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Best Beat Making Apps for iPhone (2026)
BandLab - Music Maker & Beats is the top-ranked of 25 beat making apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 509,920 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 509,920 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 590,663 ratings · score 98 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 518,468 ratings · score 98 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 674,716 ratings · score 98 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 35,036 ratings · score 96
What belongs in this list
Make drum beats and rhythm loops on the phone.
Not here: a full music recorder alone; binaural beats audio alone; a ringtone maker alone; a song generator alone; a finished beat library alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 509,920 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 590,663 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 518,468 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 674,716 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 35,036 ratings · score 96 · best in class
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,437 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 12,671 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 94,140 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 10,828 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 7,037 ratings · score 91 · excellent - 11
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 14,409 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,301 ratings · score 88 · excellent - 13
$4.99 · ★ 4.8 · 1,440 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,354 ratings · score 77 · good - 15
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 13,673 ratings · score 75 · good - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 20,744 ratings · score 69 · situational - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,976 ratings · score 68 · situational - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 35,503 ratings · score 68 · situational - 19
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,674 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 16,083 ratings · score 64 · situational - 21
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 4,350 ratings · score 62 · situational - 22
$6.99 · ★ 4.2 · 696 ratings · score 62 · situational · provisional - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 4,760 ratings · score 61 · weak - 24
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,290 ratings · score 57 · weak - 25
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,118 ratings · score 54 · weak
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Questions people ask
- What is the best beat making app for iPhone?
- BandLab - Music Maker & Beats, S tier, ranked #1 of 25, rated 4.7 by 509,920 people.
- Which beat making apps are free?
- 23 of 25 are free to download: BandLab - Music Maker & Beats (S), Beat Maker Pro: Music Game (S), Groovepad - Music & Beat Maker (S), Drum Pad Machine - Beat Maker (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which beat making app has the best App Store rating?
- Launchpad - Music & Beat Maker at 4.8 from 35,036 ratings.
- How many beat making apps reach S or A tier?
- 13 of 25. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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