Best Synthesizer Electronic Apps

Hoverophone: Theremin Synth

Hand-Played Drone Pad

Free

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.

Magellan Synthesizer 2

Pro Analog Modeling Synth

$14.99

This app offers a powerful analog modeling synthesizer with advanced features like AUv3, MPE, and AI-driven preset generation. It provides deep sound sculpting capabilities with multiple oscillators, filters, and extensive modulation options for creating unique and complex audio textures.

TROOPER Synthesizer

Total Synth Explosion

$14.99

This app offers a powerful yet user-friendly synthesizer experience, delivering thick basses, leads, and pads with analog warmth and surprising tonal variety. Explore unique parameter interactions, advanced modulation options, and creative tools like an arpeggiator and effects processor for an all-out sonic assault.

Krill Synthesizer

Virtual Analog Poly Synth

$11.99

This virtual analog polyphonic synthesizer offers a streamlined interface for creating quick synth sounds on iPad. It features two oscillators, an LFO, a low-pass filter, two envelopes, and stereo effects, all accessible from a single screen.

Spectrum Synthesizer Bundle

4 Pro Instruments, 30+ Modes!

Free

This app provides a bundle of four professional audio unit synthesizers and one effect, inspired by popular eurorack modules. Explore diverse sound design possibilities with multi-mode oscillators, modal synthesis, string generation, and granular sampling. Compatible with DAWs and AU hosts for creative music production.

Saucillator

Create & play synthesizers

Free

Create and play custom synthesizers and instruments on your mobile device. Manipulate oscillators and effects with touch, record live loops, and design unique sounds with a variety of timbres and customizable effects. Supports AUv3 for use in other music production apps.

Baervaag - FM Synthesizer

by Klevgränd produkter AB

$8.99

This powerful yet accessible synthesizer brings FM synthesis to mobile devices. It offers expressive control through velocity sensitivity and includes versatile effects like a low-pass filter, stereo chorus, and tempo-synced delay. Explore a wide range of sounds with handcrafted presets and adjustable oscillator shapes.

055U4RY

OSSUARY: horror AUv3 synth

$4.99

$6.99 | 29% OFF

This app is a unique polyphonic synthesizer designed to evoke horror-themed soundscapes. It features a distinctive visual interface resembling a haunted DOS terminal with a skull motif, offering a variety of synthesis engines and effects for creating unsettling audio.

Stylusphone Lite

A synthesizer in your pocket!

Free

Experience a modern digital rendition of a beloved 1970s pocket synthesizer. This app offers an interactive 3D view and authentic polyphonic sound, allowing users to recreate nostalgic musical experiences.

Kauldron Synthesizer

Smart Analog Modeling Synth

$9.99

This app combines classic analog synth warmth with AI-powered sound design. It offers intelligent preset generation, extensive modulation options, and a powerful arpeggiator for creating rich synth textures.

Wave Synth Digital Instrument

Play electronic music sounds

Free

Create electronic music by drawing waveforms and playing multiple notes simultaneously. Customize sounds with built-in or custom wave shapes and adjust pitch with intuitive controls. Explore a digital instrument designed for intuitive musical expression.

Vagabond Synth

by Matthew Caldwell

Free

This is a free wavetable synthesizer app that can be used standalone or as an AUv3 instrument. It offers 16 voice polyphony, multiple oscillators, a switchable filter, modulation, and effects. It also includes a MIDI processor for generating musical sequences.

Phase Monkey — Poly Synth

Digital synthesis made fun

$5.99

Explore a versatile digital synthesizer inspired by 1980s phase distortion technology. Create a wide range of sounds from warm pads to aggressive basses with its unique engine and eight-stage envelopes. Optimized for touch interaction, it also supports MIDI controllers and runs across Apple devices.

Pegboard - Mobile Synthesizer

Advanced wavetable synth.

Free

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.