PadLoop vs Canto
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.
Canto
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Your voice can be trained, too. Canto is a voice gym: short daily workouts that build range, pitch and breath support, a little more each week. SEE YOUR VOICE ON THE NOTE As you sing, you see your voice on top of the note: sharp, flat or spot on. You hear it, see it and adjust. That's how pitch gets better. A PROGRAM THAT GROWS WITH YOU - A 10-minute warm-up and a workout for each day: breath and support, range, vowels and agility, plus a light day to recover. - The load goes up week by week: more sets, more range, faster scales. Rest days lock it in. - Exercises start with trills and closed vowels, the kindest on the voice, and stay inside your own range. - A voice coach explains each exercise before you sing it. MEASURE YOUR RANGE Tell Canto whether your voice is masculine or feminine, then sing along with the piano for a minute. Every exercise adapts to the range you measured. WATCH YOUR PROGRESS Every workout measures your long note: how many seconds you hold it in tune. Streaks, levels, achievements and the muscles each class trains show the work adding up. FREE TOOLS, EVERY DAY The warm-up, the ear-training game ("Match the note"), the tuner and the range test are free. NO ACCOUNT, NO PASSWORD Your progress stays on your iPhone. There's nothing to sign up for: open the app and sing. Canto listens through the microphone only while you sing, and analyzes your voice on your iPhone. Audio is never recorded or sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Canto at none against PadLoop's 2. PadLoop's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PadLoop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Canto asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | PadLoop | Canto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | POSITIVE VIBRATION, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA. | Matias Quenardelle |
In-app purchases
PadLoop
- 7-Day Free TrialFree
- Full Unlock$9.99
Canto
No in-app purchases





