Koala Sampler • Beat Maker

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• Price: $4.99
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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

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4.8 1379 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5A Request to Elf Studios (hope you can read this!)

   Before I start, I would like to say that I absolutely love this app. The fact that a mobile application is capable of doing 90% of what a 500$+ drum machine can do is absolutely unbelievable. I can tell that care and love was put into the development of this amazing app. I love the community surrounding the app, and most importantly, the things I have been able to achieve thanks to this app. Koala has truly become a daily routine to my everyday life as I continue to learn how to produce and finger drum, and even if one day I decide to get an actual drum machine, I will still remember that this is where I started. I have basically had no problems while using this app with a very smooth ui and a pretty nifty set of features. However, I only run into one problem, which is my request. I would love to see a bpm detection feature added to the Samurai Edition, a feature that is capable of detecting the bpm of any sample that is dragged into a project, similar to popular daws such as Ableton. In my opinion, this will be a game changer for the app and practically replace the use of a DAW almost fully, and if not, work perfectly hand and hand with one. Again, thank you (the developers) for making this amazing app that allows me to better myself in beatmaking and further mark myself in the drum machine culture. I hope you can read this!

   Nozu wuvs u · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Brilliant

   Amazingly designed app. Incredibly fun and inspiring to work with. And the extra (very reasonably priced) add-ons greatly increase functionality. I’ve only had this app for a couple days and I already have multiple projects going. That said, I have run into multiple bugs during the short time that I’ve been playing around with this app, including one in which the audio can suddenly become incredibly loud and distorted. No fun if you’re wearing headphones.. Also, I have to deduct one star because I feel the the app could benefit from a couple basic features. As someone who works with a lot of ambient, drone-type samples, I believe the sample editor desperately needs some sort of loop crossfade functionality. Also, simple LP/HP filters would go a long way. All in all, a very powerful and fun app. Would highly recommend to anyone. Will update my review when the bugs are inevitably ironed out. Update: After some bug fixes and the recent inclusion of sample crossfade functionality, I can now say that this app is pure perfection. Amazing job by the developer!

   Stenaulis · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5The Best I’ve seen on IOS so far!

   First of all I’d like to say I hope you [The Developer] never sell out like some of these other music apps have. I can tell a lot of thought was put into making this App and I sincerely hope you continue to be successful and genuine on you’re journey! As far as the app itself I’d say it’s quite literally what I’ve been looking for all day. I’ve bounced back from app to app, even GarageBand and I gotta say this app is well worth it and I highly favor it now over the last couple things i’ve downloaded. The premium price is well worth what your getting and it even comes in parts. So your not paying for more than what you need. I’m happy to find there is no subscription. And there isn’t a million add-ons I need to buy every time I want ONE more single feature. It’s fair and well worth what your paying. I’m able to take files straight out of my iPhone, throw it into the app on some Pads, chop it up and create patterns straight off my phone with ease! Among a plethora of other things I haven’t even discovered yet. I really just wanted something I could use while on the go when I’m out’n about feeling inspired. All I got left to say is this app among an overly saturated App Store full of glitchy, uninspired, greedy Music Production apps is amazing and well worth the cost. Trust if you continue down this path of being altruistic and offering quality along side reliability I will continue to support you! Cheers!!!

   SagaTypeBeat · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Incredible

   Legitimately one of the best apps ever made. Not just out of all music apps but in general. Where do I even begin explaining the genius of this app? It is an all-in-one solution allowing for unparalleled creativity and fun while making music. Koala sampler is intuitive, easy to use and wildly fun. Record and edit your own sounds, import samples, chop and mix them, apply effects and arrange them. I think the greatest strength of Koala is that it doesn’t overwhelm the user. It is more limited than a true DAW but that is a good thing. You won’t feel overwhelmed or unsure where to start. Creativity just flows. The final piece of the puzzle was recently added to truly set Koala apart from the bunch recently - the mixer. With the addition of the mixer and all of the effects, Koala Sampler is everything you need to make amazing music in one inexpensive, value package. There’s not enough good things I can say about this app.

   Photon1337 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5Great app with one little fix needed

   I love using this app! It is very easy to use and use it on a good bit of my music projects. The one thing that I hope gets fixed is under the sequence part of the app. After you double tap one of your sequences to expand it to view each individual clip being used in the track you can move to anywhere in the track to listen align your clips up for smooth transition from one clip to another, buuuut when you do that the current clip that is playing you will lose sound on and then when the next clip kicks in the sound comes back and this makes it very tricky to get your transitions to align seamlessly and if your clips are long then you have to keep going back to the beginning and listen to almost the entire track again to hear if you aligned your clips correctly. Hope I explained that w/o it sounding tooo confusing haha. Again Love this app but please fix this if possible. Thanks again for developing a fun app!

   ?&)@ · 31 Jul 2026

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