BooBaby vs Orbeat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BooBaby
This app provides a curated selection of white noise sounds designed to help babies fall asleep quickly and peacefully. It features a simple interface with various soothing sounds and playback controls, creating a warm and calming atmosphere for infants.
- White noise playback
- Set playback duration
- Sleep cheats
- Parenting quiz
- Night mode
- Built-in sounds: Rain, Water, Uterus, Fan, Ocean
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The main function of BooBaby is a white noise app developed around the baby's sound sleep. The selected sleep-aiding white noise in the app has been personally tested by us, who are also baby fathers and mothers, and are really easy to use. The white noise playback interface creates a warm sleeping atmosphere for the baby, allowing the baby to fall asleep together with the cradle and the moon. If the baby is noisy before going to bed, turn on the whirring and let the baby fall asleep quickly. Built-in White Noise: Rain, Water, Pond, Hair Dryer, Uterus, Fan, Vacuum Cleaner, Ocean, Boo~. Main functions: white noise playback, pause, set playback duration, sleep cheats, parenting quiz, night mode.
Orbeat
This music app offers a unique circular sequencer for beat creation, featuring four distinct drum kits and generative tools. It allows for advanced rhythmic manipulation and can be used as a standalone instrument or an AUv3 plugin. Unlock full features with a one-time purchase.
- Circular sequencer interface
- Four unique drum kits
- Generative rhythm patterns
- Swing and velocity controls
- Probability and polymeter
- AUv3 plugin support
- WAV export
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Orbeat is a drum machine in the round. Instead of a grid, your rhythm lives on a glowing mandala — concentric lanes of light that orbit a single play button. Tap the rings, watch the playhead sweep, and feel the groove move. Built to be played, not programmed. Open it and you're already making beats. A CIRCULAR SEQUENCER — UP TO TWELVE LANES Six lanes wrap the screen as rings, and the circle can grow to twelve: the mandala opens a second page of rings in its own electric color set, so every lane keeps its full size. Tap to place hits, lock a lane you love, mute and solo as you build the groove layer by layer. The whole pattern turns as it plays. FOUR DRUM KITS Classic, Acoustic, Glitch, and 8-bit — one tap reskins every voice while your pattern stays put. From clean and punchy to broken and chiptune. BRING YOUR OWN SOUNDS Build a custom kit and drop your own audio into any lane — WAV, AIFF or mp3, up to ten seconds, played at its original pitch and in stereo. Imported samples run clean to the output, while the lanes you leave alone keep their synth voice, so a hi-hat you recorded yourself sits right next to Orbeat's own drums. Your first custom kit is free. GENERATORS THAT SURPRISE YOU Roll the dice for an instant pattern, or use Euclidean rhythms to spread hits evenly around a ring. Like what you hear? Tap the ring to write it in and edit by hand. MAKE IT BREATHE, MAKE IT DRIFT Add swing to push the feel off the grid, draw velocity per step for accents that live, and pan each lane across the stereo field. With Probability, hits fire by chance; with polymeter, each lane gets its own length so the phases drift in and out of sync. TAKE IT ANYWHERE Bounce any loop to a stereo WAV — named with the beat, its length and its tempo, so it still makes sense in your DAW next month — or run Orbeat as an AUv3 instrument with MIDI in & out — sequence other instruments, or play Orbeat's lanes from your host's piano roll inside GarageBand, AUM, Logic, and other AUv3 hosts. Standalone, play the pads live from any MIDI controller and sync the whole groove to external MIDI clock. PLAY IN SYNC WITH THE ROOM Ableton Link keeps Orbeat in time with every Link-enabled app and device on your network — Ableton Live, AUM, Loopy, a friend's iPad across the table. Tempo follows the session, start and stop are shared, and everyone stays in phase. No cables, no setup. PLAY FREE. UNLOCK ONCE. The full instrument is free forever — every kit, the six-lane circle, Euclidean generators, swing, velocity, pan, your first custom kit with your own samples, MIDI in & out, and Ableton Link. Orbeat Pro is a single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever) that unlocks room to grow the circle to twelve lanes, plus Probability, polymeter, WAV export, unlimited saved beats, and extra custom kits. Made for iPhone and iPad. No account, no ads, no tracking — your beats never leave your device unless you share them. Tap the rings. Make it move.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BooBaby at none against Orbeat's 1. BooBaby also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Orbeat's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 29 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and device support 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. Orbeat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BooBaby asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BooBaby against 5.0 for Orbeat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbeat has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
BooBaby ships an update every 29 months, Orbeat every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BooBaby | Orbeat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JUNBO JIA | Chih Han Lin |
Customer experience
BooBaby
Orbeat
In-app purchases
BooBaby
No in-app purchases
Orbeat
- Orbeat Pro$5.99









