PadLoop
Pad sampler and 16-track live looper for your phone
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Details
- External ID
- 1266661
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PadLoop
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Android, Music, Audio
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A beat machine in your pocket: 16 velocity-sensitive pads (soft at the top, hard at the bottom), a live looper with up to 16 synced tracks, and a full sampler that records from the mic, imports files or captures other apps' audio. Step sequencer, effects, time-stretch, MIDI over USB/Bluetooth, export to WAV/MP3/stems. Works offline, no account, no ads, no subscription: try everything for 7 days, then keep the basics free or unlock it all once.
Enrichment
- Niche
- teleprompter apps for video creators
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mobile sampler and live looper for musicians
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a real-time, low-latency mobile digital audio workstation with multi-track looping, time-stretching, dynamic velocity response, and MIDI hardware connectivity requires specialized C++/audio DSP programming (e.g., JUCE, CoreAudio, Oboe).
What it would actually take: Requires low-level audio engineering using C++ with frameworks like JUCE, Superpowered, or native CoreAudio/AAudio. The hard parts are real-time thread safety, lock-free audio buffer synchronization, pitch/time-stretching DSP algorithms without phase distortion, and ultra-low-latency MIDI clock synchronization across Bluetooth/USB.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 222 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #115 of 223 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- REK. The Performance Recorder · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Padoo Trackpad · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Loopin Mastering · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Interaktiv Tap · ph · 2026-10-04 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AirCheck · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- The White Noise Generator · ph · 2026-10-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Audio to MIDI Lab · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- EP–2350 FX–MIC · ph · 2026-08-31 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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