Dawnbeat

Luis Rivas |

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4.5

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259

App Age

3y 1m

Last Update

Nov 16, 2025

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$4.99 - 4.99

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Metrics	Current App	Category Top Average	Difference
Rating	4.48	4.57	-2%
Number of Ratings (Voted)	259	593.4K	-100%
App Age	3y 0m	8y 5m	-64%
In-app Purchases Price	$6	$42	-86 %
Update Frequency	26d	31d	-15%
Title Length	8	25	-68%
Subtitle Length	16	27	-41%
Description Length	2 410	2 749	-12%
Number of Screenshots	1677	1267	+32 %
Size	196MB	223MB	-12 %

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Now Standalone and Audio Unit versions! Dawnbeat inherits the best part of the classic hardware samplers and takes it further by adding features only possible on a multi-touch device. Create more natural patterns by tapping and swiping pads. Focus on creativity, you don't need to select a tempo before hit record to finally play a pattern until you get the right take, just play and forget about to record! Dawnbeat is always recording! Multi-touch and draggable pads: - Pads are multi-touch, play a single pad with two fingers at the same time! - Pads are individually configurable, allowing re-triggering when dragging for amazing fills, tone variations . - Mute and Solo buttons for pads available. - Mute groups. Memorizer: - DawnBeat is always recording pad events, you'll never miss a beat, play and experiment and when you hear something you like, it's already recorded! simply go to Memorizer and select the desired events. BRIIKS sampler: - Advanced loop manipulator. Rearrange and combine your loops. Also available as standalone, AUv3 and MacOS. Mixer: - 4 assignable BUSSES and one MAIN BUS. Assign pads to busses, assign internal effects or AUV3 effects to busses. - Mute and Solo buttons. Polyphonic pads: - Pads can be turned polyphonic, import a piano-like sample and play and sequence chords with a single pad. MIDI IN and MIDI OUT: - Trigger samples from a MIDI controller, play melodies from a MIDI piano. - Sequence hardware drum machines and synths from Dawnbeat. - Use Dawnbeat as an intermediary between a midi keyboard and a synth, save the sequences you are playing. Dawnbeat can save poliphonic sequences! Pattern sequencer with piano editor. - Swing, count-in, metronome. Audio Units: - Dawnbeat support AUv3 effects and instruments! Built in Effects: - Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Flutter, Gate, Tremolo, Noise, Filter, Chorus, Equalizer, Stutter and Tape slow motion. - Effects can be rearranged. Built-In sample browser: - 6 drum kit sample libraries, and 1 bass sample library. Selectable internal sample rate: - Internal sample rate can be changed, choose between HI-FI and LO-FI sample rates. AUTO-SLICER: - AutoSlicer detects hit points and slices audio into individual files minimizing the need for manual editing. Chop up any audio file in a few seconds. Recording sample rate can be selected. Export movies with images and animated GIFs . }

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pleeeeaseeee

23 Nov, 2025

This app doesn’t go to landscape mode on iPhone…..and NO option to use midi auv3

Gia Greenberg

22 Nov, 2025

This app has good features and works well with the sound but it’s super glitchy every time my screen turns off I have to frickin restart the app because it won’t play the song when I turn it back on and it crashes way too often

DizzyGnatz

22 Nov, 2025

I’ve used multiple DAWS, apps, and software to make music for over 15 years. Dawnbeat takes it back to the days of the workhorse quirky programming that produced the SP-303 and other legendary machines. There’s a steep learning curve currently. But It is clearly a passion project to make the most complete sampler on the AppStore with plenty of flair. You get all the features you would expect from modern samplers such as auto chopping and a slew of onboard effects. But you also get Au app integration included. No 3rd party link needed. Also if you forgot to press record. It automatically can load the last bit of jamming you did. Definitely not as easy to use as Koala but my god is there more charm and functionality included.

Linchen Binchen 🐝

13 Nov, 2025

Macht Spaß / Sound gefällt mir besser als bei Koala / could yoy please ad Midi Support for Wave adjustierte? :-)

asdhine

04 Nov, 2025

I was initially mislead by the not very catchy looks of the app, until I used it. It’s really powerful, with several unique features

revieweeeanon

04 Nov, 2025

I love playing with Koala and other music apps, so jumped at the chance to try this, a cool looking and cheaper alternative. I soon realised it’s actually got features that Koala has not, and does things I’ve always wanted Koala to do, especially loading plugins to pads and stuff like that. It’s sidechain functionality is great too, and even works with the input channel muted, so I can record say a bass line that has been sidechained to a kick, without having to play the kick as well which Koala can’t do as far as I can tell. There’s lots of other little touches as well that really make this shine. Even the custom UI settings are great and allow you to modify all of the background colours and even fonts (although the default font is the best one, but I’m a design snob lol). Now for the negatives. I’ve seen a few bugs so far, particularly when using plugins. I know since iOS updated my phone has been lagging and slow so maybe it’s not all the apps fault, but it will occasionally crash or not record the audio with the render button when a plugin is involved, but luckily you can use the other live style record button to capture the whole set instead. It only lets you sidechain once per project I think too, whereas Koala allows multiple sidechain fx on different tracks at once. Sometimes it doesn’t remember the last project or update it right after rebooting or closing the app either, so regular saving is a must right now. Still these are all hopefully things that will be ironed out soon enough, and this developer is obviously a good one with a great eye for detail, so I’m not worried about the future of this great little app and I’m so glad I took the chance, and for such a low price tag it’s absolutely worth it and I’ve not used Koala since I’ve downloaded this app.

pfffbusynames

02 Nov, 2025

I love it, its intuitive and fast, the layout is good enough even on iphone, i just wish that you could add a preset scroll on the piano section for every synth so i dont have to go back to synth UI specially on iphone with limited screen. Everything else is amazing.

Blind Henry McClean

25 Oct, 2025

As much as I’ve tried to like Koala, it’s very awkward to use and unintuitive. This much newer app has AUV3 support, the ability to undo wave edits, less finicky editor, etc, etc. I see that the developer has been really supporting and developing the app in all the right ways over the past year. I checked it out a long time ago and immediately bailed because it was still rough around the edges and I expected it to be yet another case of an app developer launching a promising looking app then snatching up as much money as possible and abandoning it (it seems to happen more often than not and Apple does little to protect buyers from getting ripped off). Fortunately, this one seems like the real deal and I am in for the journey from here on! The first bugs to report are: The app immediately crashes anytime I try to import a sample using Audioshare. It also has crashed while loading vst instruments. I hope it continues to get updates to iron out the bugs. I can also confirm what another review said about the app losing sound after the screen locks. In VST mode, when I record an audio file I’m only able to preview it once (if at all) then it never plays again when I press the play button. I can still load it to a pad and it plays fine. But, I can’t preview it after the first time. Where is the ‘Gallery?’ When I record an audio file and choose to save it to the ‘Gallery,’ where does it go? Lastly, the ability to share audio files from other apps within i(pad)OS seems to be missing. Otherwise, I’m having fun with it!

DavidOs99

23 Oct, 2025

I am using Dawn Beat for a Short time now with my iPad and overall I like it. What would definitly have to change is that I can not select 2 Bars for a Sequence. The Browsing in my files folders could be easier (Currently I can not easily navigate back one step when I am in a folder). I like the layout and there are a lot of options to get creative.

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Rating:	4.48
Voted:	259
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Categories:	Music, Entertainment
Size:	196MB
iAP:	4.99 - 4.99 $
App Age:	3 years 1 month
Release Date:	Dec 21, 2022
Last Update:	Nov 16, 2025
Version:	1.3.09

Version history

1.3.09

Nov 16, 2025

Remove stars from UI option added. Bugs fixed.

1.3.08

Oct 30, 2025

Enable/Disable show Audio Unit Interface when tap on its pad. Select Replace or Blend with existing pads when import all slices from Slicer Tool. Bugs fixed.

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