Koala Sampler

In-app purchases
4.7
1.77K reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Koala is the ultimate pocket-sized sampler. Record anything with your phone's mic or load your own sounds. Use Koala to create beats with those samples, add effects and create a track!

Koala’s super intuitive interface helps you make a tracks in a flash, there is no brake pedal. You can also resample the output of the app back into the input, through the effects, so the sonic possibilities are endless.

Koala's design focuses totally on making the music making progress instant, keeping you in the flow and keeping it fun, not getting bogged down by pages of parameters and micro-editing.

"Been putting that $4 koala sampler to good use lately. Undeniably great tool that puts some of these expensive beat boxes to shame. A must cop."
-- flying lotus, twitter

* Record up to 64 different samples with your mic
* Transform your voice or any other sound with 16 superb built-in fx
* Resample the output of the app back into a new sample
* Export loops or entire tracks as professional quality WAV files
* Copy/paste or merge sequences just by dragging them
* Create beats with the high-resolution sequencer
* Import your own samples
* Use AI to separate samples into individual instruments (drums, bass, vocals and other)
* Keyboard mode lets you play chromatically or one of 9 scales
* Quantize, add swing to get the right feel
* Normal/One-shot/Loop/Reverse playback of samples
* Attack, release and tone adjustable on each sample
* Mute/Solo controls
* Note repeat
* Add any (or all) of the 16 effects to the entire mix
* MIDI controllable - play your samples on a keyboard

NOTE: If you’re having trouble with microphone input please turn off "OpenSL" in Koala's audio settings.

8 Built-in Microphone FX:
* More Bass
* More Treble
* Fuzz
* Robot
* Reverb
* Octave up
* Octave down
* Synthesizer


16 Built-in DJ Mix FX:
* Bit-crusher
* Pitch-shift
* Comb filter
* Ring modulator
* Reverb
* Stutter
* Gate
* Resonant High/Low Pass Filters
* Cutter
* Reverse
* Dub
* Tempo Delay
* Talkbox
* VibroFlange
* Dirty
* Compressor

Features included in SAMURAI In-App Purchase
* Pro-quality Timestretch (4 modes: Modern, Retro, Beats and Re-pitch)
* Piano roll editor
* Auto-chop (auto, equal, and lazy chop)
* Pocket operator sync out
Updated on
Apr 10, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.62K reviews
Paul Lynch
April 25, 2024
Absolutely incredible App for creating samples, loops and even songs. Very intuitive when (check the YouTube tutorials and you will pick it up in no time). You can export the loops and then use them in your daw of choice. The user interface is very clean and simple to use, and it supports a wide range of file formats. A bargain
3 people found this review helpful
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Patrick Ward
April 6, 2024
This app is soooo fun! I've just been sampling all sorts of random sounds and instruments in my house and then playing around with the sequencer mode with the sound. Note really for recording at all yet, but for just applying a small sampled sound to different music scales. The app is really well thought out and has a ton of features. The only thing I don't like about it is that the mic is basically on the whole time, not just when you are using the app, not sure why that would be preferred.
13 people found this review helpful
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isopod pod
April 12, 2024
It's a really good app, but the glitches are driving me nuts, I'll go in and the audio either doesn't record, sounds jumbled, or plays no sound at all, and it seemingly is getting worce, the rest of my phone is fine, it's annoying that I payed for so much features and it's doing this, but again, a very nice app to use once it's working
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What's new

Fixed resampling noise problem
fixed problem with midi clock