Android Music Making Apps: List and Discussion

[Paree]

Bold - Cross Platform (iOS)
Strike - No longer available on Play Store/ Abandoned, Older version possible available in other stores, might not work with latest OS version

DAWs
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- Zenbeats (Freemium)
- FL Studio Mobile
- G-Stomper Studio/Producer
- Audio Evolution Mobile
- Bandlab (Free, Online Collaborative/Offline)
- nTrack Studio (Freemium)
- Cubasis
- Bandpass (Online Collaborative, Offline mode available for paid version)
- Caustic 3
- KDJ One (Free)
- Music Studio (Xewton)
- Ufx Loops (Freemium, Limited)


Grooveboxes
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- Sequence Groovebox
- MPC Machine
- Beatonal
- PheonixStudio
- Wotja (Generative)
- Polaris
- SunVox
- Mazetools Mutant (Generative)
- Sputter Music Sequencer
- Indigo Beat Maker (Audio Sequencer)
- nanoloop
- Pixitracker
- Minimic Tracker
- Remix Live
- Reactable (Generative)
- Nodebeat (Generative)
- Mazetools Soniface (Generative, Free Lite version)
- Mikrowave (Free version available)
- Groove Mixer (Free)
- Korg iKaoscillator
- DefleMask Tracker
- Koala Sampler
- Flip Sampler (Sample Based Workstation)
- Loopify (Freemium 9 track looper with 3 effects)
- RD4
- Synthesizer by Yossi Barri (Free)
- Drum Pad Beats
- Oscilab (Freemium, Old)
- SPC Pads
- Yellofier (Abandonware)
- Audioid (Abandonware)

Chords/Composition
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- 7Pad
- Walkband (Free)
- Chordbot (Freemium)
- iReal Pro
- Songtive
- Piano Chord, Scale, Progression Companion
- Chord AI
- musicLine
- Helio Workstation (Free)
- Chroma Tuner (Pitch Detection/Guitar Tuner)
- Toool (Freemium, Random Chord/Arrangement Generation + Editing)
- Pocket Composer (Freemium)
- Humbeatz
- RockDice (Free)

Drum Machines
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- GStomper Rhythm (Free)
- Drum Machine (By Trajkovski Labs, Free)
- SEQVENCE Drum Machine
- SNAP Drum Machine
- Dragon Drum Machine
- Fractral Bits
- drumbox
- DMach (Real Time Drum Synth, Free)
- Drummalogic SP - Drum Machine
- BoomBox (Free)
- BeatWacker by buzzazi gamebox (Freemium)
- Beat Machine - Audio Sequencer (Free)
- HipHop Maker Lite (Regarded this as a toy, but it has sample import and wave export + MPC Like layout, pretty useful, Free)
- Lil Drum Machine
- Electrum Drum Machine
- Tractivate Drum Sampler (Free)
- Cadeli Drum Machine

Synths
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- Saucillator (Free)
- FM Synthesizer [SynprezFM II] (Free, Based on Dexed Engine)
- Virtual ANS
- DRC Polyphonic Synthesizer (Freemium)
- FRMS Granualar Synthesizer
- Grainstorm
- VA Beast (Free Lite Version)
- ModSynth Modular Synthesizer (Free)
- WeveSynth Synthesizer (Free)
- Wiisp (Free)
- Hexen (Modular Synth)
- Muselead (Geoshred alternative for android)
- Experimental FM Synthesizer (Free)
- Piconica (Free 8bit Synth)
- Plasma Sound (Free)
- Drone Synth
- Relic Waves
- AMB-R Synth (Freemium)
- Lowtone (Freemium)
- Flowtones (Freemium)
- Digitron Synthesizer (Freemium)
- Pegboard Synth (Freemium)
- Pianosynth (Free)
- Digitron Basic Synth (Free)
- Expressive Piano Synthesizer
- bismark bs-16i
- FM Synthesizer (by Music Breath, Free)
- Kosmische Synthesizer
- Synth by Projectsas Apps (Free)
- Phase84
- Noise Maschine (Free)
- Droidbeat (Free)
- PPP-Wobbler (Free)
- ByteBeatMachine (8bit Synth, apk)
- Jasuto (Modular Synth)
- QiBrd
- Heat Synthesizer (Ad free demo available)
- Caustic Demo (Free, Although demo doesn't allow you to save/load projects, you get a ton of free quality synths for free)
- Bebot - Robot Synth

Audio Editor/Audio only DAW
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- Lexis Audio Editor (Freemium)
- AudioLab (Freemium)
- Goldwave Audio Editor
- RecForge II - Audio Recorder (Freemium)
- WaveEditor (Freemium)
- Audio Elements Multitrack Audio Editor
- J4T Multitrack Recorder
- Recording Studio
- Doninn Audio Editor Free- Caustic Editor for Volca Sampler (Free)
- Caustic Mastering
- Auphonic Edit (Free)

Sampler
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- Koala Sampler
- Loopify (Freemium)
- MPC TOUCH BeatMaker (Free)
- Pocket Sampler
- Flip Sampler (Sample Based Workstation)
- Samply (Free)

MIDI Controllers/Tools
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- TouchOSC
- TouchDAW
- Link to MIDI
- LK - Ableton & Midi Controller
- Melodi MIDI Controller
- MIDI Controller by Volcano Mobile
- Midi Poly Grid
- Liine lemur
- Launch Buttons (Free lite version)

Guitar
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- Guitar Amp & Effects (by deplike) (Freemium)
- Guitar Pro
- TuxGuitar (Free)
- Tonebridge (Free)
- Remuda (Freemium)
- Fender Tone (Free)

Others
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- Voloco (Auto Tune) (Freemium)
- MobMuPlat (Run Pure Data Patches) (Free)
- Tully (Aimed towards singers and songwriters) (Free)
- Tunable (Tuner, Recorder, Chord Generator)
- Robovox (Vocoder) (Freemium)

[AnX]

You missed Caustic. The best by far.

[Paree]

You missed Caustic. The best by far.

its not free for android.

[AnX]

Its so cheap its virtually free!

[Paree]

Its so cheap its virtually free!

Agreed.

[BiancaNeve]

A better list would be of android music apps that are worth their price.

[Paree]

A better list would be of android music apps that are worth their price.

Gstomper Studio and caustic are my favorite paid apps and they are worth their price.

[planeth]

Gstomper Studio and caustic are my favorite paid apps and they are worth their price

Thanks a lot for the list and for your support, Paree

[Paree]

Gstomper Studio and caustic are my favorite paid apps and they are worth their price

Thanks a lot for the list and for your support, Paree

Thank you for making amazing apps.

[Paree]

This is an interesting new drum machine- https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... eatMachine

[Maxim Cedaroff]

New android app "Hip Hop Experience"
400 chopped samples
66 drum loops
12 custom buttons were you can upload your own samples.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... daroff.hhe

[Paree]

Updated this list, now it contains all the music making app instead of just free ones, feel free to suggest something that might be missed.
Changed the topic to Android Music Making Apps: List and Discussion. Haven't found a single thread dedicated for discussing android apps.

[Calum]

Great list that I hope continues to be updated. I would also be tempted to add MikroWave, both versions of Pixitracker and perhaps some other other warm place.ru apps to the list. Now that the musicalandroid site has gone quiet it would be good if this thread could become more active in discussing Android music making apps. I'm particularly interested in how some of these apps behave on various devices and how useable they are on smaller screen phones.

To start the ball rolling:

I'm sure G-Stomper would be a good fit for a tablet but I can't use it on my phone as the interface is too dark and text size is too small for me to work with comfortably.

Zenbeats wasn't compatible on my old Moto G3 so I was looking forward to trying it out when my Pixal 4a (with Android 11) arrived. Unfortunately Zenbeats is also unusable on my new phone because of severe audio glitches and I am not sure if they are caused by the app, the phone or the operating system. Having said that, Stagelight didn't like my Moto G3 either!

Most of the other music making apps I use are still working well on Android 11 – Caustic threw up a "this app may need to be updated…" message at first launch but appears to be behaving on Android 11.

My go-to apps at the moment are the new version of Sequence Groovebox and Sputter. It's great to see some real Android only competition to apps with similar features on iOS.

[Paree]

Great list that I hope continues to be updated. I would also be tempted to add MikroWave, both versions of Pixitracker and perhaps some other other warm place.ru apps to the list. Now that the musicalandroid site has gone quiet it would be good if this thread could become more active in discussing Android music making apps. I'm particularly interested in how some of these apps behave on various devices and how useable they are on smaller screen phones.

To start the ball rolling:

I'm sure G-Stomper would be a good fit for a tablet but I can't use it on my phone as the interface is too dark and text size is too small for me to work with comfortably.

Zenbeats wasn't compatible on my old Moto G3 so I was looking forward to trying it out when my Pixal 4a (with Android 11) arrived. Unfortunately Zenbeats is also unusable on my new phone because of severe audio glitches and I am not sure if they are caused by the app, the phone or the operating system. Having said that, Stagelight didn't like my Moto G3 either!

Most of the other music making apps I use are still working well on Android 11 – Caustic threw up a "this app may need to be updated…" message at first launch but appears to be behaving on Android 11.

My go-to apps at the moment are the new version of Sequence Groovebox and Sputter. It's great to see some real Android only competition to apps with similar features on iOS.

I have added those thanks. I use GStomper on my mobile and it works for me perfectly (my phone is 6.55 inch). Zenbeats also works fine but it does have a lot of bugs. I found sputter to be super cool, the dev was very nice too, I have also requested him to add more time signatures and triplet support. I've tried sequence demo and its quite nice, however, FL Studio Mobile is half the price of that in my country (close to 4 dollars), so it doesn't make sense buying it especially since i have apps that can do everything it can do.

On the free side, Bandlab is really good, Zenbeats free version is also very capable (now that they give you two fully capable synths), I also like this app called Groove Mixer, what is basically a sample based sequencer with piano roll.

I also wonder why cubasis coming to Android hasn't been a huge news since it is one of the best DAWs in iOS.

[Paree]

Best Free DAW that no one has head of - KDJ One, i love this app
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb0QtSRghSg

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... l=en&gl=US