Best Synth Pad Apps

4.9😊(27K ratings)

Free

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This is a free, open-source professional synthesizer app for iOS devices. It offers over 300 presets, MIDI support, a sequencer, and vintage-inspired filters. Learn music production basics and create your own sounds.

What We Love

😎 Easy to use
🔥 Clean patches
👍 Awesome synth
🎸 Works great with GarageBand
🤩 Absolutely stunning
💥 Incredible dynamic articulation
🎹 Powerful and intuitive
🎶 Vast set of features
🔊 Amazing quality
🤘 Spanking awesome
🤘 Love the concept
🎹 Immediate access to controls
🎨 Versatile sound creation
🎚️ Smooth and responsive
⭐ Packed with presets
🎧 Excellent sound quality
🎛️ Great interface and patches
🎛️ Powerful soft synth
🎛️ Stunning sounds
🎛️ Awesome all-around

Room to Improve

🤔 No AU support yet
🤔 Crashes with Audiobus 3
🤔 Poor palette of sounds
🤔 Mod wheel issues
🤔 Occasional crashes
🤔 High battery consumption
🤔 Keyboard issues on iPhone

Drum Pad Machine - Beat Maker by Easybrain Ltd

Make music & play DJ beats!

Strong Contender

4.6😊(674K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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Create professional-quality music and unique tracks with a variety of styles and sound packs. Utilize instruments, FX, and sequencing for creative sound design. Learn through beat school lessons and share your creations instantly.

What We Love

🤩 Incredible music-making experience
👍 Easy to learn and use
🎶 Wide variety of music genres and beats
🎓 Helpful tutorials and lessons
🎧 High-quality sound samples

Room to Improve

🤬 Excessive and repetitive ads
💰 Expensive subscription model
🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes
🤔 Limited customization options
⏱️ Lessons and tutorials move too fast

Chords Pad by Loop-Sessions.LLC.

Music Chords Sampler

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Launchpad - Music & Beat Maker

4.8(93 ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

Explore musical chords with an interactive keyboard display and customizable pads. Visualize chord tones, experiment with progressions, and play notes via MIDI. Unlock advanced features and sounds through in-app purchases.

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Multi-color grid for playing soundsMix and remix soundpacksDJ-style performance effects

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(0)

Background pads for your band

$6.99

Generate atmospheric drone sounds for live performances and recordings. Easily tap a key to create a subtle soundscape that plays continuously, with automatic crossfades between notes. Customize your sound with filters, reverb, and MIDI control.

Generate atmospheric drone soundsLive and setlist performance modesImport custom pad sounds

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DJ Music Mixer - DMixer

Mix Music, Remix Songs

Automatic BPM Detection & Sync20+ Professional DJ EffectsReal-Time Stem Separation (Neural MIX™)

This app transforms your mobile device into a professional DJ studio. Mix and remix millions of tracks with advanced effects, samplers, and hardware-style controls. Features include automatic BPM sync, AI-powered transitions, and real-time stem separation for creative performances.

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(1.5K)

subscription

Make & mix beats on a DJ pad!

Extensive soundtrack libraryBeat School lessonsLive Loops

Create your own music and beats with an intuitive DJ pad interface. Explore a vast library of sounds and genres, enhance your tracks with FX effects, and learn new techniques through guided lessons. Share your musical creations with others.

Pegboard - Mobile Synthesizer

(518K)

freemium

Advanced wavetable synth.

Harmonic table keyboard layoutScale highlighting for improvisationVirtual analog filter

This app offers an intuitive mobile wavetable synthesizer with a virtual analog filter. It features a harmonic table keyboard layout that highlights scales for easy improvisation and chord playing. The free version provides extensive sound design capabilities, while a pro upgrade unlocks MIDI controller functionality.

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Flynth - Synth & Arpeggiator

AUv3, MIDI, Bass, Lead & Organ

8-voice polyphony3 Oscillators with pulse width and subADSR Envelope editor

This versatile synthesizer app offers a wide range of sounds from leads to bass and pads. Create unique sounds by tweaking parameters or explore factory presets. It supports MIDI input, AudioUnit integration, and includes a built-in arpeggiator and effects for music production.

(55)

Cross DJ - Music Mixer App

Virtual Mix & Automix

Unlimited music sources (SoundCloud Go+, local files)Professional 2-deck layout with responsive controls30+ pro-grade audio effects

This app allows users to mix music from various sources, including streaming services and local files. It offers professional DJ tools like beatmatching, scratching, and effects, with hardware controller support. Users can record and share their mixes, and access advanced features through a premium subscription.

Pads - Lush Pad Synthesizer

(1.9K)

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by Klevgränd produkter AB

$8.99

This app is a wavetable synthesizer that generates unique pad sounds using a noise generator, filter, and a "wobbler" for analogue unpredictability. It offers velocity modulation for filter, attack, and volume, and includes handcrafted presets.

Wavetable synthesisNoise/grain generatorWobbler for analogue unpredictability

Groovebox - Beat Synth Studio

(8)

paid

Make Music & Play Instruments

Beat and synth music studioTouchable instruments for melodies and beatsFive powerful instruments: Drumbox, Horizon, MiniMon, RetroBass, Poly-8

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.

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Beat Studio - Music Maker

Drum Pad Machine & Sampler

Party Mixer 3D: Virtual DJ Pad

(0)

Mix songs, make sets & mashups

3D DJ mixing station with customizable toolsTurntables for scratching and loopingProfessional sound effects and filters

Create professional-sounding music mixes and mashups with intuitive 3D DJ tools. Generate unique tracks with AI, import your music, and experiment with a wide range of effects and controls. Learn the basics and advanced techniques with interactive tutorials.

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AMB-R Synth

Alternate FM Synthesizer

Simplified FM synthesisPocket-sized designSound shaping

This mobile application offers a simplified approach to FM synthesis, allowing users to create a variety of sounds, from crystalline textures to sharp basslines, directly on their device. It's designed for on-the-go sound design and musical exploration.

Jynth – Physics Analog Synth

(1)

free

Vintage Modulation & AUv3

Analog-style signal chainPhysics-driven modulationPreset Per Note & Preset Ribbon

This music app recreates the warm, analog sound of a classic synth with a unique physics engine for organic soundscapes. Explore vintage tones, advanced modulation, and innovative performance features like assigning different presets to individual notes.

(10)

Midi-Morf

Wireless Midi Controller

King of FM: DX Synth/E Piano

(0)

#1 DX7 Sounds & Electric Piano

300+ unique synth instrument soundsDX7 and SY77 inspired presets20+ layers for expressive sounds

Experience classic 80s FM synthesizer and electric piano sounds with over 300 unique presets. This app offers professional-grade audio, extensive layering for expressiveness, and a full suite of effects. It functions as a standalone app and an AUv3 plugin for music production hosts.

Hoverophone: Theremin Synth

(1.8K)

free

Hand-Played Drone Pad

Air-based theremin playing with front camera hand trackingPolyphonic synthesizer with multiple voice optionsMicrotonal keyboard with 12-TET or 24-TET quarter tones

This app reimagines the theremin for your iPhone, allowing you to play music by waving your hands in the air without touching the screen. It offers a polyphonic synthesizer with various sound options and microtonal capabilities for unique musical exploration.