Best Beat Sequencer Apps

4.7😊(4.7K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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Create electronic music with this mobile studio app. Features inspiring synths, drum machines, and world-class instruments. Easily build beats, melodies, and arrange tracks for production.

What We Love

🚀 Refreshing simplicity
🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
🚀 Excellent sound quality
🚀 Flexible and powerful
🚀 Inspiring and creative
🚀 Seamless integration with Novation hardware

Room to Improve

🐛 Buggy and crashes occasionally
🔒 No iCloud sync or cloud backup
🔒 Limited export options
🔒 Lack of MIDI support
🔒 Clunky piano roll and note editing
🔒 Missing key features like song mode and panning

Sequentia: MIDI Sequencer by Yahor Kamarou

Generate riffs, chords & drums

Strong Contender

4.7(10 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This app transforms your iPhone into a powerful MIDI sequencer for hardware synthesizers and drum machines. Generate complex musical patterns, control parameters, and integrate with your DAW. Save and export your creations for further editing.

Auxy Studio by Auxy

Music & Beat Maker

Worth Considering

Drum Pad Machine - Beat Maker

4.5😊(4.3K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

Create modern beats and electronic music with this intuitive app. Easily compose melodies, drum patterns, and arrange them into full tracks. Access a vast library of sounds or import your own, and enhance your productions with studio-grade effects and automation.

What We Love

🚀 Intuitive and easy to use
🎨 Versatile sound design capabilities
🎶 Excellent for creating music on the go
👍 Powerful yet simple workflow
💡 Useful automation features

Room to Improve

🔒 Subscription model limits access
🔒 Locked out of past projects without subscription
🔒 Lack of free instruments and sounds
🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
🔋 Concerns over battery consumption

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Stream 8 Million+ Beats

8 million+ beats marketplacePurchase and download studio-ready beatsPersonalized feed and recommendations

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Easily create personalized ringtones, alarm tones, and notification sounds for your iPhone using songs from your local library or audio extracted from videos. Explore a vast collection of music genres and categories to customize your device's alerts.

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Create professional music with a powerful drum machine, step sequencer, sampler, and synthesizer. Build beats, sequence melodies, and arrange full tracks with a responsive, low-latency workflow.

Beat generation with genre and mood inspiration8-track step sequencer with 64 stepsTwo independent synthesizer voices

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Create complex musical sequences with multiple polyrhythmic tracks. Control note, velocity, gate, and MIDI CC parameters with independent step lengths and rates. Route MIDI output to your favorite synths and AUv3 hosts.

Multitrack polyrhythmic MIDI sequencingNote and MIDI CC tracksConfigurable step lengths per mode

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Create music on your phone with an intuitive beat maker. Build drum patterns, layer melodies, and record your own sounds. Export your creations as MIDI or audio files to continue production elsewhere.

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