PadLoop vs Rimclick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
PadLoop
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Sixteen pads, a track looper and a sampler: PadLoop turns your phone into a real instrument for making beats with your fingers - no musical training needed. Try everything free for 7 days. After that PadLoop stays free with 2 banks, 2 looper tracks and one project, or you unlock everything with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. NEW ⢠Ready beats: 24 complete grooves (Trap soul, Afrobeats, Deep house, UK drill, Funk, Lo-fi...), each with its own bank, tempo and swing, drums and music already recorded. One tap and you play over them ⢠Optional plugins: 6 sound kits (Reggaeton, Afro & Amapiano, Jungle & DnB, Phonk, Drum Machines, Percussion) and 4 instruments with real recorded notes (grand piano, marimba & vibraphone, strings, winds) ⢠Split a song: the Stem split plugin separates a track into vocals, drums, bass and the rest, right on your phone, no internet needed. Then put the parts on your pads (needs 3 GB of RAM or more) ⢠Pedals: MIDI pedals run the looper hands-free ⢠More precise mic recording: the delay is stored separately for speaker, headphones and Bluetooth ⢠On first launch, if you like, an example to listen to or a step-by-step guide PLAY ⢠8 sound banks (128 pads): drums, basses, synths, vocals - all replaceable ⢠Touch dynamics: hard at the bottom, soft at the top, like real pads ⢠Keyboard: play any sound in a scale with no wrong notes, chords included ⢠Note repeat with Latch, an arpeggiator, 16 Levels (the same sound at sixteen velocities), hold-down effects (filter, echo, reverb, lo-fi...) ⢠Shape every pad: pitch, reverse, envelope, filter, echo, lo-fi RECORD LOOPS ⢠Hit REC and play: the loop records itself and keeps going, layer after layer ⢠Up to 16 synced tracks: name them and drag them into your own order, without stopping the loop ⢠Time-stretch: a loop follows the project BPM without changing pitch ⢠Quantization with a selectable grid (8ths, 16ths, triplets, 1/32) or off - and you can change it afterwards ⢠Step sequencer with per-cell hit strength: accents and ghost notes ⢠Mute in time, per-layer undo, loop doubling, swing SAMPLE ANYTHING ⢠Record from the mic, import audio files, take the sound from a video, or resample the app itself ⢠Trim with handles, split on hits automatically or chop by hand; clean up steady background noise ⢠Sound library with 558 ready-made sounds and 29 pre-built banks SING AND SHARE ⢠Record your voice straight onto a track, in time with the beat ⢠Save your own banks and share them with friends as a file ⢠Record your live performance, effects and mistakes included ⢠Export to MP3/WAV or as separate tracks, at the same full level you hear in the app BUILT FOR REAL PLAYING ⢠A "?" on the main screens explains every button, with the full guide one tap away ⢠Two calibrations, for taps and for the mic, so what you record lands where you played it ⢠MIDI controllers and keyboards, USB and Bluetooth, with MIDI learn ⢠Autosave and one-file project backup HONEST ⢠No ads. Ever. For anyone. ⢠No subscriptions: a 7-day trial with everything unlocked, plugins included, then playing stays free forever (2 banks full of sounds, 2 looper tracks with the microphone too, one project) ⢠A single one-time purchase unlocks everything: the full sampler, all 8 banks, 16 tracks, 558 sounds, 29 ready-made banks, 24 Ready beats, all plugins, export, performance recording, unlimited projects ⢠Everything you create stays yours and keeps playing, no matter what Make your first beat in thirty seconds. The rest follows.
Rimclick
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Rimclick is a metronome and drum machine in one, made for practicing drums. Instead of playing against a bare click, you program a groove on a step grid and practice along with it or switch the drums off and use it as a precise, no-nonsense metronome. METRONOME ⢠30ā240 BPM, set by slider, +/ā buttons or tap tempo ⢠Time signatures 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4 and 8/8 ⢠Accent on beat 1, on or off ⢠Subdivision clicks: 8ths, triplets or 16ths ⢠A beat strip and pulse ring you can read from the drum stool ⢠Screen flash: the whole screen pulses on every beat, for when the kit drowns out the click DRUM SEQUENCER ⢠A step grid one bar long in every time signature ā 12 steps in 3/4, 16 in 4/4, 24 in 6/4 ā with eight synthesized drums: kick, snare, closed and open hi-hat, crash, ride, high and low tom ⢠Draw by tapping or dragging; a crosshair shows which cell is under your finger ⢠A full-screen editor with big cells, for drawing comfortably on a phone ⢠Four pattern slots (AāD) ā chain them into a longer phrase and set how many times each one repeats; while the chain plays, the grid follows the pattern you hear ⢠Swing from straight to a full triplet feel ⢠Count-in of one or two bars before the drums start ⢠Separate click and drum volume, and mute any track with a tap on its name TRAINERS ⢠Tempo trainer: add N BPM every M bars until you reach your target tempo ⢠Gap trainer: the click plays for a few bars, then drops out ā keep time on your own until it comes back PRESETS ⢠Save your grooves with their tempo and time signature and load them again in one tap ⢠Your preset library syncs across your iPhone and iPad through iCloud BUILT FOR PRACTICE ⢠Timing is sample-accurate: the whole clock runs inside the audio engine, not on a timer ⢠Keeps playing in the background and with the screen locked; start and stop from the lock screen or your headphones ⢠Designed for iPhone (landscape and portrait) and iPad, with a large layout for iPad on a music stand ⢠Low latency on wired headphones and the built-in speaker; Bluetooth is supported PRIVATE AND FREE No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The app collects no data at all. It is free and stays free ā if it helps your practice, there is an optional tip jar inside.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PadLoop at weekly against Rimclick's every 3 weeks. PadLoop also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PadLoop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Rimclick sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PadLoop ships an update weekly, Rimclick every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PadLoop | Rimclick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly ā better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | POSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA. | Dennis Chilas |
In-app purchases
PadLoop
- 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Full Unlock$9.99
Rimclick
- Tip: espresso$0.99
- Tip: coffee & cake$2.99
- Tip: new sticks$3.99









