Beat Maker vs Midilo
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!
Midilo
Shape and transform musical patterns in real-time with this live MIDI looper. Build ideas across slots, connect them in Graph mode, and combine MIDI with audio recordings. Perfect for live improvisation with hardware synths and MIDI controllers.
- Live MIDI recording, looping, and overdubbing
- Graph mode for connecting loops
- Layered Audio Freeze recordings
- Extra playheads with independent controls
- MIDI routing and MPE support
- Record performance mixes as WAV files
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Midilo is a MIDI-first live looper for musicians who want to shape patterns as they perform. Capture a phrase, keep it moving, and transform it while it plays. Slice a loop, pitch the active slice, change its timing and velocity, or add playheads that echo, reverse, delay, transpose, and send notes to different MIDI channels. Build ideas across loop slots, connect them in Graph mode, and combine MIDI with layered Audio Freeze recordings. When a variation feels right, record your performance into a new slot or use Bake to commit your edits and playheads to the current loop. Built for hardware synths, MIDI controllers, and live improvisation, Midilo turns small musical ideas into evolving performances. FEATURES - Live MIDI recording, looping, and overdubbing - Projects and loop slots for organizing and switching ideas - Graph mode for connecting loops into evolving sequences - Combined Slices and Pitch performance with shared Grid/Free, Reset, and Record controls - Record slicing and pitching together into a new loop slot - Chromatic and scale-based pitch tools, with Simple and Advanced performance layouts - Extra playheads with independent speed, direction, delay, pitch, MIDI channel, and level - Quantize, swing, timing and velocity humanize, velocity shaping, note-length, repeat, and tempo tools - Bake edits and extra playheads into the current loop, then reset the modifiers - Layer controls and trimming that preserve locked layers - Layered Audio Freeze and Stack, with individual mute, solo, level, and lock controls - Optional multichannel Freeze capture with compatible audio hardware - MIDI routing between devices and per-loop routing, with MPE support - Record complete performance mixes as stereo WAV files - Import and export MIDI files, and export Freeze stems in their native channel layouts - Swipeable Tools pages and customizable Quick Tools EARLY ACCESS All features are unlocked during Early Access, with no purchase needed. The 7-day trial is paused, and new users won't start a trial during this period. Paid launch is planned for November 2026, with an introductory price of €7.99 or the local App Store equivalent. Pricing may vary by region.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Midilo at Free against Beat Maker's $3.99. Midilo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Beat Maker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (28 vs 1). On ads 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
Midilo is free to download; Beat Maker costs $3.99 up front. Midilo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beat Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Midilo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beat Maker has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Beat Maker ships an update every 2 months, Midilo weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beat Maker | Midilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Akopov | Marcus Zepp |
Customer experience
Beat Maker
Midilo
In-app purchases
Beat Maker
No in-app purchases
Midilo
- Midilo Pro$6.99






