Beat Maker vs SUBscription Synth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beat Maker
Create professional-quality music with an intuitive interface. Make beats, loops, and full tracks using a variety of sounds and instruments. Record, import, and export your creations easily.
- Create beats, loops, and tracks
- 14 drum sounds and 75 instrument sounds
- Record or import sounds
- Layer up to 8 sounds per loop
- Up to 10 channels per track
- Export creations as sounds, loops, or tracks
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Create music effortlessly and produce professional-quality tracks with ease. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, this app is designed to help you make beats, loops, and tracks with minimal effort. PERFECT FOR EVERYONE: - Intuitive interface for quick beat creation - Powerful features for experienced musicians and producers KEY FEATURES: - Create beats, loops, and full tracks - Access 14 drum sounds and 75 instrument sounds - Preloaded with 7 loops and 2 tracks for instant inspiration - Record your own sounds or import .wav files - Layer up to 8 sounds in a loop - Use up to 10 channels in a track - Save and load an unlimited number of sounds, loops, and tracks - Set the tempo from 10 to 300 bpm for full control - Adjust the volume of each sound in a loop and each channel in a track - Export your creations as sounds, loops, or tracks - Merge multiple sound layers into one for cleaner mixes - Easily export your loops and tracks to share or remix Unlock your creativity with this simple yet powerful music-making tool and start producing your next hit today!
SUBscription Synth
This app transforms user-entered text into unique monophonic sub-synth waveshapes. It offers a text-to-synthesis engine, drive and dirt effects, a low-pass filter, and extensive modulation options for creating powerful bass sounds.
- Text-to-synthesis engine
- Monophonic sub-synth
- Drive and dirt effects
- 12dB/oct low-pass filter
- 2 envelopes, 2 LFOs, 4 expression controls
- AUv3 plugin and standalone operation
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To celebrate international joke day 2023, we decided to take a big step with our first synthesizer plugin; SUBscription. While based on a tongue-in-cheek pun about the current state and direction of the music tech industry, we actually ended up with a surprisingly excellent plugin that takes user-generated phrases (subscription codes) and converts them into unique waveshapes in a monophonic sub-synth. - Create powerful, characterful bass sounds - Unique and exceptionally high IQ text synthesis technique ^TM - Reasonable subscription models - Unequivocally superior, requires no review. SUBscription Upon entering a subscription code into our brand new text-to-synthesis engine, you are entering a world of sonic enrichment and fame, but you may have to make a deal with the devil. Text Synthesis Create characterful wave shapes using our experimental new text-to-synthesis technique. We have prepared every possible character combination (subscription code) because you’re weak and predictable. Drive & Dirt Boost the ever loving **** out of the synth with some crispy drive. Use the Dirt knob’s Rate modulation to thicken and filth up your tracks with noisy textures. Filter Carve your frequencies out with the 12dB/oct low-pass ladder filter. Much like the filter, we too will be filtering out any bug reports, requests or errors - our time is far more important. Modulation Add movement to your sounds with 2 envelopes, 2 LFO’s & 4 expression controls which are assignable to nearly every parameter. Unlike the fluid nature of modulation, we stand firm with our decisions - you just wouldn’t get it. Product Aftercare If you need support via email you’ll have to deal with harshly worded, incredibly frustrated developers and please note that all critical feedback of any nature will be met with serious scolding. SUBscription is designed as an AUv3 plugin, meaning it works within iOS and iPadOS hosts such as Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubasis 3, AUM and Beatmaker 3. SUBscription also works as a standalone instrument.
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Verdict
Beat Maker and SUBscription Synth both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of SUBscription Synth's written reviews are positive against 30% of Beat Maker's. SUBscription Synth also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Beat Maker costs $3.99 and SUBscription Synth $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SUBscription Synth holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 42 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Beat Maker's written reviews are positive against 88% of SUBscription Synth's.
Beat Maker ships an update every 2 months, SUBscription Synth every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beat Maker | SUBscription Synth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (28 ratings) | 4.6 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 42 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Akopov | Caelum Audio |
Customer experience
Beat Maker
SUBscription Synth
In-app purchases
Beat Maker
No in-app purchases
SUBscription Synth
No in-app purchases
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