Koala Sampler

In-app purchases
3.25K reviews
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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
* Jam with others over WiFi with Ableton Link

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
The ultimate pocket sampler
Updated on
Sep 29, 2026

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  • 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

2.91K reviews
petru cristian ilies
September 13, 2026
This will make you spend around 18 euro all together. no problem. Anyways I think that a.i. splitstems is weaker than anything. I just can't get much out of it. importing video is easy but navigating trough the phone to find something with it is just crazy hard. I cannot find anything in my phone, I rather screen record any audio and then import as video. 2 and half stars
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Robert Wall
August 5, 2026
so fun! I play and record songs on a variety of formats and never really played with samplers because I found them complicated at least for me. koala is so easy to pick up and just experiment and have fun with. I doubt I could really have something in my head and make it exactly the way I intended, but I dont really think that's the point here. at least for me, it's more about working fast and exploring, which koala excels at.
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Samael
September 13, 2026
I love this app so much, and I would give it 5 stars if it weren't for this one weird bug that happens intermittently. Sometimes, when I open the app, the audio output just won't work at all regardless of the device I'm using. I've fully upgraded the app because it's just so feature-loaded and I adore the workflow of it, but this bug drives me crazy and completely kills my creative impulse when it happens!
38 people found this review helpful
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What’s new

For Samurai: Pitch bend! (and also automation of perform effects)