Comparison

PadLoop vs Rimclick

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

Head to head
About

PadLoop

Features
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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.

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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 • 30–240 BPM, set by slider, +/– 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 — 12 steps in 3/4, 16 in 4/4, 24 in 6/4 — 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 (A–D) — 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 — 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 — if it helps your practice, there is an optional tip jar inside.

Screenshots

PadLoop4 screens
Rimclick4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PadLoop ships an update weekly, Rimclick every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
PadLoop versus Rimclick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPadLoopRimclick
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPOSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA.Dennis Chilas

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PadLoop

One-time2
  • 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • Full Unlock$9.99
3 purchases

Rimclick

One-time3
  • Tip: espresso$0.99
  • Tip: coffee & cake$2.99
  • Tip: new sticks$3.99

Questions

Is PadLoop free?
PadLoop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rimclick free?
Rimclick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PadLoop or Rimclick have ads?
Neither PadLoop nor Rimclick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PadLoop or Rimclick?
PadLoop ships an update weekly, and Rimclick every 3 weeks. Most recently, PadLoop was updated on November 10, 2026 and Rimclick on November 13, 2026.

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