23 minRock Drum Machine
LumbeatFree, $22.99 unlock
Rock session drummer with grunge banks and live pads, now AUv3
DrumsSequencerMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOS
Drum machine apps (86)
Drum machines, drum synths, beat makers, percussion and rhythm sequencers.
86 drum machines and drum synths for iPhone and iPad, every one with a full hands-on video demonstration, priced from $0.99 to $49, 22 of them free. Prices are checked against the App Store rather than taken from the videos. There are no ratings or rankings here: watch the demo and judge for yourself.
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23 min
16 minTETSUO
Noided Media$9.99
Sample-free percussion machine with a chaotic step sequencer
DrumsSynthSequenceriOSiPadOS
17 minFunk Drummer
LumbeatFree, $22.99 unlock
Improvising funk drummer with live pads, song mode and stem export
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
14 minDrill Yard
AppleFree with GarageBand, included with Logic Pro subscription
Free drill sound pack for GarageBand and Logic Pro
SamplerDrumsiOSiPadOS
12 minTako Kick
Radii ResearchFree
Free eight-voice generative drum machine with separate rhythm and sound columns
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
14 minRingo Beats: Chaos Drums
Soft Brew MobileFree, $1.99 unlock
Generative drum machine driven by chaotic attractors and learned patterns
DrumsSequencerMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOSWeb
25 minAfro Latin Percussion Machine
LumbeatFree, $22.99 unlock
Virtual Afro-Latin percussionist with 100+ rhythms, now AUv3
DrumsSequencerMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOS
27 minOrbita
AudioThing$9.99 (desktop $39 on sale, $69 regular)
Circular Euclidean drum sequencer with eight sample tracks and 36 banks
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
27 minReStem 2
WaveMachine Labs$29.99
Real-time drum stem separation with MIDI output for each kit piece
Audio editorDrumsMIDIiPadOS
25 minSuper 606 Drums
AudioKit Pro$4.99
Synth-based 606-style drum machine with pattern generator and stem export
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
23 minGospel Drummer
Gospel Musicians$29.99
Sampled gospel drum kits with MIDI grooves, deep mixer and multi-out
DrumsInstrumentiPadOS
22 minBruno Drum Synth
Glenn Vassallo$4.99
Layered drum and pluck synth with four engines and smart randomization
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOSmacOS
13 minLatin Percussion
AudioThing$9.99
Six-sound 80s Latin drum machine with step sequencer
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOSWindows
31 minmSteps
Axart Labs$5.99
Generative MIDI step sequencer for drums and melodies with live scenes
SequencerDrumsMIDIiPadOS
11 minSublation
AudioModernAbout $10 (£10 / €10)
Glitch and ambient percussion expansion for the Playbeat 4 beat generator
SamplerDrumsiPadOSmacOSWindows
12 minLittle Drum Machine
Snorkel AudioFree
Free 16-step drum machine with scenes, arranger and MIDI out
DrumsSequenceriPadOS
8 minCybervox
AudioModernFree
Free Playbeat 4 expansion of robotic vocal chops and glitchy patterns
SamplerDrumsiPadOSmacOSWindows
13 minEx Ante
AudioModern$10
Trap expansion for Playbeat 4 with 50 presets and 350 raw samples
SamplerDrumsiPadOSmacOSWindows
22 minANALOGyKIT
Rob Jackson$4.99
Eight-voice sample-free analog drum synth with per-drum delay and gated reverb
DrumsiOSiPadOSmacOS
17 minTapko
David Guva$4.99
16-pad drum sampler with velocity layers, round-robins and multi-out
SamplerDrumsiOSiPadOSmacOS
25 minSoft Drummer
LumbeatFree, $22.99 unlock
Improvising brush and mallet session drummer, now AUv3 with MIDI out
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
20 minKoala Sampler
Elf Audio$4.99
Pocket sampler and beat maker that now hosts AUv3 instruments and effects
SamplerDrumsGrooveboxiOSiPadOSmacOS
60 minTweakBench Studio
Aaron RutledgeFree
Thirty-six Tweakbench instruments and effects in one AUv3 install
SynthMulti-FXDrumsiOSiPadOSmacOS
58 minBreakBud
Cem Olcay$6.99
Sample-free breakbeat drum synth with 16 pads and per-voice sequencing
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
61 minAugmatic GRE
Artur Nowak$9.99
Grids and Euclidean MIDI drum generator with per-app note maps
SequencerDrumsMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOS
60 minPop Drummer
LumbeatFree, $22.99 unlock
Pop session drummer with AUv3, song mode and two-way sync to iBassist
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
58 minBeat Scholar Mobile
ModalicsFree
Drum sequencer built on divisible slices and free time signatures
DrumsSequencerSampleriPadOS
63 minTekno
Baby Audio$29.99
Drum synth with per-pad synthesis, effects and a chance-based sequencer
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOS
56 minBattlestation
Bram Bos$7.99
One screen groovebox with analog drums, three synths and generative sequencing
GrooveboxDrumsSynthSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
58 minB00GA
AudioThing and Hainbach$19.99
Microsound sequencer of clicks and noise from lab test gear
SequencerDrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
61 minExodus
AudioModern$10
Cinematic expansion pack for Playbeat 4 with hybrid percussion and textures
SamplerDrumsiPadOSmacOSWindows
61 minPunchline Drum Machine
Charles Vestal$4.99
Step sequencer drum machine with performance effects and web-built kits
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
52 minANALOGyDR
Rob Jackson$2.99
Single voice drum and percussion synth with its own trigger note
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOSmacOS
81 minBattalion
Unfiltered Audio$39.99
Drum machine with a synth and a sampler layered on every voice
DrumsSamplerSequenceriPadOS
85 minDialekt
Sugar BytesFree, $24.99 unlock
Eight-track groovebox with 28 sound engines and a song randomizer
GrooveboxSynthDrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
65 minjAmp Percussive
Jan MaesFree, $7.99 unlock
Physically modelled drum synth with a generative mutate sequencer
DrumsSynthSequenceriOSiPadOSmacOS
56 minDeus Ex Machina Fulgura
Cinematic Alpha$49
Percussive sequence pack for SoundBox with editable arpeggiator patterns
SamplerDrumsSequenceriPadOSmacOSWindows
62 minPlaybeat 4
AudioModernFree, $29.99 full unlock
AI drum machine and groove generator with genre-based pattern generation
DrumsSequenceriPadOSmacOSWindows
60 minDM10 Drum & Synth Machine
Fingerlab$17.99
Drum machine with bass and lead synths, polyrhythmic lanes and song mode
DrumsGrooveboxSequencerSynthiOSiPadOSmacOS
53 minAmen Break Generator
Aleksandra Wienclawska$3.99
Amen break loop player with slice remixing, effects and loop importing
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
52 minMotto Akemie
ALM Co.$14.99
FM drum synth and step sequencer built from a Eurorack module
DrumsSynthSequenceriPadOS
43 minOneShot
Klevgrand$29.99
Drum sampler for one-shots with round robins, chokes and multi-outs
DrumsSampleriPadOS
90 minPatterning 3
Olympia Noise Co.$29.99
Circular drum machine with per-track step counts and downloadable kits
DrumsSequencerSampleriPadOS
52 minUgritone Metal MIDI Packs
UgritoneSingle pack about $8, full 2017 to 2023 collection $49
MIDI groove packs covering metal subgenres, no sounds included
DrumsMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOSWindows
53 minKA Mini Percussions
Kong Audio$3.99
Chinese percussion collection mapped across the keyboard with tone and reverb
InstrumentDrumsiOSiPadOS
62 minRelic Flow
Alexander Zolotov$1.99
Lo-fi rhythm generator building drum loops from synthesis algorithms
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
74 minAxon 3
Audio Damage$7.99
Drum synth driven by a network of pulsing nodes rather than steps
DrumsSynthSequenceriPadOS
61 min
59 minSR-88
AudioThing$14.99
Sample-based emulation of a 1981 analog drum box with sequencer
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
79 minAuto Fills
Cem Olcay$5.99
MIDI drum fill generator with kit templates for iOS drum apps
DrumsSequencerMIDIiOSiPadOSmacOS
78 minKORG Gadget 3
KORG$19.99
Groovebox of city-named synth and drum gadgets, now usable as AUv3
GrooveboxDAWSynthDrumsiOSiPadOS
60 minThump One
ToyBox Audio$3.99
Two-engine kick and bass synth with drawable envelopes on every knob
SynthDrumsiPadOS
90 minBlip Box
Sketch Audio$5.99
Sixteen voice drum synth with per-pad cross modulation and a bit crusher
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOS
122 minpUnKGeN
Rob Wilmot$2.99
Six track riff generator for thrash, punk and goth sequences
GrooveboxSequencerDrumsiOSiPadOS
59 minKing of Bass
AudioKit Pro$4.99
Mono bass and 808 instrument with a sample layer and kick maker
SynthDrumsiOSiPadOS
78 minHip Hop Drummer
Lumbeat$17.99
Hip hop drum app with flex swing, live pads and stem export
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
113 minVery Sick Beats for SampleWiz 2
BLEASS$3.99 in-app purchase
In-app sample pack of percussion, found sounds and drum hits
SamplerDrumsiOSiPadOS
43 minHand Clapper
AudioThing$6.99
Clap drum synth with vintage machine sources and sample import
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
45 minPulsar-ES
TripleTech$4.99
Emulation of a rare Ukrainian preset drum machine with fixed rhythms
DrumsiOSiPadOS
91 minGlitchScaper
Igor Vasiliev$15.99
Glitch generator that turns scratchy artifacts into rhythm
Multi-FXSequencerDrumsiOSiPadOS
65 minOctachron
Markus Teufel$9.99
Eight track MIDI drum sequencer with per-lane randomization
SequencerDrumsMIDIiPadOSmacOS
76 minSplat-to-Clat
Gospel Musicians$14.99
Drum rompler with sampled kits, chopped loops and per-pad effect slots
DrumsSampleriPadOS
70 minBeatSurfing 2
DRUW AudioFree, in-app purchases
Gesture based drum performance on freely arranged iPad instrument blocks
DrumsSamplerMIDIiPadOS
61 minPercussive Synth
Vadym RostokFree
Four-voice percussion synth with a stretchable polyrhythmic step sequencer
DrumsSynthSequenceriOSiPadOS
61 minCRASH
Mobile Music Pro$19.99
Alternative rock drum pack with loops, one shots and MIDI
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOSmacOSWindows
64 minPure Acid
JimAudio$14.99, colour schemes and app icons as optional in-app purchases
Bassline synth and drum machine in one, with pattern and song modes
SynthDrumsGrooveboxSequenceriOSiPadOS
69 minModular Rhythms
AppleFree
Free GarageBand sound pack of modular and industrial drum kits
SamplerDrumsiOSiPadOS
66 minBorsta
Klevgrand$16.49
Brushed drum and percussion instrument with drawable stroke intensity
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
63 min
70 minRuismaker Noir
Bram Bos$9.99
Monophonic drum and bass synth with a built-in dot step sequencer
DrumsSynthSequenceriOSiPadOS
49 minAAS Objeq
Applied Acoustics Systems$3.99
Resonator that turns taps and beats into tuned percussion
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOS
67 minSDS-x
Audio SymmetricFree, $12.99 unlock
Drum sampler and sequencer holding two samples per pad
DrumsSamplerSequenceriOSiPadOS
58 minIndian Drummer
Lumbeat$17.99
Virtual tabla and Indian percussion player with jam and song modes
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
63 minGarageBand
AppleFree
Apple's free music app with multitrack recording, loops and sound packs
DAWDrumsiOSiPadOS
67 minDigiStix 2
4Pockets$7.99
AUv3 drum machine with four pad banks, layered pads and pattern randomization
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
54 minHammerhead Rhythm Station
Bram Bos$7.99
Pattern based drum machine with drum synth, sample import and chaos controls
DrumsSequencerSampleriOSiPadOS
56 minFAC Drumkit
Fred Anton Corvest$17.99
Sixteen pads pairing a sample layer with two oscillator synthesis
DrumsSamplerSynthiOSiPadOS
63 minDrumComputer
Sugar BytesFree, in-app purchases
Drum synth with layered engines, deep sequencing and dice everywhere
DrumsSequencerSampleriOSiPadOS
65 minEG Pulse
Elliott Garage$14.99
Drum machine and sampler with user kits and drag-in sample import
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
60 minSlammer
Klevgrand$9.99
Sampled scrap percussion, buckets, shovels and crowbars across twelve slots
DrumsInstrumentiOSiPadOS
60 minWorld Piano Notes & Drum Beats
TAQS.IMFree, in-app purchases
World instruments, drones and rhythm loops with scale remapped keys
InstrumentDrumsSampleriOSiPadOS
60 minFractal Bits
Alexander Zolotov$1.99
Drum and noise synth whose patches are addressed by hex code
DrumsSynthiOSiPadOS
62 minJazz Drummer
Lumbeat$17.99
Improvising jazz drummer with 3/4, odd time and song mode
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
52 minDrum Surgeon
4Pockets$9.99
Transient and dynamics processor for sharpening drums inside a host
CompressorDrumsMixingiOSiPadOS
41 minDrum Session
Ngo Minh Ngoc$9.99
Acoustic session drummer with loop library, pattern editor and stem export
DrumsSequenceriOSiPadOS
40 minDigiStix
4Pockets$7.99
AUv3 drum machine with built-in kits, pad sampling, song patterns and EQ
DrumsSampleriOSiPadOS