and reuse favorites with Your Sounds • Chop one recording of up to 30 seconds into an entire kit • Shape pads with Echo, Space, Crush, Wobble, Tone, and Reverse effects No account required. Your samples, kits, songs, and recordings stay on your iPhone unless you choose to export or share them.

About

BeatMapper

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BeatMapper turns your iPhone into a grid of coloured pads. Tap a pad to play its sound. Turn on Loop and the sound keeps repeating, so you can stack pad on pad and build a pattern while it runs. Tap a looping pad again to stop it. Seventeen sound sets are built in: drum kit, percussion, music box, bass, sine tones, chiptune, everyday sounds, cartoon effects, sci-fi effects, interface sounds, phonemes, greetings from around the world, the English alphabet, English numbers, Japanese words, French words, and the system sounds. Nearly four hundred sounds in all. Every pad shows what it is doing. A white square shrinks inside the pad as the sound plays, so you can see at a glance where each loop is in its cycle and how the parts line up against each other. Five buttons run along the bottom. Playing Length decides how long a sound plays. Loop makes it repeat until you stop it. Drag Action sets what happens to the pads your finger sweeps over. Randomize plays a handful of pads at once, and All Stop clears everything. The caption above each button names the item currently chosen, so nothing hides behind a symbol. The pads fill the screen. The grid is worked out from how many sounds the set has, always at least four across, so the pads stay large enough to hit with a finger. Randomize shuffles the layout, keeping each sound with its own colour, and Reset puts them back in order. Playing Length decides how long each sound runs: how long you press, the sound itself, the longest sound in the set, or that length with a little drift. Press Length turns the pad into a key you hold. Aligning to the longest sound makes every pad repeat on the same beat, and the drift spreads them so the phases pull apart and the pattern keeps changing. Auto Play taps the pads and buttons on its own, at a pace you set, and the gaps are random rather than even. Leave it running and the app plays by itself. Pro unlocks two more things: importing your own sounds from any folder on the device or in iCloud Drive, and recording what you hear as a 48 kHz / 24-bit WAV file in the Files app. Other things you can set: what appears on the pads, polyphonic playback on or off, background playback so the sounds keep going when you leave the app, and whether the status bar and home bar are shown. A Quick Guide inside Settings explains every control. No account, no setup, no menus to learn. Open it and play.

Screenshots

SLAP4 screens
BeatMapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BeatMapper at none against SLAP's 1. SLAP's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SLAP ships an update weekly, BeatMapper fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SLAP versus BeatMapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSLAPBeatMapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPATRICK H WALKERMasayuki Akamatsu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SLAP

One-time1
  • SLAP Pro$1.99
None

BeatMapper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SLAP free?
SLAP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeatMapper free?
BeatMapper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SLAP or BeatMapper have ads?
Both SLAP and BeatMapper show ads.
Which is updated more often, SLAP or BeatMapper?
SLAP ships an update weekly, and BeatMapper fortnightly. Most recently, SLAP was updated on October 2, 2026 and BeatMapper on October 8, 2026.

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