Choppa Downloads & RevenueChoppa: Live Sampler · App Store
Choppa: Live Sampler is #77 in Music Paid in United Kingdom and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperElijah Lucian
CategoryMusic
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.3 (6)
Version1.13.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100+ worldwide
Choppa: Live Sampler update history & changes
Last change · 20 events since 5 Mar 2026Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 1.13.1📦Updated to version 1.13.0✏️Renamed📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country✏️Renamed🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Waveloop: Layerz
Full timeline · 20 events
- 📦Choppa: Live Sampler updated to version 1.13.1See your input. Set the threshold.
- INPUT in the inputs panel is a live meter of what is coming in, with the loudest moment held.
- THRESHOLD sets how loud the input must get before an armed REC starts. A tick on the meter shows where it is. OFF records the moment you tap REC.
- LEVEL now shows its value.
- Fixed: a quiet input could sit under a fixed threshold, and a take would never start.… more - ✏️Choppa: Live Sampler: app got bigger9 MB → 11 MB (+16%)
- 📦Choppa: Live Sampler updated to version 1.13.0SEND TO FM-1. Hold a bank chip and send its pads to an FM-1 over a USB cable. Pick the fidelity, hear each pad exactly as the FM-1 will play it, choose the track, and SYNC keeps it matched as the bank changes. Needs the WaveLoop Kit firmware on the FM-1.
CHOPPA LITE is an App Clip. Record a sound, chop it into sixteen pads, and play, with nothing to install. It keeps a library of takes, imports audio files, and sends to an FM-1 too.
BROADCAST puts Choppa on your WaveLoop network, and WAVELOOP STATIONS lists every WaveLoop app that is on it. Tap one to sample it: one Choppa into another.
Also new:
- Your chops sync across your devices through iCloud.
- Link Audio channels as an input, with tempo that follows the session.
- Punch a single pad at any length, and watch it land in the waveform.
- Scratch a saved take in the library like a record.
- Menus, switches and sliders in Choppa's own look. Bank chips are their colours; 4, 8 and 16 are one, two and four pips.… more - ✏️Choppa: Live Sampler: renamedChoppa → Choppa: Live Sampler · FR
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · CA
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · GB
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · DE
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Music · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · SE · Top Paid · Music · US
- 📈Choppa: Live Sampler charting in a new country in 2 chartsAustralia · Sweden
- ✏️Choppa: Live Sampler: renamedChoppa → Choppa: Live Sampler · US
- 📦Choppa: Live Sampler updated to version 1.12.01.12 brings guided training, clearer controls, and better sequencer gestures.
— Optional guided training helps you record, chop and play. Follow the highlighted controls; pause anytime and find TRAINING in the title menu. Reset training to try the discoveries again.
— Sideways, the library and inputs dock beside the instrument and share a tabbed column when space is tight.
— Updated typography, clearer selection states and smoother waveform drawing.
— Sequencer slides preserve your movement, pauses and release timing. Notes grow to fit the gesture, up to the end of the pattern.
— Snapshot names start selected, so typing replaces the suggested name.
— Pausing training shows a reminder of where to find it again.
— Recording guidance follows the current bank and helps you return from a selected chop to a full take.… more - 📈Choppa: Live Sampler charting in a new countryUnited States
- 🆕Choppa: Live Sampler first spotted by AppInsider#43 in Top Paid · Music · France
- 🆕Choppa: Live Sampler: its developer released another app: Waveloop: Layerz
- 🆕Choppa: Live Sampler: its developer released another app: Wake: Sound Activated Recorder
- 📦Choppa: Live Sampler version 1.10.01.10 is the library-and-capture update.
— SNAPSHOTS. The whole rig under a name: all four banks and every setting, saved and restored on purpose. Title menu. Choppa still resumes where you left it on its own — this is for going BACK to a rig.
— Arm, and the screen becomes the input: a live spectrum with the real dB ceiling, and the last second of the mic as a waterfall. ARM is yellow now; REC stays red. Stop and the pads come back holding the take, already chopped.
— Recording in PERF or SEQ, the pads ARE the meter. Each holds a slice of the thirty seconds, so the grid fills as you use the room up, and the level ripples out from the write head.
— DUPLICATE BANK — the whole bank, audio and chops and sequence and colour, into another one you pick. It flies there.
— Tap a library item and choose which bank it lands in, in the same picker import uses.
— EXPORT CHOPS drops every chop into a named folder. Export the sequence as a wav.
— WATERFALL DETAIL: standard, fine, ultra. Fine is the one for drums.
— Keys and MIDI notes lay into the sequence now, not just play it. Space is play/stop on the Mac.
— The library opens fast, landscape stops cutting menus off, and the panels lost their walls of text — one info button annotates a screen when you want it.… more - 🆕Choppa: Live Sampler released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.3 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#77
Music PaidMeasured
Choppa: Live Sampler on the App Store
App details
App ID
6759894845
Publisher
Elijah Lucian
On the store since
Mar 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
11 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Choppa: Live Sampler downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | MusicPaid | #77 |
Apps near Choppa: Live Sampler on the chart
Music Paid, around #77.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
6 ratings
Measured
Ratings
6
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.3★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of Music apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Choppa: Live Sampler
Record into your mic. Chop it to pads. Play it like an instrument. Now scratch them like vinyl and play in chord progressions.
Choppa is a lightning-fast audio sampler and slicing tool built for songwriters, beatmakers, and live performers. Record through your mic and instantly map audio across playable trigger pads. Auto-chop on transient or pitch detection — switch between 4 / 8 / 16 pad layouts without losing any of their per-chop settings.
PERFORMANCE GESTURES
Tap to trigger. Hold to sustain. Drag a single finger up and down on a pad to slide pitch in real time — ±2 octaves without lifting.
Drop a second finger anywhere on the screen and any held chop slows like a record being touched. Move the second finger and you scratch in either direction. Lift to release the platter — a force-based exponential inertia model (modeled on real turntable physics, not a linear fade) ramps back to nominal speed. Spread your fingers wider and the scratch responds more gently — a "grip pressure" metaphor borrowed from real decks.
The chop view and minimap both work as scrub surfaces. The minimap ignores chop boundaries entirely — drag freely across the whole loop as one continuous tape.
CHORD PLAY
PERF mode has two flavours: SCRATCH for turntable gestures and CNFG for chord play. CNFG's MONO/POLY toggle controls whether each pad press chokes the previous (one voice at a time) or lets multiple voices stack while held — piano-key hold-to-play for chord progressions, sustained harmonies, and layered counter-melodies.
CHOPPING
Auto-chop detects transients or pitch boundaries automatically when you record or import a sample, with sensitivity knobs for each. Drag chop edges manually, set per-section pitch and gain, enable reverse, and pick between off / forward loop / ping-pong on any chop. Three pad-count layers (4 / 8 / 16) are fully independent — switch between them and all per-chop settings stay intact.
INPUT SOURCES
Pick what feeds Choppa: any mic capsule (front / back / bottom / USB / AirPods), the two royalty-free streams that ship with the app, or any HTTPS audio URL you paste in. Record from any of them.
RECORD MODE
A dedicated REC mode for capture work, with an ARM safety pin — destructive full re-record requires a deliberate ARM tap so a stray REC press can't write over a take. Punch-in records into a single chop's region only, with single-level undo — perfect for fixing a flubbed beat without losing the rest.
WIRELESS TO YOUR DAW
Ableton Link Audio — Choppa's master mix appears as a track-input source in Live, Loopy Pro, AUM, GarageBand iOS, and any Link 4 peer on the same Wi-Fi. Tempo syncs at the same time. No USB cable, no virtual audio device.
PLUGIN INSIDE YOUR DAW
Full AUv3 plugin support — load Choppa inside GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad, AUM, Loopy Pro, or any Audio Unit host as either an Instrument (play chops via host MIDI) or an FX (capture the host's audio for chopping). MIDI mappings persist per host.
LIBRARY + SHARE
Every
Choppa is a lightning-fast audio sampler and slicing tool built for songwriters, beatmakers, and live performers. Record through your mic and instantly map audio across playable trigger pads. Auto-chop on transient or pitch detection — switch between 4 / 8 / 16 pad layouts without losing any of their per-chop settings.
PERFORMANCE GESTURES
Tap to trigger. Hold to sustain. Drag a single finger up and down on a pad to slide pitch in real time — ±2 octaves without lifting.
Drop a second finger anywhere on the screen and any held chop slows like a record being touched. Move the second finger and you scratch in either direction. Lift to release the platter — a force-based exponential inertia model (modeled on real turntable physics, not a linear fade) ramps back to nominal speed. Spread your fingers wider and the scratch responds more gently — a "grip pressure" metaphor borrowed from real decks.
The chop view and minimap both work as scrub surfaces. The minimap ignores chop boundaries entirely — drag freely across the whole loop as one continuous tape.
CHORD PLAY
PERF mode has two flavours: SCRATCH for turntable gestures and CNFG for chord play. CNFG's MONO/POLY toggle controls whether each pad press chokes the previous (one voice at a time) or lets multiple voices stack while held — piano-key hold-to-play for chord progressions, sustained harmonies, and layered counter-melodies.
CHOPPING
Auto-chop detects transients or pitch boundaries automatically when you record or import a sample, with sensitivity knobs for each. Drag chop edges manually, set per-section pitch and gain, enable reverse, and pick between off / forward loop / ping-pong on any chop. Three pad-count layers (4 / 8 / 16) are fully independent — switch between them and all per-chop settings stay intact.
INPUT SOURCES
Pick what feeds Choppa: any mic capsule (front / back / bottom / USB / AirPods), the two royalty-free streams that ship with the app, or any HTTPS audio URL you paste in. Record from any of them.
RECORD MODE
A dedicated REC mode for capture work, with an ARM safety pin — destructive full re-record requires a deliberate ARM tap so a stray REC press can't write over a take. Punch-in records into a single chop's region only, with single-level undo — perfect for fixing a flubbed beat without losing the rest.
WIRELESS TO YOUR DAW
Ableton Link Audio — Choppa's master mix appears as a track-input source in Live, Loopy Pro, AUM, GarageBand iOS, and any Link 4 peer on the same Wi-Fi. Tempo syncs at the same time. No USB cable, no virtual audio device.
PLUGIN INSIDE YOUR DAW
Full AUv3 plugin support — load Choppa inside GarageBand, Logic Pro for iPad, AUM, Loopy Pro, or any Audio Unit host as either an Instrument (play chops via host MIDI) or an FX (capture the host's audio for chopping). MIDI mappings persist per host.
LIBRARY + SHARE
Every
Latest updates
1.13.1
See your input. Set the threshold.
- INPUT in the inputs panel is a live meter of what is coming in, with the loudest moment held.
- THRESHOLD sets how loud the input must get before an armed REC starts. A tick on the meter shows where it is. OFF records the moment you tap REC.
- LEVEL now shows its value.
- Fixed: a quiet input could sit under a fixed threshold, and a take would never start.
1.13.0
SEND TO FM-1. Hold a bank chip and send its pads to an FM-1 over a USB cable. Pick the fidelity, hear each pad exactly as the FM-1 will play it, choose the track, and SYNC keeps it matched as the bank changes. Needs the WaveLoop Kit firmware on the FM-1.
CHOPPA LITE is an App Clip. Record a sound, chop it into sixteen pads, and play, with nothing to install. It keeps a library of takes, imports audio files, and sends to an FM-1 too.
BROADCAST puts Choppa on your WaveLoop network, and WAVELOOP STATIONS lists every WaveLoop app that is on it. Tap one to sample it: one Choppa into another.
Also new:
- Your chops sync across your devices through iCloud.
- Link Audio channels as an input, with tempo that follows the session.
- Punch a single pad at any length, and watch it land in the waveform.
- Scratch a saved take in the library like a record.
- Menus, switches and sliders in Choppa's own look. Bank chips are their colours; 4, 8 and 16 are one, two and four pips.
1.12.0
1.12 brings guided training, clearer controls, and better sequencer gestures.
— Optional guided training helps you record, chop and play. Follow the highlighted controls; pause anytime and find TRAINING in the title menu. Reset training to try the discoveries again.
— Sideways, the library and inputs dock beside the instrument and share a tabbed column when space is tight.
— Updated typography, clearer selection states and smoother waveform drawing.
— Sequencer slides preserve your movement, pauses and release timing. Notes grow to fit the gesture, up to the end of the pattern.
— Snapshot names start selected, so typing replaces the suggested name.
— Pausing training shows a reminder of where to find it again.
— Recording guidance follows the current bank and helps you return from a selected chop to a full take.
Store changes
What Choppa: Live Sampler changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
9 MB → 11 MB (+16%)
Renamed
Choppa → Choppa: Live Sampler
Renamed 
Choppa → Choppa: Live Sampler
